Little Ladies' Day

[Allegor]

The guy went on record saying he is more or less taking ideas he likes from WoW and adding it to XIV. It's not that shocking considering events here are just WoW events with a fate added to it. Though I wish he would copy WoW's events a little more and make a cool mini village outside of town during Christmas events and things like that.

To XIV's credit, at least every year's event has a different thematic, rewards, and narrative which serves as continuation of the previous year if you played it. WoW has been having the exact same events for over a decade now, the only thing they ever updated is the Darkmoon Faire (admittedly, I loved the not-DDR game and rollercoaster, the Gold Saucer could adopt those)

[Mimilu]

Was that already announced somewhere? It can be easy to miss when a lot of information gets released to JP trade magazines and never gets translated to English.

Little Ladies' Day usually coincides with the Doll Festival, or Girl's Day, in Japan that occurs on March 3rd. Delaying it for almost a month seems strange when it's Hatching Tide that has been a bit more flexible on schedule in the past.

If anything, it would probably be paired with Valentione's Day like it was back in 2021.
2022's Little Ladies' Day was the latest the event has been, starting March 14 and ending March 31. Otherwise, it usually starts end of February/beginning of March. ┐(´∀｀)┌

[Sove92]

Little Ladies Day and Hatchingtide have never happened at the same time, afaik. It did get held at roughly the same time during the 2021's Valentione's Day event though.

@OP: Little Ladies Day generally happens during the first half or the last half of March, with seasonal events often being announced about a week before they happen.

Ah, I remembered wrong, it was Valentine's where it has happened at the same time.

Was that already announced somewhere?

No, but some smart people have already uncovered it from the game files, the quests can be found from database sites covering the game.

[EorzeaWanderer]

It's still so amusing to me how they make a single quest with like 10 minutes of cutscenes and a 3 minute level 10 FATE and then call that an "event." If any of you took Yoshida's advice and actually played other games, you'd realize what a huge joke this is.

I have to agree, I started playing Genshin recently and the pacing/energy of community engagement and quality of timed events is much higher than in FF14. Very different games of course, but for example, the recent Lantern Rite had several mini-games where you could queue up and have silly competitions with other players, a voiced storyline, and a CGI-style video of the conclusion of the festivities after you finished the quests. Maybe they are not all this elaborate, not sure yet.

FF14 is much stronger storywise in general so I think they have so much potential to step it up in this area. Maybe it’s just budget being squeezed?

[Shougun]

Comparing to other mmos GW2 has some pretty awesome events too. To the credit of WoW and GW2 they re-occur in the sense that they have a lot and if you don't get it that time you can get it next. Ours is adds very little and you will FOMO it. Might be cool if achievement tokens could purchase old items. Of course the amount of times the other two update their preexisting systems is less. The win win would be minor updates each year on solid eventful systems.

The extra story is neat, but due to the layers that don't layer the events feel small on their own and especially so in comparison.

[Wyssahtyn]

events have been getting phoned in for years at this point, idk why anyone expects them to change.

[Iscah]

It's held together with the easter event again, not the first time it's happened.

Little Ladies Day and Hatchingtide have never happened at the same time, afaik. It did get held at roughly the same time during the 2021's Valentione's Day event though.

It wasn't just held at the same time as Valentione's; the events were merged that year. That's what Soveia is thinking of.

So, not the first time for merging events in general or LLD in particular, even though this combination hasn't happened before.

[LilimoLimomo]

The ladies who used to be little? All grown up. People who are still little? Not ladies. Can't have a day for something that no longer exists.

[Remolia]

The guy went on record saying he is more or less taking ideas he likes from WoW and adding it to XIV.

Oh I was wondering why FFXIV has that stupid outdated +10 levels design on every Expansion release, with extra new spells, making Jobs more bloated with the list of actions, and totally making game balance worse on each iteration.

[MsMisato]

You'd think they would want more events to incentivize people to log on and play, especially while we're now in the pre-next expansion lull but what do I know? (◍´͈ꈊ`͈◍)
Granted, with how little they've been doing with the events (just making them 1-or-2 quests with very little rewards), maybe that would be a lost cause too?

thats ok. they have the online store to help rain in money.