Starlight Celebration 2024

[lucatracy]

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

You say this as if event bardings are a common occurrence. The last event barding was two (hell, almost three) years ago, and we've never had more than just a single event barding per expac after ARR.

[Daralii]

Annual event rewards were low effort after the second or third year. Why are people only complaining now?

People did complain before, but there were other positive aspects of the game to outweigh the events being bad. Now the quality of everything else but the encounter design(which people still debate about) has also dropped and the patches are too far apart for what they offer.

[Jangles]

I like the barding, but we don't even get a hot choco emote from a seemingly hot choco themed event? Also what in the hells am I supposed to do with all these housing items they keep giving us, I sure as hell don't have enough room in my apartment and even if I did I'm not gonna fill my house with random seasonal decorations like a warehouse.

[Miguel85NYC]

Complaining just for the fun of it, it seems. This is not entirely out of line with past events, if anything we're getting slightly more than usual events, just because it isn't a glam or mount doesn't mean it's inherently lazy. The issue here is that it doesn't interest you personally.

Event is pure garbage like every other year.

[Daralii]

I like the barding, but we don't even get a hot choco emote from a seemingly hot choco themed event? Also what in the hells am I supposed to do with all these housing items they keep giving us, I sure as hell don't have enough room in my apartment and even if I did I'm not gonna fill my house with random seasonal decorations like a warehouse.

I think they're increasing furniture limits in 7.2 or 7.3, so somewhere around April or August you'd be able to put that crap in a corner or store it

[Hypnotic13371337]

atleast we finally got one of those friggen wall posters. I dunno why its been so long since we have had one of these...

Literally the EASIEST bit of effort they could spend on making those an item. Get template, apply picture they already made

[Darko]

The rewards themselves, there's nothing wrong with them. The issue is that it's the same type of reward. This is my third Starlight-themed barding, yet for All Saints we only ever got one. We got two emotes for All Saints, none for Starlight.

There is comfort in the familiar, in tradition. I like FFXIV's traditions in fact. But relying overly much on them makes things boring and stale. Mix it up a little, give us another spooky barding or mount for All Saints, and an emote like drink eggnog or hot chocolate, or eat a cinnamon roll for Starlight. Or some kind of emote relating to ice or snow, or as suggested in this thread, a sled mount or a framer kit. There must be something the devs can think of.

It's not just a problem of same old same old, it's as OP stated, low effort as well. I've seen less and less effort put into festivals every year. Think of when we could sing in the Starlight choir. Now it's just talking.

This is a symptom of things going wrong with the game in general but that would take me off topic.

[FudoMyoo]

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 ran of things to complain.

[Nezerius]

I'm not spending $45 on Twitch subs for a gimmick mount and some aetheryte tickets.

Curious how you're spending $45 on Twitch subs, when they're $5 each.

Annual event rewards were low effort after the second or third year. Why are people only complaining now?

Except people complain every year, at every seasonal event. People probably complained during the 2015 Starlight Celebration too, when it just had reindeer antlers/gloves/boots, and a beard + reused christmas hat model.
Similarly, 2013 Starlight Celebration had a 3-piece snowman outfit, and a basic looking barding (the other sets were introduced in 2010/2011).

Amount of effort spent on seasonal events has always been very similar, if already low to begin with.

[Iscah]

What really irks me somehow (might just be a me-problem though) is that we barely get any new titles for those kinds of events anymore. Besides for crossover stuff, that is.
I dunno, titles like Half-boiled Hero/Heroine or how it's called in german "Eierlegende" ('Egg-legend'...it's glorious) were kinda funny and special. I miss them

If they put titles as event quest rewards, they're lost forever afterwards because you can't buy them like other rewards, you have to do the quest. I would rather that titles go where they'll be available later.

"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.

I've got no opinion on the price as I don't know if that's accurate, but if they put the recoloured snowman in the event then you know people would be bitterly complaining at the devs' audacity to make this year's reward a recoloured version of a previous year's reward – and if they made a unique Starlight mount and put it in a Twitch promo instead of in-game, people would fume about that even more.

A cheap recolour of an existing mount is a better thing to see put in the external promo, really. If you don't like them doing cross-promos then you can easily ignore it because you're not missing out on much.