148229-winterfest-is-here-december-16-january-1

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It’s that special time of year when the trees have lost the last of their leaves, the ground turns white with snow, we snuggle up close with the ones we love—but most importantly—when we celebrate the true meaning of the season: CONSUMERISM! Get ready for the biggest shopping event of the season, it’s Protostar’s Gala Winterfest Extravaganza!
 
From now until 11:59pm PST on January 1, enjoy the best consumer-driven holiday of the year! There’s a bank account-shattering amount of content, including dailies and public events, decorations and festive clothing, and the SuperMall-in-the-Sky shopping extravaganza!
 
WINTERFEST IS HERE!
 
Seize the festive season by the jingle bells and get into the Winterfest spirit by playing WildStar for free now!	
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Just some quirky feedback on the event website, pass it on or not. All this feedback is from a Mac, running Chrome.
 
1. The snowy backdrop looks great, but the first time I followed the link, I thought it was broken because I had to scroll WAY WAY down before the actual content started.
 
2. Some of the text is very hard to read, either because it's not bright enough or because it's sitting on top of artwork that doesn't have enough contrast. I had to "highlight" several places with my cursor to be able to read it, and even that was difficult to read.
 
Otherwise, I like this layout much better than the Shade's Eve one. I appreciate y'all not calling cash shop items "Rewards" this time, as well.	
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my feedback from the first day:
 
I loved the new dungeon. The constant remarks from Protostar where simply hilarious, and I completely lost it with the discount robots and the "spirit of the season" for the prices. The events themselves inside the dungeon are really run to do, even with the "occasional violence". By Protostar.	
The events in the city themselves feel a bit like the Shade's eve ones. So I'm going to give a minus point for originality there. However the one with the balloon popping seems to be working a lot better then the spirit one from shade's eve, so really happy for that one actually.	I have not tried the big event yet in Illium	BOW TIES!!!!!!!! BEST THING EVER	I'm not too happy with the whole carroling quest. I didn't like it either in Shade's eve. The problem is that the housing interface is too cluncky, and constantly having to alt-tab out of the game to copy over people's names from the housing lists is simply removing all the fun from the quest.	Why is the mount not obtainable through the event vendor? I think the feedback on that was pretty clear from Shade's Eve. I'm not dishing out 30 dollars for a reskin of an existing mount.	The Cash Shop items....Sorry but way too overpriced. I think it would be better if Carbine started to go towards the Team Fortress 2 implementation : Massive amounts of small items for like 0.99 dollar a piece (Dye's are a great thing for this)	I love how Illium looks right now. The whole snow theme is amazing!	
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			Single cahracter house FABkit... again. I disaprove :/	
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Too greedy Carbine/NCSoft, too greedy for a broken game like this. If anything, you should give us stuff for free for "we are sorry game is this much broken and you lost so much of your stuff due to our bugs".
 
But noo, lets try sell things extra expensive, and for only one character. Well, you get no more money from me, that's for sure.	
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			Didn't Caydiem say you get an achievement if you find Papa Phineas in the Mall in the Sky?  I found him earlier, sat in his chair (saw the fireworks and everything), and didn't get one.	
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Didn't Caydiem say you get an achievement if you find Papa Phineas in the Mall in the Sky?  I found him earlier, sat in his chair (saw the fireworks and everything), and didn't get one.
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