Seasonal events: Underwhelming?

[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.

[Azshara]

Well it is true that are underwhelming.
I didn't love them, and i would like to compare them to those of FF11 which are really great.

[Deathgasm]

You do know that Christmas wasn't born as the celebration of Christ's birth, right? It was originally celebrating the Winter Solstice. The Church later on claimed the son of God to have been born the 25th December, merely because they wanted to impose religion over pagan festivities.

Then an other religion having for god a bottle with a brown but powerful against rust containing, arrived and changed again the way we live the Solstice d'Hiver..
But it didn't work that good for Halloween which has a very small impact in my country where we have la Toussaint, catholic, who replaced Samain, the opening of the first month, Samonios, of the new year. But anyway it has nothing to see with Eorzea, nor our ancient gods, nor the catholic religion, nor a beverage from Atlanta or a pumpkin from south america who strangely finished to symbolize an event mostly celebrated by the anglo-saxons.

[Mezolitik]

My only complaint is the music; it's nice and all, but it's too short and very repetitive.

At least they're gonna kill it soon though. I remember playing Granado Espada at Christmas time. They started playing Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer in cities in November - and left it there until the Valentine's Day event kicked in.

[ArkhamNative]

The lore can be quite extensive. Both FFXIV and FFXI had quite a lot of info posted on the games' web sites about events. Plus FFXIV has nearly 2 years of history with these events. For example, the ones ARR has seen so far:

• Firefall Faire / Moonfall Faire: August 8, 2011; July 30, 2012
• All Saints' Wake: Oct 13, 2011. (not posting epilogue, may contain spoilers)

The names of other events that have happened twice already include:
(spoilers?)

Starlight Celebration, Heavensturn, Valentione's Day, Little Ladies' Day, Hatching-tide; and perhaps Foundation Day (a grand company celebration)
... if I didn't forget some. Note that I'm not including Dalamud/end-of-the-world stuff like Hunter's Moon.

[BroFists]

yes they genderlock all the items you can get so you can't crossdress