I would honestly love to just go ALL-OUT on some of the Holiday events

[Kes13a]

Don't forget the All Saints' Wake haunted house co-op puzzles from like 4 or 5 years ago lol. That was a huge hit but we haven't seen it since.

it was fun, but with current direction seemingly towards a solo experience... may not see the like again

[BrokentoothMarch]

That requires effort, which they've shown to be allergic to, so I wouldn't bank on it.

[Kolsykol]

this is some serious "sMaLl iNdIe coMpAnY111!!!!!" talk.

No?
That is just how game development works.

The issue with these things too are that they're temporary and for only a short while.
I'd like it too but there's a difference between want and what's actually reasonable.

Imo tho I'd like to see something like this but more permanent, sorta like how the Gold Saucer is permanent which is basically the equivelant of the faire in WoW I can't remember what it's called.
Too much work into temporary events I am kinda iffy about.

That requires effort, which they've shown to be allergic to, so I wouldn't bank on it.

Yes they're allergic to effort, that's why they're bothering to update old content and are doing a graphical overhaul even tho they could just not have.
Wait.

Is it really so impossible to talk about anything on this forum without finding ways to insult them?

Agreed. However, that takes work and the devs have been really lazy with seasonals recently.

Covid was and still is a thing.
We had delays because of it the devs were quite open about that, not so strange that seasonal content wasn't prioritized then too.

The Ultimate being delayed may actually have been a good thing in the end based on what I've heard from the people who cleared it, they seem to agree in hindsight that getting it now in EW was better.
But there has definitely been cuts made because of Covid and re-prioritization.
They had to just shift over to focusing almost entirely on the big stuff.

[Canadane]

What I don't get is when they create minigames and things that people enjoyed and then never brought them back again.

For example, the love maze during valentines and the freaking summer jumping puzzle that has been gone for 3 years now.

Check the Toy Box, you can play a few of those past games any time you'd like.

[AnnRam]

I mean it; ALL OUT!

Like, imagine if if for All Saints' Wake, we got an actual little "Halloweentown" type of zone, with all sorts of cool cosmetics to unlock? For the Starlight Celebration, we get a "North Pole/Santa's Workshop" type of village, where we're tasked with delivering presents all across the globe, maybe even touching base with some old, familiar faces?

I can only speak for myself, of course. But honestly? I find holidays to be WAY more exciting than just "regular story content".

Especially if we also got stuff like extra Housing styles, more music, maybe even themed weapons!

Nope.
Enjoy having the same recycled 0 effort events from ARR, talk to A->B->A>C then redo the same fate until you get your "new" old glamour that you probably missed and be hyped about it for the next year.

[Rolder50]

They would probably have to make event content that lasted more then one year for something like this to work. Like putting in the dungeon or area and then adding onto it every year, instead of just tossing everything in the trash and starting over every time like they do currently. Of course, this would make it harder to push event cosmetics onto the mogstation, so...

[Deveryn]

Agreed. However, that takes work and the devs have been really lazy with seasonals recently.

I disagree with the idea that they're lazy. Plenty of work goes into presenting a story each time.

I'm a big fan of how low impact they actually are. I've played other games with holiday events and when they hit, there's no progressing anything else. Everyone is busy farming items from the special zone. Imagine the moogle tome event but you can only get them from one place.

[Terin]

what holiday though? not all countries have the same holidays, or celebrate them. if you do one, you would have to do them all, and while it would be nice, I cannot see that happening.

Nah, I don't think so. I think you can absolutely just celebrate some of "the big ones", and of course being a game made in Japan, it makes sense there are holidays there that we might not necessarily celebrate in the West, but it's still fun in-game stuff.

I'd never even heard of the Valentine's stuff, but that honestly sounds like a blast, too! But I figure, Halloween and Christmas are ones that I think most people are down with. The latter isn't even strictly religious anymore, and is more of a "holiday of family & togetherness".

[Liam_Harper]

I think FF14 is the only game where I straight up haven't bothered with multiple holiday events. Sometimes they're decent, other times it's an uninteresting quest and a few pieces of furniture and I decide it's not worth my time.

I know I'm in the minority but I wouldn't mind if the events were more than 10 minutes and done. Some minigames, items to farm, things like that. I know they respect our time and all that, but I wish they weren't afraid to ask for any of my time at all when it comes to optional vanity rewards. I'd like things to do.

[DrWho2010]

I've been doing holiday events ever since ARR beta launch, so I must do them all. I would know if I missed one because the gap in my achievements would be unbearable to see lol.