Starlight Celebration 2024

[Wilford111]

I already own 7 christmas (sant/reindeer/snowman/choir...) glamours, decorated trees, snowy trees, indoor trees, white indoor trees, small trees, opened boxes, closed boxes, wreaths, wall/tabletops items, orchestrion rolls, mounts, foods, ice walls and walls, chocobo bardings, and I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

Still, this year they made something I don't already own from past events.

- 1x choco-barding
- 2x tabletops
- 1x wall mounted
- 1x orchestrion roll

If 5 new items is "only" I fail to understand what's "enough"-

Housing items shouldn't be counted since not everyone can own a house.

[Hasrat]

I already own 7 christmas (sant/reindeer/snowman/choir...) glamours, decorated trees, snowy trees, indoor trees, white indoor trees, small trees, opened boxes, closed boxes, wreaths, wall/tabletops items, orchestrion rolls, mounts, foods, ice walls and walls, chocobo bardings, and I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

Still, this year they made something I don't already own from past events.

- 1x choco-barding
- 2x tabletops
- 1x wall mounted
- 1x orchestrion roll

If 5 new items is "only" I fail to understand what's "enough"-

They want a mount, a minion, an emote, and a glamour set, for every event, every year.



What none of them stop to realize is how they'll be fueling even worse complaints the following years when all that stuff is put in mogstation. "Stop making all these great old rewards cash only."

At least as long as the "good" rewards are uncommon, there's less compelling players to open wallets in the future.

[Bonoki]

Bardings are probably at the bottom of things I want anymore from these events.

[Roehann]

Bardings are probably at the bottom of things I want anymore from these events.

Although I like bardings, I do agree with you on a whole... I mean, the poor Chocobo hasn't been touched or updated in forever! After all these expansions, one would think they could have increased the rank it could get from 20 to something higher so all these fates we're fighting in would be worth it for our companions are well..

Sadly like a lot of things in this game the devs talk a lot, but don't follow through.. It's almost borderline lying to their customers in my opinion...

[hynaku]

I already have Christmas barding from another Starlight
Celebration. Don't really need any more Chocobo barding.

[Nero-Voidstails]

I think the bigger problem is everything is given after like 2 quest max where they could give slightly more but add like a special thing to do.

I still remember one of the Halloween event we got a special and unique way of doing a dungeon it was simple for sure but was still a change!
I am sad they didn't keep doing those

[Bonoki]

I think the bigger problem is everything is given after like 2 quest max where they could give slightly more but add like a special thing to do.

I still remember one of the Halloween event we got a special and unique way of doing a dungeon it was simple for sure but was still a change!
I am sad they didn't keep doing those

I’ll admit, I’m one of the people who probably contributed to the normalization of the ‘two quest’ structure in seasonal events. I’ve started skipping all the holiday cutscenes because the lore feels so inconsequential to the larger story that it’s barely canon in my eyes. Even the event NPCs rarely appear outside of these occasions, which makes them feel isolated from the rest of the game. On top of that, I find it frustrating to be forced into a mini-game or FATE, especially since I have alts. The repetition just isn’t enjoyable for me anymore. I'm unfortunately grateful for the two quest structure and I shouldn't be.

[Avoidy]

I play an old mmo private server with events spanning the entire month. Those guys make all their revenue off donations.
Idk what square is even doing here, frankly. It's embarrassing.

"Players will be able to obtain the Snowstreamer mount, along with 50 aetheryte tickets, by purchasing or gifting three Twitch subscriptions while watching eligible FFXIV channels during the Starlight Celebration campaign period."

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...b243e892181af9

The fact that this mount is an existing mount but with the scarf color slightly altered, and then they ask you to drop like 40 dollars for it. It's all so low effort.

[Reinha]

A Christmas emote or framer kit would have more novel than yet another barding.

Also lol at the paid recolor Christmas mount.

[TaleraRistain]

I can't remember every event in 10 years but I don't think there have been many we've gotten orchestrion rolls from. Usually you'd have to buy those when they were available with event currency from a vendor. So it's kind of nice to get one as a reward. A framer's kit could have been nice, too, but maybe they can use that idea for next year.