Permanent collaborations

[kikix12]

Lazy... I see how quickly ppl always judges.

Don't worry. That poster is always against everything that would give players any chance of getting something that right now is exclusive. Be it items or story. He's just the kind of person that goes "I did it when it popped up, so you either should have too or you lose.".

Seeing as your idea gives people the option to do them (exactly like he or others did, not even any easier, exactly the same), he clearly didn't even think about what he was talking about. He just noticed "bring back the temporary events" and went negative.

[Kazrah]

Seeing as your idea gives people the option to do them (exactly like he or others did, not even any easier, exactly the same), he clearly didn't even think about what he was talking about. He just noticed "bring back the temporary events" and went negative.

Well clearly he's mad because all he got were lousy t-shirts.

[ManuelBravo]

Lazy... I see how quickly ppl always judges. Not everyone were lazy (If I were, I wouldn't got the Yokai 2nd mount at the event's first time). Maybe some ppl could be lazy, but MAYBE (like me with the Shantotto event) some pplstarted to play the game after the last time an event took place. Ppl who would like to play it not just for the rewards, but for the experience of the story. I could buy the Shantotto minion from MS yeah, but it would just be a doll delivered by a Moogle...

I'm asking to turn these collabs into permantent, just like the Garo, or how it looks the MH will be. I don't think collab should be the same word as "seasonal". If you read carefully, I tried to avoid saying the word "event". We already have the seasonal ones (Moonfire, Heavensturn, Hatching...), so I ask to make just for the collabs to be turned from events to permanent, with new rewards for those which rewards are already in MS.

Sounds more like a personal problem. If you play the game should be no reason to miss it unless do to RL. Otherwise website still up with updates and events -.-;

Certain things I could understand PvP Garo is one. Things tied to other things like fates are really just a waste of time. Focus on new content instead. What is the point anyways? Just to collect things? Collaboration events ( hence limited time ) are used to entice consumers to rejoin. So yes being lazy would be one reason. Been since v1.0 but hey I still love this game and FFXI. Maybe in the future once it's dead it may happen just to keep people playing.

[Vidu]

Quite frankly, I didnt like seeing the FATEs during the events already - they're clearly drawing from a different visual design that doesnt fit in that well with the design we have in FFXIV. Some of the Lightning enemies made it into Azys Lla, yes, but they still seemed extremly out of place in Eastern Thanlan to me.
Same goes for most of the other event-FATEs - and all of that is fine during the actual event! Its 2 weeks of seeing something special, something that doesnt belong in this world... and then have the world return back to normal.

The garo collaboration is only offering gear and mounts (that dont look like they belong in Eorzea either, if you ask me... main reason I never use them myself and probably why I rarely see anyone using them...). Its not adding anything to the open world, or, as I see it: disrupting said open world.

For any non SE stuff (or maybe even for the SE stuff...) there could also be legal complications in regards to wether or not its okay to have the rewards for an unlimited amount of time.

And my last point: It would make the events less special. My concern is a bit that we could also end up seeing less cool events, because there are so many on-going already.

But yeah, main concern: The FATEs dont fit into the game, so I'd prefer not to see them permanently.

That being said, I wouldnt mind seeing those events return on a yearly-basis or something like that!

[Pastahnak]

No I'd like to see these stay temporary although I'd like to see another shantotto event in the future. U just have a case of the missing out syndrome and if these were permanent they'd be as interesting as unlocking dyes. And keeping them permanent but also keeping them non canon would be an issue.

[LeoLupinos]

If there was more temporary events I would give a no for this. But they are rare like diamonds, so I must agree to more returns.

[Enkidoh]

There is a reason why those crossover events were only temporary and most specifically will not be coming back, and that was because the whole point of the crossovers in the first place was to celebrate certain milestones being reached in those specific games (the FFXI events were to celebrate FFXI's eleventh anniversary of service for the Shantotto event and the official winding up of it's storyline with the Rhapsodies of Vana'diel storyline with that story's main character Iroha respectively; and the FFXIII event was to coincide with the then current release of the second FFXIII sequel: Lightning Returns ~ FFXIII. Likewise the Dragon Quest event was to celebrate DQX's first anniversary of service.).

Hence because all these milestones are long since past, there is no reason to run them, and with the adding of the items they rewarded to the Mogstation, it's pretty conclusive those events are gone and never coming back (it's the same reason you will never see the special events that were run in 1.0 to coincide with the Calamity return, it would invalidate their very reason to be run originally in the first place).

[Belisaire]

As someone who has been around since 1.0, got all the exclusives there, and have done every temporary event in ARR to date--I openly welcome everyone being able to enjoy the same experience with the game that I have. I think these things should be permanent or failing that, have frequent re-runs of the event. It's not uncommon for these sorts of things to get multiple runs and ultimately, if it gets someone to enjoy something new in this game then I say they are doing a good job.

Certain things like the Calamity obviously can't happen again because it was an entirely different game. But I wouldn't care if people could get the Goobbue and/or Legacy Chocobo mount if they had to do something else. Exclusives are just fake badges of honor, in my opinion. I miss the days when the concept didn't really exist.

[Maero]

Certainly not Yo-kai, that happened twice and the 2nd time it came it stayed multiple months.
While i really did love Lightning Returns it was to coincide with the game so i do not think collab events should be permanent.
Only thing that seems permanent is the Garo stuff atm and Monster Hunter we are getting a 8 man fight which is suppose to remain from what i heard.