[Feedback - Megathread] Valentine Event 2021 ❤

[Masterbroccoli]

I liked the event overall, the quest length was just fine. I also like the reward and the idea of "non-usable" Megastones being obtainable from events only is a good one I think.

 

However, for future reference, please refrain from including parts like the one in the clouds (where you have to retry and find your own path) in quests when you cannot guarantee that the servers are stable. Doing that part with constant crashes and visual bugs was plain dreadful.

 

As a final note I want to add that (not meaning this event in particular) it feels like the events are overall becoming a tad big, with new ones every year stacking up on existing ones. I'd prefer main events that come back every year, with only small additions or one-time events with cosmetics as rewards or other stuff that is not terrible losing out on. It's really becoming hard to track what part of what events you played already and which ones are still up for you, especially when you've had a break.

[Shinichan]

I enjoyed the event a lot being able to get salamancite and cosmetics as reward is amazing. The only thing i didnt enjoy was the cloud part of the event it felt really buggy and laggy, also the side quest of the delivery it would have been nice to be able t get all the letters instead of one at a time.

 

Loved the new event forms, spawns were ok and the idea f intrducing a new spawn on event maps (like komala and rockruff on xmas) is really nice and motivates me to go to the maps.

 

 

 

[Chozg]

I'll start by saying obviously the server crashes throughout the event were unfortunate and probably caused by recklessly adding way too much code at once, but thats aside the point. The thing I'd really like be considered going forward is that things like this could happen again, and quests such as the one where you escort the nidoqueen to the drifblim were nearly impossible due to all the lag and crashing at points. I don't mind events having quests with tasks, but stuff like stealth / escort quests should absolutely never be considered again in an event quest thats time sensitive. Something that shouldve taken me 5-10 minutes at most took me like 3-4 hours because of the lag and crashing interfering and resetting the quest on me.

[Sweggerdegger]

19 hours ago, Shinohara said:

INTRODUCTION

As the Valentine event has been completely and entirely released, we would like to gather the feedback about this event.

 

The reason we do this is pretty much the fact that the community's opinion has a really high value and impact on the game itself, and therefore it is important to consider it in order to understand if we are on the correct path in terms of what we are releasing.

Feedback also help us to understand if what we release is liked, if it could have been better (and how) and in general to allow us to fix any potential error and keep improving the game doing even better.

 

We would like also to clarify that the the Valentine Event is designed to be smaller than Christmas as Xmas is one of the games major events so a comparison between the two (for example for rewards but not only) would be unfair and wrong.

 

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VALENTINE'S DAY EVENT FEEDBACK

In this specific case, we would like to hear your opinion on the following topics:
 

• Enjoyment 
• Quest Difficulty
• Story/Lore perspective
• Effort/Reward Ratio

 

We are aware that not all of you will be able to comment those for various reasons (e.g people speedrunning), however we will really appreciate if you can give your productive feedback on as many of them as you can in the most accurate way possible.

 

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FEEDBACK EXAMPLES

PRODUCTIVE FEEDBACK: I didn't enjoy the Valentine's Day quest because there are several waiting times, especially during part 1 for the wedding, and during part 2 when you have to wait for Salamence. I feel like these waiting times are not necessarily justified and useful.

NON-PRODUCTIVE FEEDBACK: The event sucks cause, just do better next time.

 

 

Enjoyment 
Well to begin, I really liked the area's you guys added fort his year. A cloudy area again, a swamp area and some dragon cloud thing lol.
Overal enjoyment was on the "Eh, okay" side for me.
 

Quest Difficulty
Not too shabby, not too hard but also not too easy. Well balanced (Unlike some ridiculous story battles where they have all 252EV's.. Those not fair at all and kinda bs imo *Ahem Sinnoh Start quest*).
 

Story/Lore perspective
To be fair, I never pay attention to the story.. Too much dialog. Could've done a lot more simple and basic.

