Halloween Event

Just came by, because i saw a Gayle Gray post, saying that this event may not come.

Why? It's like.. One of the best things that Guild Wars have, events like halloween, and many people will by NightFall in chirstmas, me for example.. And a event would be great for those people.

Also, i dont get the point people saying:
- Anet has better things to do!
- Let them developt better things!
Blah blah blah.

If this continues, then we wont get updates, i just see PvP'ers complain everytime we give a sugestion.

Like for example, Mini-Pets, if someone would have sugested that, everybody would say:
" U are an idiot, anet has better things to improve then go do mini-pets".

If this mentality goes, and you guys transmit this kinda of stuff to them, they will never improve.
They will sit in theyre chair, and say "lets do that in the 11chapter, its hard and i am lazy".

We must have halloween, if not, then Anet employs are lazy. Dont tell me that you have very work, i know you might have, but if you want Guild Wars to be bigger, and want more players online, and want more respect from us players, then do the event, and everybody will be happy, and say Anet is the best company that listens to the players, and sacrifice some hours to do things that we like.

Bye.

It's not really improving is it?

It would be "chapter exclusive" anyway, since Nightfall is coming before Halloween as far as I know. I don't really imagine a Celtic holiday in African scenery but I guess boosting the sales has a priority here.

I dont think that they should remove halloween from prophecies, especially since they already did invest time on the pumpkin king, etc. and all that lore, items, etc. If they want to do different things with halloween with different chapters, let them go right ahead, but i dont think it is fair to the proph-only people that their once-cherished holiday has now been banished.

It would be sad if there was no Holloween event with the MAD KING, but I can understand that they may already have too much on their plate with Nightfall releasing just days before.

I'd say they'll be too busy monitoring how Nightfall takes off to worry about a holiday event.

Here is the link where ANET says the halloween event is unsure because of NightFall Release.

http://forums.gwonline.net/showthread.php?t=419631

thank you for that but since i refuse to look at a site that forces you to register to look i still say bleep to GWO

also it makes sence that they would need to have all hands watching for launch bugs

If we missed one event, i don't think it matter that much. I mean half the population of Guild Wars is probably going out to trick-out-treat that day. But i sure do miss Mad King and his bad jokes!

Here's a non-GWonline link for Lovitar...

http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~enevold/Gaile31Aug06a.jpg

In that chat, she says:

"I sure don't know what towns will be involved in the Halloween event, should one take place. I would hope this town, since Froggie so loves Halloween."

Definitely not a "the Halloween event won't happen this year" quote, but it is still interesting her choice of words.

They probably don't know if this event will happen in Tyria, Cantha, or the new place in Nightfall.

Indeed. The "should one take place" bit tacked in there makes it a bit uncertian. Would be a shame if it didn't take place. I've got new characters that need pumpkins :P

or all 3 as most of the art has been done and you would only need to adjust the path of the mad king is coming horseman.

the kettle/ring of skulls could be dropped anywhere there is a flat spot

True, they could do it for all 3 but think about how much programming and input they needed to do in order to get it working right. Not to mention Nightfall is coming up so you know their dev team is probably busy like hell.

I'm thinking each 'special event' will be held only in its native land - its an incentive for each ANet customer to own all the stories. If you want to celebrate Wintersday or Halloween, then you need to own Prophecies. If you want to celebrate the Dragon Festival, then you'll need to buy Factions. And I'm thinking they'll find something special to celebrate in Nightfall as well. It just makes sense to me.

Ah, but what about those new players who only bought Nightfall?

Wouldn't it suck if they couldn't celebrate Halloween?

and learn what a run on sentence is and really its something to see a player who is doing nothing but sitting on their ass calling someone with a job lazy and and and and yeah!

EDIT:

/serious sarcasm

Doing an event does NOT take ANYONE away from the game making process.

Notice that all these near-pointless events are still going on, even so close to Nightfall release?

Maybe if they stoped with the poorly done little events, and focused on one big one, it would actually be a fun time, rather than a lesson in how many morons play GW.

Yeah, minipets are pointless. They make the game more laggy and add visual clutter to PvE. But some people like them, so it was a cool little extra for them to add.

Holiday events are nice, but I don't care too much. It helps the community, which in turn helps the game. So for marketing reasons I don't know why they wouldn't at least turn on the old LA Halloween at the very minimum. I just assumed there'd be some Nightfall event like the Day of the Tengu or Dragon Festival that would be the Halloween event. And a hint of storyline things to come. I prefer having the new game and playing it in the standard fassion, like Prophesies was. A Halloween event right before Nightfall would help get people into thinking about the game again before Nightfall comes out. Either way I'm ok though. No event means no temptation for me to burn inventory slots. Event means neet little things to see. So whatever.

Holiday events are certainly better than double your fun weekend, which to me reads "double rewards for X means we encourage you to grind X even if that's not what you feel like doing if you play this weekend".