We need an official St. Patricks Day Event

[DamianFatale]

I love celebrating real world holidays in XIV. At christmas time taking part in the Starlight festival brings a smile to my face for example.

There has always been a soft spot in my heart for holiday specials.

[AniKai]

St. Patri-whatever-icks? Meh, pass.

[RitsukoSonoda]

In hindsight issue 2 with an actual St Patricks day event in FFXIV is a lack of alcoholic items drinkable by players... >.>

[MsQi]

In hindsight issue 2 with an actual St Patricks day event in FFXIV is a lack of alcoholic items drinkable by players... >.>

Such a pity! The game is already T because of alcohol use, they might as well let us get drunk in game.

[xxvaynxx]

If I'm honest.
I don't even know what st.patricks day is for :x

[Lihtleita]

I dont think theres a need for two irish holidays imho

[Penthea]

I dont think theres a need for two irish holidays imho

Halloween is hardly irish at this stage. It has irish roots but in its current state its very americanised.

[Lihtleita]

Halloween is hardly irish at this stage. It has irish roots but in its current state its very americanised.

lmao so is paddys day

[Seraph522]

lmao so is paddys day

The main difference is that the association of St. Patrick's Day with Ireland is still pretty strong, as it's traditionally been celebrated in the US by Irish immigrants as a way to celebrate their heritage. Halloween, in contrast, has roots in Celtic harvest festivals and tales blended with the Christian holiday of All Saint's Day and associated folk beliefs, and isn't usually held to celebrate Celtic culture. The explicit attachment to Irish culture is also probably partly why it hasn't been made an event in FFXIV; while it's becoming more popular to celebrate it in Japan, they don't exactly have a large Irish population for it to become that prominent, and the celebrations are much more recent. Halloween isn't massive over there either, but it's been growing since the late 2000s, which is long ago enough that it would be put up for consideration when they first started planning events.

Also, hynaku: we do have a beach-themed event already in the Moonfire Faire, which usually runs in August. I don't think we've had a surfing minigame yet or anything, but that's usually where that theme comes up.

[Penthea]

lmao so is paddys day

The main difference is that the association of St. Patrick's Day with Ireland is still pretty strong, as it's traditionally been celebrated in the US by Irish immigrants as a way to celebrate their heritage. Halloween, in contrast, has roots in Celtic harvest festivals and tales blended with the Christian holiday of All Saint's Day and associated folk beliefs, and isn't usually held to celebrate Celtic culture.

Yea this a major difference between St. Patrick's Day and Halloween. Everyone knows St. Patrick's Day is irish but most people outside of Ireland have no idea Halloween is. The other major difference being that the reasons for celebrating St. Patrick's Day are still very true to its roots, but this is certainly not the case for Halloween.

That being said what is interesting about how FFXIV does Halloween is that voidsent are directly involved in the festivities. Many of the voidsent in the game have names of figures from irish celtic legends. So in a way how FFXIV celebrates Halloween is closer to its roots than how people normally celebrate it themselves. I don't know if the in-game connection between voidsent, celtic legends and Halloween was intentional by SE, but I find it cool anyway.