Seasonal events: Underwhelming?

[MistyMew]

Seasonal events are never their strongest point.

That said though, I still enjoyed the event last evening, the ghost costumes are quite nice and I really like the decorations around the towns!

One thing I do hope for in the future would be allowing us to decorate our yards with seasonal event decorations, perhaps even have a contest once housing is released

[Astarica]

The only kind of seasonal event I've seen that players like are the kind that gives you easy loot for minimal effort. Cosmetic stuff just aren't enough to impress players unless the ghost costume also lets you shoot lasers from your eyes (and preferably do damage to enemies), and if you give people really cool cosmetic stuff on seasonal events, that makes it hard to have other cool cosemetic stuff elsewhere. If the swimsuit event lets you get your characters totally naked, that will probably be super popular, but then where do you go from there?

[Nuinn]

Yes, because mediocrity in equipment design is TOTALLY not worth talking about.

Sometimes I think everyone coming here should be handed complimentary reading glasses when they join the forums.... as well as butterfly nets. Just in case.

[Melithea]

Frankly this event matched my expectations almost exactly. Why do I need a huge blow-out of developer and design effort for a rl holiday when I'd much prefer the 2.1 patch on time and on "budget"? It was cute, I got a chuckle, the decorations are fantastic. I'm glad they wanted to do something "fun" but this really was enough.

Edit: And they just announced on the Live Letter that there's actually going to be more events for All Saint's Wake before it ends, too.

[Lobselvith]

Everyone is soo impatient.

Stay tuned for some All Saints' Wake community events launching soon!

There will be more coming soon, the event takes place for 2 weeks Oct. 18th - Nov. 1st.

I'm positive there will be more between now and Nov. 1st.

[FlowerPower]

Everyone is soo impatient.


There will be more coming soon, the event takes place for 2 weeks Oct. 18th - Nov. 1st.

I'm positive there will be more between now and Nov. 1st.

Is thar more proof of this? e---e

[Lobselvith]

Is thar more proof of this? e---e

just what it says on Twitter. check it here.
https://twitter.com/FF_XIV_EN

[Skullmaker]

I've been thinking alot about what they could do for next Halloween. So far it involves parties boarding a ghost ship that takes them to a spooky island. After fighting your way through a large graveyard, you'd get a chance to fight Diabolos. Drops would be tokens you could trade for mostly cosmetic armor and/or weapons like pitchforks and skull-shapped helmets.

[RaijinkenXIII]

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

Seriously, just go play GW2 if all you're going to do is constantly complain about XIV and compare it to that game. Jesus Christ.

[Vanidin]

This is not to sound rude. But I, for one, saw this coming from miles. I knew that the halloween event would be something really simple.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out why.

Hint: Priorities.
Off course, the summer event and halloween event feels like something tossed up quickly. Because that's mostly what it also is. Most of their attention is in fixing critical bugs(like the binding coil of bahamut turn 5), enhancing servers/gameplay and working on patch 2.1. Why else do you think we're not even hearing much of the devs around the forum anymore. I'm still hoping to see Fernehalwes back around the forums. But they're clearly swamped with work.

3 things that take up lots of resources. Learn to use common sense people. I'm sure that S-E would have preferred not creating any event at all. So be happy with the small bone S-E is tossing us. I'm only expecting events to become better at/after christmas/new year.

Until then, keep your expectations low.

This. Completely this. If SE was producing these amazing, detailed fluff events while leaving exploits, bugs, balance issues in place etc I'd be angry. You can have your amazing fluff events a year from now (sidenote: I love the holiday events, they do add fun variety to the game) when the bugs are smoothed out and there's a range of regular content in place. If they pushed back CT a month just because they decided to produce a Halloween dungeon I'd be more than a little worried about the long term development plan.