Starlight Celebration 2024

[TemporalFruitsAndVeggies]

Just like you, I gave up on trying to explain to people that if I want to play a game, I want to *play* it and if I pay a subscription for FFXIV specifically, it means I want to play FFXIV, not "go play other games". A lot of people seem to be happy with getting the bare minimum though, I guess to each their own. Maybe this game is just not for me after all. I followed Yoshi's advice and "went to play other games", closed my subscription (maybe even for good), so I wanted to leave my opinion here while I still can.

I've never played GW2 past the first few quests, but that sure sounds like a lot of fun. I used to play LOTRO though and I absolutely looooved their seasonal events. For Yule Festival there was (and probably still is) a whole new instanced area called Frostbluff where you could do a ton of daily activities, some of them were more boring quests like "clean the mess", but there were a few really fun quests as well, like participating in a Yule theater play, snowball fights with other players, building snowmen, seasonal dungeons where you had to fight waves of cold and evil snowmen and raid bosses, like a huge ice giant. For each of them you get tokens and then you can spend them on really nice rewards, like mounts, pets, cosmetic clothes, furniture, emotes. And they composed special Yule music for all of that, which made you feel even more festive.

When I saw that they added a new area in FFXIV this year I got excited for a bit, because I thought that maybe they made it with something special in mind... Only to be brought back to reality when the last quest ended and all I could do there was speak to some vendors and take pictures.

Oh well. It's a shame, but it's just a game after all. While I'm still here, happy Yuletide, Christmas or any other holiday you are all celebrating!

Oh man, LotRO was my jam back in the day (when Moria was current). Wonder if there are still enough people playing it for it to be fun to hop back into.

I complain about FFXIV a lot, but I do think its end-game encounter design alone is good enough to justify the subscription price for me, and it's not a bad game; on the contrary, it's got quite a lot going for it, including its legendary IP. I just see all the ways it could be better and get frustrated sometimes, because it could be so much more than it is. The developers just have to put in serious effort to modernize a lot of it.

[VeleriaEvenstar]

Oh man, LotRO was my jam back in the day (when Moria was current). Wonder if there are still enough people playing it for it to be fun to hop back into.

I complain about FFXIV a lot, but I do think its end-game encounter design alone is good enough to justify the subscription price for me, and it's not a bad game; on the contrary, it's got quite a lot going for it, including its legendary IP. I just see all the ways it could be better and get frustrated sometimes, because it could be so much more than it is. The developers just have to put in serious effort to modernize a lot of it.

From what I know, LOTRO is still going strong with new expansions and big enough playerbase I haven't touched it in last 2 years though.

And just to clarify - FFXIV is not a bad game overall by any means! Just for me personally it is not exactly what I'm looking for in the game, hence the decision to close the subscription. I'm more than happy that there are people who play and have fun, of course and I'm not entitled enough to go and say "mmmhmmm, I don't like this and this so it's a bad game"