Festival Hats

1. That's my idea . But I didn't bothered to make a topic.

2. /signed

/maybe
would be cool to get hats of years past but it would ruin the exclusitivity that veteran players have in having the hats. although i know that i've also tossed some old hats before the hat keeper arrived >_< if i had known, i would have kept em

same here was there to get em but needed the storage space at the time
im gonna /sign id love to get the one i actually missed was a day too late for the final at halloween got my days screwed up and for the first time missed a gw final event plus id love to have back those i deleted before the hat maker showed up

/signed.

I'd say there are a lot of people who missed out on hats for reasons that were outside of their control. I like the ability to only get hats from after your account existed, as previously suggested.

/signed.
I think we should be able to get the old hats. There are people like me that have been playing since '05 but were away for the holidays and couldn't get the hats.

/signed

It's not like they can RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO up GW more than they already have.

/signed

We should be able to get the old hats. I couldn't get every event mask (no time), and I want them..

/notsigned

What's the point of having a special festival item if you can just go back and get it any time. Plus, the hats are purely cosmetic.

The costumes are "limited edition" too, so they will presumably not be available any more after some time in January.

(Correction: Looks like the pack is limited edition, but the separate costumes are not.)

Only the pack is limited edition. the pack that contains both costumes for a cheaper price.

I would buy them
signed

/maybe

The system would have to allow you to only buy hats you would have logicly had access to since it's a tad unfair to have to choose between a hat and going to see grandmumy for one more Xmas before she kicks it...

I am not for buying festival hats with real money, but I'm all for getting them in game somehow(quests? zaishen coins?). It's a shame when truly dedicated players miss out on such prizes because real life often takes precedence. I was gone for the Halloween event this year, and would love to get some skeleton face paint, but alas...

@Everyone: What about this?

Even though I already posted it, most people prolly didn't see it so:
What if the hats were available to you according to how old your account is. For example, if your account was 4 years old, you could get all hats from the time u made ur account til now. That way, people dont get cheated out for getting them, and people don't get punished for not attending events b/c they couldn't make it.

Only if they offer them in packages, not individual. Individual sales MAY get more people to buy, but the cost of selling an item for $1 isn't worth it for Anet. Grouping them as ALL Wintersday hats, ALL Halloween hats, all OTHER hats may work, but what would happen to future events with hats? So if I buy the pack today and get all the Wintersday hats, I'd get all except the ones for this year since they aren't out yet. When we get the hats this year, and I'm not around to get mine, would I then have to buy another pack to receive it? Because of this simple fact, I'm not sure it can work. But it may be possible to code it to provide all hats for the qualifying purchase after the events are over through the Festival Hat NPC.

Grouping them by years would be great. Festival hat unlock pack [2005]; Festival hat unlock pack [2006]; Festival hat unlock pack [2007] etc.

This would be great fo those that missed the hats not because they coudn't log in at the time of the event, but because they didn't had an accout by then.

Agreed.

/Signed

/notsigned
I missed the first few first wintersday hat/tengu and punkin head
cause I was doing other RL stuff and thats my own fault and I live with it.
It would lower the " I was there" factor for players.
This also applies to the sparkly hands and stuff from collectors editions
i hope they never add them to the store either ( even if I really really want them )

That's a good start. I wouldn't mind seeing some sort of quest involved, so you have to at least do some work - but I do not want to see them for sale in the online store. You get festival hats in game, and it should stay that way.

/signed

Even if I wasn't going to buy them I wouldn't fault someone else for doing so, and there is no downside to having the option.

Agreed.

That's the cost you pay. I missed a few as well. Oh well. Maybe you'll get lucky and A.net will release "scary pumpkin hats" and others that are sorta enough like the originals so that people can be satisfied. But I don't want to see the originals lose all meaning... especially with costume armor allowing people to wear this stuff all the time. I'd expect a big increase in these headgears usage.