Guild Wars 2

Anet can we have a easter or spring festival? It could be tied in with the norns having a celebration in honor of the rabbit spirit. Instead of envelopes or presents we can receive eggs as the reward item. One of the games could be an egg hunt where each team has to run around and find the eggs that have been random locations. Another could be a pvp based game. There will be one rabbit in the center of the map with 5 vs 5. One person has to take the rabbit to their end of the map and deliver it. Everyone gets random skills based on themed weapons they could choose from. Mini ideas could be a rabbit Carring a basket that you can upgrade to fill with eggs and candy. Or we could have a big easter egg that hops or rolls around after us.

I think it would be fun if we had a festival for each race humans have lunar festival and wintersday. Asuras has super adventure box and then halloween is all raced based in lions arch.

I can has chocolate bunny now?

People demanded the Super Adventure Box become a recurring event. Since it takes place every April Fool’s, it’s now our spring festival.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

People demanded the Super Adventure Box become a recurring event. Since it takes place every April Fool’s, it’s now our spring festival.

..and I’m 200% ok with that.

Like you said sab was in replacement for April fools it really isn’t an official spring festival. To have a a festival for each race would be nice I think. The norns does not have to be easter bit I thought it would be a fitting way to tie it into the norn culture.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

People demanded the Super Adventure Box become a recurring event. Since it takes place every April Fool’s, it’s now our spring festival.

it’s funny i wonder how they figured “People demanded” what basis did they count the number of people? If from these forums I’ve heard the same amount of people complain about many things: mystic coins, how bad HoT was on release, yet i see nothing done bout that. I suppose positive feed back about how wonderful you are is looked at more seriously then negative feed back about how f’ed up it is.

Someone mentioned on another forum (I bet this isn’t accurate) that prolly if u like the game you aren’t on the forums complaining about it. If that’s so then a smaller group of people would of been on the forums in the first place, to dump love on SAB. So i mean saying “People demanded”… what people?which people? how many people?

:D

xikira.3264:

Like you said sab was in replacement for April fools it really isn’t an official spring festival. To have a a festival for each race would be nice I think. The norns does not have to be easter bit I thought it would be a fitting way to tie it into the norn culture.

Norns – some kind of drinking FESTIVAL-think oktoberfest. already have that mini pvp drinking game and the activity keg brawl. Could maybe spruce those up a bit during festival or added rewards? From a non-lore rp’er player like myself seems logical My main is norn – gotta get cha drink on!

Slyvari – relatively new to life, celebration of life maybe? (input lore here and stretch it a little)

Charr – something about flame legion(input lore here), (think Burning man celebration), summer/fall thing

This has been mentioned on another post.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/GW2-Holiday-Events-Why-only-3/first#post6460608

Kelly.7019:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

People demanded the Super Adventure Box become a recurring event. Since it takes place every April Fool’s, it’s now our spring festival.

it’s funny i wonder how they figured “People demanded” what basis did they count the number of people? If from these forums I’ve heard the same amount of people complain about many things: mystic coins, how bad HoT was on release, yet i see nothing done bout that. I suppose positive feed back about how wonderful you are is looked at more seriously then negative feed back about how f’ed up it is.

Someone mentioned on another forum (I bet this isn’t accurate) that prolly if u like the game you aren’t on the forums complaining about it. If that’s so then a smaller group of people would of been on the forums in the first place, to dump love on SAB. So i mean saying “People demanded”… what people?which people? how many people?

:D

I believe the feedback on HoT at release was addressed. It was what the April patch was mostly addressing.

Perhaps, the Devs listen to feedback, consider if it represents a majority if there is an opposing desire, and address it when possible. Some things the playerbase may want might have unwanted ramifications to the game, as the playerbase is not privy to all information.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Kelly.7019:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

People demanded the Super Adventure Box become a recurring event. Since it takes place every April Fool’s, it’s now our spring festival.

it’s funny i wonder how they figured “People demanded” what basis did they count the number of people? If from these forums I’ve heard the same amount of people complain about many things: mystic coins, how bad HoT was on release, yet i see nothing done bout that. I suppose positive feed back about how wonderful you are is looked at more seriously then negative feed back about how f’ed up it is.

Someone mentioned on another forum (I bet this isn’t accurate) that prolly if u like the game you aren’t on the forums complaining about it. If that’s so then a smaller group of people would of been on the forums in the first place, to dump love on SAB. So i mean saying “People demanded”… what people?which people? how many people?

:D

I believe the feedback on HoT at release was addressed. It was what the April patch was mostly addressing.

Perhaps, the Devs listen to feedback, consider if it represents a majority if there is an opposing desire, and address it when possible. Some things the playerbase may want might have unwanted ramifications to the game, as the playerbase is not privy to all information.

Not to mention the SAB mega-thread that was on the front page of the forums forever full of people demanding its return.

Just in case you didn’t know, Super Adventure Box is an Azura festival and it’s perfect for an April event.

You don’t have to replace any events actually in game, but making new ones is probably better.

Oh and, don’t touch the SAB, it’s my baby.

