Quote Originally Posted by VoidsentStatus View Post
Figured this'd be the thread to ask since I'd hope for less trolls than in-game, but what do people actually even do with their family all day? All my family ever did for Christmas for 2 decades was open gifts in the morning and then everyone separated for the rest of the day outside of dinner if that. I know some people have festivals they attend, but I assume that's a minority compared to the general population. Do families sit and watch christmas movies for 12 hours, have some religious event/tradition of household events that fill up 6-12 hours or? I'm assuming most if not all businesses are closed so you aren't leaving the house.
A lot of people go on trips, so they're not even home. Personally, my family is small, so our christmas is akin to the type that you described, usually with a yummy dinner or a movie or something in the afternoon, but even then I wouldn't be able to walk away from it and prog for several hours with 23 others -- nor would I want to tbh. I'd be getting interrupted about stuff all day.
I think the larger issue is like... even if I personally didn't celebrate Christmas at all, and had no family obligations to deal with on that day, most other people do have things pulling them away from the computer that day. So finding 23 others in my situation who're willing to bang their head against the wall of this content for several hours blind might be rough because of that.

Personally I think the date was a dumb decision, but I'm past it. Their approach towards harder 24man content was the exact opposite of what I wanted in pretty much every day, and the glam coming out of it doesn't appeal to me at all. Legit would've been happy with just a re-release of the old alliance raids, unreal style, with amped up potencies on mechanics and maybe a faster rate of mechanics happening so we can see more of these fights. Instead it's gonna be 1 random boss from the tier, and ofc the tier they picked was the most overrun allyraid group of all time, and the boss they picked was one that's already been remixed via eden. I have 0 hype for it. Learning that it drops on christmas eve was like the cherry on top, because now I can't even hop in there and just dick around on day 1.