Little Ladies' Day

[EstelleCere]

It's a bit hard to hide my disappointment, but I'm not sure what to expect right now. Maybe it's because of the FF16 event coming up soon, idk. I know they've merged events in the past, but I wish we could've at least gotten something a little bit more with the mount. Maybe more than just one event item could've made it nicer, that isn't just a recolour. I'm not sure. I still want to assume it might have something to do with the FF16 event, whenever that is.

[DrWho2010]

the XVI event is in April. They don't really like simultaneous events happening. Like I said earlier, it's a combination of things - Easter being particularly early this year combined with a static date event of LLD, rolling into the XVI event in April, coupled with preparations for DT. Like planning the PAX trips, the 14 hour broadcast, prepping for the media tour, polishing technical/graphical updates up to the last minute, making the benchmark, making the job actions trailer, etc, etc, etc. There's only so much time in the work week to get this all done.

And people have the audacity to say that devs are lazy when they don't stop to think about how much work actually goes into these things.

[Iscah]

Additionally, I remembered we also got things like the variant dungeon storylines, Island Sanctuary with its parade of visiting NPCs, Tataru's Grand Endeavour... we've lost story content and we've gained story content, so it's not really possible to say that we've lost it overall based on the fact that two specific normally-separate questlines got merged because there are more variables than that.

Relic quests in the previous games took a long time because the acquiring of tokens was padded out, but the quests weren't long at all on top of the main progress through Eureka or Bozja.

[Mimilu]

I know I'm necrothreading but I just wanted to vent for a second.
Both this and the Valentione event were very disappointing to me. I almost didn't even complete the second (out of two) Valentione quests because you get the emote (the only reward for doing this year's quests) after completing the first quest.
The almost infantile, paint-by-numbers stories, the generic walk-and-talk quests, the uninspired rewards, and the lack of anything to do afterwards, mixed with the pre-next expansion content draught boredom just made me log off and play something else once I finished the two paltry event quests both events had.
I know that the devs are focusing on the next expansion but, in their own words, they plan these events a year in advance and this isn't their first rodeo, they should of had the foresight. (Not completely unrelated but the fact they keep giving headwear two of the playable races can't wear is another issue too.)
End of Mimi's rant. ( ´-ω-` )