Yokai Event

[Mjollnir]

Whereas I certainly experienced the whole drought of one hour, no drops a few times, due to it being non-challenging content it was certainly possible to just catch up on some decent TV (Killjoys/Dark Matter!) and movies on Netflix whilst bombing around the zones.

I kept track of the number of FATEs I'd done for it using the achievement page (not enough to get the next tier) and it ended up averaging about one drop per four FATEs (under 1,000 FATEs in total). That knowledge kept me semi-sane, but there was no way there was going to be a missed seasonal achievement on my char.

I guess it also helped that I had some low-level jobs that I'd never had the motivation to level up. It was frustrating whilst doing it, but never enough to stop me from seeing it through.

As for the event itself, I was bemused as to why we've got a promo for a non-SE game. It's one thing to take other FFs and smatter them across Eorzea (or even DQ), but this was just odd. I hope they do a Transformers crossover next year...

And yes, there could have been a much more interesting way of doing it than farming FATEs for medals. Having you Yo-Kai watch beep when you were in an instance (only 1 in 4) with a Yo-Kai hidden in it (just in an area that you may not normally look) so you had to go and search the place once the dungeon was complete (or on the way round if you were solo unsync'd) for a medal. Each Yo-Kai keyed to certain dungeons all the way up to ExR dungeons.

Well after being put through it, I swore off ever buying Yo-Kai products (I only had the free demo on my 3DS), but after finishing the event and looking round my house, it seems my kids have Yo-Kai watches and discs and an app and cartoons downloaded, so maybe the marketing ploy wasn't aimed at me, but the people in the room watching me play!

At least it's a new club they've started up at school...

[Dragoon4life]

This was a bad event. It really was. And from what I've read that's the way the guy the creator of Yokai wanted it. ATMA farming was and is not fun. Events should be fun and entertaining not tedious. All in all I think this turned ppl away from yokai too.

[DiscoDuck]

I could only get (3 on main)2 weapons on my main and alt...didn't bother on my other alt...unless you camped particular ones it was hard to get Sliver or Gold with how fast ppl would zerg them, you where better off soloing in areas hardly anyone went to...The grinding + zerging the shit out of dutys reminded me waaaaaay to much of FFXI when Campaign battles where popular (save for when people would drag them out by pulling mobs 1000s of miles from the op)

Gotta feel bad for the ppl who 100%ed this event if the weapons & the mount from getting each weapon shows up in cash shop though

[Xlantaa]

/facepalm

(C'mon, forums, is not too short...)

[Niwashi]

When you're synced down you have the highest possible stats from your gear (for that level) and usually leveling gear doesn't have that much.

Combine having the highest possible stats for the level with the fact that you sync to a level that's actually a few levels above the level of the content (I believe it's 5 levels above in the case of FATEs), and the result is that level-synced characters are really overpowered. (I actually wish they'd be a bit more stringent in syncing to make synced and on-level players a closer match to each other, but then people would complain that they don't get anything by leveling up / gearing up.)

[Alberel]

I found it interesting as well, and went through the same thing. I even joked about it with my FC saying that after yokai was over, I would lose all purpose. I had a daily quota as well, and would feel guilty if it was not met, or if I decided not to log on for that day. Once it was done, it definitely felt like something was 'missing', but it didn't last long and I got back into the normal swing, or I rather should say: what I was doing before yokai.

Though I wonder where my progression in the game would be at this point if not for the event, I don't dwell on it much. I don't regret the time I allocated towards completing it, especially since slow and steady progression is kind of how I work. :P

Yeah, I don't regret it at all either. I just found the psychological effect of doing it to be fascinating to observe. I think it was the combination of grinding with a time limit that caused a lot of people to spend more time on it than they otherwise normally would have. People became so focused on it to get it out of the way that they lost sight of everything else they enjoyed about the game. If this isn't a perfect example of the consequences of using grind to compensate for lazy game design I don't know what is.

[UnaLihzeh]

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Yup. Which is why the Yokai event had different leveled areas you could go to for your medals. Unfortunately because of the insane amount of grinding required, it made everyone and their mom go to the quick spawning level 15 areas for a month.

My general point was that this event wasn't just annoying for people who played it. I got my WHM weapon for glamours, and was done within the first few days since that is all I cared about. Something that big of a grind gets tiresome.

[Gemina]

Gotta feel bad for the ppl who 100%ed this event if the weapons & the mount from getting each weapon shows up in cash shop though

Why would you feel bad? It changes nothing as far as what they went through to get their weapons and mount. It doesn't take anything away from their own achievement. Same goes for any grind this game has nerfed, making things easier to obtain for the players that come after the ones who put tons of time in.

The yokai weapons and mount have a value that isn't in their aesthetics, description tag, and stats. The only thing that would truly suck about putting the weapons and mounts in the cash shop is I would no longer be able to congratulate everyone I see who has them.