We need an official St. Patricks Day Event

[RitsukoSonoda]

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

[TaiyoShikasu]

The vast majority of seasonal events are simply real world festivities with a few tweaks to make them fit into FFXIV. Starlight is Christmas. All Saint's Wake is Halloween. Valentione's is Valentine's Day.

All of them lean on the overly commercialised modern day elements rather than the traditional elements as well. In my opinion, it's just bland. I already celebrate them in the real world. It'd be a lot more interesting to me to explore something genuinely unique.



Mm. That's my favourite of the seasonal events.

Most of those traditional aspects of whatever day are only acknowledged by pagans which isn't a huge demograhpic, so like everyone else you get the commercialized and commodified renditions.

[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.

[Ilan]

Combine the two! Surely there's a few alcohol-related Yokai out there....

There are surely people that could do yokai watch only if they are drunk like on st. patricks day.
People complained and still complain like crazy about Eureka but on the other hand they do the yokai watch crap that is even more boring.

[hynaku]

We need vacation day event. Where its filled with lots of beach games and lets you surf.

[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.

[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.