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DONUTS FOR BREAKFAST!!!
 
It's raining like mad here this morning, and nothing fixes a rainy day like donuts!
 
So I was really excited about the Holiday and Event Calendar for the rest of the year. Shade's Eve, the Hoverboard Grand Prix and Winterfest are all on tap between now and the new year. I gotta say, holiday and seasonal events are my absolute favorite part of any MMO and I have high hopes that Wildstar can continue their high-quality encounters and tongue-in-cheek humor across the whole year.
 
So, let's talk about holidays and events. What do you look forward to the most? What would you like to see in future events? Do you like real-world cross-overs pollinating your MMOs (Santa, bunnies and leprechauns in space) or would you prefer a more organic set of seasonal characters? What Nexus-specific ideas would you like to see expanded upon for an event - and it doesn't have to be a holiday, as the Grand Prix demonstrates.
 
Have a great day, Nexus! Take an extra donut. I have lots.	
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*Insert Homer Simpson Drool Sound Here* 
 
 
(( Opinion here is my own as a gamer and has nothing to do with being a mod ))
 
I love holidays in games. I don't mind if they emulate RL holidays, though I know some folks have issues with that. I love made up holidays even more, and I love player invented ones the best. I like the creativity that goes into player run events (and I admit, I'm 100% biased). I've seen some really magical ones in the past. Developer supported ones are great and all but I find them a bit restrictive in a creative sense, because players are all doing the exact same thing typically to gain xyz item/achievement/some sort of goal, and for me that actually takes away from the 'holiday' feeling of it. . . if that makes sense? 	
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WHERE'S MY DAMN COFFEE TEX?
 
*Reaches for a donut and prepares for a sugar X-plosion*
 
WILDSTAR!!  :P 
			
				
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Morning,
Wasn't able to play last night as family obligations with the in-laws showed up. Hopefully I can get some things done tonight. Tex, those doughnuts look amazing and are exacerbating my hunger which I can't fix at the moment. I left my bank card at home like and idiot. Now on topic. I love any kind of event in games. Does not matter to me of they are original or the games version of a real life holiday. However, being a pretty big lore junkie and my love for history and mythology all make me love when they justify it to the lore or they make the worlds equivalent to the mythos of the holiday. The humor and exclusive items help as well.	
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WHERE'S MY DAMN COFFEE TEX?
 
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Uuuugh. So I was lying down for a little nap yesterday. Maybe one, two hours. Woke up almost 14 hours later, just now. I guess I didn't sleep enough lately o_O
 
As for holidays - I love the idea of holidays in game, but hate it when they make no sense. For example (If there are holidays in game already I can't talk about those, never experienced them), a holiday similar to christmas could work well in Wildstar, with Protostar and all. But I wouldn't call it christmas and would refrain from using typical christmas terminology. No Santa Claus, but maybe something similar, centered around gifting (things that you, of course, have to buy from Protostar. "Protostar - Joy for you, for money!"). So, basically, instead of copying christmas, make it a giant parody of the commercialization of christmas.	
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			I don't know if it's already in place but christmas decorations for house available to get at christmas would be nice, like trees, snowmans, cookies, gifts	
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I don't know if it's already in place but christmas decorations for house available to get at christmas would be nice, like trees, snowmans, cookies, gifts
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I'm probably the only person on the planet who couldn't care less about holiday events :(  But I'm glad for all the people who love them because it sounds like they are doing a top-notch job of it.
 
I don't know that I'll do the hoverboard racing, but that back-to-the-future themed board does look pretty awesome.	
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I'm probably the only person on the planet who couldn't care less about holiday events
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But I think they are a necessary thing to break up the monotony of a game like WoW or Wildstar. Gives people something to look forward to and a welcome distraction from the normal content, because said content will become stale after a while, no way around it.
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			im getting donuts st break today .. gotta love work on friday :)	
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(( Opinion here is my own as a gamer and has nothing to do with being a mod ))
 
