Quote Originally Posted by Kaurhz View Post
It's not really a contest, it's more looking at seeing what others are doing and why those events might be successful, and what SE could or should consider adopting for future events, versus the two quest tokenism they have currently going on.

You know, like most sane people interested in seeing a product improve would do, just as most sane companies would do well to understand what successful things others are doing in the genre with their events.
Given the other companies and their events and some of the decisions, I'd say they can be just as bad as SE themselves.
At the very least, SE is consistent with giving rewards through simple quests that you can use at any given time. Unlike some others, where RNG dicates your experience, or leave the rewards locked behind the event duration.
Or give you half a handful of premium store pages for titles and flairs for the occasion, while even offering less than what XIV gives when it comes to content by warming up the same exact same event.

Could SE do better? Absolutely, they could. And they need a shake-up on this.
But approaching the issue with cynism, sarcasm and/or gesture around where 'everyone does better than this'? No - Take a actual closer look before stating this.