Guild Wars 2

So Halloween was one of the biggest holidays in the original GW. There were costumes in the cash-shop, and every year had a different mask that you could get from the mad king by playing his games.

You also had the decorations and special chain quests.

So, without trying to cause mass hysteria…do you guys think we will lose seven years of Halloween tradition? O.O.

As I see it:
- No mask maker. Would be a shame not to have our masks saved so an npc can remake them every year…if there are masks.

- No paper, rock, scissors emotes. Srsly…this was the Mad Kings favorite.

- No access to Underworld. Is Dhumm finally going to retake the underworld?

- There is no costume maker. And I am slightly concerned that Nexon lady will convince people to take away our unlimited account bound costumes and make them soulbound transmutable like the armor skins.

Im sure the Mad King will be back and I’m sure he will look great. The decorations for Lion’s Arch will probably also be pretty amazing. But its looking like if I want to play rock-paper-scissors for a sweet mask, then I’m going to be booting up the original. I mean…I planned on it anyways. I still have 250 everlasting mobstoppers to turn in.

The developers have already said there will be a Halloween event. Be patient…it’s the 9th

Agree with Seras ~

Perhaps until an official announcement, this’ll keep ya entertained

http://youtu.be/Sw8pcxE6U9k

/rock, /paper, and /scissors all exist in the game’s code, just the emotes themselves are disabled; no “Unknown Command.” thing came up when they were used. This also occurs with a lot of other ones, like /bowhead, /guitar, /flute, and /drums.

Second, the two costume things you brought up—Masks and Costumes—could easily be implemented with NPCs being patched in and making them available.

Third, they did bring up that there was going to be an event for Halloween, and to be on the look out for information this week for it.

I know there will be an event. I am pretty sure the ??? in the monthly achievement will have something to do with it.

I’m just wondering how many of the GW Halloween traditions will stick around and how many will be scrapped.

What are people’s hopes for the event? What would you like to have seen stay and what wouldn’t you mind seeing go?

I personally would like to see character bound masks, account bound costumes, a grinning moon and squash serum.

I don’t particularly mind not having to run to all of the reapers without using attack skills.

I will miss Candy corn golem dance parties.

Even if they can’t bring everything back for this year it doesn’t mean that it wont come at some point. Launch has been a handful for Anet.

I’m pretty sure other than rock, paper, scissors and access to the underworld none of those things were in GW1 at launch either. There is no reason they can’t add them as part of the Halloween update or later.

I miss the costume makers and I don’t hold any great hope that they will be included with the Halloween update. If they were planning on letting us store the costumes (skins) we purchased, they would have had that going from launch since they were already selling that stuff in the gem shop. Instead, we’re made to rely on constant transmuting of skins for appearance changes and having to store those skins in inventory when not in use, if we want to keep them.

It’s a VASTLY inferior system to what they had running in GW1, but it is more conducive to gem shop transactions. Hence, I don’t see them changing it.

This thread was moved to “suggestions”.