Complaints Concerning the Yokai Watch Event

[papichulo123]

i dont mind it but we shouldnt need so many legendary medals they made the event to grindy im sorry. yeah brings life to fates old arr fates more appealing to new people that join the game see people around doing fates but no events shouldnt be so grindy less legendary medals required would have been fine

[papichulo123]

you need more legendary medals after each weapon are they serious why is this event punishing us we pay sub every month man

[Muttons]

I won't leave any complaints as I did it because I am an idiot with an addiction to collecting, but I would like to say it took me over 600+ fates (probably in the 700 mark actually) to obtain all minions + all legendary weapons. One key to this was I had 2 of them (though there are 3 in total) in Outer La Noscea that I left for the 30 legendary portion as the 2 fates in the mines endlessly respawn. Had I not done this I imagine that number would be much higher, but I also could have been extremely unlucky. Best of luck to those going after the Whisper a go go mount as it's quite the grind.

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[Alleo]

@Nihility

I am just not sure why exactly its so important that not everyone can finish this event with all prices? They put in the work to create the second mount (even if its not that much different..) so shouldnt it be better if a lot of people can have them? If people want some challenges they can go raid and get those hard to get mounts there, or even doing the tank mounts but this is a one time event not something that you can try again later and to make it so that people that either have less time and/or bad luck might not finish it, is not nice imo. Just because Hino from Yokai Watch thinks that the game should be harder (he is on A7S or something) does not mean that they should make a event like that. :/ Especially since the content itself is not hard, its just boring, tedious and mindless fate grinding so even after owning the second mount I did not even feel proud of it..Only relieved to finally be done with it and maybe being able to do something funny again.

I also would not have a problem if they would make it so that you can exchange your common medals for legendary ones so that people that have bad luck might still be able to finish it on time. Maybe implement this in September or something.

But how much is a little time? People calculated that you need to have at least 3,7 medals each (!) single day to be able to finish this event on time. Depending on your luck this could take hours everyday. Some said that they got 3 medals after 3 hours..which is at least for the more casual crowd a quite long play time. It took me nearly a week and two of those days I farmed from around 12 AM to 12 PM..not a time period that most casual players can take and yet it took me that long. My drop rate was not even that bad so how will someone that play maybe 3 times a week for two hours a day even finish it? Is it really right that someone like that wont be able to get all weapons from an event? I mean we are not talking about a endgame weapon or something like that but glamour weapons that are mostly obsolete for the people as real weapons and a mount that is barely different from the first one. You could say "well than its no problem to not get it" but even people with less play time might want to collect all the in game mounts which they normally can do, they just need to wait longer for content to become easier with time. (I only farmed all the ponies two months ago but at least I still had the chance to do so)

Its also kinda bad that you dont get the mounts directly from the npc as a reward. I mean *spoiler* you have a extra cutscene at the end, after getting the last weapon, why couldn't they have made an extra quest out of it and people get it as a quest reward for it. There is no real ingame clue that you now have another mount so if you dont look in forums or on reddit you might not even know that you got one until you visit that NPC in Gridania again..

There is still a different between an event that someone can do in one hour of time and something that needs hours of farming over weeks (if you do it casually). A middle ground would be nice. And not everyone who wants something different than this boring grind is from the instant gratification crowd. I mean even if they had a 100% drop rate for the legendaries you would have still needed to do 222 fates...that is not instant, especially not for a event. And leveling all those jobs is normally also not done in two months and people can do that at their own pace while in this event you need a certain amount of medals a day to be successful.

So I am really sorry I am just a little irked at some people saying that we want it after little time..nobody says that we need to have it now, there is still a difference between that and grinding around 600 or more fates..even solo this would need quite the time.. Just say that you need 3 minutes per fate and that you have 600 fates, that would make 1800 minutes which is 30 hours. That is only if you are able to finish it in 3 minutes and without the time that you need to travel to and between those fates..That is way too much (IMO) to get a mount that now glows and has a cat..(Lets not forget that a lot of people needed more fates than that..) And like you said there are other events too and new stuff like palace of the death, so the majority of the players will not take their whole play time to fate and will do other stuff too that might be way more fun. And yet they might be faced with the problem that the time till October will not be enough and that they might not finish it thus making them angry. Who wants their playerbase unhappy about a event?

