Little Ladies' Day

[strawberrycake]

One of the things WoW does best is actually having you go around the world and retro fitting old dungeons for events, even adding in some world pvp to them. Wish XIV could stop trying to be an isekai anime for once and just be a real world MMO and have us PLAY the game over just watching e couples clog up the vendors for everything. But what do I know, apparently asking for more content means you hate the game and should quit around here.

[Astrus]

To me it's not that the events are bad so much as they're essentially FOMO content never to be seen again.
I think I might feel different about what content we get if all or at least most of it just made a return on the next year.
Not that the quest-based nature of the events would make a big difference for veteran players who did those quests but it would serve to make the seasonal holiday events seem bigger for new players and could open the door to more replayability in event content.
And I still hate that the only way to get past event rewards is buying them from the cash shop.

They went to the effort (however much that may be) of creating those quests and cutscenes. Just retiring them forever after having them in the game for two weeks seems like a bit of a waste of development resources.

I like the way GW2 does holidays, while there is new content every year it's not a massive amount of it, usually amounting to a short quest and a handful of new skins. Most of the content being replayable and coming back every year is what makes their festivals so interesting.

[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

[Dorito_Burrito]

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)?

Or the Winter Veil event that not only has another yearly mount farm but also an assortment of bosses wearing Santa hats! Whoooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa™!!!!!!!!!

[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

[AnnRam]

Thanks SE for another wonderful event full of life and rewards never saw before like omg.

[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.

[Avoidy]

Little Ladies Day and Hatching Tide together:

March 14th to April 1st


https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...Hatching_tide/

lmaoooo
24 (twenty-four!) dollar moon mount in the cash shop and people are like, "it's fine because you can get so much nice stuff in game" and then in game it's like:


they didn't even pick a good mount to recolor. christ, it's ugly as sin and sneezes on people. how is it even related to the theme of either event? what about that thing screams "little lady" or "hatching tide"?? It has leaves on its head and eats anything smaller than it that moves.

[OgruMogru]