Guild Wars 2

So, a new article has been released on massively
http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/10/23/arenanet-teases-guild-wars-2s-road-to-war/
In this article you can read:
“ArenaNet also feels that there is value in tradition, which is one reason that holiday content for Halloween and Wintersday won’t be seeing any changes this year apart from fresh rewards.”

My opinion on this: simply they are wrong. I very much looked forward to how the story of halloween progresses this year only to be disappointed. (Yes, I know they said only Blood and Madness will return, but thats not the point) From now on I can’t really say festivals are anet’s strong suit. From now on I can’t look forward to halloween as much as I used to.

In GW1 I loved anet for their traditions. New halloween masks every year, new minipets when your character ages, every month monthly GvG championship. No festivals were cancelled like this year’s dragon bash. Weekend bonuses… traditions are one of the reasons that made GW1 succesful IMO and thinking traditions are not important are just wrong.

Edit: Just to make myself clear , I have no problem with recurring events, but using tradition as an exuse to stop continuing of the story is just not right. Anet should find a way to keep the previous story in a sensible way as well as add new ones.

I’ve felt the continuing story of halloween every year was a tradition, well looks like I was wrong.

I do enjoy more plot but the experience of the halloween festival is very different this year, thanks to the LA changes and the loot/content/balance changes.

So while it’s not all new it feels fresh to me.

Was pretty sad getting that same mask though…

Judging by the emphasis on new players this, no changes to festivals has a certain logic – they are giving the new players they are trying to attract the same content to experience.

Whether this is a good idea is ofc up for continued debate. I’m certainly having fun, blowing off a tiring week hunting candy.

Randulf.7614:

Judging by the emphasis on new players this, no changes to festivals has a certain logic – they are giving the new players they are trying to attract the same content to experience.

Whether this is a good idea is ofc up for continued debate. I’m certainly having fun, blowing off a tiring week hunting candy.

“New players” is just their current favorite excuse for unpopular changes. None of these “new players” excuses hold water when you think about them for more than a minute.

For Halloween, most likely they simply didn’t want to/was incapable of creating new content for the holiday… after all, they have a Living Story to develop and four bi-weekly episodes every six months is just too much for them to handle.

I am a little sad not to have read the full story Mad King. I would have loved to see his family come as and able to take on this great revenche his crazy costumes and go with.

Halloween and Wintersday are my favorite periods. I love more than anything to disguise myself. Involved, as well as in irl.

I hope the story alive will be impressive.