Quality of Events > Quantity of Events

[Arcell]

I threw my swimsuit away <(>.<)>

Oh the regret I feel, you could bottle it!

Anyways I'm sure once they've finished adding the content that makes the game enjoyable overall they'll start adding better content that makes the game more enjoyable for a week or two (b'.')b

Plus it beats running around at halloween constantly hearing "The sky is dark, the fire burns, you strive in vain as fates wheel turns!"

Besides, I'm sure this Curse Of Dalamund has more to it than glowing rats that drop earrings, 'cos y'know, I'm sure a red moon would have bigger effects than jewelry dropping rodents. We can but wait and see.

Well the event is kind of intertwined with where the main story is going, however most people don't read quest text and all so they wouldn't know that.

Spoilers:

In one of the early side-quests in Wineport I believe, an NPC mentions that they've noticed the smaller moon appears to be growing larger (getting closer).

In each city when you finish up a certain Grand Company quest you'll see Cid and he mentions Meteor.

Also take into account that the Bombards originated from small meteors that landed here.

And now with the Curse of Dalamud, Moon mice are being controlled by the Lord of Rats and are stealing earrings made with pieces of the Bombards and resemble the twin moons.

So as you can see if you read the above section, there's actually a lot more to it than most people notice.

[Konachibi]

That's.... actually a pretty scary premice O.O'

It's a fairly slow build-up but the finale sounds like it's gonna be pretty epic :3

Next up, over-use of the Star Wars quote: "That's no moon!"

[Geesus]

Well the event is kind of intertwined with where the main story is going, however most people don't read quest text and all so they wouldn't know that.

EXACTLY! So totally agree with that! I did that (not reading the WoT) after launch because personally I thought the story lacked big time in real plot. It was boring as HELL! >< Now when I came back, I restarted ALL my characters and choose LL and Ul'Dah as their home Nations and now, it's actually more exciting and I feel SE has finally gotten back to their epic story telling. So while Arcell makes the perfect point and while the Dalamud event is a bit "meh", it's only a portion of what is to come.

MUHAHAHHAHAHAHA!

[User201109011315]

Are you saying that bell-ringing events are better than what we have now? This thread isn't about your resources bullshit you like to carry on about.

This thread is asking for higher quality events and rewards, which in my opinion is what we've been getting albeit slowly. They have been getting better as the game goes on. X-mas event? Boring as hell. New years event? Boring as hell. Easter event? More involved and interesting, multiple parts. Summer event? Dare I say it was fun as long as you had people to do it with. Curse of Dalamud? So far kind of meh but I'm thinking there's more to it they haven't released yet (like the Easter event).

Woah, lighten up, I was just saying I would rather have a few high quality events (like the Bombard one) instead of several. For example, currently we get like a million events per year, but perhaps they should shift their focus to more pressing matters.

The more detailed an event is, the more time-consuming it is to manufacture. So I fear that since we are getting more elaborate events, and no less frequently, we are getting less of something else we might otherwise have had.

Resources aren't infinite.

[Holland]

Resources aren't infinite.

That is an undeniable fact.

However, I doubt they are spending their resources "as they go" but rather: A careful plan was devised at the start of the year on how they would develop every part of the game until they are ready to start charging and even beyond. So after careful examination they determined very early on they could use development time on X amount of events without hindering the main development process of overhauling everything and so on for everything else they are planning to implement.

[Jinrya-Geki]

Well the event is kind of intertwined with where the main story is going, however most people don't read quest text and all so they wouldn't know that.

Spoilers:

In one of the early side-quests in Wineport I believe, an NPC mentions that they've noticed the smaller moon appears to be growing larger (getting closer).

In each city when you finish up a certain Grand Company quest you'll see Cid and he mentions Meteor.

Also take into account that the Bombards originated from small meteors that landed here.

And now with the Curse of Dalamud, Moon mice are being controlled by the Lord of Rats and are stealing earrings made with pieces of the Bombards and resemble the twin moons.

So as you can see if you read the above section, there's actually a lot more to it than most people notice.

Sooooooooooooo this?

http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/y...in/Dalamud.jpg

then this?

http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/y...n/Dalamud2.jpg

[Konachibi]

Sooooooooooooo this?

http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/y...in/Dalamud.jpg

then this?

http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/y...n/Dalamud2.jpg

First thing that sprung to mind:

SAFETY DANCE!

[Arcell]

Sooooooooooooo this?

http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/y...in/Dalamud.jpg

then this?

http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/y...n/Dalamud2.jpg

Essentially. I mean the Dalamud nuts have a face on them too.

[Jinrya-Geki]

I hope you enjoyed the pictures as much as I did

[weeble]

i enjoyed some of the events in ffxi, at the least for the first time then i didn't do them again. shame they can't change every year to boot. but they should make them better, i get the issues with game so, hopefully next years events are different.

truthfully no event or side games like choco races, or the collesium, or the pvp in ffxi was ever anything truely enjoyable. or done so bad it wasn't worth doing. tons of players doing the pre requisites for these things, then in a month they are dead and empty. mmo's need to find a new way of doing them ..they are a waist of resources in my opinion. theres gotta be a better way, i would rather go play a offline game then do any of it.

pvp games kinda get away with it, theres aren't that fun either, but.... u get to kill people trying to do it all day. theres 24hr battles around the events happening and like warhammer they add new battlegrounds in some of theres. that was entertaining for awhile.

i'd say we need a little more in pve events, not something just tossed together. maybe start allowing other people make them, or use them for others to commercial there own mini games that are offline and add them in mmo's with ffxiv twist. i dunno, but either way also rewards worth getting too. Chocobo stables scarfs were great for first 2years in ffxi, port u right to choco stables from anywhere, and that was b4 any easy porting was in game. stuff like this.

maybe add zones only open during events, where new mobs are there and bonus sp given there ...so everyone is there grinding for the weeks end. killing things in that zone can give u rewards, kill 1k of each type of mobs and get 1 reward and so forth. then event ends and that zone is closed for good. eventually they can open it again for event again, have many of these an switch em up a bit and this can be entertaining events. add snow mobs to the winter one and so forth. snowmen an tree's are in the zone and what have u. even instanced version of this ...if seems to much work like i'm thinking now lol. heck even the bonus's in the reg world. anything sound more entertaining then emoting a fire bomb witch i did for 5 seconds and quit.