Little Ladies' Day

[Dorito_Burrito]

You mean the "Love is in the Air" event that had been the same for over 14 years, prior to its 2024 rework? The event that only got some small new reward added every few years? The event that has one of the most unhinged mount farms in the entirety of WoW, with a droprate of 0.03% (which didn't get a minor buff until last year)?

Or the Winter Veil event that not only has another yearly mount farm but also an assortment of bosses wearing Santa hats! Whoooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa™!!!!!!!!!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Wyssahtyn]

see? phoned in. combined event and a recolored laurel goobbue with a different wreath

[TabrisOmbrelame]

That combined event seems a little strange to me. We will have two decoration taking place at two different time, but we will only get one quest and one reward.

Also, the Goobue seems more like a Little ladies rewards than a Easter reward.

Can't hide that i'm disappointed for once

[Iscah]

Personally I've never been keen on Hatching-tide rewards, and last year with the Tonberry seemed like they're scraping for ideas, so I'm not sad to see that particular holiday miss out on prizes.

Elsewhere I've seen people point out that the FFXVI event is coming soon, so the usual seasonal event preparation may have been derailed by that. Doubly so with the expansion looming.