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Thenameless Wonder

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2009

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21 Jan 2010 at 03:28 - 1

I know this sorta takes away from guild-wars loyalty that you have been a player since the beginning....

I propose we have some event/quest/anything in-game that allows you to get festival hats from previous years.

It doesn't have to be the same skin or model perhaps, like the santa hat (which i really want to get.....). It could be a slightly different model so the original hat holders still feel special

that they have been playing for a while, while people who werent able to get the hat can get the hat.

If time to implement this weren't an issue, what would you say?

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Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

Rubbing Potassium on water fountains.

LF guild that teaches MTSC (did it long ago before gw2 came out and I quit...but I barely remember)

N/A

21 Jan 2010 at 03:32 - 2

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thenameless Wonder

If time to implement this weren't an issue, what would you say?

See but as we have seen anets time is hard to come by in terms of Guild Wars...While I wouldn't mind people having those early hats...I don't think its worth the time that's better spent doing things I feel are more important (like skill updates)

/meh

Shriketalon

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2007

21 Jan 2010 at 04:05 - 3

Slightly different, you say?

Like how the pumpkin crown turned into the angry pumpkin crown, the yule cap turned into the stylish yule cap, the horns of grenth turned into the great horns of grenth, etc?

Already been done. You just had to be there.

MagmaRed

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Mar 2007

Our Crabs Know True [LOVE]

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21 Jan 2010 at 05:14 - 4

"It could be a slightly different model "

Even a 'slightly' different model would require someone to design and implement this to the game. It isn't a quick fix that you assume. It may not be as long as a completely new hat, but it is still work. I wouldn't mind getting some of the hats I missed, but to keep things 'equal' I would expect them to sell them instead of give them.

jackinthe

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2007

21 Jan 2010 at 09:11 - 5

i don't see how making a new model gives you the old one... then everyone will just have to have these new hats as well

xMinimalism

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2009

USEast

Guildless

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21 Jan 2010 at 10:48 - 6

Quote:

Originally Posted by MagmaRed

Even a 'slightly' different model would require someone to design and implement this to the game.

I think (presume) OP meant "If implementing this weren't an issue", implementing in the means of the designing and such.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thenameless Wonder

If time to implement this weren't an issue, what would you say?

As for doing it or not, I don't really think it's worth it. Just wait until the next in-game celebration/holiday.

Though, I'll be the first to tell you that I'd love to get the original Yule Cap, sadly I don't think it's possible. (Would have had it if issues hadn't come up.

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Shadowhaze

Nothing, tra la la?

Join Date: Oct 2007

21 Jan 2010 at 12:38 - 7

I don't see a problem with making old hats available.

But it probably won't be done. *looks back at updates* Yeah, wishful thinking.

Eragon Zarroc

Atra estern?? ono thelduin

Join Date: Jan 2008

Madness Incarnate

[Duo]

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21 Jan 2010 at 16:07 - 8

so u want the older hats, but hats that technically aren't the older hats?

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Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

Rubbing Potassium on water fountains.

LF guild that teaches MTSC (did it long ago before gw2 came out and I quit...but I barely remember)

N/A

21 Jan 2010 at 22:32 - 9

I think the OP means they like the concepts...but knows that some people use the hats as a way of showing how long they've played and such....and thought about introducing them designed slightly different would still allow those players the exclusivity they like...while allowing others to have hats of a similar concept

Thenameless Wonder

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2009

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21 Jan 2010 at 22:36 - 10

Ya. Like ^ that

Like I really want to get the yule hat and pumpkin hat because I wasn't playing guild wars in 05' but I still want people who were playing them to feel "important" so to speak because they were guild wars players in the beginning. Bringing back the same festival hats has the same effect if when one person had chaos gloves and then everyone got them. It loses "value", sentimental value, so to speak, of the players who actually got their hat fair and square.

Hope it helps -.-

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

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Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

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24 Jan 2010 at 13:53 - 11

Well, I prefer exclusivity over time that absolute exclusivity, so once enough time has passed, anything should be available to everyone.

All that would be left is deciding how much time.
For collector edition in-game content, I would say 5 years.
For festival hats, I would go with 3 years.
For preorder key stuff, I would go with 1 year.
And for playable content like the BMP, 3..6 months.

Then, acquiring the items would be the tricky part. The simplest choice would be purchasing keys in the GW shop.
Hey, you have the right to the stuff, but just getting it free when others had to spend time or cash to get it wold be a bit wrong.

richdaddy

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2006

Mo/

24 Jan 2010 at 18:02 - 12

Quote:

Originally Posted by MithranArkanere

Well, I prefer exclusivity over time that absolute exclusivity, so once enough time has passed, anything should be available to everyone.

All that would be left is deciding how much time.
For collector edition in-game content, I would say 5 years.
For festival hats, I would go with 3 years.
For preorder key stuff, I would go with 1 year.
And for playable content like the BMP, 3..6 months.

Then, acquiring the items would be the tricky part. The simplest choice would be purchasing keys in the GW shop.
Hey, you have the right to the stuff, but just getting it free when others had to spend time or cash to get it wold be a bit wrong.

From Hat's to CE's lol.

For collector edition in-game content, I would say 5 years.
~~ Ok, 5 years + $100 and Aura is yours. Hey it saves you $75-$100 + depending on where you find a 2005 CE.

Mr T

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2010

24 Jan 2010 at 18:24 - 13

Okay one thing i'd like to have is a way to get the old hats by the account creation dates. as for myself have been around this since the 1st event on Halloween. got the hats all the way up and through until now. but the earlier ones before the storage got bigger and the hat guy i deleted them, yeah shame on me. But i know im not the only one out there that has done this because of room.