No love for the turkey!?

As hopefully all you know that thanksgiving is this week.

Now ive heard sevreal complaints saying "wtf no thanksgiving festival?"

Now ive also heard about other holdays without a festival Cough**chanukah**cough nowcant we have holiday events that all of America and others celbrate like this upcoming one? Or putting festivals for other religous things besides the ones that all cathlics celbrate. Halloween and christmas both are celebrate by only cathlics (or are meant for them).



To find the main purpose of this is MAKE MORE FESTIVALS FOR OTHER RELIGONS OR JUST DONT MAKE ANY!

dont find me racist im just standing up for all the ppl who dont celbrate christmas and hallween or dragon festival LOL

Thanksgiving is a primarily American holiday. Guild Wars is a global game. Do the math.

Also, the events around the end of December are not holiday-specific. It doesn't specifically resemble Christmas or Hanukkah.

Somehow I think this post is primarily a Catholic-bashing.

Halloween is a pagan ritualist holiday, and Christmas is a Christian holiday. Channukah, while it would be nice (myself being Jewish, proudly so, and raised so) is much too close to Christmas to work, because the majority of players will be athiest or christian, in america. Thanksgiving is also in between halloween and Christmas, and that might be a bit much. Maybe like, a seasonal festival (one for spring and summer) would be cool though. Should this be moved to Sardelac?

Errm... you missed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
And this might help to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

Basically if you think about it, there was a reason that Cantha didn't have Halloween (because it's not generally celebrated over in Asian countries).
Christmas is celebrated in many ways shapes and forms through out MOST of the world during the months of December and January. GW does not call it Christmas, they call it Wintersday and they also have it extend for quite a lengthy period of time because it is not deemed "Christmas" which is but one day of the year - but Wintersday which can sorta encompass the general idea of the season which is giving gifts, throwing snowballs, and generally having a roaring good time and break from the usual.

Thanksgiving for each country if they celebrate it at all, is usually different, thus no love for the turkey!


@ Zinger, nah I think he's just ill informed is all.

An in-game holiday for every occasion will just cheapen Halloween/Wintersday.

2 major week long holidays are enough.

Around 90% of United States citizens profess to be either Christian or Catholic. Very very few are atheist. Not that I want this to become a religious discussion.

EDIT: Also, while Thanksgiving may be solely an American holiday, Guild Wars did have an event for the 4th of July aka Independence Day; The Dragon Festival.

if we had a ton of holiday events the ones we do have wouldnt be as fun! Until then grab an ale and prep yourself for the next holiday, who knows... Kwansa in Elona???

You should be with your family on Turkey Day. Not in front of a computer playing GW.

What about when you get home?

I think a whole festival would be overkill; but it would be a good excuse to add a giant turkey boss for a limited time that drops a special green. Perhaps a turkey baster hammer.....

Thanksgiving is a North American holiday. Now I don't know what the exact player figures are, but I'm guessing at least half the GW players live outside N. America. I'm European and Thanksgiving means nothing to me at all. Christmas and Halloween are much more global celebrations.

Secondly, I believe you were referring to CHRISTIANS and not just CATHOLICS. Catholics are only a sub-section of the entire Christian faith. Both Halloween and Christmas are celebrated the world over by people with no Christian faith, whereas you cannot say the say thing about Hannukah for example.
Agreed. It takes enough effort to organise the existing in-game events, to ask for more just seems greedy.

Agreed. I think two is plenty. It gives the dev teams plenty of time to give us something fun to look forward to. Though, something in the spring or summer could be nice, but I'm happy as is for now. I'll stock up on ale in anticipation for Wintersday!

BTW, the "Christmas" Festival is actually "Wintersday", which is sort of a combination of all holidays around that time.

In canada we have thanks giving in october..so if there was a general fall event it would include halloween lots of thanksgiving for differnt parts of the world and people would complain about that. Wintersday is a general december holiday kind of thing. halloween is more worldwide so instead of having thanksgiving they put a halloween event in because thanksgiving in the USA is not celebrated in other contrys

I still think they could have added a weekend event regarding thanksgiving. They could just call it a "harvest festival" (for lack of a batter term) to keep it global.

Thanksgiving is also pretty close between Halloween and Wintersday. So instead of Anet working on bugfixes and new releases, they'll have to work the whole latter part of a year making events.

Plus, I still don't know what the heck thanksgiving actually is.

christmas is world wide..........everyone celebrates it in thier own way.......and halloween is just...fun...... but yes they should have diff set ups for each server

since they make the set up acouple days before the real event starts might as well do al lthe srverset ups

honeslty i dont care as longas its fun, has hats, and food.

honestly i dont care what we are celebrating as long as it has hats and potions

Oh, and Wintersday is more like New year's eve.

1) Thanksgiving is an American holiday...explain putting an event for it in a European and Asian game.

2) There is no "Christmas" event in Guild wars, theres a "Wintersday" event - that is closer to new years than Christmas. Its like putting all the major holidays into 1 so it doesnt discriminate. If you complain about Yule Caps and such in the game being "Christmas things" - remember Santa clause and Snowmen and such are about as linked to the birth of Christian's Jesus as the Easter bunny is to Jesus's ressurection....IE...not at all.

3) Halloween isn't a Religious holiday. The end of October was a time of many Pagan festivals to applease the gods of the harvest way back when, and the Pope decided at a point after that he'd put a religious spin on this festival to make it "holy" - and called it All Saint's Day. But this is far past, and todays "halloween" with the candy and the witchs and everything has nothing to do with either of the beforementioned festivals.