Guild Wars 2

It would be fun to discover if Grenchies still exist. Would Wintersday still be Grenth vs. Dwayna still? Will the Mad King Thorn make a triumphant return? I like the mention of a real Meatoberfest, the monastery in Queensdale could provide the ale. BTW, could the Queensdale monastery change their brews with the seasons? What holidays do the the Asura, Sylvari and Norn celebrate?

Priority number 1:

make this game actually attractive for adults who enjoy a challenge and an intelligent story/mechanics/combat. It’s not the time to pump additional “features” in without fixing the ones you already have implemented.

I was disappointed in no events for Talk Like a Pirate Day, which was celebrated all throughout Tyria in Guild Wars 1. ESPECIALLY since New Lion’s Arch was founded by pirates, it would have been a grand opportunity to insert some new dialogue, or at the very least give off some random alcohol drops and increased doubloon drops.

…but no, sadly, no Talk Like a Pirate. Maybe next year.

I am sure there will be no lack of surprise when the holiday comes around. After all the special events in GW1 that took place over the years, it went from decorations to full blown special items and buffs. over the years it was much fun to perticipate in these events as they offered so much fun after they were done.

Not to mention hats:)

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It would be fun to discover if Grenchies still exist. Would Wintersday still be Grenth vs. Dwayna still? Will the Mad King Thorn make a triumphant return? I like the mention of a real Meatoberfest, the monastery in Queensdale could provide the ale. BTW, could the Queensdale monastery change their brews with the seasons? What holidays do the the Asura, Sylvari and Norn celebrate?

snowball fights

I’d love to see snowball fights (with the presents), rollerbeetle racing (although this would be more fit for an activity when we get to Cantha or Elona imo) and costume brawl return in gw2. Would also love doing the little stuff you could do in gw1 such as bringing wintersday gifts to children. You really could make some cool stuff with the events. I would love to see in-town events involving the mad king and such but also events in explorable areas. The dynamic event system is perfect for this stuff, and maybe you could even throw in a couple of temporary hearts!

Personally I would love for all environments where covered in snow around christmas and you see snowmen both still and alive, maybe having a giant snowman boss like we did in Guild wars dungeons.

Maybe have santa run around all the major cities of each race (Each santa is the same as the race’s home city such as human santa in DR, Norn Santa in the Norn home city).

Maybe allow ascolon ghosts and Zitan minions appear everywhere during Halloween and old enemies found in the bog in Guild Wars. Maybe have Grenth return to major cites to replace King Thorn.

I liked the little Meatoberfest event that’s going on in one of the Charr villages. Maybe in October they could take it Realm-wide.

Ah the Mad King. Those were good times. I loved the GW holiday events.

Thanks to the pirate outfits on the trading post, alot of pirate/water themed events in the game and a completely random request to do the pig transformation heart in Kessex Hills (not pirate, but still), my guild did our own Pirate Day celebration on the 14th -

As for ideas about future events, my only request would be for the developers to think of new and fun ways to kill us all miserably – random dragon attacks, dredge burrowing into a corner of Hoelbrak, hunting for Flame Legion spies in the BC, etc. For Holidays – I watched the Mad King videos from GW1 and they look like a lot of fun, so play off that theme and have the mad king appear in random areas and barter (riddles) for player’s lives (kind of a deal with the devil theme).

Waaaaah Halloween Events plox!~
<3 <3 <3
(thanksgiving, christmas and new years too )

I don’t know if anyone is going to read this or if I am restating something that has already been said, but it would be amazing to know what types of Holidays you guys are going to be doing, I mean like in GW1 there was Talk like a pirate day which was pretty awesome you know, not even “full mainstream holidays” were nice in GW1

1. What Holidays are you guys going to be doing, and will this Halloween be one of them or are you guys skipping that?

2. Are Holidays only going to be one main holiday or are they going to be different in each area due to the races and their beliefs?

3. are there going to be Holiday based Dynamic events which yield holiday items?

4. Obviously with each holiday comes the clothing.. are we doing full on clothing or specials in the gem store, or are we doing head based items as with GW1

I really hope I can get some answers, I am pretty busy and it is hard for me to read through these forums!

Holidays in GW1 always brought me back to the game, even if I hadn’t played in a long long time. In GW2, I would love to see a transformed city like they did in Lion Arch with GW1. Most MMO’s just add some decor and temporary items…boring. People would love to see a Halloween haunted city with the ghosts, werewolf’s and ghost ships etc. But most importantly would be Halloween dynamic events and even a META EVENT with a massive Halloween boss. Players would go nuts and you could top it all off with holiday armor skins!!

PLZ ANET MAKE THIS HOLIDAY ROCK!!

I really really really really really hope there’ll be holiday events! I want Halloween costumes _ And not just on the gem store, but as drops, so everyone gets a chance I love the costumes tab, so I would love costumes for every ingame holiday!