before reading
yes this is long and as such its meant for those who wanna have a real discussion and not just say the same things over and over. for all those who played back then and want to keep it out because u want it to be special to you please read the whole thing and dont assume i dont get where ur coming from :) thanks
my little story not to long, sets my point of view ^_^
I played way back then as did a lot of people, and u know what i remember this event with such remorse now because i didnt bother. Back then i looked at what i could get and i thought to my self meh the wings are cool but not that worth my time i rather just do some of the other stuff in the game and of coarse i had a blast as i assume all of us did back then, now its been a few years. I had a break for a year due to finishing year 12 and couldnt play when focusing on that painful year. Then when i finished year 12 i had forgotten about gw2 and just did some other stuff till HoT had been out for like a month or 2 and i saw it and was like O_O “holy KITTEN i loved gw2 i gotta get back into this.”
now i’m back and loving everyday and i wanna collect everything and get every achievement. i plan to put the next 7+ years of my life into this game, now of coarse i chose to do other things in gw2 during the event at the time. And so of coarse i dont deserve them now however i think it would be fair for me to work just as hard as u did to earn them. so i got 2 ideas the first being what i think is best and the 2nd being just something that takes hell long and their fore u would of worked less for the same thing that i work super hard for.
1. its a living world right. so why wouldn’t this world celebrate these things more then once. Of coarse its not a yearly thing because lets be real it wouldnt make sense to be yearly in the real world. but u know what every 5 years the world could have another celebration to commemorate the past. Anet could bring back the achievements for that month and all the rewards etc. This means us people who want to collect everything and people who just want a item they missed can wait the 5 years and grab it next time.
It also means Anet can reuse holiday ideas meaning some extra content for us while they work on harder stuff. also means those who got them the first time can focus on grabbing some things they may of missed during the first event if they focused on the wings.
ps. to make it so people who got the rewards in the past get something cool to work on if they were kittenes and got everything last time. Anet could include a variant color of the wings in this case or what ever is the most expensive item in other holidays which costs 1.5x that of the base one and would require some high tier mats maybe 10 achievements done out of that events achievements and can only be made if u own the first version.
pss. this would mean people like me who want to collect it all will have to work are kitten off and earn the base version of the wings and then earn enough to buy the recipe as well if we want this new color of it. meaning i either worked my kitten off or i dont get it and all the kitten vets will have a easy time getting the new recolor and they can show it off while the rest of us who bother will only have the base version.
Stating the obvious
this leads to those who work hard will have something to show off and those who work somewhat hard can get an old item and those who dont do either will have nothing until another 5 years. it also means when people ask u how u get them u say just wait 5 years till the next time the event is run.
2. (the simple fix and least amount of work for anet) make it buyable for large amounts of its currency at the time. i personally dont care much for this but it would fix the problem. just like how the other hologram wings will cost u roughly 3k gold to get the candy u need for it.
thanks for reading hope you all have wonderful days/nights i gonna be on gw2 busy collecting currency and stuff :D