Ideas for new seasonal events in ARR.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Since I haven't seen a thread or idea pop up like this on the forums, what are your thoughts about new seasonal events? What would you like to see for Halloween, Summer, Winter, and the like?

I had a good idea that I've kept to myself since September of this year for what they could do for Halloween Since we have instanced dungeons and whatnot, do you think it could be possible that the devs could make an instanced area for Halloween or take one of the dungeons and decorate it for Halloween? I was thinking that if not a dungeon, we could have a "haunted" castle. In the castle, there could be a scavenger hunt for items, and along the way we could fight monsters that are a part of the Halloween holiday (Arihams, bombs, skeletons, ghosts, imps, wolves, bats, etc.) that are around the castle. Maybe to progress through the haunted castle, you have to kill some monsters in order for them to drop an item (maybe a key?) to progress through the rooms. Or we have to collect a certain amount of body parts or drops that they have. The instanced areas could have their own little quests for the holidays.

A summer event could take place at a beach. We would be told to fish up some items or dig for buried treasure in the sands. We could have seasonal food such as drinks, sweets, meats, and the like. There could also be fireworks and we could get our seasonal gear such as swimming suits and kimonos (like in 1.0 and FFXI).

Around the holiday time, we could be transported to an instanced area. We could help find a lost Moogle for Good King Moogle-Claus or help deliver presents to children NPCs in the city-states (like what we did in FFXI).

Of course with these seasonal events, we could get gear and weapons, or even gag items. With the gear and weapons, there could be high-end gear if you really want to undertake the task in obtaining them (that are maxed at Lv50), only if you wanted to.

What are some ideas you have?

[Kirito]

I defiantly won't mind seasonal only monsters that drop seasonal rare items... but decorated dungeons seems a little bit... if there where seasonal only dungeons I wouldn't mind it so much...

Also they could have a scavenger hunt or walk across an area in pairs... I know japan has a test of courage event so yoshida could do an event similar to that... for halloween

for the summer there could be beach events like watermelon squashing

and I like your idea for christmas...

[Warlock]

Sounds good...they could do it like Kingdom Hearts 2 ..every place Sora goes his outfit fits the theme of the new place... just like that have good gear with theme design of the festival ...cool full armor sets with a Halloween-ish look for example...besides there will be vanity slots so..for X-mas have Fat Chocobo in Santa suit at towns and such XD!

[Naraku_Diabolos]

I defiantly won't mind seasonal only monsters that drop seasonal rare items... but decorated dungeons seems a little bit... if there where seasonal only dungeons I wouldn't mind it so much...

Well, the seasonal dungeons/areas would not be too bad. Every year they could add something different or give a small change to make us not get bored with them every year. They said that with the new graphics engine, it's easier to program and make content. With that in mind, it wouldn't take too long. I'd expect them to do something like that once the game has been on the market a full year or so.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Sounds good...they could do it like Kingdom Hearts 2 ..every place Sora goes his outfit fits the theme of the new place... just like that have good gear with theme design of the festival ...cool full armor sets with a Halloween-ish look for example...besides there will be vanity slots so..for X-mas have Fat Chocobo in Santa suit at towns and such XD!

It would be awesome. I actually cannot wait to see what the towns will look like in ARR when Christmas comes around next year! I just wish they'd have snow in The Black Shroud. I'd love to see a winter forest

[Kirito]

I would really want to see a test of courage event for halloween... maybe even a beach event... now that I think about it... there are no tropical areas in ff14....

[Candlestar]

Test of courage - 2 players handcuffed together have to traverse a high level zone from point A (NPC) to point B (NPC) without dying. Reward scales based on time taken. :P

[Warlock]

They could add more festivals ..it has the basic : New year>valentine>summer>halloween>X-mas. Maybe put more inbetween?

[Kirito]

They could add more festivals ..it has the basic : New year>valentine>summer>halloween>X-mas. Maybe put more inbetween?

There is also the fire works festival, kids day (for small kids though, maybe for lalafells), and white day (although white day is almost restricted as a complement to valentines day)

[AlexNiculaie]

Not sure about decorated dungeons, but maybe a traveling 'ghost castle' kind of FATE that appears in random zones would be interesting.