Starlight Festival

[Chewy2nd]

Events take it in turns to be simple ones or complex ones each year, this year, Little Ladies Day, Moonfire Faire, The Rising and Maiden's Rhaphsody got fates and other mechanics. Plus Heavensturn is only a week away, so we'll have another event soon enough.

[Alberel]

Events take it in turns to be simple ones or complex ones each year, this year, Little Ladies Day, Moonfire Faire, The Rising and Maiden's Rhaphsody got fates and other mechanics. Plus Heavensturn is only a week away, so we'll have another event soon enough.

We haven't really ever had a 'complex' event in this game. Every one can usually be finished in a matter of hours and all you're left to do is enjoy the decorations for the remaining few weeks.

Most MMOs typically have events that leave players with some unique activities to last the entire duration and reward players with seasonal fluff items. Whilst the short stories we get here in FFXIV are nice the events themselves are incredibly shallow.

[Brannigan]

As I recall the entire event consisted of: ring bell, receive crafting materials. I think this actually happened a couple of times.

[Atoli]

I think this actually happened a couple of times.

Yes. It did. For THREE(?) years.
I laughed so hard...and was mad at the same time..when the whole story this year boiled down to "Oh, there is this loooong lost tradition of ringing a bell" and I'm like "Are you effing serious..? Even in ingame time, it's only been 5 years since we did that!"
I guess SE would like us to forget too that this ever happened..x)

[Cilia]

It was more like "craft clapper, ring bell, get vanity gear."

An' I tried to hard to make it an HQ Iron Clapper too...

[Kacho_Nacho]

As a new player, I was touched by the Starlight Celebration. The tale of the Ishgardian knights sneaking orphans into their barracks, etc... which is why the Saint and his little helpers wear red coats has so much more depth than our own Santa Claus who wears red because of a Coke-a-Cola ad campaign. I liked the bit about the bell, too. Overall, I enjoyed the celebration because of it's simplicity. Now, I understand why you veteran players are like "meh." But, to a newbie, it was nice.

Looking forward to next year, I hope there is something in Ishgard to bring the whole tale full circle. Maybe a quest to help the descendants or the original orphans save a new generation of orphans. There could be fates where we have to protect the orphans from attack as we move them to shelter or maybe assist Hilde- I mean- the Saint of Nymeia in some manner.

[Lucke]

I did have a chuckle when we had to fix the Ye Olde 1.0 Bell, and was a little surprised when we rang it, nothing materialized.

[Theodric]

I was sort of hoping that we'd get to attend the luxurious banquet that the Admiral intended to host before it was cancelled. I'd have found that more interesting - especially if it involved some political intrigue. I must admit I'm a little tired of helping orphans/poor NPC's...especially since we end up being forced to do just that in the new side quest. I suppose they want to keep the seasonal events fairly simple though since they're designed to be completed by low level characters. I wouldn't be opposed to some sort of seasonal dungeon that returns every year though. That'd be a lot of fun!

[Cilia]

Actually, in my experience the events are usually pretty decently involved. Even if they're not deep story-wise, there's typically some interesting things to do that can take some time.

This here Starlight Festival was an exception. Run between the capitals (excluding Ishgard) and acquire an Iron Clapper on your tour. Pretty short... compared to say the Moonfire Festival (FATE grind) from this year, which aside from taking longer also changed as the event drew to a close (from a poorly-organized beach party to a... better organized and clean beach party).

Chances are they realized with the Anima weapons out people are gonna be grinding for them, so putting in an involved event would be counter-productive.