You also cant truly compare palace of the death with this event. First you get real good weapons by doing the palace and its also content to stay. I still don't have my weapon from there because I know that even in three months it will still be there and that even if it might be harder to get a group it wont be impossible so I will get my mount, the minions and the weapons in time. The even has a time limit so if you did not get it now you will loose all the chance to get the rewards..

And its also not really that good for new players (imo). They will have a hard time getting any credits from fates because maxed out people still have better stats than them and a lot of them might not even have a chocobo so they wont be able to get to a lot of fates in time. Now how would you feel as a new player that maybe wants to level a bit or maybe even wants to take part in the event only to miss the credits or miss a lot of fates? I would feel angry and annoyed after a time, especially if the drama starts in the chat too..And really after all those time its not our job to repopulate those zones again. Its completely normal that with more content people move on and its not necessary bad for newer players too since they might finally get the chance to level in peace. Dungeons are the only content where its bad that less people do it because the wait time will be way to much..we have quite some people in our fc that want to level their first or other classes with low level dungeons but the waiting time is often horrible, which makes them quite annoyed. Now having even more things that keep people away from dungeons (palace and this event) will make the wait even harsher which might turn off some newer people. So why not put those legendaries in low level dungeons too? I know that this could mean that people speedrun those even more to get it done but maybe they could have made it so that you only get them if you defeat every monster in there or something (or that you get more if you do so). But for me this would have been way better than simple fate farming.

[Samcaesar]

God, adding them to low level dungeons would've been a great idea imho, especially in terms of helping queue times.

I still will never get this idea that somehow 222 FATEs (which if 3 minutes were spent on each that's still ~11 hours worth of time spent on it) is some how "instant" by any means >_>

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It's a shame more areas don't have FATEs like this. Particularly because if you're like 15-40 there's no way you could do those two FATEs

[Samcaesar]

Bumping this thread in hopes that something is done to make this event a little bit less of a pain in the butt :\ The Moonfire Faire quest got addressed with a "We're seeing about doing something about it as soon as possible!" when it's not that hard to wait around and snipe the bombs (Or just wait a day or two). Obviously grinding for ~30 hours doesn't seem like a great idea to a lot of the playerbase.

[CUTS3R]

Quoting from another thread:

Hence why its not for everyone and let the drop rates stays the same

[Samcaesar]

Quoting from another thread:

That's also from a necro'd thread about a thing that had it's drop rates already nerfed to a much more manageable drop rate. Also for a thing that isn't a limited time event.

Pretty much did them all back to back in one sitting. You people complain far too much, its hardly grind when it can be completed in a few days if that. Perhaps instead of whinging about every last thing that requires effort get on with it instead.

Unless if you're using an alt to talk on the forums, your character only has the regular mount, which isn't what we're talking about. Btw at 30% and 3 minutes per fate the rough estimate of 700 FATEs means you spent 35 hours doing it.. Which uh, doesn't seem too possible for "one sitting"

[CUTS3R]

That's also from a necro'd thread about a thing that had it's drop rates already nerfed to a much more manageable drop rate. Also for a thing that isn't a limited time event."

And that's why i quoted it. The ponies drop rate is still lower than legendary medals even after the buffs. Just commit to the grind or you don't want the mount hard enough.

I sincerely hope they don't do anything, because as you said: it's a limited event. Not everything has to be available for everyone, especially on a MMO.

You most likely already have the minion one anyway, which is essentially the same.



Edit: typo

[Cakekizyy]

And that's why i quoted it. The ponies drop rate is still lower than legendary medals even after the buffs. Just commit to the grind or you don't want the mount hard enough.

I sincerely hope they don't do anything, because as you said: it's a limited event. Not everything has to be able for everyone, especially on a MMO.

You most likely already have the minion one anyway, which is essentially the same.

That's a ridiculous assertion in a subzcription game.