Seasonal events: Underwhelming?

[Rhysati]

Pff I don't like these events in games, except if the timeline is contemporary of our real world like in The Secret World.
I can't see the link between Halloween and Eorzea or the Middle Earth.
You'll see, in December, SE will do like if the Christ was known in Eorzea.

/sigh

As someone else pointed out, Christmas was originally a Pagan celebration of the Winter Solstice. The church co-opted it. There's no reason it wouldn't happen on Eorzea since Winter still happens.

Same with Halloween. It was a celebration of Harvest. Unless nobody farms or harvests crops in Eorzea, there's no reason not to have it.

[Deathgasm]

As someone else pointed out, Christmas was originally a Pagan celebration of the Winter Solstice. The church co-opted it. There's no reason it wouldn't happen on Eorzea since Winter still happens.

Same with Halloween. It was a celebration of Harvest. Unless nobody farms or harvests crops in Eorzea, there's no reason not to have it.

You should read what's between the comment you quoted and your answer
There are two opinions about Halloween 1 - celebration of harvest, 2 - It comes from the Gaelic Samhain, Samain as we write it in France, ex-gaul, despite most historians believe more in the second one, we still have no, how do you say in english.. certitudes in french.

Hydaelyn is not Earth
Peeps, before talking about this world and what fits to the lore or not, please learn about it first, the debate will be much more interesting if we all limit ourselves to speak only about what we know, thanks

[Rin_Azel]

I'd really love to see an Endgame primal trial style battle against the Great Gourd.

[MistyMew]

Seasonal events are never their strongest point.

That said though, I still enjoyed the event last evening, the ghost costumes are quite nice and I really like the decorations around the towns!

One thing I do hope for in the future would be allowing us to decorate our yards with seasonal event decorations, perhaps even have a contest once housing is released

[Astarica]

The only kind of seasonal event I've seen that players like are the kind that gives you easy loot for minimal effort. Cosmetic stuff just aren't enough to impress players unless the ghost costume also lets you shoot lasers from your eyes (and preferably do damage to enemies), and if you give people really cool cosmetic stuff on seasonal events, that makes it hard to have other cool cosemetic stuff elsewhere. If the swimsuit event lets you get your characters totally naked, that will probably be super popular, but then where do you go from there?

[Melithea]

Frankly this event matched my expectations almost exactly. Why do I need a huge blow-out of developer and design effort for a rl holiday when I'd much prefer the 2.1 patch on time and on "budget"? It was cute, I got a chuckle, the decorations are fantastic. I'm glad they wanted to do something "fun" but this really was enough.

Edit: And they just announced on the Live Letter that there's actually going to be more events for All Saint's Wake before it ends, too.

[SgtPepperUK]

It was cute, I got a chuckle, the decorations are fantastic. I'm glad they wanted to do something "fun" but this really was enough.

I fully agree with this; I've played MMOs where events like this are grindfests. Now, I don't mind some grind in my MMOs (I even expect it) but events like this should be fun, a bit of time away from the usual grind and this was just that.

I love collecting event items in MMOs but hate that feeling of panic at having to participate in an event every day it runs to ensure I get it completed.

[Lobselvith]

Everyone is soo impatient.

Stay tuned for some All Saints' Wake community events launching soon!

There will be more coming soon, the event takes place for 2 weeks Oct. 18th - Nov. 1st.

I'm positive there will be more between now and Nov. 1st.

[FlowerPower]

Everyone is soo impatient.


There will be more coming soon, the event takes place for 2 weeks Oct. 18th - Nov. 1st.

I'm positive there will be more between now and Nov. 1st.

Is thar more proof of this? e---e

[Lobselvith]

Is thar more proof of this? e---e

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