I love holidays in games. I don't mind if they emulate RL holidays, though I know some folks have issues with that. I love made up holidays even more, and I love player invented ones the best. I like the creativity that goes into player run events (and I admit, I'm 100% biased). I've seen some really magical ones in the past. Developer supported ones are great and all but I find them a bit restrictive in a creative sense, because players are all doing the exact same thing typically to gain xyz item/achievement/some sort of goal, and for me that actually takes away from the 'holiday' feeling of it. . . if that makes sense? 
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I love how absolutely derpy that silly eyepatch looks with my Mechari:
 
http://i.imgur.com/A9xpcUS.png	
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Uuuugh. So I was lying down for a little nap yesterday. Maybe one, two hours. Woke up almost 14 hours later, just now. I guess I didn't sleep enough lately o_O
 
As for holidays - I love the idea of holidays in game, but hate it when they make no sense. For example (If there are holidays in game already I can't talk about those, never experienced them), a holiday similar to christmas could work well in Wildstar, with Protostar and all. But I wouldn't call it christmas and would refrain from using typical christmas terminology. No Santa Claus, but maybe something similar, centered around gifting (things that you, of course, have to buy from Protostar. "Protostar - Joy for you, for money!"). So, basically, instead of copying christmas, make it a giant parody of the commercialization of christmas.
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For what it's worth, you basically just described Winterfest. ;)
 
As you might imagine, I like events in MMOs, holiday or otherwise. I've made quite a few, and I participate in 'em in other MMOs when the time rolls around. It changes the feel of the world for a while and gives you something to anticipate if you like the holiday. I don't mind bringing in real-world iconography and overarching themes, but I prefer my holidays be at least a little grounded in the world. If you're going to give me a Santa hat, have it make sense as to why that's a thing. (We don't have Santa hats, by the way. We have a Protostar WinterFez™.) Plus holidays tend to get you neat cosmetics, pets and such that become kinda exclusive since they're only available during a certain time of year. Makes you stand out in the crowd a little.
 
I am moving on from doing events after Winterfest -- got lots to do! -- but I'm leaving 'em in very capable hands. We're really excited to see what you think of our offerings this year and what we can do to improve in the future. :D
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For what it's worth, you basically just described Winterfest. ;)
 
As you might imagine, I like events in MMOs, holiday or otherwise. I've made quite a few, and I participate in 'em in other MMOs when the time rolls around. It changes the feel of the world for a while and gives you something to anticipate if you like the holiday. I don't mind bringing in real-world iconography and overarching themes, but I prefer my holidays be at least a little grounded in the world. If you're going to give me a Santa hat, have it make sense as to why that's a thing. (We don't have Santa hats, by the way. We have a Protostar WinterFez™.) Plus holidays tend to get you neat cosmetics, pets and such that become kinda exclusive since they're only available during a certain time of year. Makes you stand out in the crowd a little.
 
I am moving on from doing events after Winterfest -- got lots to do! -- but I'm leaving 'em in very capable hands. We're really excited to see what you think of our offerings this year and what we can do to improve in the future. :D
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Yeah, that's a great way of doing things. Have it make sense within the world. It always bugged me in World of Warcraft that there was, for some reason, an orc in a Santa outfit, sitting under a big christmas tree and handing out gifts. Just... didn't work so well.
 
Personally I'd prefer completely made up holidays even more than that, though.
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I always looooved the lunar festival for that reason. Might be that it is based on a real life festival (likely an asian one, considering that you're collecting chinese style dressed and suits for its duration), but I always felt it perfectly fitted into the world, with the reverance of ancestors and stuff. Especially for Tauren, which traditionally are very much about revering their ancestors.
 
Although I might be biased in regards to that festival, because it happened to be around while I started playing my very first character, so there's a lot of nostalgia tied to it.	
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			Lopp would work absolutely great for an easter style festival. Instead of collecting eggs you could go and collect hidden shinies, for a sort of "great shiny hunt"...	
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The Lunar Festival is the "Chinese New Year" event. That's a great event, because there is a little bit of decor in every city and town in the game, and gives players a reason to go back and visit (or re-visit) lower end zones. I like that the Grand Prix event here is doing something similar by putting a race in every zone.
 
I just want to ask, right now, that any "Spring Time" event NOT have a Giant Jabbit hiding colored Falkrin eggs. If you just gotta do something like that, use the Lopp and make it a fertility festival or something. The Lopp Wedding is the single best quest line in this entire game ... go with something like that and leave the stupid eggs at the door.	
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			Oh yeah. Being paid for a "think tank" sort of gig sounds great, count me in :P	
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Lopp would work absolutely great for an easter style festival. Instead of collecting eggs you could go and collect hidden shinies, for a sort of "great shiny hunt"...
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"Our ideas are totally better than the ones of developers who spent years learning how to do this sort of thing"?
 
