While trying to remember all holiday events that were in the original Guild Wars, I was hit with the inspiration for a new holiday event, a simple one, but one that will only happen once in the game…
Something related to the Mayan end of the world date (12/21/12) on the day before, have Hylek doomsayers in the major cities (since the Hylek are based on Aztec/Mayan culture) telling about the end of Tyria! and then on 12/21/12 have a giant frog (not Hylek) that shows up in random zones and just destroys everything and everyone it sees. Make it shoot death beams or something. and for the little descriptor under its name, have it say like “You better run!” or “abandon all hope”.
Silly idea, might be a pain to players, but would be funny, make a special achievement like, “survived the end of the world”
I know nothing about any programming, much less video game programming, but it seems like it would be a fairly simple thing to do, but what do I know! xD