Winter Event Extended Until January 12th 2010
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Posted on: 2009-12-23 16:18 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
Ah; I thought you might do that. Probably for the best; and at least it's not like the Halloween event with the constant darkness. That starts to grate after a while.
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Originally Posted by Obscure Blade
Ah; I thought you might do that. Probably for the best; and at least it's not like the Halloween event with the constant darkness. That starts to grate after a while.
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That's great news. More time to obtain costume pieces I want on my toons.
So are the free server transfers extended as well? >.>
I keep running out right around 3-4 hours after they refresh!
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Hi, I know it says "All Servers", but i was just wondering if this is also for UK servers?
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Personally, I've had enough snowballs for one year. >_>
On a side note, somebody should probably update the /gmotd in-game. We have to keep directing people to this thread just to prove the event is not over tomorrow. lol
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That was always going to run until the 31 January: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=202527
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Originally Posted by Siolfir
So are the free server transfers extended as well? >.>
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"It's not the Lost's fault, but they're gonna soothe your savage beast with their faces." Sometimes you wonder what the game designers were thinking...
the Winter Lord was ignored on Talos Island - Freedom server for about 6 straight hours yesterday
Extending these events doesn't make the charm of them last longer, it just tires out your player base
just sayin'...
There is no such thing as an "innocent bystander"
Getting anyone to participate in these anymore has about a snowball's chance in he.. of happening.
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I've spent much time in Atlas Park on Virtue running the Winter Event. Depends on the time of day, but the interest is still there.
Another week of easy merits? Yes please.
I still wish there was a way to access the Winter stuff year round. Like maybe running a Task Force that opens the Ski Chalet for a certain period of time. Or completing a series of missions from a contact that gives you a temporary pass.
The BNY missions should be locked until the event is officially started though.
But I digress...
Anyways, thanks for the extra time, etc etc etc. <3
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I think they need to open a summer version of the Chalet. It is too nice a place to keep locked up most of the year. They could have fireworks there for July 4th although I know it wouldn't necessarily be of relavance to the non-USA players. |
Originally Posted by SolarSentai
I've spent much time in Atlas Park on Virtue running the Winter Event. Depends on the time of day, but the interest is still there.
Another week of easy merits? Yes please. I still wish there was a way to access the Winter stuff year round. Like maybe running a Task Force that opens the Ski Chalet for a certain period of time. Or completing a series of missions from a contact that gives you a temporary pass. The BNY missions should be locked until the event is officially started though. But I digress... Anyways, thanks for the extra time, etc etc etc. <3 |
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Originally Posted by Sovereign42
Personally, I've had enough snowballs for one year. >_>
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
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They could always open it for a week around Jun 21 for the Southern Hemisphere's Winter Solstice.
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Originally Posted by Riverdusk
I think they need to open a summer version of the Chalet. It is too nice a place to keep locked up most of the year. They could have fireworks there for July 4th although I know it wouldn't necessarily be of relavance to the non-USA players.
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Originally Posted by Niviene
Greetings Players,
Due to server stability issues this past weekend on Virtue, Justice and Guardian we will be extending the Winter Event until January 12th 2010 for all servers. Thank you for your continued support! |
While it's nice and all to extend this, you should try updating the front page of the website, which still specifies the winter event ends on the 5th. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has come to realize they bought certain recipes earlier than they had to.
As a company policy, you can't post announcements like this exclusively to the forums and not expect to annoy people.
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And change the GMOTD.
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Originally Posted by Texarkana
As a company policy, you can't post announcements like this exclusively to the forums and not expect to annoy people.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
And change the GMOTD.
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Originally Posted by Roderick
Keep in mind that Niviene is a Forums Moderator/Administrator; not NCSoft's Webmaster, nor a Dev with access to the game databse. As such, the most she can do is send a suggestion to the right people. Harassing her to fix it is roughly the same as freaking out because they added a Walk power instead of fixing {insert non-animation related bug here}.
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Updating the GMOTD is part of Production, to which community reps are our conduit of communication. And, BTW, the board mods *do* have access to the GMOTD.
I don't think anyone is specifically picking on Nivienne, but it's Production/Community Rep's fault that this info was only given in the forums and not the web site and GMOTD. In fact, I'm sure they'd agree they dropped the ball on this.
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Some of you people are just *******. Seriously.. stop telling other people how to do their jobs. You can do better? Knuckle up and do it. Otherwise just nod, say thank you and move the hell on.
mostly avoided winter event this december. reason 1 was i had canes and wasnt interested. reason 2 was seem like same old but with 1 new event (present). reason 3 had betetr things to do
Just for a thought
how about a new winter event next year? chalet and old stuff can possibly stay for people who didnt complete them 4 years in a row
but things i like to see
1 a jack frost gm and/or a gingerbread man/woman gm
2 upping the inf gained from presents to at least 500,000
3 more pets ( how about a reindeer with glowing nose)
4 change baby new year to something else...maybe santas workshop and the toys have gone nuts save elf from them?
just thoughts if you enjoyed the winter event more power to you but after 4 years its dullsville even with new raid event,....
as Ood Sigma said....We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending. But the story never ends.
Cien, not saying I disagree that this event was a little stale coming out of the gate, but they told us a few months ago not to expect anything big. Both this winter event and the Halloween event were put together by a very few developers who managed to squeeze out a little bit of spare time in between their Going Rogue responsibilities.
I don't know who worked on the winter event, but I know the Halloween event was almost completely designed by War Witch (a.k.a. the zone map designer) with a small amount of help from the art department to create the banners and a little bit of borrowed programming time. They simply didn't have time to create new enemy creatures, even though I'm sure they wish they could have.
As for the new winter raid, I actually really like it, but it's hard to get a large enough group of people together to complete it in the very limited timespan we're given. I have yet to complete it on my badging Villain, and every time I try I get fewer and fewer volunteers. 
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
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Im not trying to put pressure on devs, i understand overworked..but event was more than a little stale coming out of the gate, I wasnt expect anything big. I appreciate that both this winter event and the Halloween event were put together by a very few developers who managed to squeeze out a little bit of spare time in between their Going Rogue responsibilities.Putting out a new expansion is no small feat im glad they spared soem time for us.
War Witch and the art department deserve kudos for the banner event... its amazing what a little bit of borrowed programming time did. I sure wish they could have time for new creatures.
the new winter raid, I think was hard to get a large enough group of people together to complete is a sign of the fatigue. they have a year to make a new winter halloween spring event 6 months after gr comes out i hope they use time wisely...
as Ood Sigma said....We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending. But the story never ends.
FYI: The main website now says it runs to the 12th. (The GMOTD still says the 5th.)
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Agreed. I logged in my 2nd ever toon Ker'aal, who is a 9ft Blue Werewolf and got consequently pelted with snowballs for a good half hour! Poor widdle guy, he's afraid to come out until Spring now!
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Originally Posted by Sovereign42
Personally, I've had enough snowballs for one year. >_>
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Greetings Players,
Due to server stability issues this past weekend on Virtue, Justice and Guardian we will be extending the Winter Event until January 12th 2010 for all servers.
Thank you for your continued support!