Guild Wars 2

i was really(eagerly) waiting for weapon skins this month of love,

but i was distaunted by the fact that theres no such thing was created,

i thought that the trend will continue, like holloween weapon skins, wintersday weapon skins

but no heart skins?????

PS: Maybe the dev team dislikes the month of love (maybe they dont have a special someone hehehheheheeh)

PS: maybe other countries are not celebrating it?

Ronah.2869:

PS: maybe other countries are not celebrating it?

maybe not,

(but we dont celebrate wintersday in the Philippines)

so why not hearts day themed weapon skin also?

(we dont celebrate hearts day also here, just in case you might ask)

I for one applaud Anet for not contributing to the corporate scam that is Valentine’s Day. Well, they sorta did with those roses for 400 Gem, but at least they had the moral backbone to not take it further!

nevertheless, as to what others are stating, one is not compelled to buy from something from the gemstore,

(I for one is not compelled to buy the wintersday skin)

however, i really want a heart weapon skin heheheeheh

i wouldnt be able to stomach seeing a pink loveheart hammer (or something similar) ingame, valentines day is a joke of a holiday and im glad they didnt create any

I got flamed ridiculously for saying they should have done Christmas instead of Wintersday… So I imagine they wouldn’t have done anything for a fake greeting card holiday like that.

Valentine’s Day is a minor holiday, so I think expecting anything based around it is unrealistic. There wasn’t anything for Thanksgiving, after all. Heck, Valentine’s Day did get the toy bouquet, so thats still “something” and more than I would have expected.

I also think there’s no lore based on Valentine’s Day either, so there’s that as well. Wintersday and Halloween are both lore-based celebrations (kind of suprised they kept Halloween and didn’t name it something else, but still). Seems they want to keep the holiday events based around lore and not just throwing in real-world holidays which have no basis in the GW world.

I never played GW1, so I don’t really know what other holidays exist in lore. Maybe someone who did can chime in and let us know what to expect on that front?

Electro.4173:

Valentine’s Day is a minor holiday, so I think expecting anything based around it is unrealistic. There wasn’t anything for Thanksgiving, after all. Heck, Valentine’s Day did get the toy bouquet, so thats still “something” and more than I would have expected.

I also think there’s no lore based on Valentine’s Day either, so there’s that as well. Wintersday and Halloween are both lore-based celebrations (kind of suprised they kept Halloween and didn’t name it something else, but still). Seems they want to keep the holiday events based around lore and not just throwing in real-world holidays which have no basis in the GW world.

I never played GW1, so I don’t really know what other holidays exist in lore. Maybe someone who did can chime in and let us know what to expect on that front?

if someone could give us some lore in the GW holidays is greatly appreciated

since i did not play GW1 also

Linguistically Inept.6583:

i wouldnt be able to stomach seeing a pink loveheart hammer (or something similar) ingame, valentines day is a joke of a holiday and im glad they didnt create any

okay vanlentines day is a joke,

but if anet will celebrate April fools day, would not it be more of a joke on top of a joke?

why is it there’s a wintersday event if in other parts of the world they dont even experience winter?

why holloween, when in some parts of the world it was taken seriously as an event to commemorate a love one who passed away, and in some strict tradition it is to celebrate the souls of honorable saints? so it is safe to assume that they made a joke out of it also?

and just to add an insult to an injury:

if the dev will celebrate april fools as a month long celebration, would it be making fun of the aprils Holy week celebration to Christians?

The holiday celebrations in GW1 were largely because the ANet employees love the holidays enough themselves that they put in countless extra hours beyond their normal 40 a week to get them done. This tradition has continued into GW2 as well, and a lot of employees put in a lot of extra hours getting them done right. What it shows is that the employees aren’t that enthused about Valentine’s Day. Apparently someone made some roses, but that’s it. That sort of “extra effort” is what makes ANet holidays happen, and well, it’d be crazy as customers to expect them to put in those extra hours for every Tom, Dick, and Harry holiday out there. That said, GW2 seems to be making these content updates more regularly (ie. monthly), and seem to only be pursuing ‘holiday events’ for those that were a big deal in GW1 (ie. traditions).

