For me, this seasonal even was way better than the last two or three.
Not every past seasonal event was a highly involved story with its own minigame, and no neither was this one.
But the writing of the characters was way better. They had some individual personality rather that the literal bare minimum "I'm not even going to greet you with any individuality. Here is some irrelevant information that the last NPC told you I was going to give you. "
I thought the story was cute and made some simple sense.
The NPCs had some modicum of effort to make sense in their surroundings.
There was a nice nod to previous events protagonists, and they used a new protagonist rather than rolling out last year's.
Your never going to please everyone with a glam, but I was far past sick of the amount of contemporary clothing, and for once this was something else. So I'm going to appreciate that they are also willing to make concessions to those of us who prefer the fantasy look. I thought the glam was great for me personally.
Criticisms... they made no effort with the NPCs glams. Why are they all wearing the same three outfits? That aren't even that nuanced within those three.
It's like either they just stuck some placeholder glams on them and then never got around to finishing that part off, or the person who knocked up the supporting character designs was an intern who litterally started last week who'd seen less of the game that a three week sprout with no inspiration as to where to begin.
Yoshi, can you please pass this link onto your scenario designers thanks...
https://ffxiv.eorzeacollection.com/
You've got literally tens of thousand of players who could do amazing things to glam your character in a single day, and many of them will work for free and sign an NDA if you want to approach them.
This event was better. Not wow. Not even WoW wow. But it wasn't as totally awful as the last handful. That said if its going to be this basic, you don't honestly get away with the NPC designs being so poor. Not when we are now looking out for the worst. I'm probably only giving credit because the previous events were so bad.
And this being just 'ok'... it not enough to get me to turn my sub back on. However, I do want to say something positive, if only to avoid irritating myself with the tedium of negativity.
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Not every past seasonal event was a highly involved story with its own minigame, and no neither was this one.
But the writing of the characters was way better. They had some individual personality rather that the literal bare minimum "I'm not even going to greet you with any individuality. Here is some irrelevant information that the last NPC told you I was going to give you. "
I thought the story was cute and made some simple sense.
The NPCs had some modicum of effort to make sense in their surroundings.
There was a nice nod to previous events protagonists, and they used a new protagonist rather than rolling out last year's.
Your never going to please everyone with a glam, but I was far past sick of the amount of contemporary clothing, and for once this was something else. So I'm going to appreciate that they are also willing to make concessions to those of us who prefer the fantasy look. I thought the glam was great for me personally.
Criticisms... they made no effort with the NPCs glams. Why are they all wearing the same three outfits? That aren't even that nuanced within those three.
It's like either they just stuck some placeholder glams on them and then never got around to finishing that part off, or the person who knocked up the supporting character designs was an intern who litterally started last week who'd seen less of the game that a three week sprout with no inspiration as to where to begin.
Yoshi, can you please pass this link onto your scenario designers thanks...
https://ffxiv.eorzeacollection.com/
You've got literally tens of thousand of players who could do amazing things to glam your character in a single day, and many of them will work for free and sign an NDA if you want to approach them.
This event was better. Not wow. Not even WoW wow. But it wasn't as totally awful as the last handful. That said if its going to be this basic, you don't honestly get away with the NPC designs being so poor. Not when we are now looking out for the worst. I'm probably only giving credit because the previous events were so bad.
And this being just 'ok'... it not enough to get me to turn my sub back on. However, I do want to say something positive, if only to avoid irritating myself with the tedium of negativity.
Continue reading...