There are aspects including layered armors and guild card backgrounds missing from the global events. It’s a bit non-sense to exclude them. Some of the removed aspects like the special driftstone and hunter medal make sense as theyre tied to the in-person event but removing gathering node respawn rates and 1.5x drop rates for non-Japanese players is a bit disrespectful.
The issue with this is that the global event is missing a lot of the things from the in person event. Thats not to say that the in person event shouldnt have more and have some exclusivity, it should. The problem is that this is a bit much and alienating everyone who cant go.
I dont care about the music, the guild card, the medal, the backgrounds, or even the layered equipment. The driftstone could be nice but the RNG on those is way too high, and we dont know the specific details of whats in it yet anyways.
What matters here are the EDIs and their spawn rate- roughly doubled for in person Japan only event but normal for global? Awful terrible decision.
Gathering nodes have 30mins refresh for in person, but normal 3 hours for global? Come on at least make it 1hour for global.
The increased drops for in person but not global? Honestly could go either way, Im not too concerned with that.
This ticket is the same time length as the nightshade paolumu event weekend was, but twice the price, and not any more features. That doesnt math out at all.
See, I do care about the medal and cosmetics. I like changing my outfit and having options. I also would like more background and pose options so I can change that more. I’m also fairly completionist so I want to have all the medals but with there being an exclusive in person medal, suddenly this becomes unobtainable, which makes me care less about all future events, paid or not.
No doubt about it. If the management is saying it will be fair to users, then users should also be able to receive medals, backgrounds, etc. fairly when they buy tickets. For real events, the system should be changed so that you can get them if you buy a ticket even if you don’t participate.