Curse

Rothaga · Feb 11, 2008, 05:55 AM // 05:55

Fun, I liked the rollerbeetle racing, although, only when I won of course.

raven214 · Feb 11, 2008, 06:41 AM // 06:41

I'm normally a huge supporter of the holiday events, but I was particularly let down by this one.

Pros

Rollerbeatle was fun again (sure there's the lag, but the box camping fix was great and at least we weren't being screwed out of a decent chance of getting a mini like with the Greased Lightning...)
Activities/Quests
New Party Title
2 new minipets

Cons

Reused hat from last year (minor complaint here though -- to be fair, you can only do so much with a lion/dragon theme)
5:1 ratio for celestial pig. This was simply absurb. It rewarded hoarding and encourages more of it in the future. Should not have been more than 2:1 or even 1:1.
Extremely low chance for celestial rat - personally I went through about 200 lunar fortunes without getting 1 rat, and others have reported even worse results - what was up with that? I could understand it if they also gave one out at the end of each finale like last year, but they didn't...
Crate of fireworks guildhall-only and 1-time use. I understand the guildhall-only part... the lag and what not would be pretty crazy if people were bombing these in LA d1 etc, etc., but they should have at least been everlasting.

Overall
The decorations were nice, there were lots of things to do, and the new Party title is cool, but the crate 'o fireworks, while something new, was a bit of a let down due to its 1-time use. I enjoy collecting minipets, and as such, I'm really disappointed that they were limited to the lucky/rich/farmers -- unless you got lucky with lunar fortunes and got lucky by hoarding minipigs from last year, were independently wealthy, or had the time/patience to farm enough money/fortunes/etc., you weren't getting either of them. One of the fun things about events (or at least afterwards) is having a way to show you were there, but the fireworks and the reused mask don't do this. The only thing left then would be the minipets, but they were too dificult to obtain (at least as part of the festival). Hopefully the prices will come down in the future.

Score: C-

ValaOfTheFens · Feb 11, 2008, 06:50 AM // 06:50

The event failed for me due to the extreme lag. I kept getting err7 after 10min~ sessions of lag and was only able to do one feast.

I got a Rat on my 10th fortune but want another for my other main's HoM. Guess I have to pay 30k for one or take my chances with fortunes.

Awakener · Feb 11, 2008, 06:56 AM // 06:56

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Originally Posted by ValaOfTheFens

Th I got a Rat on my 10th fortune but want another for my other main's HoM. Guess I have to pay 30k for one or take my chances with fortunes.

hmm. Considering I did 800 fortunes and didn't get 1, you should feel lucky.

I'm happy a guildy gave me one of their extras

Mercy's Mirror · Feb 11, 2008, 07:01 AM // 07:01

I had several ingredients stashed on a mule from last year...but I got together with some guildies and some folks in my alliance and we farmed our butts off so we could make sure we had everything to keep the chefs in our chosen district well-stocked.

It was great fun! I had the chance to get to know some allies I didn't know very well prior to this weekend, so in that respect, it was a success and a whole lot of fun. Plus, our alliance was able to 'sponsor' a district on two different feasts as well as help out with two other feasts, something that I think helped bring us together as well.

As for the rats, I never managed to get one out of a fortune, but I was fortunate enough to have a guildie give me one of hers.

So no real complaints here. Sometimes it's more about the ride than the destination...and I rather enjoyed mine.

Godo th great · Feb 11, 2008, 07:06 AM // 07:06

I know this has been used before but somehow it is the only way I can put.

EPIC FAIL!!!!

Last year I had a blast running around collecting all of the feast items so our guild could sponsor a District. I think there was only 4 of us doing this but it was fun and it felt good knowing we would insure that everyone in our guild that wanted a mini (they were a bigger deal at the time) would get one. I still have screen shots of a big chunk of our guild in group poses on the steps of Shing Jea wearing our masks. It felt like a festival. Like everyone else I got rid of most of my extra mini pigs after the event because (like above... minis were a bigger deal then and new players appreciated being able to get their hands on one).

