Guild Wars 2

I personally think you should (if you want to) make a Thanksgiving day. I was thinking it would be like Wintersday and Halloween, mixed. There would be a jumping puzzle inside of a giant turkey. It would be like a timed jumping puzzle. You would start with a given time and try to make it to the end before the timer runs out. Also Thanksgiving day (if you decide to do it) would have all of the vendors and other activities too. Just letting you know you guys would be the one to find out what the vendors would sell as in what kind of special weapons, armor, and token things. Please consider. (I LOVE THE GAME BY THE WAY!)

Neat idea in itself, but the thing is that Thanksgiving is a strickly NA holiday, and as such would look weird if it was in the game in the EU. Other holidays that are presented are more international and are not tied to one Region only.

I think it’s unlikely they’d do it, particularly because Thanksgiving, unlike Christmas and Halloween, is exclusively an American holiday (and possibly Canadian?). It doesn’t exist in the rest of the world, although some people might be aware of it from American movies and TV. But even in the UK (where we get a lot of American movies and TV) it’s not uncommon to come across people who have no idea what it is, or think it’s another name for Christmas. Which means a significant part of the playerbase has no connection to this holiday and adding it would have limited appeal.

But maybe more importantly that would mean having festivals running in October, November and December. Too much temporary content leads to players feeling overwhelmed (this was the major complain about Season 1 of the Living Story), and releasing 2 things at once makes that even worse, even if 1 is permanent (look at all the complaints about HoT coming out at the same time as Halloween).

So ideally they’d have to leave September free so players can have some time to focus on other things before the festivals start, and they usually don’t release anything in most of January because they’re closed over Christmas and New Years. So that’s almost half the year they can’t release anything new.

In other words it wouldn’t be worth the hassle.

Thanksgiving celebration, as a holiday, began in Europe. America just perfected (and marketed) it : )

Ashen.2907:

Thanksgiving celebration, as a holiday, began in Europe. America just perfected (and marketed) it : )

Well, there are various harvest festivals in different parts of Europe, but nothing Americans would recognise as being at all similar to Thanksgiving. It’s more like a small religious festival – churches will have special decorations and prayers, schools will collect food for homeless people and have a special assembly where the kids sing hymns (yes, in state schools!) and songs about autumn.

There’s pagan harvest festivals too (Lammas, Mabon and Samhain specifically), which are actually more similar in that the focus is generally on giving thanks for what you got out of the previous year (crops specifically), but that’s about where the similarity begins and ends.