Surely three weeks is plenty of time for six ski runs, a couple of tours for candy collection, and a few runs of the father time missions?
And isn't the 'restricted period' meant to encourage gameplay? You see that the event goes live, pop onto the server, and you'll find hundreds of other players all enjoying the festivities. If it's a longer period of time, those numbers are going to be thinned out, and it won't be as impressive. Events are there to assemble the masses and bring people back to the game. There always need to be longer periods of 'normality' for general gameplay to continue - these events are just bonuses for those that continue to play, and reasons to return / update for those that don't play much.
Also, if you stretch out the period of the winter event, it'll eventually run head-first into the valentine's one, and start just after halloween ends! There needs to be some time between each event for 'normality'!
I think 3 weeks is plenty of time - even for someone that's never logged on to an Xmas event before this year.
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After 1 week you will find it hard to see people on the ski slope. Nobody is going to save new year and those presents are lie forgotten. 3 weeks is more then enough.
the promblem not the length but stuff to do.....i know the reason why it likely to be 3 weeks as some people can only play certains days or amount of time.
for me i already done everything for xmas events...i will going skiing as it fun and i miss it for 11 months of a year (im not going to get techinal on how long i am missing the slopes) 
The Halloween even was too long. The Christmas one is, at least, ignorable if you are no longer interested. I'm spreading the load a bit, simply because there is three weeks to do things in.
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I've been playing for Halloween and Winter Events 2008, and it seems that more and more things are being added each year for players to do during these times.
Shouldn't the event durations be lengthened to reflect the fact that there's more to do?
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Oh god please no, the events are dull after a few days i think a week is plenty of time tbh
if it was a week, even more people would log on, and there would be much more of a hype about it
If it was a week the average player would have no chance of collecting enough Cains to get things like the winters gift IO set especially if they also wanted to get some of the costume parts.
A week is massively unlikely and, tbh, as long as we don't get morons popping Winter Lords at GG again, the Winter event can be as long as it likes. It's mostly unobtrusive and can be largely avoided if you don't got to the Chalet.
Rikti weeks and the Halloween events... *shudders*
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At the very least, there should be more varied ways to get candy canes. I'm farming that one fricken mission over and over...
... and over and over...
...and don't suggest clicking boxes, as I'm not lucky enough to get canes at a quicker rate than by doing the mission. 
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At the very least, there should be more varied ways to get candy canes.
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I couldn't agree more: seeing as each year sees more "st00f" added to that contemptible Elf's list, the ways to get canes should be increased both in nature and diversity: running the same drool inducing mission or going around zones like mindless zombies clicking on glowing boxes just doesn't cut it any more.
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I've been playing for Halloween and Winter Events 2008, and it seems that more and more things are being added each year for players to do during these times.
Shouldn't the event durations be lengthened to reflect the fact that there's more to do?
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