Finally a great event!

[Nalien]

Really? I find doing the exact same three dailies to be kinda boring... It doesn't feel like an event to me... I like the Housing aspect (and dislike the Subdivisions aspect, or lack there of), but I feel it could have been vastly improved by making the Red/Yellow/Blue Stars a daily reward, with Green ones being a spammable reward (FATE or not), with the Gift Bags being something you give to some random other player, rather than keep for yourself. For example, the Gift Box furniture they added could allow you to place a Gift Bag inside, or an NPC could deliver your Gift Bag to a random player via Mog Mail. That would have felt like a Chirstmas event.

The Summer event was much better, if only for the fact that it had three distinctive dailies, rather than three identical ones... Not to mention they were all in the same region, rather than making go to three different cities to do the exact same thing three times...

It's still a fun event, but I'd say it's the weakest so far. Never minded the other event FATEs, because they were generally fairly different from regular FATEs and at least kept me doing the event for more than a couple minutes a day... Hopefully the certain seasonal goods available on the 24th liven things up a bit at least... I'm probably mostly just disappointed with the snow though... Such pathetic snowfall, I want it to settle so we can have snowball fights in Gridania...

[Welsper59]

Really? I find doing the exact same three dailies to be kinda boring... It doesn't feel like an event to me... I like the Housing aspect (and dislike the Subdivisions aspect, or lack there of), but I feel it could have been vastly improved by making the Red/Yellow/Blue Stars a daily reward, with Green ones being a spammable reward (FATE or not), with the Gift Bags being something you give to some random other player, rather than keep for yourself. For example, the Gift Box furniture they added could allow you to place a Gift Bag inside, or an NPC could deliver your Gift Bag to a random player via Mog Mail. That would have felt like a Chirstmas event.

The Summer event was much better, if only for the fact that it had three distinctive dailies, rather than three identical ones... Not to mention they were all in the same region, rather than making go to three different cities to do the exact same thing three times...

It's still a fun event, but I'd say it's the weakest so far. Never minded the other event FATEs, because they were generally fairly different from regular FATEs and at least kept me doing the event for more than a couple minutes a day... Hopefully the certain seasonal goods available on the 24th liven things up a bit at least... I'm probably mostly just disappointed with the snow though... Such pathetic snowfall, I want it to settle so we can have snowball fights in Gridania...

I like the gifting idea. Essentially allowing people to be generous by their own accord (though it'd probably work better if those items were obtained by some sort of means/currency that is given along with the personal turn in reward means/currency). Then again, this is all hindsight talking. It's easy to criticize and offer better ideas after the fact, which is often due to some previous experience concerning it... which the devs may or may not have experienced themselves.

The snow comment just reminds me of WoW's old snowball fights in AV PvP. That stuff was hilarious, but definitely annoying if you weren't of the mind to deal with it. Huge snowballs could be collected from the snowy terrain that, when thrown at a player, would cause a knockback that sends them flying very far. Needless to say, they never brought it back... but it was damn fun for many of us while it lasted. Of course, there has always been regular snowballs to throw at people, but not quite the same as launching people off cliffs.