Little Ladies' Day

[Avoidy]

It's still so amusing to me how they make a single quest with like 10 minutes of cutscenes and a 3 minute level 10 FATE and then call that an "event." If any of you took Yoshida's advice and actually played other games, you'd realize what a huge joke this is.
The biggest punchline is XIV's got about a decade worth of abandoned content scattered all over the place. If they just unearthed any of it and tied a token store to it or something, they could have low-effort events every single month. Instead, they release more frequent cash shop updates where the pricing rivals the sort of thing you'd expect from a f2p mmo. But hey! At least the CEO isn't stealing breastmilk like at blizzard, so I guess this is acceptable.

[Raoabolic]

It's still so amusing to me how they make a single quest with like 10 minutes of cutscenes and a 3 minute level 10 FATE and then call that an "event." If any of you took Yoshida's advice and actually played other games, you'd realize what a huge joke this is.

The guy went on record saying he is more or less taking ideas he likes from WoW and adding it to XIV. It's not that shocking considering events here are just WoW events with a fate added to it. Though I wish he would copy WoW's events a little more and make a cool mini village outside of town during Christmas events and things like that.

[Allegor]

The guy went on record saying he is more or less taking ideas he likes from WoW and adding it to XIV. It's not that shocking considering events here are just WoW events with a fate added to it. Though I wish he would copy WoW's events a little more and make a cool mini village outside of town during Christmas events and things like that.

To XIV's credit, at least every year's event has a different thematic, rewards, and narrative which serves as continuation of the previous year if you played it. WoW has been having the exact same events for over a decade now, the only thing they ever updated is the Darkmoon Faire (admittedly, I loved the not-DDR game and rollercoaster, the Gold Saucer could adopt those)

[Remolia]

The guy went on record saying he is more or less taking ideas he likes from WoW and adding it to XIV.

Oh I was wondering why FFXIV has that stupid outdated +10 levels design on every Expansion release, with extra new spells, making Jobs more bloated with the list of actions, and totally making game balance worse on each iteration.

[IvoryHawk]

The guy went on record saying he is more or less taking ideas he likes from WoW and adding it to XIV. It's not that shocking considering events here are just WoW events with a fate added to it. Though I wish he would copy WoW's events a little more and make a cool mini village outside of town during Christmas events and things like that.

If they coppied WoW's "Love is in the Air" valentines event, they'd probably need to delay DT another 6 months, the event let you spend love tokens on 20 rewards.... It's rather pathetic what we get for events.

[Mimilu]

If they coppied WoW's "Love is in the Air" valentines event, they'd probably need to delay DT another 6 months, the event let you spend love tokens on 20 rewards.... It's rather pathetic what we get for events.

XIV use to have events like this, where you would have a FATE or minigame you had to repeat to get tokens. Some were fun, some where tedious but at least we got more then what we're getting now... (￢з￢)

[Nezerius]

If they coppied WoW's "Love is in the Air" valentines event, they'd probably need to delay DT another 6 months, the event let you spend love tokens on 20 rewards.... It's rather pathetic what we get for events.

You mean the "Love is in the Air" event that had been the same for over 14 years, prior to its 2024 rework? The event that only got some small new reward added every few years? The event that has one of the most unhinged mount farms in the entirety of WoW, with a droprate of 0.03% (which didn't get a minor buff until last year)?

Not saying the Little Ladies' Day/Hatchingtide is great, but the event you want copied is far more of a shitshow.

[knaveofcups]

>release cash shop mount
>a few days later, announce that they're rolling two of our already sparse seasonal events into one
>reward is a reskinned ARR mount
forgive me but like........come on guys

[Fawkes]

>release cash shop mount
>a few days later, announce that they're rolling two of our already sparse seasonal events into one
>reward is a reskinned ARR mount
forgive me but like........come on guys

Reskinned 1.0 mount, actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIAd0R83LH8

[Kranel_San]

>release cash shop mount
>a few days later, announce that they're rolling two of our already sparse seasonal events into one
>reward is a reskinned ARR mount
forgive me but like........come on guys

I don't like this direction myself but I think the time has come to do what's necessary and shame those who buy anything from the cash shop. They're pouring more resources into the Cash-shop than some parts of the game, the self-same game that requires Subscription and expansion purchases to play.