114359-sohalloween

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Didn't really feel I should start a new thread for....but did any ways because I am very serious about this matter!......
 
I remember seeing a short about Halloween events for Wildstar rumor for drop 4 (October). But with the new schedule of "ready when it's ready" and Drop 3 not coming until probably October, and as far as I can tell from the notes and lack of people talking about it that it does not contain Halloween .....
....Will the children of Wildstar not get to celebrate Halloween this year? Will we be forced to eat broccoli instead of candies this season? Will we be stuck wearing our normal wear unable to spook the horrors of the dungeons of Wildstar? Will my friend be unable to step outside this year because Halloween is the only day people don't question the look of his face? WILL I NOT GET A CAPE THIS SEASON AND RUN AROUND AS BATMAN SAVING CANDIES AND SWEETS FROM THE GRIPS OF OLD AND WRINKLY?!?! Think of the POOR candies!
 
In all seriousness...It's a bit early, but I was kind of looking forward to Halloween (or any event for that matter......). Can I (we) at least get a yea or nay regarding Halloween?
 
 
 
TL:DR     HALLOWEEN!?!?!?!?	
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			    Last couple of Nexus reports they have said there is an event planned and it is not tied to the next drop. Jen Gordie the group content lead answered off a chat question and Frost made a comment as well. Some bad audio so it was kinda hard to hear and had to replay. No info on loots/prizes or what exactly the content is but it is going to happen.	
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			I like brocoli...whats wrong with brocoli?	
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It involves Jack, some mad scientist back in the Commonwealth days that released this zombie-esque plague into the population at the time; its now a celebration called Shade's Eve. I am looking forward to it because of the costumes and the zone(s) it will add, either the one south of Whitevale or the one south of Illium (fingers crossed for the one south of Whitevale since the Eldan were concerned enough to block it off with 2 forcefield walls)
 
Oh, I do hope they release drop 3 soon so they have time to work on thta, and not just release it hoping it works a week before Halloween.	
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It's actually about a disease that outright killed 80% of the Cassians who landed on Cassus (from wherever they come from - Earth?), and immediately contracted this horrible, horrible disease. Then, they found a girl who was immune to it, and used her blood to create a vaccine, and ended the threat. It's a celebration of life, and how close everything was to ending. ^^
 
The Jack character is a representation of the plague, and isn't a real person. :3	
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It's actually about a disease that outright killed 80% of the Cassians who landed on Cassus (from wherever they come from - Earth?), and immediately contracted this horrible, horrible disease. Then, they found a girl who was immune to it, and used her blood to create a vaccine, and ended the threat. It's a celebration of life, and how close everything was to ending. ^^
 
The Jack character is a representation of the plague, and isn't a real person. :3
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It's actually about a disease that outright killed 80% of the Cassians who landed on Cassus (from wherever they come from - Earth?), and immediately contracted this horrible, horrible disease. Then, they found a girl who was immune to it, and used her blood to create a vaccine, and ended the threat. It's a celebration of life, and how close everything was to ending. ^^
 
The Jack character is a representation of the plague, and isn't a real person. :3
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There was a news post about it a while ago, you can find it on the main Wildstar page. They really do need to centralize things though. :P
 
Yep, that's Jack's costume. ^^ And we get it for Halloween!	
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It would be very unlikely that they'd miss Halloween.
 
Most mmos have a halloween, xmas, spring(easter) and summer seasonal events. I'm sure they'll have summer events next year, just missed out due to launch this time.	
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Good to hear!
 
At this point I don't much care for what it is, the game is growing a bit stale so I'm looking for some different things to keep me entertained....even if its' just for a few weeks....
 
I saw the costumes, i thot they were for drop 3 and not the event? Either way, i swear Carbine needs a better way to release info......there seems no reliable place to find WS info.
 
