Hatching-Tide 2021

[Falmen]

Since there's been no announcement one way or the other regarding this years' Hatching-tide event, I'm leaning toward the possibility they simply forgot about it or decided to just skip it... or both. While seasonal events do break up the monotony of waiting for the next content release, the fact is in recent years the quality of events in FFXIV have been lacking and that's even before the pandemic started. It used to be that one would complete a small questline that required a reasonable amount of investment of time and effort by players and culminated in a well-earned much desired reward one could show off, but now it's just a one-and-done quest with bare-bones investment followed by a couple weeks of nothing more to do. While it would be nice to have a Hatching-tide event this year, if they're just gonna half-ass it like most every other seasonal event of the last 3 years, why bother?

[LadyStardust]

Since there's been no announcement one way or the other regarding this years' Hatching-tide event, I'm leaning toward the possibility they simply forgot about it or decided to just skip it... or both. While seasonal events do break up the monotony of waiting for the next content release, the fact is in recent years the quality of events in FFXIV have been lacking and that's even before the pandemic started. It used to be that one would complete a small questline that required a reasonable amount of investment of time and effort by players and culminated in a well-earned much desired reward one could show off, but now it's just a one-and-done quest with bare-bones investment followed by a couple weeks of nothing more to do. While it would be nice to have a Hatching-tide event this year, if they're just gonna half-ass it like most every other seasonal event of the last 3 years, why bother?

Yeah, I'm starting ot think they're not going to be doing the event this year for some reason. I thought we'd get something from the live letter either during or posted after it was over but I haven't seen or heard anything about it.

[Nayout]

>No new PVP map
>No new Ultimate
>No new seasonal events

How hard is it to replay last year's event if you don't have time? Ah no, you prefer to sell it on the Moggstation

[myahele]

I don't think they even bothered to change our avatars/names for April Fools this time too.

[MrPresident]

They could have at least toggled the decorations on.

[Kio]

I'm really heartbroken that we didn't at least get the decorations turned on. It's just a push of a button isn't it? Not even an apology or explanation in the live letter.

[MilkieTea]

I'm really heartbroken that we didn't at least get the decorations turned on. It's just a push of a button isn't it? Not even an apology or explanation in the live letter.

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

[DrWho2010]

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

[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.

[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.