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

[Murugan]

The Developers have to realize that most players got a Real Life (some have to go to work/school etc.) and if they login into this game, they may want to have fun and not being forced to create 3 chars to camp each city for a couple of days, to participate in those events (even if they dont miss much atm because those events were pretty boring yet).
That they are time limited makes it even worse.

The chance to get into those events, w/o camping the spots, is vanishingly low.

Same with events were GMs are involved. They happen rarely (never seen any yet) and if u get lucky, theres still up to a 75% chance that u dont speak the language they are using then.

Instead of making 3 characters, they could make 3 friends.

Seriously, I only got in because someone told me it was taking place something I think even a person with a "real life" could manage. In fact "real lifers" should have an advantage in this area not living in their parent's basement totally deprived of all social contact.

These are dynamic events, they can't be scheduled or that defeats their purpose. Plug into your community, let it be known you are looking for these, and stop being such a loner and you should have no trouble getting to experience these rather disappointing events for yourself.

[Jynx]

I just wish I was able to know when the event happened if I was online, I rarely spend any time in town so I always miss out on the event when I'm off in the wilderness soloing cactuars off the beaten path...

Like seriously if nobody joins the event (Que doesn't fill or something) a global message about it's occurance wouldn't be a terrible thing would it? I understand they are worried about "Congestion" but as it stands I doubt the events with no reward other than a cool experience would remain cluttered for long.

[Jennestia]

The Developers have to realize that most players got a Real Life (some have to go to work/school etc.) and if they login into this game, they may want to have fun and not being forced to create 3 chars to camp each city for a couple of days, to participate in those events (even if they dont miss much atm because those events were pretty boring yet).
That they are time limited makes it even worse.

The chance to get into those events, w/o camping the spots, is vanishingly low.

Same with events were GMs are involved. They happen rarely (never seen any yet) and if u get lucky, theres still up to a 75% chance that u dont speak the language they are using then.

They realize this -- They also realize this is a video game, specifically an MMORPG that's running 24/7 and have people of all walks of life in all time zones playing it.

[Reinheart]

This was something that we had asked Yoshida about:

GamerEscape: Currently there are Garlean forces that appear around Eorzea. Right now they’ve been seen around Camp Glory. However, the timing of these events seems random. I’ve actually spent hours sitting in Ul’dah waiting for the NPC to show up for these! Do you think you could make these events more frequent so that players have a better chance of running into this kind of event?

Yoshida: We are currently planning on increasing the frequency of these events, starting with a new type of live event in patch 1.20. However, it was determined that announcing every live event may lead to congestion and even cause a bit of unwanted confusion, so we’ve decided it to keep their schedule secret. Personally, I believe that happening across one of these unpredictable events makes them all the more exciting!

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/2011/12...naoki-yoshida/

I'm alright with the randomness of the events and them not announcing that part does make it fun and interesting but so far I think these events takes place twice a day at random city and with 16 player limit. Sure doesn't feel like they actually increased the frequency.

I guess in the long run it will work out since the rewards aren't that great doubt those that went in already would do it over and over; I'm just look at overall participation players may/may not I already done one myself so not complaining personally just don't feel right for others that want to actually participate and can't because of the current frequency.

The best option imo was to not even have the history lol if you participated you participated good for you, others don't need to know and by them not knowing they wont feel sad/happy since there is no record of it even took place lol. (some might get mad at me for saying this one lol)

[Alhanelem]

doesn't make this fun for some players that want to actually get those records in the history...

Because entries in your history are sooooo important...

The fact that these events are spontaneous is what's supposed to be fun and interesting about them. There's never anything essential from them except a few lore tidbits which you can get from other people if you missed out. I really don't want to see things like this disappear because a few whiny people who have to have everything but can't be on for it complain.

Also, I call BS on that "disappear cuz they threw snowballs at it" thing.

[Halfmask]

Hey everyone, along with our counterparts in Japan and Europe, we've been gathering your feedback and passing it along to the team in regards to this content. Duckbill recently posted a response on this topic that I want to also share with you all here.

You just forgot the trollface.

[Nakiamiie]

As long as it is only Lodestone history and not in-game achievements, I'll settle with that. Hopefully I can stumble on more GMs or even get my hands on one of those secret events.

My only suggestion: once these secret live events are done forever, is it possible to have updates on the Lodestone or the forums with what happened and the story tied behind it? At least, we can keep up! And the it would go well in the city-state's newspaper.

Edit: Somewhere pinned so everyone can see it even after many months. It would go really well with the lore and all for new players too.

[Altanas]

surprised Yoshi-P kept these events low key.

still waiting for massive over the top events like besieged lol

not every event has to be designed for 2 and a half people (2 hyur and 1 lalafell)....


i am sure potential customers are lost because of all this "hiding" events and not putting it in the update notes. the devs need to be realistic, potential customers probably only check the version patch notes and dont look at anything else on the site (i know thats what i do with respect 11 these days and other mmos). the devs should therefore be going all out to blow things out of proportion in getting rid of the secrecy and in ramping up the scale and length of events (think of the media buzz from places like IGN if we went into GM Dave territory: "SE marches its GMs army over major town, does over 9000 damage, hands players their ass then spawns a HNM dragon on poor crafters")

When pvp comes along i expect the devs to come in controlling the leaders of the Grand Companies for some full scale warfare

[Mug]

I like the idea of random "live events", but at this point where content is lacking as it is, I don't quite understand the decision behind making them so rare.

[RathSkybreaker]

I've camped in alfgars spot in uldah for hours -- 20+ at this point -- and have not seen the bastard pop once --__-- except the one time I ran into town and saw him.. this is nuts..