I’m all in favor of the game having more recurring festivals. I’d love to see something every other month, so that there are never any complete droughts of a “Living World”. However, it’s not free for ANet to design events and they add to the overall maintenance effort for the game (bugs that get introduced with added NPCs, different puzzles, changing mechanics).

So the question is: what’s more important to the community? More festivals? Or keep the focus on the Living World with only the occasional tweaks to existing festivals?

Incidentally, I’m in a funny position: I have zero interest in SAB; I simply don’t like playing 8-bit games, especially those that require an extreme level of muscle memory at each and every significant intersection. All the same, I recognize that the support for SAB is unlike anything we’ve seen on the forums; it attracts all sorts of people to the game, which is probably good for the rest of us, too.

xikira.3264:

Like you said sab was in replacement for April fools it really isn’t an official spring festival. To have a a festival for each race would be nice I think. The norns does not have to be easter bit I thought it would be a fitting way to tie it into the norn culture.

It’s an official recurring festival that takes place in Spring; it’s not a “substitute”. I understood that’s what was meant when the title said, “Anet can we have an Easter or spring festival” — we have that.

What you are asking for is that the game have additional festivals that relate to other in-game cultures, with maybe a tie-in to real-life cultures.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

People demanded the Super Adventure Box become a recurring event. Since it takes place every April Fool’s, it’s now our spring festival.

Kelly.7019:

it’s funny i wonder how they figured “People demanded” what basis did they count the number of people? If from these forums I’ve heard the same amount of people complain about many things: mystic coins, how bad HoT was on release, yet i see nothing done bout that. I suppose positive feed back about how wonderful you are is looked at more seriously then negative feed back about how f’ed up it is.

There are huge differences between the situations, not the least of which are that there were literally protest marches (in a digital fashion) in support of SAB and nothing close to that for Mystic Coins. SAB has a big impact on the dev team, but nearly zero impact on the economy generally; mystic coins are an inherent part of the daily login reward system and are tied to lots of shinies.

Kelly.7019:

Someone mentioned on another forum (I bet this isn’t accurate) that prolly if u like the game you aren’t on the forums complaining about it. If that’s so then a smaller group of people would of been on the forums in the first place, to dump love on SAB. So i mean saying “People demanded”… what people?which people? how many people?

You can do the same research to see how many people, if you like.

But that’s entirely moot: ANet doesn’t deliver stuff simply because parts of the community demanded it; it’s important what we think, but it’s not sufficient that there’s a vocal minority. What made SAB different was that it generated a lot of discussion, mostly positive (although not all of it constructive, of course) — when ANet was deciding what new festival to make recurring, they chose SAB over say Queen’s Jubilee: all things being equal, they were able to fulfill the passionate request from SAB’s fans.

All your chocolate bunnies now belong to me /insert evil laugh…now with that settled, I will leave this link here…

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Sweet_Treats_Week

I am always in favor of more festival themed events.

It is enough that we have an asiatic festival, with asiatic outfit promotion, asiatic mail carrier promotion, asiatic backpacks (an exotic golden kitten with 2 balls dangling), asiatic fireworks, asiatic events, asiatic harvesting tool; all celebrating an asiatic new year… in Europe and USA.

Happy new asiatic year!

I wanna Quaggan festivoooooo.

We already have a festival around then. It’s SAB

Endless Soul.5178:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

People demanded the Super Adventure Box become a recurring event. Since it takes place every April Fool’s, it’s now our spring festival.

..and I’m 200% ok with that.

SAB is a sham and you know it

Amaimon.7823:

Endless Soul.5178:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

People demanded the Super Adventure Box become a recurring event. Since it takes place every April Fool’s, it’s now our spring festival.

..and I’m 200% ok with that.

SAB is a sham and you know it

..and I’m 200% ok with that.

SAB is the easter/spring festival. not everything in real world gets a holiday festival ingame. it’s much more dependent on LORE and prolly GW1 then RL matters.

Endless Soul.5178:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Kelly.7019:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

People demanded the Super Adventure Box become a recurring event. Since it takes place every April Fool’s, it’s now our spring festival.

it’s funny i wonder how they figured “People demanded” what basis did they count the number of people? If from these forums I’ve heard the same amount of people complain about many things: mystic coins, how bad HoT was on release, yet i see nothing done bout that. I suppose positive feed back about how wonderful you are is looked at more seriously then negative feed back about how f’ed up it is.

Someone mentioned on another forum (I bet this isn’t accurate) that prolly if u like the game you aren’t on the forums complaining about it. If that’s so then a smaller group of people would of been on the forums in the first place, to dump love on SAB. So i mean saying “People demanded”… what people?which people? how many people?

:D

I believe the feedback on HoT at release was addressed. It was what the April patch was mostly addressing.

Perhaps, the Devs listen to feedback, consider if it represents a majority if there is an opposing desire, and address it when possible. Some things the playerbase may want might have unwanted ramifications to the game, as the playerbase is not privy to all information.

Not to mention the SAB mega-thread that was on the front page of the forums forever full of people demanding its return.

like what was said , who goes to forums mostly….

I imagine the Devs use metrics along with other feedback, to help determine their game decisions.