 
Welp as long as Halloween is still coming this year, all's good for now......until Thanksgiving!!!! Don't make me be thankful for NOTHING carbine!!?!?! at least a turkey of sorts.....And then Xmas! don't break my innocent in believing St. Nick is real and that he'll fill my stockings this year!!! then we have New year....then chinese new year... then <3 day....then....then............................................	
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Isnt there a halloween emote? Like zombie walk or acting, or maybe it does, or for the more cute, a simple *BO!* emote to scare someone ^^
 
...was this on topic enough?	
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			I know the wiki has the shade's Eve page up with a lil verse. I don't know if it will be like GW2 and WoW where the holiday is celebrated for a few weeks, but the wiki states it is celebrated on the 31 of Oct.	
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It's actually about a disease that outright killed 80% of the Cassians who landed on Cassus (from wherever they come from - Earth?), and immediately contracted this horrible, horrible disease. Then, they found a girl who was immune to it, and used her blood to create a vaccine, and ended the threat. It's a celebration of life, and how close everything was to ending. ^^
 
The Jack character is a representation of the plague, and isn't a real person. :3
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			There are so few children in this game designed exclusively for he hardcore of hardcore that I think any holiday content patch would be wasted. Now if they made a Halloween drop aimed at adults that was some kind of semi hardcore dungeon or something then it might be worthwhile for everyone,	
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			Light, if that were true, then the realms wouldn't be desolate until ~2:30. ^^	
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It involves Jack, some mad scientist back in the Commonwealth days that released this zombie-esque plague into the population at the time; its now a celebration called Shade's Eve. I am looking forward to it because of the costumes and the zone(s) it will add, either the one south of Whitevale or the one south of Illium (fingers crossed for the one south of Whitevale since the Eldan were concerned enough to block it off with 2 forcefield walls)
 
Oh, I do hope they release drop 3 soon so they have time to work on thta, and not just release it hoping it works a week before Halloween.
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There are so few children in this game designed exclusively for he hardcore of hardcore that I think any holiday content patch would be wasted. Now if they made a Halloween drop aimed at adults that was some kind of semi hardcore dungeon or something then it might be worthwhile for everyone,
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As long as it's worth doing I support holiday events.
 
I would hope at least there would be some costume options as rewards and potential experience and cash boosts ( the last two because well WoW offer those for a couple of their holiday events ( and is the industry leader and such sets expectations) ). ;)	
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There are so few children in this game designed exclusively for he hardcore of hardcore that I think any holiday content patch would be wasted. Now if they made a Halloween drop aimed at adults that was some kind of semi hardcore dungeon or something then it might be worthwhile for everyone,
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			If some stupid Halloween event steals more than 10 minutes of developer time away from the actual issues with this game, then they have their priorities completely wrong.	
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			If they structured their teams the way they did at Blizzard, there's a separate team doing holidays.  At any rate, most of the assets for the holiday are already in the game, so it's not as if people whose job it was to fix bugs decided to make Halloween costumes instead.	
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There are so few children in this game designed exclusively for he hardcore of hardcore that I think any holiday content patch would be wasted. Now if they made a Halloween drop aimed at adults that was some kind of semi hardcore dungeon or something then it might be worthwhile for everyone,
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			I would like a Halloween adventure or something to go along with the single player stuff.	
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I would like a Halloween adventure or something to go along with the single player stuff.
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			Ok, we have an announcement about when the next big drop will happen but what about the Halloween event? I remember hearing that the two were separate. I would really appreciate at least a rough time frame for that. I am itching for something new to do at this point. I have essentially been grinding plat for the future and that can be pretty mind numbing.	
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Hey Everyone,
 
We are aware there are some lingering questions that you have about the State of the Game post. We are currently gathering your questions/feedback and will be posting a follow up to help clarify as many questions as possible. There is currently not a day set for this follow up post, but look for it this week or next at the latest. 
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I agree with the guy that said "if some Halloween event were to steal even 10 minutes of Dev time away from actual game issues I will be pissed"
 
I agree with that statement 100%	
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			Thanks for the quick update. I think something like this is desperately needed to tide people over until drop 3.	
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I agree with the guy that said "if some Halloween event were to steal even 10 minutes of Dev time away from actual game issues I will be pissed"
 
I agree with that statement 100%
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			They have separate teams working on the holiday events, the event was in design well before the game launched. So they are going to finish and release it regardless of game issues. I also agree that this is an important drop given that we will be waiting until late november for drop 3.Based on whats coming in drop 3, im also concerned that i will consume that content in 1-3 days. Not becuase i play alot, but becuase it looks on par with blight haven, and that content only lasted me 1 afternoon, and I dont care much for doing rep grinds.They need to release content that will be re-playable and fun each time. IE: Vet Shiphands with crazy RNG Difficulty modifiers etc:Not a story line that i go through in 2 hours or a zone worth of quests that i consume in a afternoon. Which then turns into more mind numbing daily quests crap. God i hate the concept of dailies, working when your suppose to be having fun... 	
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Omg... Omg guys... This is a game with personal housing...
 
