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[Column] Guild Wars 2: I Miss Halloween
SBFord
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Holidays have become very important for MMOs. It allows the developers and players to breathe a bit and just have some good old fashioned fun. My favorite has always been Halloween, and it’s just right around the corner. Sadly, there isn’t a lot of attention being thrown towards it. The first Halloween for Guild Wars 2 was an amazing event that really set the standard for what to expect from the developers, which is why it may have been too good, as the following year was a serious let down.
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This back piece is so metal!
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It's good that they don't have to cancel Halloween just so they can focus on more bug fixes.
....sorry, couldn't help it.
I agree, and sadly, the live team that is in place now (which doesn't much resemble the development team that created the game and was around, say, 6 months after it started) really seems interested in things that take as little work as possible, and lots of store items to make margins as big as possible.
The change in the outfit system from pieces to full outfits is a reflection of that. People would complain about clipping (presumably on non-humans, all my humans looked great) and after a year and a half, someone decided they were spending too much money on fixing things, so they came up with the one-piece system, which is terrible. But, it reduces costs and gives them big margins.
All the original pets used to swim, and then the great "Plushy Griffon Scandal" happened, where he'd follow us under water, but no one gave him a proper under water animation, so he'd either glide or run in place. Rather than make him an under water animation, they made him disappear, and the only answer we got from some schlub dev was: Well, it was immersion breaking. Now, most of the new pets don't swim, unless they are re-skins of existing pets that swim.
But they'll go out of their way to change the human female running animation, or remove their idle animations, presumably because someone felt threatened by those? That was worth spending time and money on?
Yeah, I miss the development team and the first 6 months or so. I still play because I love the game, but whoever is running things now, I'm not digging their Papa John, Hobby Lobby, or whatever it is, vibe at all.
Cheer up lol. Games != second life. I personally find those events tons of fun especially because me and my bf are almost always preparing for them in real life and it just gets better. Maybe you should try this thing they call social life sometimes. Don't be so negative.
Tell you what, for Christmas I'll pay for your surgery to have the stick removed from your behind.
Seriously, lighten up. These games are supposed to be fun, and holidays go a long way toward that. Furthermore, most games do have their own 'in universe' explanation for the goings-on, often with a good deal of lore behind the event. Think of it in the same manner of Christian holidays; the reasons are generally different, but the celebrations themselves are arranged to take place on or about pagan holidays in order to make the transition to Christianity less jarring for converts.
If that doesn't work, then I guess surgery is always an option.
AN' DERE AIN'T NO SUCH FING AS ENUFF DAKKA, YA GROT! Enuff'z more than ya got an' less than too much an' there ain't no such fing as too much dakka. Say dere is, and me Squiggoff'z eatin' tonight!
We are born of the blood. Made men by the blood. Undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open. FEAR THE OLD BLOOD.
#IStandWithVic
Funny this was mine as well. This was epic fun!!
I agree. Why escape to a game world, only to do the crap that you are trying to escape in the real world. It always frustrated me after 3 days filled with family tension that when I would finally arrive home and want to bang out a dungeon or something or other, only to find my game population grinding some silly holiday event. At least in real life I can self medicate to make it through. Yay booze.
I disagree. Real world holidays connect with players, because it brings them emotional context that they can relate to. If you throw in some unknown holiday or festivity, it won't have much of an impact.
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This is an interesting phenomenon that I for one whole heartedly agree on. In my 14 years of mmo gaming I've absolutely loved holiday based ingame events/features. For example I quit Runescape around 9 years ago and still for 2-3 years after that I returned for every holiday event they had.
Unfortunately, not many games have adopted this simple form of entertainment and I believe it highlights the issue many of us are having with mmo's these days. The lack of any type of real immersion in all of these over-the-top instanced games that just don't cater to/foster the type of atmosphere I want in an mmo(A living and breathing world one can get lost in).
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GW2 without Halloween???? It is so much fun and brings ppl together.
I hope Anet will do Halloween....
I'm really disappointed about having no news about it
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You maxed 12 characters and want more to do? Why not just accept the fact you have (for the time being) completed all the game has to offer and move on to another game?
Personally I could not be bothered with jumping puzzles either, but then I also struggled against almost overwhelming boredom to get just one character to level 80.
"It allows the developers and players to breathe a bit and just have some good old fashioned fun."
Um, isn't this the entire point of playing said game? To kick back, relax, and have some...how do you say it? "Good old fashioned fun"?
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Originally posted by Arskaaa
"when players learned tacticks in dungeon/raids, its bread".
When you have a lot of spare time, it only takes a couple of weeks to max a character. Roughly 60 hours of game play.
For me, leveling was fun, but after that you run out of things to do
Yeah, last halloween was pretty weak. But I must say that I prefer GW1s holiday events to GW2s.
And it was not only the story last year but the instance felt weaker as well and so did the loot. They could at least throw in a few new bosses into that and give us a story in class with the living story updates as well.
To the author:
Go play TSW or AO (It still runs the uncle pumpkin events etc