Plenty of online games out there have special events that come and go every few weeks or months. I would like to see more of that in FFXIV, but not just the one-and-done quests we have had for FFXI, DQ. The lightning returns event is closer to what I want. Basically, every few weeks there would be an "invasion" event, there could be a farmable token like with the FFXIII fates, and you could spend the tokens on new cosmetics based on the event theme. There could be an event every 2 or 3 weeks, existing events would rotate while a new event is added every few months, and each time an event returns there would be new items associated with it, such as weapons from FFXIII for the four new classes that have been added.

Why get rid of events when you can EXPAND on them?