HOW HAS TRICK OR TREATING NOT BEEN BROUGHT UP YET!?	
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Omg... Omg guys... This is a game with personal housing...
 
HOW HAS TRICK OR TREATING NOT BEEN BROUGHT UP YET!?
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My post from the main State of the Game thread. 
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If some stupid Halloween event steals more than 10 minutes of developer time away from the actual issues with this game, then they have their priorities completely wrong.
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recently released footage
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cool. thanks for the link!
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Omg... Omg guys... This is a game with personal housing...
 
HOW HAS TRICK OR TREATING NOT BEEN BROUGHT UP YET!?
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If some stupid Halloween event steals more than 10 minutes of developer time away from the actual issues with this game, then they have their priorities completely wrong.
 
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You two need to lighten up and stop taking playing video games so seriously. 
 
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That's a crazy cool idea and it definitely has my vote. But it would probably be complicated to implement.  I say save it for next year all things considered. ;)
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			Halloween is dead. Christmas is dead.	
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Halloween is dead. Christmas is dead.
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			Very depressing. I was very much looking forward to the Halloween event. I still don't 100% understand their explanation. They've had the event ready to go for awhile now.	
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Very depressing. I was very much looking forward to the Halloween event. I still don't 100% understand their explanation. They've had the event ready to go for awhile now.
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MY CHILDHOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why carbine! y u steal me innocence! YYYYYYYYYY!!!!!
 
 
In all seriousness, I wish carbine would stop for a few moments to reconsider their plans and how they are structuring their resources for WS. I can understand if they have to skip Halloween due to there not being enough time with all the changes they are trying to go through at the moment, but did they already shoot down Christmas? I didn't read anything about that, so someone please confirm.
 
I understand the importance of the drops and the bug fixing, but holiday events have been a big(?) draw for many gamer to log in and do stuff. Even little stupid stuff draws a sizable crowd to log in and make the game busy. The game right now is pretty stale and as much as I like large drops that grant a good amount of content, they are few and far in between that are only getting further apart and carbine really needs to consider dedicating some resources to create small contents in between to keep players minds off of these matters. 
 
Carbine's will to get patches as bug free as possible is good and all, but I think their concept is wrong (and frankly, I believe it's more of a front to buy more time for patches, but that's another matter all together). Player are accepting of bugs, although we wish to live in an perfect world, we understand that's not possible and bugs will happen regardless of how much effort developers put in to prevent them. What many of us rage at are game breaking bugs that frankly many are kind of obvious if anyone had play the game. And the slow response to handle the bugs sometimes. For example (I play esper so i use esper as example), missing telegraph of our main heal (smooth). HOW CAN YOU MISS THAT! I don't main heal and even I notice day one of patch. Missing animation of our main stun.........At this point i'm fairly certain an entire zone can be missing from a patch and Carbine probably won't even notice until the forums blow up......
 
Big drops are great Carbine, but there won't be anyone left around to play them if you don't drop us some crumbs in between. Holiday events (no matter how stupid) boosters numbers and refreshes players from normal content. Even something as simple as "Log in once a day and get a boom box as treat!" can get people go log in just for the item, and once people log in, there is a high chance they'll play a bit of content. AND let's face it, boom boxes drop more crap than anything meaningful so I don't see a reason to be stingy about giving those out ........
 
 
tl;dr:
   It takes more than just "perfect" boulders to build a mountain, you need to fill in the cracks with some sand to keep things from slipping away.    And you need ghosts and Santa Clauses's help too! oh, and Leprechauns and easter bunny, and ..and ...I guess we can throw in some presidents as well?	
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