Hatching-Tide 2021

[Iscah]

I've heard thru the grapevine that it's actually something they hand-do each year.

On the other hand, I've heard that they're all there overlapping each other if you look at the zone model data. So maybe they get tweaked each year but the basics are permanent.

[DrWho2010]

yes the decorations are always somewhat slightly different every year iirc.

[Enkidoh]

Unfortunately I think the Easter event was just another casualty of the pandemic delaying SE's development schedule so much they've had to start sacrificing things in order to get the development of the new expansion and the next content patch out in time (most SE staff are working from home like most people around the world which has naturally caused headaches).

Like the Halloween event last year, it's unsurprising the Easter event was not run this year in order to devote resources towards getting patch 5.5 out, given SE is a Japanese company and less than 1% of Japan's population identify as Christian, so sacrificing a Western religious holiday was always going to be more likely than sacrificing for say Little Ladies Day (based on a real-life Japanese cultural event). It's just pragmatism.

It also doesn't help that most of the game's events run in the first half of the year, to the point it's almost like there's a new event from January one after the other til about August with the Rising, then it's just the Halloween event, Christmas and the New Year. So some event trimming was always inevitable to provide the development team a bit of breathing space, and the pandemic was probably the tipping point.

[TaleraRistain]

Like the Halloween event last year, it's unsurprising the Easter event was not run this year in order to devote resources towards getting patch 5.5 out, given SE is a Japanese company and less than 1% of Japan's population identify as Christian, so sacrificing a Western religious holiday was always going to be more likely than sacrificing for say Little Ladies Day (based on a real-life Japanese cultural event). It's just pragmatism.
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I don't work for a game company but I do work for a US-based company that has clients internationally and if this is their outlook, they need to do better. The have players all over the world. And for something like Easter or Christmas, it's not just the religious holiday side. Many people celebrate the secular Easter Bunny or Santa/presents side and ignore the religious side. We give them way too many passes being a Japanese company when they play favorites with Japanese players, but if they want to work internationally, then they need to consider everyone they're serving.

And regardless, if they are cancelling, they really should say something.

[StriderShinryu]

While I'm not personally too bothered by it, I do find it a bit strange that they didn't at least acknowledge they weren't going to be doing anything. I mean, they just had a Live Letter, they could have taken a couple minutes at the end to mention it.

[hobostew]

Isn't it just a generic spring time event and not strictly an "Easter" thing? I figure it can happen any time in the spring time.

Personally, I don't really care too much about seasonal events anyway. Egg themed junk for the armoire wooo! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Vahlnir]

Isn't it just a generic spring time event and not strictly an "Easter" thing? I figure it can happen any time in the spring time.

Personally, I don't really care too much about seasonal events anyway. Egg themed junk for the armoire wooo! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It is typically available around the Easter holiday, but this year is clearly different. If it's happening at all it will likely come with the next patch. Anywhere between April and May would be fine. It doesn't need to be right now, even though it typically is. "Spring" is a good enough time frame considering the circumstances.

[Unholychinchilla]

I don't work for a game company but I do work for a US-based company that has clients internationally and if this is their outlook, they need to do better. The have players all over the world. And for something like Easter or Christmas, it's not just the religious holiday side. Many people celebrate the secular Easter Bunny or Santa/presents side and ignore the religious side. We give them way too many passes being a Japanese company when they play favorites with Japanese players, but if they want to work internationally, then they need to consider everyone they're serving.

And regardless, if they are cancelling, they really should say something.

It's likely that Hatching Tide has fallen foul of the delayed schedule due to the 5.3 delay. In the original development schedule set out early in Shadowbringers' development cycle, 5.5 would have likely been around February so it would have made sense to schedule work on this year's Hatching Tide so that it could be patched in with 5.5.

The shift in schedule after COVID delays would have screwed this up and they likely wouldn't have been able to move it up in schedule to go in an earlier patch. At that point it's a choice of either having the event late or cancelling it.

I do agree it would be nice if they told us which and the Live Letter would have been a good place to do it. The fact that they didn't doesn't give me much hope for a late event, sadly.

[Stargazer_Bleu]

If they don't do the Hatching Tide event, I would of just been happy if they only decorated with last years decorations, and no event with it.
Just a little something to see visually.

Tho either way I am very exited for 5.5.

[Ceridwenae]

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...ide/82rmia4in6

It's back.