Hatching-tide 2026 feedback

[AlliciaCapulet]

I think this event has a fun concept, but the execution is absolutely terrible!

The rewards are mostly just awful; there's nothing really good to get excited about (Mount, glam). The RNG in the minigame is absolutely awful. You only get one good run where you score around 5000 points, and after that, the results get progressively worse until you can't even get 20 eggs.

The reason: The extremely bad RNG. You only get a maximum of 2 to 3 eggs per field, or sometimes none at all (thanks for nothing! -.-), and even then, mostly only in bronze and extremely rarely in gold or silver. Additionally, weeds are often completely ignored by the weeder (despite using the weeding rage (?), a plant is still standing next to you, wtf?!). On top of that, there's the unnecessarily long cooldown for skills and map changes. Why?
Oh yeah, and with the Golden Egg buff, I've often experienced that you don't receive any golden eggs at all, or even any eggs at all!

You feel like you have to go in 10 times to get the 260 eggs. Sorry, this event is absolutely terrible. The Valentine and Princess event was significantly better and more fun.

P.S. Oh, and another drawback of the minigame is the constant camera reset! What's with that crap? It's annoying and wastes time trying to adjust the camera so it looks right again. -.-

A 5k score was maybe my second run, and after that, almost all my runs were easily above that. I even hit 15k once, and 10k+ a few other times. I probably did fewer than 10 runs total. Looking back at my screenshots, my lowest early runs were around 475 plants killed, and my best runs were around 575. I had already obtained all the rewards after my third run.

Yes, there is RNG involved—you need the right buffs to maximize egg drops—but there is also a skill component. Clearing rooms in one to four hits versus taking multiple attempts makes a big difference. There’s also a logical way to clear the bushes, especially when some have buffs.

To give a better idea of the RNG: I had three runs with roughly the same number of kills (~475), yet my scores ranged from 6,000 to 12,000. So yes, RNG matters—but it’s not everything.

That said, getting only 20 eggs like you mentioned would correspond to a score of around 2,000. At that point, something is definitely going wrong in your runs.

But even in the worst-case scenario—if your RNG is truly terrible and you need 10 runs—that’s still about 30 minutes of playtime over a two-week event. That’s really not that demanding.

Personally, I hope we get more minigames like this in future events. I’d even love to see something like a jumping puzzle next

[MayuAmakura]

The score is pretty much rng yes, one time I did way less rooms and got 14k, other time I did like 10 more rooms and got only 7k.

[Laerune]

I enjoyed it, just wish we had more rewards.

[VeyaAkemi]

The minigame is in a position where it is both skill and RNG dependent.

Yes, the buffs are all RNG, and you can get some dry runs, but your ability to gain buffs is heavily influenced by how efficiently you can move across each field, because it is all timed, if you are taking 30 seconds per field and doing them in 7-8 GCDs, you are not going to be doing as well as someone who is managing it in 10 seconds per field in 3-4 GCDs. I want to stress, it is not a high skill ceiling, you can learn to play at peak efficiency in a couple runs, but there is still an element of performance here, and if you are making 2k or less points every run, then I feel that's a genuine skill issue.

[MayuAmakura]

The minigame is in a position where it is both skill and RNG dependent.

Yes, the buffs are all RNG, and you can get some dry runs, but your ability to gain buffs is heavily influenced by how efficiently you can move across each field, because it is all timed, if you are taking 30 seconds per field and doing them in 7-8 GCDs, you are not going to be doing as well as someone who is managing it in 10 seconds per field in 3-4 GCDs. I want to stress, it is not a high skill ceiling, you can learn to play at peak efficiency in a couple runs, but there is still an element of performance here, and if you are making 2k or less points every run, then I feel that's a genuine skill issue.

I do think that score and egg collection is rng based because it can't be that my first worst run is the best and others where I cleared way faster and gotten 10-20 more rooms somehow yield less result?

[Miguel85NYC]

Better rewards... those rewards were horrible but the event it self was fun

[CCheshire]

Yeah, even tho I was p bad and my most eggs I got was 30 in the end after I even went back to collect extra furnishings, but it only took me a few days overall.

I hope they keep working on new ideas for events with their own mini-games is my main dream and feedback too.

[Osteichthyes]

I would love this to be added to the Gold Saucer. Something that you can just pop into every now and then.

[Dicentis]

This has nothing to do with a lack of skill or, in your view, with stupidity, but rather with physical limitations. Perhaps people like you should consider that there are also people with physical limitations who also play FF14! Seriously, your comment was a complete flop! *facepalm*

P.S. And by the way, it has nothing to do with efficiency! It's pure RNG luck, and every FF14 player knows how absolutely terrible the RNG is in FF14! Efficiency is completely useless if you mostly find bronze and silver eggs!

[Catwho]

How y'all getting scores that high? Max I've gotten on any of the characters I've done it on is around 5K.