Seasonal events: Underwhelming?

[Xieveral]

Everyone keeps saying how good Guild Wars Halloween Event is...Just forget to mention how crappy the game is, one of the worst MMO`s to date.

THANK YOU!

NCSoft titles are godawful grindfests where more budget went into "purdy graffix" and cash shop bling than it did actual content. (except for City of Heroes but that's because NCSoft pretended it never existed)

And speaking of CoX, they had a damn good Halloween event.

Trick or Treat granted you NPC costumes as a treat or a fight with witches and zombies as a trick. There was a FATE-like event called Zombie Apocalypse where the sky turned red and people teamed up to defeat zombies and with each wave the zombies grew in size and number with the last wave being demon lords.

And the newest event they put in for halloween was a haunted house mission where the final boss was a massive cyborg zombie.

Unfortunately it was shut down last year, but their seasonal events were amazing. I miss it so much.

[Rannie]

Why even bother with them in the real world?

Come on and miss out on a chance to get drunk? i think not =P


Anyway I enjoyed that quest. I laughed my ass off near the end with the Gourd thing... reminded me of Charlie Brown and I know it was supposed to in a way. It was nice and the decorations are kick ass all over Ul'dah. *tips hat to Yoshi-p* Good man to do stuff like this when he's busy with future Content and Being one of the Leads for the Final Fantasy team

[HiirNoivl]

Can I have your eyeball candies! :O

[Sotek]

I honestly don't expect great seasonal events until Housing is introduced... I'll be disappointed if we can't set up our own decorations and do things like leaving random houses presents or something...

I guess it would be nice to see things like a unique run of Haukke Manor for Halloween, or Stone Vigil for Christmas, but there is no way I expect that from the very first set of events... Maybe when the game has been out for a year and they've got a steady number of subscribers around... Honestly though, you can do those events yourself... First thing I suggested after finishing this event was Haukke Manor in the gear and it doesn't look like I was alone in that thought...

[Gravehill]

And that's why we can turn weapon display off. The things people complain about these days....

How dare people complain about things in a game that requires a subscription fee just to play

[Mezolitik]

The entire population of Ul'dah is wearing ghost outfits.

What's not to love?

Edit: ....are wearing ghost outfits?

[Kosmos992k]

Why do ppl care so much about real world holiday events in mmos? Never really understood this...

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This, a thousand times this!

Seriously, the entitlement wafting around this topic with all the complaints about it. For a start why have Halloween in Eorzea at all, it's not Earth, even on Earth, it's not a universal event (I can hardly call it a festival or celebration considering the origins of it). Why can't people just be happy that something extra was done? The BGM change is nice, and the re-decoration of the cities is extensive, well done SE. Honestly, I think some people need to adjust their perspective regarding the importance of seasonal events like this.

I'm all for fun stuff, but I do hope we get some way to expand our inventories as we get more and more Tchotchkes cluttering up our inventory.

[Thotor]

Events are usually grind fest to acquire useless items (but considered as must have !).
I do reckon they working hard on 2.1 . But they should have the tools to produce more than a 20 minute event. It doesn't take much to make an average event.
Even F2P MMOs have way better event. We could have an easy boss with fashion loots and rare mount a la WoW or season loot on mob such as candy to transform.
It doesn't take a genius to make that and it should not impact the development of 2.1 by much.

[HiirNoivl]

This event was really fun! I thought it was great!

Beware the great pumpkin!

But after last year I'm NOT eating those cookies.

DON'T eat the cookies!

[Dyrstahl]

well, it's true that GW2 did it right

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Did it right?! They're doing it right! Seriously, I haven't played for a while but last I heard, they had some kind of old schood pixel platformers and all kind of stuff. The winter event last year was impressive, featuring platform games, a pvp battleground and a guitar hero styled competition. The stuff GW2 puts out is impressive. I have no expectations that FF14 will do this, GW2 excels in this area.

I think these mediocre events are acceptable now in the beginning of the game, I feel as if the game is one of the most incomplete mmorpg releases I've experienced (although I still like it... :P ) and I doubt seasonal events are high on their priority list.