This year I went to the first event and got the fireworks crates (3 pts?). I feel sorry for bigger guilds as our smallish guild were disappointed in only one of us could get rid of the storage slot waste one at a time. Once my other guildies got on and saw what they received for the event (9 rings afk). We decided to do an underworld run instead of going to the festival event. Notice anything? Last year we were actively participating in the event proceedings and this year we ignored it and went and did something else instead. Basically because we were sick of the festival as a whole. I went through Fortunes from 11 characters (that's how many red dyes I have in my inventory) 1 mini rat. I bought one for my son for 25K. It would have been nice to save some of those fortunes for throughout the year but hey I was trying to save myself from buying a rat for the kid. The one nice thing though was at least I knew what I had to do to get one. The monster drop rate on the Lunar fortunes was an utter joke.

I guess what I'm trying to say is the event was a big let down due to the fact that last year's event was so much fun. You had a tough road in front of you for this years event (last year you gave away a mini to the whole community). The biggest mistake I see is you let someone tell you that was wrong. I can't say I am going to do anything drastic like stop playing the game or anything. I'm not ready to stop playing and what are my alternatives? WoW (prescription needed no thank you), LotRo (don't know alot about), god help you if there is a viable alternative by the time GW2 comes out, because like your recent actions...I as well feel no loyalty towards this game at all anymore.

BodhiNightwind · Feb 11, 2008, 09:02 AM // 09:02

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Originally Posted by dark eliminator

I realy think its a realy Bad Event.
(1) no rewards, need Victory Tokens and you get onl Lunar.
(2)no Token Farming.They Nerfed it.
(3)All ppl Selling those pigs...
realy realy bad...when they nerfed the Token Farming, they nerfed the fun fom the event.
what do u think?

Update: For Anet(Gaile Gray or anyone else)
look on the Feedbacks..your Event was really really a Big Disappointment. And your "Final reward" the one you "built" on it the Fireworks for 10 Min...its an idiot prize...use only in GH , only 3 pts for the title.
-the High Pings in the Rollerbeetle Racing..
-the idiot 9 ring game you activated it 100000 times.
===Sorry:=========
----You Failed-----
=================

It was a joke. And it was ironic. It will be made up to us on Easter...yeah...

It was the Year Of The Pack Rat: thus the 5 pigs = 1 pig event.

It was the Canthan *New* Year: Thus the irony of getting the same old mask as last year.

See, they made a funny. It will be ok, they will fix this next time...yep.

isildorbiafra · Feb 11, 2008, 09:16 AM // 09:16

I think it was a good idea and had lots of lols. All us status craving players got a good wakeup call. I'm sick and tired of minis being valued by how rare they are. Some rare minis do look great, however a mini panda looks in my opinion like a turd on legs. None of you elitist wanted the pigs. "Give them to the noobs, they are wortless." Right back at you. Tumbs up to anet for this idea. The noobs finaly got to score: "wts mini ded/ und pig 25k each!" Peching. And the pig goes to: elitists pullout your wallets.

Most ppl with money bought 5 pigs at 15-25k each from noobs to get the celestial pig. Look at it this way: instead of giving away a worthless pig to a noob, this year we elitists opend our heart and wallets to them and gave them hard currency for the pigs. Now thats a great gesture; so dont WHINE cause it cost you this time. Me included.

I held on to my unded min pig all year long, and dedicated it in my hall of monuments just past monday. Sold it to a noob for 1k on wednesday, and bougt 5 new pigs at 20k each on friday. Now thats irony at its best. Lol's all the way.

The crate of fireworks idea was crap. I never visit my guildhall.

And the mask? Blah. Shows just how concerned anet is with gw1.

Overall tumbs up. Had some good laughs. "wtb ded/ und mini pigs pls wisp me!"

added some text.

