Quote Originally Posted by Amariel34 View Post
Maybe I'm just used to festivals where you have to grind to get the items you want.
Heh. When someone asks me how the summer event was, I generally tell them to grind FATEs in northern thanalan and pretend every mob was a pirate. Though that's not quite authentic because in northern thanalan at least the scenery changes a little and the FATEs are more varied.

I personally like events as they are right now. But I also have two alts to take care of, so I generally go through them thrice.