Suggestions for Seasonal Event : Event Currency and Associated Rewards

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Good morning, FFXIV users!
We are two WoLs who enjoy playing FFXIV on Aegis.
Whie doing sesonal quests, we got to talking about the limitations of the current seasonal rewards. So we discussed about the Seasonal Event Currency system and reward lists.

Our proposal is based on our discussion, and we decided to post it here in the hopes that it could be useful for further game service, and to listen what other WoLs think.

This is a long post and may not be organized, so please bear with me.

Question:
Final Fantasy XIV is a game that takes care of global events. However, as the game has been served long time, the story plot of events (e.g. quest start locations) and rewards tends to get stuck. As someone who has been playing FFXIV for years, I have positive feelings about seasonal rewards. But the lots of the minion/mount/glamour dress series of rewards is not only detracting players' interest in the seasonal events, but is also likely to lead to systemic overload (e.g., further expansion of the Glamour Dresser, limitations on the Armoire). Additionally, we believe that those who work hard to prepare for seasonal events do not want users to lose interest in them.

Proposal:
We propose a Seasonal Currency for seasonal events and a list of associated rewards. These make clearer to users that seasonal events are an ongoing story, rather than a one-time effort to earn rewards. Also the story of the event tends to follow the years and shows a secondary relationship between players and NPCs, we have organized the currency acquisition system and reward lists to make users feel rewarded for their persistence in completing the seasonal and side quests.

Currency System:
Players may be able to earn a certain amount of Seasonal Currency for each seasonal event quest they complete. Note that in the case of the 2023 Starlight quest, the first quest rewarded an glamour outfit set, and that was used to progress through second quest. So it's possible to earn a certain amount of currency through both quests in the main seasonal story (we don't expect to add the currency rewards for repeatable quest). This Seasonal Currency is displayed in the in-game Currency tab and can be used to purchase rewards in the Seasonal Event Shop.

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Reward List:
- Past Seasonal Event rewards that have not yet been cashed out(e.g., Chocobo Bardings from a previous Seasonal Event reward)
- Weapon Glamours: Seasonal-related concepts or crafting items that can be made from High-end Tirals materials.
- Skins for housing items that are highly utilized but have a fixed appearance that leaves something to be desired (skins can be changed when the housing item is installed, similar to the Companion Appearance-Gear UI): Crystal Bell and Summoning Bell, Aetheryte, Company Chest, Letter Box, and Orchestrion.
- HUD skins: skin elements that allow you to customize UI tabs (such as Party list, Inventory, etc.) with seasonal concepts (it would be easier to access and modify HUD skins if skins could be changed in the System Configuration-Theme Settings).
- Free Company icon design
- Portrait/Plate design
- Aetheryte Ticket
- Glamour Prism
- Triple Triad Card
- MGP Ticket
- Allagan Tomestone of Poetics

There may be other rewards as well.

Also there are some examples:

- Crystal Bell in Old Sharlayan


- HUD Skin examples. We came up with a way to decorate it like a sticker on top of the existing HUD.

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Concerns:
- We believe that 'Past Seasonal Event rewards that have not yet been cashed out' may penalize purchasers of rewards that have already been cashed out.
- In some cases, such as Weapon Glamours, we believe that 'a new weapon with a seasonal concept' could conflict with the system overload issue at hand. However, we are also concerned that 'crafting items that can be made from High-end Tirals materials' could penalize those who craft and sell them.
- As a previous seasonal event reward, Chocobo Bardings remain little as limited edition, so the increased price tag was a bit of a burden. We felt chocobo bardings were a good fit for the reward list, but removing the limited availability of this reward could cause other issues.
- Regarding HUD skins, we need to discuss whether redesign the entire HUD with a seasonal concept, or just a cosmetic element of the HUD. In our concept, we treat the HUD skin as a cosmetic element of the HUD.
- In the case of Free Company icons, we are concerned that this may penalize people who don't have company and may create a divide between those who have and those who don't have icons.
- This suggestion system is similar to Moogle Tresasure Trove in that they are timed and regular events. Therefore, I think it is okay to refer to Moogle Tresasure Trove for the overall process of seasonal currency, but we are also concerned that Moogle Tresasure Trove and Seasonal Event Currency system would be the same.

Thank you for your time for reading our proposal. Have a safe journey!

~ Suggested by ~
Tume Stone@Aegis : Mentioned the problem of seasonal events and write a proposal/Envisioned a currency acquisition system and some detail part of rewards/Summarized the concerns
Nana Pong@Aegis : Refined the proposal and adjusted the terminology/Envisioned the main reward lists/Handled the Japanese translation.