Do you agree with Intrepid's plan to include holiday events in Ashes?
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Based on the Q&A streams, Intrepid will probably add them anyway but it couldn't hurt to gauge where people stand on the topic.
Edit: Sorry, I shouldn't have put IRL in the title. I meant holiday events that would occur in-game but that are based on real life holidays like Christmas and Halloween. I don't mean in person events outside the game.
Edit: Sorry, I shouldn't have put IRL in the title. I meant holiday events that would occur in-game but that are based on real life holidays like Christmas and Halloween. I don't mean in person events outside the game.
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Rewards for participation would have to be vanity items (costumes, skins, consumable items like fireworks, etc.).
I'd assume these aspects of the game are still at the tentative stage of discussion and brainstorming. I'm sure nothing is set in stone atm.
It couldn't hurt to gauge how people feel about IRL holiday events, skins, costumes, etc.
I also think that if you're not actively participating in the events then you shouldn't receive rewards for it.
If you don't manage to get the Reaper skin you wanted, it wouldn't be a bad option for players to have a temporary window of opportunity to buy it (either with real money or some sort of in-game credit).
I can see where you're coming from though!
I just hope the devs don't only focus on US holidays, like July 4.
We do know that, historically, most cultures do have seasonal holidays -- longest/shortest day of the year, so on and so forth -- so those types of things I certainly see as being very viable. However, you then must factor in that, if I recall correctly, a single season of game-time is estimated to take a week to pass; therefore, one month irl = one year in-game. So you couldn't specifically have a "Winterfest" on the shortest day of the year every month, that'd just get old.
I'm interested to see how this can pan out.
-Edit- I voted "Other," but for some reason, it didn't post.
Honestly, I don't really care. Fluff can be fun.
Then they can't participate and totally lose out on the event. So I'd cycle the rewards each year and add a few new things in for the next year. While also probably selling them in the cash shop for the lazy or "heavy" pocketed among us. Really I'm just not a fan of the exclusivity junk being dropped in game all the time.
Rare items not everyone can obtain or a few really rare unique cosmetics for a limited time sure. Holiday event stuff no you ever seen the Santa hats in Runescape...
Edit: HA! 28% on exclusivity guess I'm in the minority here. =P
Why doesn't OTHER show up?
I'm not a big RP person but I do appreciate a moderate degree of immersion in the game.
I'm basically in favor of IRL holidays as long as they do a good job of adjusting them to fit the Ashes world. As others have mentioned, rather than call it Christmas, it could be called Winter Solstice and so forth. For Halloween, I'd hope the creatures look scary and badass as opposed to some colorful plushie characters.
For me, it depends on whether or not RNG is a factor. If things like skins are randomly given out from special holiday mobs or NPC quests, I'd prefer for them to be in the cash shop as well. I admit it's for selfish reasons. I opened 100+ Summer Olympic loot boxes in Overwatch and I couldn't get the vanity item I wanted (it wasn't even a skin - it was just a profile icon lol). Then again, Blizzard and I have a rough history when it comes to RNG. I guess I'm still bitter about it Thankfully, Intrepid seems to want to limit RNG to things like loot tables for rarer items (all the standard good stuff which make sense and not the nonsense like enchanting having a random chance to destroy your item).
If there's a way to choose your own vanity rewards through participation such as a token system, a selection menu from a NPC, etc. then I wouldn't care whether or not the same items are available through the cash shop as well.
I would be okay with an Ashes version of each. Again, annually. But that could get into a holiday every other day of our week. I would be more impressed with yearly events lining up with constellations that happen to "sink up" every 12 years (or 12 complete seasonal cycles in Ashes and 1 year to us). Even if they were associated and timed to represent our RL holidays.
That said, if they do holidays, I TOTALLY ENCOURAGE a holiday from every major religion, no government holidays, and no capitalism holidays (*wink wink nudge nudge*).