Quote Originally Posted by ACE135 View Post
How can you judge the quality of the event if it isn't out and you couldn't even play it yet? Not liking the rewards from an event is one thing, but saying the event or the quality is bad just because you don't like the rewards is inappropriate in my opinion. If one doesn't like the Titania mount for example then the fight is bad or of low quality? Why is always the whole event bad when you just don't like the rewards?

I don't know why people say they want events here and there when the only thing they want is just in their eyes good enough rewards and the event itself completely doesn't matter.
Roasted.
Ace does have a point though. The First Rising event I did, I was really just skeptical over it since it's just a minion for the event (note this was Ardbert's minion when I didn't do ShB yet and I had a skewed perception of rewards at the time with the previous event rewards). I did enjoy The Rising event overall though after playing through it. Got to socialize with the people in the first event, enjoyed the cutscenes, played a couple of songs, and had a good time overall. The Rising Events are usually always good, even if the rewards don't reflect well. I say to not worry about the result (the reward), but just the journey itself for this event in particular.

Though I'm more inclined to think The Rising event for this year will be more rushed since this year's event was supposed to be released after Endwalker. For all we know, Endwalker added more memorable characters and The Rising would feature a minion for that expansion, but due to covid and development delays, the actual expansion was pushed after The Rising's event launch. The rewards (and maybe even the content of this year's Rising event) was changed as a result. This is fairly likely since storylines & events are planned months in advance before the dev team gets assets to go into development. Covid threw a huge wrench in those plans in both development time and assets so it makes sense they would have to swap things out for this year's event as Endwalker is not out yet.