Discussion: The 2010 Winter Event is nearly upon us!
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Posted on: 2010-12-09 13:21 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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This. Absolutely. The chalet is enough alone for me to vote this event as long as possible.
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Originally Posted by DJ_Shecky
I'm going to be very straight forward about this: The Event Is Starting Too Late This Year!
I'm sorry but being a DJ for a CoH Community Radio Station, we have had Holiday events going on for the last couple of weeks already. Yearly Events that used to be held in the Chalet. Now outside of the year that the Winter Event lasted for 2 months, usually its gone for about 6 weeks. Considering that it has a zone that is only available for this event, the amount of new players/characters fro Going rogue that do not have the event badges, and the fact that it is over most schools winter breaks, where people go on vacation, I really think the devs messed this up. It should have started earlier. Yes there was a little problem due to I19 having to be pushed back by 2 weeks, but last week on Thursday, they did a test of it on the test server or the beta server (can't remember which) which I heard went well. They should have released it this week, or this Tuesday at the latest. I know I will enjoy the event, and the chance to be in the chalet again, I just really wish the devs had not messed up on time frames, so SGs, Radio Stations, and others could spread out Chalet events that they run instead of cramming it all into a 2 week time frame. </rant> |
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I think sometime during the summer they should give us a two week long winter event and claim the Winter Lord is taking away summer.
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17th isn't alot of time for people with limited play time to gather candy cane shards and do the quests. Shouldn't this have started like first week into december?|
Originally Posted by Avatea
The 2010 Winter Event is nearly upon us and will bring new presents and dangers to Paragon City, the Rogue Isles and Praetoria. You will be able to stop Lady Winter's plot to freeze the world, visit the Ski Chalet and race to win prizes. Unlock Snow Flake Emotes, Winter-themed costume pieces and earn special badges.
Starts: 9:00 a.m. PDT - 12:00 p.m. EDT - 5:00 p.m. GMT - 18:00 Central European Time, Friday, December 17, 2010 Ends: 11:59 p.m. PDT - 2:59 a.m. EDT - 7:59 a.m. GMT - 8:59 Central European Time, Sunday, January 2, 2011 We'll announce more details on the 2010 Winter Event next week so keep your eyes peeled! |
Event will be fun even if it is running short time wise.
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This is way short, IMHO.
So we had the Halloween event, which was followed by constant Rikti invasions. Those wouldn't be so bad, but we can get all that any time of the year. But the ski chalet? We get access to that once per year.
Now we find out that the Winter Event is only two weeks long? Have the Devs suddenly turned green and grown green body hair and become Grinches?
The Winter Event is the one thing I really look forward to as the majority of the missions and whatnot take place in a different area, except for Lord Winter and it's not all that bad. So please Devs, consider extending the Winter Event an extra week or two and next year, start it sooner.
Thanks!
Did I mention that I would REALLY like free server transfers during the event?
I'm going to have to chime in with most everyone else here; seems too short of an event this year.
I'm sure the Devs and crew meant well, and went off of a few suggestions from the last couple years to chop it down to 2 weeks. Those who liked the 3+ weeks of Winter Event time, however, weren't the vocal majority because they were enjoying playing instead of posting and complaining.
The tables are now turned.
As was mentioned earlier, however, we have a lot of new players from Going Rogue, and a good chance that the new "Complete Collection" game box will be a present under some folk's Christmas Tree this year, with them only able to enjoy the Winter Event for less than 8 days.
My suggestion: I'd recommend having the Winter Event active for at least 3 weeks.
Family obligations, travel, shopping, snow shoveling, school, work, friends, etc, will take up so much time this holiday period; a few extra days for this event wouldn't hurt.
Following this event's trend though, I'm sure an excuse will require the Devs and crew to 'extend' the Winter Event' by an extra week though. *crosses fingers*
I'll throw in my vote for extending another week or so; much of the event occurs over a period when I won't be able to play.
Cant wait, winter event is my favourite! Really wish it were longer, this year seems awfully short.
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Let's have a Winter Event in July!
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Originally Posted by newchemicals
I think sometime during the summer they should give us a two week long winter event and claim the Winter Lord is taking away summer.
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Maybe it's so short because they are going to release i20 on January 4th.
Yeah, I hope they extend it another week too.
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We can hope, but I won't be holding my breath for that to happen. Still, would be nice though.
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Originally Posted by mousedroid
Maybe it's so short because they are going to release i20 on January 4th.
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Originally Posted by mousedroid
Maybe it's so short because they are going to release i20 on January 4th.
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It ain't gonna happen. I doubt anyone but a skeleton crew is going to be in the office for the next three weeks. Certainly not enough staff to run a full beta--the previous super-duper closed i20 beta was limited to a scant few things, centered around the new Behavioral Adjustment Facility raid they talked briefly about at the last Meet & Greet.
It didn't contain everything that's scheduled to go in i20... at least that's my understanding. The only players who know for sure signed a piece of paper saying that NCSoft can vaporize them from their deadly space satellite if they so much as blink any unreleased info in Morse Code.
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I'll chime in with the "Extend it a week crowd!"
With the commute to my new job, I get an hour or two of playtime a night, plus maybe 8 hours on the weekend. I still have alts from previous years that'd I like to badge up and get candy canes for. This is a pretty thin timeline for even the ones I'm willing to short list for this.
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It will be my first chrismas event, i wanna see it go longer!!
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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
Your sheer optimism is the only thing keeping my palm from colliding with my forehead right now.
It ain't gonna happen. I doubt anyone but a skeleton crew is going to be in the office for the next three weeks. Certainly not enough staff to run a full beta--the previous super-duper closed i20 beta was limited to a scant few things, centered around the new Behavioral Adjustment Facility raid they talked briefly about at the last Meet & Greet. It didn't contain everything that's scheduled to go in i20... at least that's my understanding. The only players who know for sure signed a piece of paper saying that NCSoft can vaporize them from their deadly space satellite if they so much as blink any unreleased info in Morse Code. |
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I love the xmas events. Baby new year was one of may favorites I hope this one ends up just as fun.
The link on tge news page to the 'overview' just goes to the video. Is there a text overview anywhere? I'm on my iPhone so no video till i get home.
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The video link goes to the text overview |
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The link on tge news page to the 'overview' just goes to the video. Is there a text overview anywhere? I'm on my iPhone so no video till i get home.
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I'd also like to chime in for extending it. Even with having more time, life has a way of hammering at people, especially in the week before christmas and the time immediately after. Another week would be good!
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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
Your sheer optimism is the only thing keeping my palm from colliding with my forehead right now.
It ain't gonna happen. I doubt anyone but a skeleton crew is going to be in the office for the next three weeks. Certainly not enough staff to run a full beta--the previous super-duper closed i20 beta was limited to a scant few things, centered around the new Behavioral Adjustment Facility raid they talked briefly about at the last Meet & Greet. It didn't contain everything that's scheduled to go in i20... at least that's my understanding. The only players who know for sure signed a piece of paper saying that NCSoft can vaporize them from their deadly space satellite if they so much as blink any unreleased info in Morse Code. |
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Time to break out the Hamster's skiing build again, hehe. Now just have to hope that my internet connection can handle the slopes....
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I'd like to show my support for an extra week. Those skiing medals are no easy feet! I mean feat.
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Please, please, please make it last till January 7th.
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