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The American Council on Dailies and Reputation 
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MMO think tank... sounds like a job I could get behind. 
 
Now a long list of MMO think tank names
 
Center for End-Game Progression 
Institute for Farming Economics 
The Raid Mechanics Research Counsel
Fairness and Accuracy in Forum Postings
The American Council on Dailies and Reputation 
The Caydiem Endowment for Holiday Events	
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"Our ideas are totally better than the ones of developers who spent years learning how to do this sort of thing"?
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I'm German, though :(
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Well. Yeah. Of course they are.
 
Developers are too close to the project to see the Big Picture!
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			I actually learned english largely due to google translate. Well, I massively enhanced my vocabulary that way. Learned the basics in school, but never was very good at it (with our equivalent to E's and F's in terms of grades - German grades are numbers and go from 1 to 6, hence the 'E' :p). Basically, I knew more or less how grammar worked, but only had a very limited vocabulary. And google translate helped greatly with that, just translated the words I didn't know (I mainly learned english through chatting in MMOs or chatclients).	
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That is actually a valid point :)
 
Ouch. My eyes, the goggles, they do nothing! I presume you used google translate. It failed you. Big time.
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I'd join an MMO thinktank in a heartbeat. 
 
You know I always loved that WOW had brewfest. Just something about seeing my character celebrate Octoberfest was hilarious to me. As for what's coming to Wildstar, I'm loving that the devs are doing the protostar merchandise side of the christmas event. Not enough people poke fun at that. At the moment I'm looking more to Shades Eve though. I always love the spooky events.
 
So I feel like we've, for the most part except for the hoverboard race, only talked about events that match up with real life holidays, be they original takes or not. What about when a game makes thier own holiday event not coresponding to one out here in the real world? Personally I love them too. Provided there is good lore or fun surrounding it and not just some grind or somekind of just quick "here have this for 5 minutes and then back to the grind." The question comes though what would they celebrate here on Nexus that isn't a real life holiday?
			
				
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You know I always loved that WOW had brewfest. Just something about seeing my character celebrate Octoberfest was hilarious to me.
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A memorial for Arboria. 
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Somehow, this sounds more like a somber day of mourning than a holiday in the truest sense. Kinda like today. Not that it wouldn't be cool to see the idea of day of remeberance in an MMO, you would just have to be really careful. 
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We're talking Aurin here though. I can fully see those guys being all "let's celebrate the good times we had on Auboria!" instead of focussing on the bad stuff.
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We're talking Aurin here though. I can fully see those guys being all "let's celebrate the good times we had on Auboria!" instead of focussing on the bad stuff.
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			Yeah, that'd be very nice. You could have colours and stuff on the Dominions side, where it'll be celebrated as a gigantic win against the Exile traitors ;)	
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Yeah, that'd be very nice. You could have colours and stuff on the Dominions side, where it'll be celebrated as a gigantic win against the Exile traitors ;)
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			Especially considering that Nexus was discovered by an Exile. So for the Dominion that could be more a giant Propaganda-thing, all about 'freeing Nexus from the claws of Exile-tyranny!" and "sending it home into the arms of the empire", while the Exiles honestly celebrate the achievement.	
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Wylf, I dunno if you've seen this, but it's an old bit of Lore from many years ago, describing Foundation Day and Starfall. I think you'll dig it, as it's probably (hopefully, crosses fingers) going to be our Summer Holiday Event:
 
http://www.wildstar-online.com/uk/news/a-time-for-celebration/
 
			
				
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			Oh yeah, that sounds very fitting :)	
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			We finally killed SD last night. That is all.	
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Every day is Halloween for me. 
 
I ended up drawing all night and writing for most of the day. This is why I don't MMO anymore lol. I'm thinking I might not play much until the game goes live. I miss my old character and don't want to get invested in a temporary character. I get too attached. I feel bad but I'm sure they have more than enough folks helping test. 
 
My latest: http://ziddersroofurry.deviantart.com/art/For-Those-About-To-Rock-Final-559603456	
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Good thread today, everyone!
 
Thanks for keeping it on-topic and fun.
 
See y'all in-game!	
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