All Saints' Wake 2020

[TheMightyMollusk]

From what I understand in universe the Rising is a remmebrence of those that died during the calamity.

It's kinda hard to say. One year we reenacted the siege in Ul'dah from the last hours before the fall of Dalamud (even including the Great Goobue Wall at the gates), but another year we collected trash on the beach and found messages in bottles. In previous years we fought programming bugs and ran old-school mini-dungeons and other silliness. The only real unifying factor in Rising events is that the Wandering Minstrel is involved somehow.

[Iscah]

It's kinda hard to say. One year we reenacted the siege in Ul'dah from the last hours before the fall of Dalamud (even including the Great Goobue Wall at the gates), but another year we collected trash on the beach and found messages in bottles. In previous years we fought programming bugs and ran old-school mini-dungeons and other silliness. The only real unifying factor in Rising events is that the Wandering Minstrel is involved somehow.

It's not about what we do for the game quest, it's about what the festival is said to be according to the in-game dialogue. And yes it's commemorating the Calamity (which at a meta level is linked to the game's anniversary).

Cleaning up the beach wasn't directly about the Rising; it was packing up from the Moonfire Faire and just incidentally led us to seek out the Minstrel at the Rising festival to help us decipher the message.

[MsMisato]

It's kinda hard to say. One year we reenacted the siege in Ul'dah from the last hours before the fall of Dalamud (even including the Great Goobue Wall at the gates), but another year we collected trash on the beach and found messages in bottles. In previous years we fought programming bugs and ran old-school mini-dungeons and other silliness. The only real unifying factor in Rising events is that the Wandering Minstrel is involved somehow.

Yea the Rising is about the celebration to ending of the calamity and the game being reborn from the mess 1.0 was. If you were around for the second one, they really out did themselves with like the 18th or 19th floor tour. They gave an apology for the original FFXIV and how the dev team forgot about listening to the players and such. You got a message from different folks on the dev team and such. It was really cool. Because it if you were there from the beginning and carried your character over you got a different message, and if you were there from the start you also got a different message and each year it depending on how long you been with game.

I like all the season events they are general fun and silly. Kind of sad to see All Saints Wake being canned this year though.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I suspect the Make It Rain Campaign is inspired by Golden Week. Moonfire Faire could be pretty much any summer holiday festival, there are plenty of them around the world.

The Rising is FFXIV's yearly anniversary celebration. It's sorta real world based, in a meta way, just not to anyone who doesn't play the game.

[Amariel34]

The one where we collected messages in bottle on the beach was actually really touching to me. Got a major case of the feels from it.

[MsQi]

Here is what is said in game about the Rising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXH2y1x7cmc

As a player you are celebrating the anniversary of ARR

Your character is remembering the Calamity and hoping for a brighter future.

This could be compared to days for remembering soldiers, or specific wars, or specific situations or disasters that were overcome.

[Penthea]

As I've seen here, it seems its confirmed Halloween's event will be canceled, and instead we will get the Gold Saucer one with some of the Halloween planned rewards.

Oh well I guess it's not entirely cancelled, it's just being fused with something else and changing location.

I'm on the fence about it. This could be great or not so great. Moving the event locations can freshen it up a bit but considering how the Gold Saucer works in terms of its rewards this might not be received very well.

I'll reserve my judgement for when it actually happens.

[TheMightyMollusk]

The holiday is themed around a beach party that happens to include fireworks among its festivities.

[Unholychinchilla]

The holiday is themed around fireworks. 4th of july is the only holiday I know of where fireworks are the main gimmick

Japanese summer festivals often involve a firework display. Just because it's the only one you know, doesn't mean it's the only one.