Yokai Event

[Alberel]

It's interesting reading people speaking of feeling disoriented after completing the event. I had a similar feeling. For a couple of weeks I assigned myself a daily quota of medals to acquire until I got all the weapons, and my daily routine in game essentially revolved around the Yokai event. Once I finally finished everything I was at a complete loss for what to do. I couldn't even remember where I was at in my various other activities in game. I ended up just giving up and not playing much at all until 3.4 rolled around.

[Gemina]

It's interesting reading people speaking of feeling disoriented after completing the event. I had a similar feeling. For a couple of weeks I assigned myself a daily quota of medals to acquire until I got all the weapons, and my daily routine in game essentially revolved around the Yokai event. Once I finally finished everything I was at a complete loss for what to do. I couldn't even remember where I was at in my various other activities in game. I ended up just giving up and not playing much at all until 3.4 rolled around.

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

[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.