Seasonal events: Underwhelming?

[FlowerPower]

So, I noticed seasonal events so far have been pretty underwhelming. I loved the city decorations but I feel like in terms of overall event creativity it was quiet a let down.

I think they need to invest more effort into seasonal events to make them more then what they are currently. Please reference Guild Wars 2 Seasonal events. They clearly got it right on all aspects. They had multiple events for each season where people got to play against each other and against npcs. For example: snow ball fights, jumping puzzles, and instances for Wintersday (I.E. insert your politically correct Christmas here.)



This Summer: We had a single fate event with mostly rehashed swimsuit skins.

Helloween: We got rehashed pumpkin heads and 2 ghost costumes (Technically, 1 ghost costume, with 2 faces)

Suggestions:

How about seasonal pets?
How about food that transforms you into things?
Add in stuff that we had in FF11 there was great ideas there.
Brain storm and get creative surely that thinktank at Square can come up with better then Teleport from NPC to NPC and quest site to quest site.
Event Dailies: Introduce something/things we can do once a day that is helloween related. Something to keep the event alive.
In my opinion --- Best idea: Make a daily instance where we fight a great Halloween Gourd and his minions using special Halloween skills.- then give us neat stuff... like event minon/more cloths/chance on fancy stuff like vials of fantasia or something.


This is the kind of quality I would expect from a Low end free to play game... even high end free to play games would have more skins then this you could buy lol.

I get the fact that obviously they had to remake the game but as a legacy player i'm starting to wonder if we are starting to justify second rate quality just because we have learned to victimize the 2.0 dev team.

[Kule]

You have to give them the benefit of the doubt considering they remade ffxiv in 2 years and these events would have been part of that crunch time.

After 2.1 is out will be the real test to see the quality of content they put out.

[Enkidoh]

As far as the Moonfire Faire was concerned, I think the problem was it was rushed to satisfy player requests for the swimwear who missed out on the original ones in 1.0 - after all the usual timing of the event was technically too late for the launch of the game, so I presume SE were originally not going to bother with it this year, that is until players requested it.

All Saint's Wake however, I haven't done it yet so I can't be the judge on it, but it seems they've put a little more thought into it this time. I do kind of miss the imps from the original one in 1.0 though.

EDIT: finished the quests earlier and despite what some silly people on this thread are saying, I actually thought it was fun. I chuckled at the subtle tips of the hat to the Evil Dead films in the first two quest titles, and the FFVII joke made by the magic pot was hilarious (bringing back memories of all those elixirs I threw at the little buggers ). I also really loved how the evening city themes changed to Uematsu's original Halloween event music from 1.0 - I was very disappointed the original summer event music from 1.0 wasn't used in a similar way for the recent summer event, so this was definitely an improvement. Anyway, thank you SE for this fun event!

[texhnolyze]

well, it's true that GW2 did it right
let's just see GW2's halloween event when they totally remake a whole town's theme into hallowen
even the big statue in the middle of the city is revamped into a completely different statue
compared to ARR summer/halloween event, they just added some new npc and some decoration, that's it
you can't feel the event in the other parts of the city

[Mezolitik]

All Saint's Wake however, I haven't done it yet so I can't be the judge on it, but it seems they've put a little more thought into it this time. I do kind of miss the imps from the original one in 1.0 though.

Wait, is this already in the game?

[Enkidoh]

Yes, it auto-activated about an hour ago - on Ridill when I left Gridania for Camp Bronze Lake the summer event was still active, Returned to Gridania about half an hour later and the Halloween event had replaced it and there were even some players already running around in ghost costumes.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

well, it's true that GW2 did it right
let's just see GW2's halloween event when they totally remake a whole town's theme into hallowen
even the big statue in the middle of the city is revamped into a completely different statue
compared to ARR summer/halloween event, they just added some new npc and some decoration, that's it
you can't feel the event in the other parts of the city

as much i saw, limsa it's literally full of decorations

[Animation]

GW2 has been out for longer than FFXIV: ARR. You got to let Square get it together first.

[FlowerPower]

You have to give them the benefit of the doubt considering they remade ffxiv in 2 years and these events would have been part of that crunch time.

After 2.1 is out will be the real test to see the quality of content they put out.

Thats the thing though. They didn't remake the seasonal events. They just rehashed 1.0 stuff. I expected 2.0 events for 2.0 launch... not 1.0 events for 2.0.

Furthermore, Guild Wars 2 had all their events ready immediately at the games brand new launch so all this stuff about "GW2 has been out for longer the FF14" is crap. They have had just as much time as a normal games launch + 2 years worth of relaunch to develop seasonal event concepts and better ideas. ATM its not even up to par with FF11 seasonal events.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

oh, and don't forget the nostalgia part