Starlight Celebration 2024

[Wilford111]

I already own 7 christmas (sant/reindeer/snowman/choir...) glamours, decorated trees, snowy trees, indoor trees, white indoor trees, small trees, opened boxes, closed boxes, wreaths, wall/tabletops items, orchestrion rolls, mounts, foods, ice walls and walls, chocobo bardings, and I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

Still, this year they made something I don't already own from past events.

- 1x choco-barding
- 2x tabletops
- 1x wall mounted
- 1x orchestrion roll

If 5 new items is "only" I fail to understand what's "enough"-

Housing items shouldn't be counted since not everyone can own a house.

[Ephremjlm]

Gonna keep harping on this point because it grinds my gears. Why do we not get xmas trees, or others like it like presents or lights? The last time they gave us any of that stuff was 2015 and the one before was 2014. After that they haven't given us anymore and they are only on the store now. It's like blatantly trash. Same with the Halloween stuff. Like ffs at least make some of this craftable if its not going to come around every year. Like its an obvious cash grab. Pretty lame tbh. The only ones that you MIGHT find available are those who didn't use the items or had extras and now each piece individually goes for like 20mil on the market board.

Meanwhile in FFXI we got xmas trees every year and there were like 4 or 5 of them.

Im sorry but this one triggered me when I found out. Like for a game that says it caters to the ultra casuals they don't even give us proper holiday stuff lol.

[Hasrat]

I already own 7 christmas (sant/reindeer/snowman/choir...) glamours, decorated trees, snowy trees, indoor trees, white indoor trees, small trees, opened boxes, closed boxes, wreaths, wall/tabletops items, orchestrion rolls, mounts, foods, ice walls and walls, chocobo bardings, and I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

Still, this year they made something I don't already own from past events.

- 1x choco-barding
- 2x tabletops
- 1x wall mounted
- 1x orchestrion roll

If 5 new items is "only" I fail to understand what's "enough"-

They want a mount, a minion, an emote, and a glamour set, for every event, every year.



What none of them stop to realize is how they'll be fueling even worse complaints the following years when all that stuff is put in mogstation. "Stop making all these great old rewards cash only."

At least as long as the "good" rewards are uncommon, there's less compelling players to open wallets in the future.

[Asari5]

i dont really care if there is a mount i most likely never really use anyway. for events i mostly wish for a nice small quest... though thats not always the case.

my problem with housing items as event rewards though, is where should i put that stuff? time limited rewards for which you only have very limited space is such a player unfriendly concept.

[Reimmi]

Generally speaking, we get a clothing item from the event every other year.

That isn't enough either
Square needs to put more effort in, when gw2 doesn't even have a sub and has massive events for the holidays, there's something seriously wrong.

Can we just ditch having a story quest every year and put effort into an actual EVENT that gets added on to each year? Like hallows end in wow or something?
I'd love a boss we do every year with other players that is themed after the holiday, like imagine a moogle santa claus boss, and minigames in the gold saucer themed after christmas. Can we get some effort please?

It'd also be nice if they sold past rewards for the event currency, you can keep adding them to the store too for people who don't want to wait for the event to come back.

[Arrius]

I've got no opinion on the price as I don't know if that's accurate[...]

Three Twitch subs are about 15$ (4.99$ for each 30 Day sub), so it's up to you whenever its worth digging into twitch for this or not.

[Raraka]

I actually don't want anymore 'Christmas' glams. I mean, can only actually wear one at any given time and already have several to choose from.

I do, Christmas doesnt have to be all red and mistletoe, we could get knit hats of a different type, a sweater that doesnt look like a shirt ankwardly scaled up on top of the character, and snow boots. Hell, one of my favorite cosmetics in another game was a Snowboarder suit with a fur lined jacket, there is potential there

But no, have a housing item, please look foward to it

[Raraka]

You say this as if event bardings are a common occurrence. The last event barding was two (hell, almost three) years ago, and we've never had more than just a single event barding per expac after ARR.

Good riddance, if they refuse to update the companion system we shouldnt get ANY more bardings, including Ex ones.

[JimCasey_RF6]

I do, Christmas doesnt have to be all red and mistletoe, we could get knit hats of a different type, a sweater that doesnt look like a shirt ankwardly scaled up on top of the character, and snow boots. Hell, one of my favorite cosmetics in another game was a Snowboarder suit with a fur lined jacket, there is potential there

But no, have a housing item, please look foward to it

Actually it's three housing items. Four if you count the orchestrion roll.

[Mr_Gyactus]

Gonna keep harping on this point because it grinds my gears. Why do we not get xmas trees, or others like it like presents or lights? The last time they gave us any of that stuff was 2015 and the one before was 2014. After that they haven't given us anymore and they are only on the store now.
Im sorry but this one triggered me when I found out. Like for a game that says it caters to the ultra casuals they don't even give us proper holiday stuff lol.

I don't know what you found out, but...

2023: illuminated chocobos
2022: illuminated trees
2021: starlight mobile
2020: snow dusted tree + ice wall & loft
2019: wreaths and cake
2018: silver starlight Sentinel +donuts + mini snowman + opened boxes
2017: 2x food, mini starlight sentinel + wallpaper
2016: pillar, wallpaper, false snow
2015: starlight sentinel wall decorations

Good riddance, if they refuse to update the companion system we shouldnt get ANY more bardings, including Ex ones.

"we" ?
Speak for yourself, if you don't want them, don't take them.