Seasonal Event Love

[Kaedan]

I'd very much enjoy more seasonal events based on traditional japanese holidays. I had western holidays events for years and years on other games, so I enjoy quite a lot the "holiday cultural exchange"

@Kaedan: March = White Day

I mostly agree with you here. I definitely think that Japanese holidays should have their place (my May, July, and September ideas are based on Japanese holidays) along with western holidays, but I think the best way to go about it is to use Japanese and western holidays as bases and then add a healthy spattering of "Eorzean" theme to it.

I did think of White Day for March, but I was trying to avoid holidays that only existed in one culture or the other.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

I remember when they did that one event in XI where they sent you off with a friend to scary dungeons as a level 1 level cap and find a ??? in the environment.

i loved that. you and your friend were invisable and not only had t find each other but find the ???.
I watch a ton of anime and one think I lkiked is survival walks they did for holloween episodes like in GTO with "the ring/ ringu" parody. Pretty mudch make a deep deep gusgen mines type field/building zone where you must walk (not run) through some wood and the top floor of a house and click the Item. Along the way some stuff jump like phantom npc ala fatal frame where you hear that creepy music and the film grain cs starts. stuff like that to really creep ppl out. another thing is play a japanese candle game where you tell ghost stories and blow out a candle. How they can set it up is you have a somewhat madlib style 5 selection to on how you story will go you select 1of 5 options and see a cs about your choices.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

a5t the end once each candle is out (based on how many people in the group. something may or may not happen.

[Kaedan]

That would be a great idea for the October or November event ^^ I too like the idea of the graveyard walks.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

holloween is my fave time if year. I love the lore of it. I also like the japanese take on it also with the candle game. I'm happy they keot the taru taru panic at least for the female lalafell I can't wait to make my character :3

[Abriael]

I mostly agree with you here. I definitely think that Japanese holidays should have their place (my May, July, and September ideas are based on Japanese holidays) along with western holidays, but I think the best way to go about it is to use Japanese and western holidays as bases and then add a healthy spattering of "Eorzean" theme to it.

I agree with this, I didn't mean a reproduction of the holidays like they are in the real world. The lore snippets (and illustrations) they put on the lodestone are my favourite parts of seasonal events.

[Arcell]

Well thankfully they've already started doing that. Even with Valentine's Day we had our own version with it's own lore and whatnot. I really hope they do more with that event next year.

[Malakhim]

I for one have become accustomed to the bells and will miss them in upcoming ones...

Damn you, Pavlov!