Halloween Event 2014

[PureEclipse]

Honestly the outfit stuff aside, I would enjoy an actual event, not something that involves me talking to 9 different people across all of Eorzea and delivering the fish to this guy for that other thing to give to person B to get the reward, or fates...

To me that's just not creative, its kind of the standard basic mmo formula....

EQ2 had an amazing one where you have to travel this hedge maze to the center to fight a giant werewolf only to get knocked out and wake up in a haunted mansion where you have to find a way out, eventually you make it to the basement and as you come closer to a mirror you realize its your mirror reflection and you have to fight the "mirror" you that is all evil and stuff...and when you finally leave theres a message saying you feel suddenly very thirsty (implying the vampire thingy from the mansion...) anyway...that's the kind of stuff we should be getting for seasonal events.

[Farah]

better than the bed sheet from last year....

I liked the ghost costumes! Although it was mostly because one of my friends at the time kept dressing up in the outfit (before glamours) and going into Primal fights (like when ifrit HM was hard) with it on shouting "SPOOKY FLARE!" (Cause he was BLM) and making ghost noises over skype the entire time we were fighting. Entire group was just rolling laughing.

[Fizzie]

Wow, this year's is even worse than last year's.

[Kaeda_Valentyne]

I don't think its just laziness on their part. Halloween is relatively new to Japan. Their first Halloween thing was in 2000 when their Disney World set up a Halloween event.
I just don't think they grasp the concept of the holiday. I think they could really benefit from sending someone here to the US, to one of our better Halloween events.
For example Cedar Point has a really creepy Halloween event. If you are going to incorporate another cultures holiday you should do some extensive research first.
Halloween isn't about being cute, unless your 5 and your parents dressed you to be adorable. It should be scary.
The witches costume should have been tattered with claw like hands and an ugly witches face mask with the hat.

[Aussir]

So... grab the pure black dyes from 2.4, dye a BLM suit and you're done... don't even have to run the event. Yay... lazy bum event is lazy.

[Bixby]

I think they did a pretty decent job with the FFXI Halloween events. They tended more toward kitschy than scary, but they were still fun. Especially since they just kept adding on, so you'd have previous years' events going along with the current ones (instead of just picking previous stuff up from a vendor), which meant there was plenty to do. Trading candy back and forth, spamming emotes to "defeat" an NPC, getting turned into other (monster) character models.

It'd be nice if they'd get the same kind of thing going here. This year's Hatching Tide seemed a bit more like the good old FFXI events, since you had to cooperate with one person. Hopefully they're getting back on their event game a little bit.

Likely, though, we'll just be talking to NPCs for 40 minutes.

[Alberel]

Involve Edda in the halloween event and they'll have a success.

[Sadana]

I think it's nice. ^^ It's just an added something. I know my FC will be running Haukke in ghost costumes. XD

[Millerna]

I don't think its just laziness on their part. Halloween is relatively new to Japan. Their first Halloween thing was in 2000 when their Disney World set up a Halloween event.
I just don't think they grasp the concept of the holiday. I think they could really benefit from sending someone here to the US, to one of our better Halloween events.
For example Cedar Point has a really creepy Halloween event. If you are going to incorporate another cultures holiday you should do some extensive research first.
Halloween isn't about being cute, unless your 5 and your parents dressed you to be adorable. It should be scary.
The witches costume should have been tattered with claw like hands and an ugly witches face mask with the hat.

If anything, they should look up Samhain on wikipedia and get an idea of where halloween actually comes from

[Marik_Aensland]

There is also a new chocobo barding!