Oldgrimm.8521:

Ronah.2869:

PS: maybe other countries are not celebrating it?

maybe not,

(but we dont celebrate wintersday in the Philippines)

so why not hearts day themed weapon skin also?

(we dont celebrate hearts day also here, just in case you might ask)

Wintersday is Christmas. Philippines has Christmas.

Philippines also has Valentine’s Day. I know bc my bday is November 14 and my parents always teased me about Vday being exactly 9 mos prior.

Rising Dusk.2408:

The holiday celebrations in GW1 were largely because the ANet employees love the holidays enough themselves that they put in countless extra hours beyond their normal 40 a week to get them done. This tradition has continued into GW2 as well, and a lot of employees put in a lot of extra hours getting them done right. What it shows is that the employees aren’t that enthused about Valentine’s Day. Apparently someone made some roses, but that’s it. That sort of “extra effort” is what makes ANet holidays happen, and well, it’d be crazy as customers to expect them to put in those extra hours for every Tom, Dick, and Harry holiday out there. That said, GW2 seems to be making these content updates more regularly (ie. monthly), and seem to only be pursuing ‘holiday events’ for those that were a big deal in GW1 (ie. traditions).

maybe (hehehehheh just maybe) only a ONE employee has a romantic blood in his/her vein/artery flowing. and the rest are hopeless romantics in real life

GW1 holidays and big events
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Festival#Big_events

I made some designs for heart shaped weapon skins

Electro.4173:

Valentine’s Day is a minor holiday, so I think expecting anything based around it is unrealistic. There wasn’t anything for Thanksgiving, after all. Heck, Valentine’s Day did get the toy bouquet, so thats still “something” and more than I would have expected.

I also think there’s no lore based on Valentine’s Day either, so there’s that as well.

This. To expect stuff for St. Valentine’s Day is rather silly – it’d be akin to expecting Guy kittenes masks in the gemstore for the week(end) of November 5th.

Oldgrimm.8521:

if someone could give us some lore in the GW holidays is greatly appreciated

since i did not play GW1 also

Halloween is the ides of Fall (more or less) and the day in which Mad King Thorn is able to return from the Underworld (specifically the Mad Realm). Since he can’t be the tyrannical menace he was when alive on this day, he’s a bit of a jokster and thus the day has been celebrated as “Mad King’s Day” by humans. Halloween also marks the time of hte year when the souls of the dead are strongest in Tyria.

Wintersday is the end of winter and the Mouvelian calendar’s new year – in other words, it’s the spring equinox. Traditionally, it was a battle between the human gods of Grenth and Dwayna – where Grenth wanted to extend winter, and Dwayna wanted to end it to bring forth spring. Since the battle seems for some reason to depend on the mood of the followers, Dwayna focused on bringing cheer and happiness thus presents to people were introduced – on the same line, Grenth wishes to bring a more grim mood and thus Grentches (little grin imp (traditional imp not GW2 imps) like figures – clearly based off of the Grinch) were made to help spoil the mood. It seems that since the silence of the six gods, snow in Kryta and Ascalon has become more or less non-existent during winter (that snow you saw during Wintersday? It’s fake snow created by asuran snow dispensers – in GW1, specifically in Kamadan (in Elona) it was said that winter’s snow was brought by the gods’ magic).

The other two major holidays in lore would be Canthan New Year and the Dragon Festival – neither are Tyrian tied. There’s also minor festivities like Meatober Fest (Charr), Festival of Lyss (Vabbian), Convocation (Luxon), and so forth.

Oldgrimm.8521:

if the dev will celebrate april fools as a month long celebration, would it be making fun of the aprils Holy week celebration to Christians?

Your hypothetical question doesn’t matter since April Fool’s Day is a one-day thing that’s just Anet having fun with the players. It’s not even an actual holiday event, unlike Halloween or Wintersday.

we haven’t gotten a single new armor since launch and u want more weapon skins… If they add anything ITS ARMORS or gtfo.

Hope there is more armor skins