Feedback for Devs: Holiday Events

[Quinlan]

Hello Devs!

I appreciate you adding the holiday events. Often they are really cute/fun and I love doing them. However, as time has gone on they are more and more... basic. They can almost always be done in 15-30 minutes. Not very epic for a 2-3 week window. They have interesting stories but are very predictable. The rewards are often lackluster as well.

Please spice them up a bit and add some length and more things to do. Often these event quests are the only content we get in between patches and if they took a few days to do, and required some... something... then we'd be more excited.

Look at some of the seasonal events WoW did (yeah I know, WoW...) but they were kinda cool. Even if it was Brewfest where we had to ride our ram in a little race a few times a day and do the other five mini games to save up tickets to buy our mounts and cool souvenirs.

That's all, just want some beefed up events.

[bardaboo]

Yuuup. One fate and done for new years event. Woooo. That was a nice 5 minutes

[Zojha]

I'm kinda happy they don't take that long to be honest. I already have roulette chores, tome chores and beast tribe chores. Adding daily event chores would be kinda eh IMO. I already found the summer event rather annoying, since I had to grind it for three different characters >_>

You can only do the same FATEs so often before you wanna go home.

[Iromi]

Doesn't even feel like an event anymore. Go back to the 1.x events, those were really involved and fun.

[fm_fenrir]

I'm not sure what sort of "involvement" you're looking for, because most of the ways SE has tried to get people to interact with their game mechanics for events have not been particularly popular. The "one FATE and event payoff" model seems to generate the least tears and is the easiest for devs to work on.

[Nyghtmarerobu]

I agree that the event was pretty lackluster this time around, but for the rewards.. I'm not all that disapointed. the helmets are cute, but I would never glamour them, and they went straight into the armoire, which thank the lord were able to go into there day one. Best thing that came was the paissa housing item, which was buyable from an npc lol.

[Mikedizzy]

I like the Holiday Events for the most part. I would add that the New Year's event has never been good to me. The animal helmets and such are just not good. I will look at the rewards next year and if it is this just not waste my time doing it. By the way that FATE was stupid and annoying and that is all...no fun what so ever. I think we deserve more development on these than we are getting, but that is just me.

[Nicobo]

I am happy with very short event!

This game is too busy and a lot of ppl rush to do them for the achievement on the last day actually ^^;

[Nachocreech]

I think that the age old argument of "I like it short and sweet" vs "MORE STUFF" will never go away.

But what is the "extra/moar stuff" other players are looking for that would make the seasonal events more....meaningful?
I understand that seasonal rewards are pretty important, but lets just put that aside for now.

Below are some options I can think of that the devs could add on the coming seasonal events and what do you think?

1. More quests - This is the usual go there talk to him, go here pick up that, etc, etc
1a. More repeatable quests
1b. Crafter / Gather quests (ex. summer 2015?) do/did we even like these?
3. More FATES - simply just battle fates
3a. "new" Fates - the things you need to do is...different
4. Include PvP
5. Events that are permanent - FFXIV has different events/activities every year, so maybe leave some as staple?
6. Dungeon boss, boss fights - WoW has some staple boss seasonal boss fights (ex. Headless Horseman Boss in SM Graveyard)

[Rofel]

They did nice with the Halloween one; nice lore, the quest was not hard and had a fun gimmick, cool glamour and an even cooler mount. It's not that hard to stick with what is going well... :/