Sparks Dawnbringer · Feb 11, 2008, 09:26 AM // 09:26

I think if you got 10 lunar fortunes and 10 prize bags. Maybe it would be worth while to farm for ingredients. And if your circle on the rings wins you could get a lunar token.

BodhiNightwind · Feb 11, 2008, 09:31 AM // 09:31

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Originally Posted by isildorbiafra

I think it was a good idea and had lots of lols. All you status craving players washedup empty handed. I'm sick and tired of minis being valued by how rare they are. Some rare minis do look great, but a mini panda looks like a turd on legs. None of you elitist wanted the pigs. "Give them to the noobs, they are wortless." Right back at you. Tumbs up to anet for this idea. The noobs finaly got to score: "wts mini ded/ und pig 25k each!" Peching. And the pig goes to: elitist pullout your wallets.

The crate of fireworks idea was crap. I never visit my guildhall.

And the mask? Blah. Shows just how concerned anet is with gw1.

Overall tumbs up. Had some good laughs. "wtb ded/ und mini pigs pls wisp me!"

This makes no sense. The only people who benefited from this is pack rats.
I have 6 mini pigs across 11 toons. I did not choose to trade them in for the celestial.
I valued the mini pigs from day one, so much so that I think it's BS that I should have to turn them over , even one of them, for anything.
Anyone who turned over the mini-pigs for celestial pigs are the ones who are , how did you put it..."status craving players".

There is no honor or status in owning a Celestial Mini Pig because the only way to get them is by devaluing and giving away to an NPC, (not even another player) the mini-pigs we were given as gifts.

So you're bragging thatyou got money or a celestial pig? Because either way, those are both about the thing you seem to disdain = "status".

gg

wraithe · Feb 11, 2008, 09:47 AM // 09:47

i was a little disappointed with it!

i helped out low level guildies get there tokens and in the mean time i gained 1000+ Lunar Tokens myself, sadly no mini celestial rat for me.
i only had 1 mini pig from last year, i had given mini pigs to guildies that missed the 2007 event so no mini celestial pig either oh well no matter.

Party Animal title is cool..

fireworks would of been better if it were reusable eg double click to start fireworks and double click to stop and only one per character.

IMO i think a Rat Mask would of been cooler than rerun of Lion Mask..

but overall the festival was still entertaining and i still had lots of fun.

wraithe

sagilltwins · Feb 11, 2008, 10:07 AM // 10:07

i was most disappointed with the finale

Shakkara · Feb 11, 2008, 10:15 AM // 10:15

Spent over 6 hours with two people to gather two of all ingredients, and there's hardly any gratitude from the people, they only go OMG GIEF UR INGREDIENTS NOW GIMME STUFF LOL, as in ordering us around while reaping the rewards, while they contribute nothing.

There really should be a reward for the people that spent half a day gathering the items, and all the people that did nothing should be turned into rats and get nothing! GRR.

Stupid event, it's just another money sink for the super rich to get titles. You're not going to get drunkard/sweettooth/party/lucky/unlucky if you don't have at least 15mil to burn.

t_the_nihilst · Feb 11, 2008, 10:18 AM // 10:18

Even the PvE quests were THE EXACT SAME as last year.
Lame...
Same hats too.

To me only good things about the festival = Dragon Arena.

BG.

WinterSnowblind · Feb 11, 2008, 10:22 AM // 10:22

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Originally Posted by Shakkara

Spent over 6 hours with two people to gather two of all ingredients, and there's hardly any gratitude from the people, they only go OMG GIEF UR INGREDIENTS NOW GIMME STUFF LOL, as in ordering us around while reaping the rewards, while they contribute nothing.

There really should be a reward for the people that spent half a day gathering the items, and all the people that did nothing should be turned into rats and get nothing! GRR.

