How I would make FF 14 Better

[LianaThorne]

Having played other MMOs where holidays are a two-week-long grind-fest of repetitive dailies and seasonal boss fights with absurdly low drop rates on the good stuff (looking at you, Love Rocket on WoW), I much prefer the simple, to-the-point events we get here.

LOTRO seasonal events are actually extremely expansive and don't involve RNG. For example, Midsummer is two weeks (I think?) and just involves a main quest line where you help plan a wedding and get to be a part of the ceremony + repeatable quests to get event currency (theres like 10-15) that take place across the entire interior of Minas Tirith (like it's enormous, look up a map if you're curious and all of the buildings pretty much have their own fully decorated interiors as well). The prize pool is also like 10 pages long and features all previous Midsummer rewards on top of new ones. All you need to do is get currency and exchange for things, no locking things behind boss drops. There's also milestone rewards for doing x amount of quests during the festival. I've never loved an event as much as that, it's truly magical (especially if you're a LOTR fan).

FFs events could take a page or two from them ngl, even if it means we get less of them. At least they would be stuffed full of things to do and rewards that aren't locked behind the cash shop. Anyone curious should join LOTRO during one of the four major seasonal events (Spring Festival, Midsummer Festival, Harvestmath Festival and Yule Festival..could also include the Farmers Faire ig), they're not level locked so after the tutorial you should get the info on how to join.