Events

[Nyghtmarerobu]

I'm sorry but I'm going to respectfully disagree with everything you have said thus far. Events are something fun and silly to break up what you do in the game. It should be something that everybody can do and have fun with, wether you are good at this game or not. There should be no challenge involved in an event. Events are for fun items that you will only get for a limited amount of time, and then they will be gone.

Just to clarify, the items that they give away at these events are very rare. You might think that just because -You- see a lot of people with said items, doesn't make them not rare. On Balmung the Eastern Cherry Tree (Item from the Little Ladies event), was going for quite a high price. You can't tell me that it isn't rare. People miss events, or just don't do them. You will find people who do not have the event items.

TL;DR - Events are for everyone and anyone to enjoy, and the items they distribute through events are rare enough.

[Enkidoh]

In other words Hobz, you want this style of event/quest in the game:



That is how quests and events were handled in FFXI, exactly how you want them here. (That comic is no exaggeration either).

The problem is, being given some vague info and then left to your own devices to figure it out inevitably drives the player to find out how to do it through other means, usually through fan websites rather than 'work it out yourself'. All SE has done has acknowledge this and cut out the middlemen by giving the player all the info they require.

Besides, if you hate the handholding that much, turn off your Duty list in Config which makes the quest info on your screen vanish - nothing is stopping you from trying to do it blind (nor am I saying you are wrong for wanting it like that). The fact is though, times have changed and most players (including me) are just too old and impatient to bother with minor parts of gameplay which are there purely to add to playtime spent.

[Nutz]

reasonable stuff.

Enkidoh's right. In the past (see: virtually anything in FFXI, at for the first few expansions) players would just as blindly accept quests without reading (or read if they prefer) and then check out a guide on a fansite that would tell them not only step by step what to do, but also give a strategy on how to do it if necessary. Either way it's optional. You don't have to read over the lodestone for every detail of the event before hand. I certainly don't, and I'm not even opposed to it. I just see that there's an event from the announcement and try to keep an eye out when I go to a city to see if it starts there or some other city. Sometimes I'll specifically look it up if I've put off an event until the very last minute (finished the most recent Rising event in the final hour).

[nexas506]

I like the fact that they tell us what the rewards are before hand. If i dont like the items then i wont bother with the event. And i won't have things I dont like clogging up my invintory.
makes sense to me.