Stupid event, it's just another money sink for the super rich to get titles. You're not going to get drunkard/sweettooth/party/lucky/unlucky if you don't have at least 15mil to burn.

I have to agree it's a little unfair that the finale was completed by a handful of people alone, but really, the amount of effort required to farm all of the ingredients just isn't worth what you got in the end.

They either need to make it easier to farm, or make the end reward better.

Shadowmere · Feb 11, 2008, 10:42 AM // 10:42

Overall, it wasn't revolutionary, it was mostly the same stuff as last year but with rats instead. That being said I found the event overall to be rather fun.

The whole mini pig thing that caused oh so much whining really dosen't bother me much, I was never really a fan of mini porkers to begin with. And the low rate of mini rats means that anet won't have to make a collector for rats next year to balance the whole worth of the mini's out or something.

Dragon Dodgeball, and Beetle Racing are the most fun festival games Imo and I was glad to see them back, personally i wish there could be racing open all year but I degress.

I love the crate of fireworks, anyone who's ever been in a guild where you have get togethers at the GH sees the value in these things. Not to mention it's a great way to celebrate after some hard fought GvG wins.

All in all, I really really enjoyed the event, it wasn't groundbreaking but it was fun.

Coridan · Feb 11, 2008, 12:37 PM // 12:37

as for me.... since the day i bought GW this is the first time i have never participated in any portion of a holiday event. Says something about the game in my opinion....or atleast my "view" of the game. Anet should really try to push the GW2 beta...to keep dedicated players interested in the GW world. There are no reason's to participate in GW much anymore...and my wife thanks you for that atleast...but i don't.... All there is to do is...save up money to spend on titles or minipets. There are no pugs...there are no "new" players trying to get through missions/outposts that appreciate help, rather than just doing it for them.... Give us something to do in GW....something to achieve....something nonstatic....

Linksys · Feb 11, 2008, 12:52 PM // 12:52

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Originally Posted by Coridan

as for me.... since the day i bought GW this is the first time i have never participated in any portion of a holiday event. Says something about the game in my opinion....or atleast my "view" of the game. Anet should really try to push the GW2 beta...to keep dedicated players interested in the GW world. There are no reason's to participate in GW much anymore...and my wife thanks you for that atleast...but i don't.... All there is to do is...save up money to spend on titles or minipets. There are no pugs...there are no "new" players trying to get through missions/outposts that appreciate help, rather than just doing it for them.... Give us something to do in GW....something to achieve....something nonstatic....

I can understand how you feel and sometimes I feel that way a little bit. Just a little because I like the fun stuff like events. But I also want to experience simulated adventure as well. I'd like to see a MMO game that gets back to what it's like to play the Zelda games and Chrono Trigger and also keep the online multiple gamer interaction going. Even if titles are optional, they're still a big focus, maybe even the main focus or one of them in the general GW active player base. And sometimes 'working' on these titles feels like working to pay off a loan.

I remember when the titles thing first started and there weren't that many around. I'm not sure how it exploded to so many.

Harmless · Feb 11, 2008, 01:02 PM // 13:02

Suggestions:

1. Have the minipet given out with the festival hat, or have an npc that takes a certain number of lunar tokens for the minipet. (A reasonable number that you can get with one set of quests.) You want to avoid people having to repeat the same thing over and over in the hopes of getting a minipet. You also don't want to discourage them from participating in the other activities by making one of them too difficult to obtain.

2. Have the fireworks be everlasting and used in guild halls. You can remove the party animal points from them if you do this. Would be fun to use these at guild hall parties.

3. Let everyone know if the ingredient list isn't going to change from year to year. If it does change, let them know at least a month ahead of time.

Red Sonya · Feb 11, 2008, 01:30 PM // 13:30

I thought the event was just excellent and glad Anet chose to nerf those things that needed to be nerfed to stop exploiting the things that shouldn't be exploited. GREAT JOB ANET I hope you continue to do these things next year as well.