Wintersday with Melandru and Balthazar!

Hey Regina, if I may ask, why don't you guys announce Wintersday till the last moment like this? I guess we are just to assume it's the "same time each year"? I'm always finding myself, in early December, looking to find what specific dates it will run. And it seems like the last couple of years it didn't get announced until the very last moment.

Wait judging by last years events and the fact that there is no weekend event announcment....then the event should start 2mrrow or friday night too OMG that actually did get my by surprise.

So tired of hearing in every thread that involves an update, you complaining about the Dervish update. If you actually read the interviews, you would know that it has been on hold this entire time. Everytime you or someone complains about the Dervish update, someone always tells you this:

http://www.killtenrats.com/2010/09/2...eam-interview/

Yet you guys complain everytime you see a new update that it isn't here. If you guys would stop and read all those people telling you this, and read the interview, you wouldn't have to keep asking about the Dervish update. So please, lay off it already.

OT: Thanks Regina for clearing that up for us. Looking forward to Wintersday tomorrow.

I would give a Klondike bar for a Balthazar costume.

I would too - a Klondike is probably cheaper than 9.99

The Wintersday event page is not going up until everything related to Wintersday goes live, and this includes the new content, the costumes (in-game store, and NCsoft web store). There is a lot of work involved in coordinating everything, so it made more sense to publish Wintersday event pages when the event and costumes are up, rather than in advance of the actual event.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the Hearts of the North adventure line was suppose to be done before Wintersday. Any light to shed on that, if I may ask?

I stand corrected. Hooray for Wintersday and costumes!

Interesting, oh well.. ot paying for another costume.. no matter how awsome.. 1 costume set is good enough lol.

On a side note...(and i semi read update notes so don't kill me spyder) i thought(i may be wrong) but didn't they say that embarkment beach would be before wintersday.. and along with embarkment beach would be 7heros... but w/e.. we'll get those (hopefully) before GW2.

No, I'm pretty sure that Embark and the 7 heroes were scheduled for a vague early next year after the dervish update, which I'm assuming will also be coming next year.

Melandru! Let's get some peta jokes in the game and some peta related quests, (kill humans destroying native plant life?) and have a field day.

or.. we could have wintersday-related quests.. i mean, just saying, sounds a bit farfetched for this time of year anyway..

I'm incredibly tired of people such as yourself unable to read interview dates. It said the Dervish update was on hold in SEPTEMBER for unnecessary costume brawl updates. Yet costume brawl has long been over, its mid-December, and there was previous mention that the aim was to get the Dervish update out before the end of the year. It's been nearly seven months and I feel that it's completely fair to bring this question up AGAIN.

In all fairness technically the actual day of Wintersday is around 1st january so give them a little time

Also anyone recon the thread title sounds like a sitcom

Most recent thing said about Dervish update.

"After these two consecutive updates to GvG, we are planning to take a short break from targeted updates and focus our balance efforts on the new Dervish skills. We don't expect these changes to have any major negative impact on the metagame, but we will continue to monitor the situation and act as needed."

http://www.guildwars.com/gameplay/de...g_balances.php

On topic: Glad to see more gods joining in, I wonder if this will add in anything new for Snowball Arena.

Those would make for great costumes, but it is very disappointing these keep coming out when there are problems with the previous costumes.

Sad.
I wanted Dhuum to get involved. I always liked the bad guys .
The only god that looks to be immortal is Dhuum. Abaddon died and this makes me think that the other 5 gods can die.

Melandru costume? - Schweet!

Although, will it be Balth for males and Mel for females? Cus Balth looks awful. No offense mate!

Excited about Wintersday this year, its the first year where there aren't really any other titles which I need to grind out and I can focus fully on getting drunkard, part and sweet tooth all wrapped up (see what I did there? wrapped up? no? fine).

I have to say though, I am not a HUGE fan of the costumes. I recognise that ANet need to continue to make money from this game, but I'm sure there are other ways to do this other than costumes. I love the way they look, but you can only wear one at a time after all!

Oh I understand that. I mean it seems like you guys don't announce upcoming special events in the same way you used to, giving specific dates as an announcement a couple weeks (ish) ahead of the event, on the GW homepage (and other places). They seem to just happen, these days.

I realize these events fall pretty much on the same days each year but I miss having a more heads up on the specific dates ahead of time. I was curious if there was a reason that didn't happen anymore. I assume it's just because they are assumed to be about the same time each year.

I was just curious. Didn't you guys used to make more formal announcements about them ahead of time?

This thread makes me just a little bit sad.

I'm new to GW, my account isn't even 60 days old. This will be my first Wintersday, and I'm just flat-out super excited about it. I've been looking forward to this ever since I understood what these festivals are... I was just coming out of pre-searing when Halloween rolled around, so other than picking up ToT drops I wasn't able to participate in that.

Everything I've read about Wintersdays past entices me... the added quests, the contests, the festival hats, the collector rewards. It all just sounds like so much fun. I'm hoping to tame a Jingle pet, even though I rarely take a pet with me anywhere. I'm geeked about the potential for some new costumes... I have the Shining Blade one... I don't like most of the elementalist armors, so costumes are kind of a big deal "oooooooo shiny!!!" to me. I'm looking forward to running all over the GW universe and checking out the decorations. I'm a 40 year old rural midwestern housewife, and I'm utterly stoked about this little holiday event!

So from my perspective... reading this thread makes me just a little bit sad. Mostly because I wish my fellow players felt that little-kid-excitement I've got pumping through my veins right now. I'm like a kid on Christmas morning, checking the Wiki, Guru, the GW website, etc. every few hours for any little taste of information about WHEN Wintersday is going to start and what kind of awesomeness it's going to offer!

I wish you could all feel like that, instead of being focused on what's missing, or what's not done yet, or what's not done right, or what's not to your liking...

It's the holidays, in some form, in some fashion, for most of the world - in-game and without. Embrace that... get excited... find your inner-little-kid-excitement and run with it.

Especially here... it's a GAME... and a chance to let your inner-kid run crazy.

*goes back to rolling snowballs and scrounging up sticks, carrots & charcoal*