Alfgar's Event and Imperial Assault - Why did you make them "random" events?

[elreed]

It is a little like camping a long spawn NM you probably haven't even heard of... That might just stop re-spawning completely after a few weeks. I will be pretty sad if I don't see them all and get any related achievements :'(

Well sad if they dont spawn ever again, but if it stops spawning for some time and has larger spawning times you might be curious about it, then you will start looking the times and days of spawn on the forums, the people will have theories about that NM and soon you'll be pretty much looking forward to meet it and interested in the game.

What i mean is that not everything should be silver plate handed to get people involved in the game it should drop something good but not something so important that you cant play without it. I know everyone wants to do everything and as sooner the better, but that in my oppinion is because we were spoiled in other games with easy stuff for example from WoW (i only played that one after leaving FFXI) and you could see that 2 weeks after the patch was release everyone had everything, you had a window to see what achievements certain person had in order to let him/her in the party.

And later everyone was an achievement adict, its an MMO things should take a little more longer i want to have something to do after my work.

[Enma]

Hmm I'm reading a lot of stuffs that I don't like at all... People complain about the lack of content - SE makes quests related to the storyline - puts a NPC that pops random sometime a day - most of people cannot experience these contents - people complain about the lack of content...
If these events were normal sidequests maybe you would be right, but I don't find the reason why prevent players to enjoy aspects of the stoyline.

Camping a NM is one thing, camping a NPC is another one...

[Jennestia]

Sadly, when SE makes this just another boring sidequest, people will complain about it when they complete and say SE doesn't do anything "new" or "different" lol.

[Volsung]

They don't happen often enough, I'm saying this as a person who has a bit of free time and has actively tried a few times to partake.

[Alhanelem]

They will be increasing how often these come up in the future.

[Reabs]

I've been playing MMOs for over Fifteen years. I have dabbled in at least 50 and actively played ten. There is one thing I can promise you MMOs have never done. They have never had a dynamically changing world. With the possible exception of some obscure MMO i have never heard of, FFXIV is the first MMO to have ever done anything like what we are seeing now.

I don't believe you have played 50 mmo's if you think this is the first one that has dynamic content (Unless you mean like you literally want the landscape to change which maybe only happened in one). You even mention one later in your post that had dynamic content that would change weekly from almost the start(or close to it) of it until today. Towards the end some of it was pretty important content like battling a super boss that had epic drops only if you had access to it for that week and even if your side had access to it you had to be sufficiently high enough rank before hand to do it so you couldn't do it on the spur of the moment it would take weeks to get to the point you would have access to it if you were starting from scratch.

[Morticous]

Just make Alfgar show up at more places around the map.... he doesn't have to be in town all the time.. maybe he pops in town.. at a camp next.. in the middle of nowhere walking to the next town... in your moms sock drawer.. everywhere!

[Alhanelem]

As above- 7UE is essentially a means of explaining away to the players the changes that are/will be taking place in the world when 2.0 comes out.

[Reinheart]

If you all wear subligar he (Alfgar) will come...

At least that's what my subligar god is telling me every night last couple of days... didn't work last night though... maybe subligar god was sleepy to summon Alfgar... /sigh

[Reabs]

As someone posted above MMO's generally don't have live/random content and even in the case of say WoW prior to Cataclysm everyone was able to do the content if they took the time and effort because the NPC's where always there or walking around town somewhere.

I don't normally like to talk about WoW because I didn't play it but from hearing stories from my friend WoW had many one-time events that you don't get to replay. Here's a link the list is towards the bottom of the page http://www.wowwiki.com/Event. If you look at the list you'll notice that there were many one-time only events that happened long before cataclysm began and some that even lead up to cataclysm itself sort of how we are doing events leading up to 2.0. Also if this is the forums reaction to a tiny event that is barely noticeable if your not looking for it it's probably going to be a sh*tstorm in here when 2.0 rolls around and suddenly everything we are doing right now is going to vanish.