 

Effort/Reward Ratio

The annoying Nidoqueen chasing part, good god never do that again please.
I liked last years reward a bit more: Valentine Clefable lvl 80.
Sure the Salamencite is fun and all, but probably a lot of people will never use it anyways. So the reward could've been something different.

That was my opinion about it :D

 

[Alfecor7]

Enjoyment: 7

Because some quests were lagging when I did.

difficulty: 4

Nothing so difficult, only the lagging even hindered a lot when escorting the nido and in the maze of clouds.

Perspective of the story: 7

The apollo boss could be better built, 03pokemon team at least.

Reward: 7

By the size of the event were good.

[0danobunaga]

• Enjoyment 
  Not really enjoy when server is unstable to hunt pokemon
• Quest Difficulty
  Easy. 
• Story/Lore perspective
  Abit weird story about jellicent male and nidoqueen but ok
• Effort/Reward Ratio
  7/10. I like the cupid bow and pp up. Hopefully have another great reward.

[Monstermax]

Hi, I am relatively new to the server, as I have only completed the Johto and Kanto regions, and have not unlocked Hoenn yet, but I had fun in the valentines event. I would like to note that without unlocking Hoenn and Sinnoh, I could not complete the quests associated with the event. I enjoyed catching pokemon I was not able to catch before, so it was still fun. Maybe next time have stuff to do in Kanto and Johto also for the newer players.

 

Thanks,

 

MonsterMax

[Tos3n]

20 hours ago, MasterBroccoli said:

I liked the event overall, the quest length was just fine. I also like the reward and the idea of "non-usable" Megastones being obtainable from events only is a good one I think.

 

However, for future reference, please refrain from including parts like the one in the clouds (where you have to retry and find your own path) in quests when you cannot guarantee that the servers are stable. Doing that part with constant crashes and visual bugs was plain dreadful.

 

As a final note I want to add that (not meaning this event in particular) it feels like the events are overall becoming a tad big, with new ones every year stacking up on existing ones. I'd prefer main events that come back every year, with only small additions or one-time events with cosmetics as rewards or other stuff that is not terrible losing out on. It's really becoming hard to track what part of what events you played already and which ones are still up for you, especially when you've had a break.

 

Hello,

During the event, I indeed saw many people having desynchronisation issues causing the clouds puzzle to be a complete mess. From a script point of view, this can be handled in a certain extent and I already know how I can improve this part for future additions thanks to reports like yours ^^.
Adding enjoyable and well balance content are what we care for, that’s why I don’t think server crashes should refrain us from trying something different. 
 

Thank you for your post.

Edited March 8, 2021 by Tos3n

[Tos3n]

13 hours ago, MonsterMax said:

Hi, I am relatively new to the server, as I have only completed the Johto and Kanto regions, and have not unlocked Hoenn yet, but I had fun in the valentines event. I would like to note that without unlocking Hoenn and Sinnoh, I could not complete the quests associated with the event. I enjoyed catching pokemon I was not able to catch before, so it was still fun. Maybe next time have stuff to do in Kanto and Johto also for the newer players.

 

Thanks,

 

MonsterMax

Hello,

I’m a bit confused about your post since I can’t see which part of the quest you couldn’t  do without unlocking Hoenn and Sinnoh region. If you are talking about the love letters delivery you should know that you can do it no matter what region you are in, talk to the delivery man NPC and pay attention to what he tells you ^^.

 

Thank you for your post.

[B0t]

StoryQuest is very easy compared to the previous event. I didn't say its a bad thing and I'm aware that the quest difficulty is reduced as its influenced by previous feedback of Xmass event, I still did not finish the rest of the storyq but I know that the difficulty is somehow lacking, I personally want a little bit more challenging of battles yet still that new players can afford to finish it.

 

Enjoyment - 7/10 since I've been having trouble lately like I didn't encounter a event bagon so far although I already caught over 60 boxes kekw.