Worst Summer Event EVER

[Infindox]

Seasonal events are always like this? I always have a laugh seeing these posts every time a new one happens. There's a few that you get good rewards from every year and a few that are just kinda there. Some people also have varying opinions on what's "worth it" (I love events that have mounts, some people don't care).

[Heavenchild]

They really need to put more effort into this in the future. I don't want to be rude but..., it's really not interesting and the rewards are bad, too.

SE gets so much money just from 14. It's a shame how less seems to get invested back into the game. I don't want to pay for their halfbacked other bad projects. :/

I am also afraid about the mobile FF14 that is coming. It's hard to imagine that this could become something more than a new try to milk more money from the 14 franchise, instead of solving 14's issues.

Sometimes I wonder if they are aware that a lot of people are patient for years now, but problems still don't get solved and people are getting more and more fed up and slowly leave. I know that DT release playernumbers were very high again. It's because a lot of people still hoped that things get better. But what's now? MSQ was not that good and most people are back to boredom.

And then, such a boring event. No man..., that's really a problem.

[Thurmnmurmn]

This is far from the worst event ever. All the events suck like this with maybe one odd one out that's decent per year. If even that.

[LilimoLimomo]

I've actually played the event quests now, and personally I think it was one of the better event quests. The story was silly and didn't insist on itself too much, and it was short enough to not wear out its welcome. I had a good time.

[Astrus]

The story was more lacking than usual...and I honestly never expect anything that great from them. But that one was...uh. A dad joke?

I have a question, if anyone here played the event in any other language than english - how does the story go? Because correct me if I'm reading it wrong, but...the whole thing was "the uchiwasshoi gets rid of evil spirits and the cactuars were drunk...spirits??? Drinks?? Get it???? ba dum tss"

Does that even work in any other language or does the quest makes even less sense than that?

German client: Same thing, in hindsight the dad joke works but wasn't obvious ("spirit" translating to "Geist" in both senses of the word), my takeaway was the fans working just because as I didn't make the punny connection until reading your post.
The entire event was a decent setup for the cactuars being possessed by Susano with the drinking and dancing, possibly due to Gegeruju giving them what turned out to be ceremonial wine, but whoever was in charge of the event probably didn't make the connection or was under orders not to reference anything past the requisite level of 30.

[Shinku_Tachi]

Yeah, seasonal events are generally like that. They're more or less just a quick little diversion.

With stuff from past seasonal event, they used to have an NPC selling old stuff back in the day, but once they moved to putting seasonal event items and rewards on the mogstation, that was a wrap.

[Vensaval]

I really miss the days when events were actual events and weren't quick 10-minute distractions that hand you a reward and then you completely forget about them.

[Arzalis]

They always do this at the Moonfire that comes out shortly after the expansion. It ends up being every other year we have a "big" event for the summer. I think it's pretty silly to do it that way, but SE loves to never change.

[Xellith]

Cant wait for next year when the emote will sell like hot cakes on the mog station.

[Astrus]

They always do this at the Moonfire that comes out shortly after the expansion. It ends up being every other year we have a "big" event for the summer. I think it's pretty silly to do it that way, but SE loves to never change.

I think part of the reason for that pattern is the volatile nature of seasonal content in FFXIV. I imagine the same team that handles all the other side quests for the big x.0 release also has to do the first half year of events during that crunch so them half-assing a couple of quests that are headed straight to the woodchipper after their three weeks of relevance is kind of understandable.
They might put more care into these if they came back each year for the folks who haven't already done them, though that would cut into the online store profits so we can't have that.