This Years Christmas Event (Suggestion)

[hagare]

I prefer "A night before Christmas" themed event
Sandy Claws needs more exposure

[Krokov]

Hopefully they will have the Christmas trees from last year available to buy or what not.

[Fawkes]

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

we need Santa mount.

Him? What does he have to do with Final Fantasy?
(Is hyped for the 3rd game in this series)

[Gunspec]

In others mmorpg players have dungeons, fates, quest and a whole storyline that leads the story of the event. Also they have to play a lot in order to get the items they want so the event keeps you busy and makes you spend a great gaming time.

While having more to do for the duration of the seasonal event would be nice, WoW rarely changed or added anything to their events, and lazily rehashed the same thing over and over. Even after massive changes to the world, the holiday events were updated only at the last minute, sometimes after the event had already gone live. I'll never forget Santa's helper in Stormwind missing after the Cataclysm, because his usual spot was now burning inferno. It took them a week to update that. Or how about multiple years in a row awarding the same "2008 brewstein" as a quest reward.

As for other mmos, I can't recall many others that even HAD holiday events. Most of them just had new costumes added to the real money store (not introduced in-game first), or maybe had a few holiday themed enemies at best.

I like that every year, something new is happening in FFXIV, and the story and characters of previous years are advanced and updated.

[Kogasan]

I wish they would do what wow did and make a holiday trail and also give us something for everyday of the month that Christmas is in. I really liked that with wow.

[Slappah]

In others mmorpg players have dungeons, fates, quest and a whole storyline that leads the story of the event. Also they have to play a lot in order to get the items they want so the event keeps you busy and makes you spend a great gaming time.

A whole story for the event you say?
Hm...seems familiar. OH YEAH, exactly like how it is in xiv!
Also, other MMOs don't have fates.

Aaaand also, yes each event is always a quest chain, but its almost always different, so that point is moot.

[Niqote]

You remember that old concept of crafting items together and in the picture they were crafting a cake?



That, but with a Christmas Tree indoors... sounds delightful.

[dinnertime]

I wish they would do what wow did and make a holiday trail and also give us something for everyday of the month that Christmas is in. I really liked that with wow.

I would love something like this as well. Somewhat of a everyday login reward that gives you helpful items, like tomes or any other currency, or just Christmas items.
Special items for being online in all the days of a week, and an even more special, final reward for being online in all the days of the event?

[Atoli]

If there is one thing I absolutely hated with a passion in other MMOs, it was the "everyday login reward" shit they pulled to "give people something to do". That's not doing anything! My freaking CAT can do that! And if you actually have a life, you won't even get the main rewards because you couldn't log in often enough, great.
I can totally get behind longer quests, trials and the like, something that takes longer but that I can still do at my own pace. Something that takes one hour each day for 8 days, or 8 hours in one day - totally fine. Something that ONLY works with one hour per day is not just excluding a lot of people, it's also the cheapest way ever to force players to log in even if they don't have the urge to play everyday.