Where are the Holiday Events? Do you desire to see them in ESO?

Uneed2Stop

NO... ESO is no place for these events!

Honestly i think it would be ok but NO crazy special rewards or costumes that if you miss the holiday, you have to wait an entire year before your able to get it. That *** pissed me off on wow

NobleNerd

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

Uneed2Stop wrote: »

Honestly i think it would be ok but NO crazy special rewards or costumes that if you miss the holiday, you have to wait an entire year before your able to get it. That *** pissed me off on wow

It is funny how many of you vote no, but comment that they wouldn't mind having them in game.

Also the point of a limited holiday event is to have limited rewards that only happen during the events.

Ourorboros

NO... ESO is no place for these events!

Haven't you had enough of the over-commercialization of holidays? Every holiday now gets the Xmas treatment by all kinds of businesses. The meaning of holidays is getting lost in the money grab. Frankly, I want to be able to disappear into a world where I don't have to hear Xmas jingles before Halloween arrives. There are plenty of holiday outlets to express yourself outside of the game. If any holiday events were to be added to this game, I hope they would be extremely low-key.

NobleNerd

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

Ourorboros wrote: »

Haven't you had enough of the over-commercialization of holidays? Every holiday now gets the Xmas treatment by all kinds of businesses. The meaning of holidays is getting lost in the money grab. Frankly, I want to be able to disappear into a world where I don't have to hear Xmas jingles before Halloween arrives. There are plenty of holiday outlets to express yourself outside of the game. If any holiday events were to be added to this game, I hope they would be extremely low-key.

Good thing we are talking about lore friendly holidays and not the over commercialized ones in the real world.

NobleNerd

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

a.skelton92 wrote: »

The only game that EVER did this well was an old game named; Legend of Mir.

They did not have any silly costumes or novelty "toys" that people would run around with. It was just a simple event. On Xmas they made it so xmas trees popped up around the world and people had to go hunt for them and chop them down, once chopped down it had a chance of dropping a "gift".. On Halloween, a cave opened up that was full to the rim with monsters (like hundreds) and you got dropped into the middle of them and you had to fight your way through whilst the monsters had a chance to drop certain items. None of these items were novelty, they just had a higher chance to drop already in game, rarer items.

This was the only game that had these events in that I actually enjoyed. F knows what WoW was about when you had all those people running around with those horrifyingly ugly low res orc masks on..

If this game was to do anything i would like to see lore events but in this style.. None of this santa hat crap. I can imagine it now.. roaming hordes of naked nords dancing in the town center with stupid santa costumes on. As others have said, if this was ever to come to pass then i am off.

So this is yet another that chose no, but wouldn't really mind seeing them in the game if they are done right.

nimander99

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

Still surprised this isn't a thing...

robkrush

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

Ourorboros wrote: »

Haven't you had enough of the over-commercialization of holidays? Every holiday now gets the Xmas treatment by all kinds of businesses. The meaning of holidays is getting lost in the money grab. Frankly, I want to be able to disappear into a world where I don't have to hear Xmas jingles before Halloween arrives. There are plenty of holiday outlets to express yourself outside of the game. If any holiday events were to be added to this game, I hope they would be extremely low-key.

Honestly I haven't had enough. I have to be a grown up everyday and holidays bring a welcome change of pace and a chance to feel like a kid again even if just for a moment. Some may think that playing video games is "childish" or whatever but for me it is time to socialize with my friends just like a group of guys meeting at a bar and playing pool after work. I want tons of holiday stuff.

I want it to be cartoony and crazy fun. Then I want it to go away a few days later and we can all get back down to business. All the uptight lore mongers can surely put aside their grievances for just a few days a year.

NobleNerd

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

nimander99 wrote: »

Still surprised this isn't a thing...

With almost 2 years in release it does surprise me that at least a few lore friendly holiday events haven't come into the game, but they have spent their time fixing a lot of stuff that should have never made to release... so a bit of back tracking to get the game to a good place.

mgharris

Maybe for Columbus day an imperial NPC can run around and kill Argonians and claim their lands.

robkrush

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

mgharris wrote: »

Maybe for Columbus day an imperial NPC can run around and kill Argonians and claim their lands.

That imperial might have to if the savage Argonians attack his innocent pioneer brethren, abuse his women, and abduct his children.

Cadbury

NO... ESO is no place for these events!

mgharris wrote: »

Maybe for Columbus day an imperial NPC can run around and kill Argonians and claim their lands.

#ArgonianLivesMatter

NobleNerd

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

As funny as that is, let's keep it realistic too. Maybe offer some lore oriented options as "food for thought".

This game is full of culture, history and lore that have so many holidays written into the stories it should be a no brainer to have them added in the game for celebration and a break form the grind.

Akrasjel

NO... ESO is no place for these events!

RL holidays are not lore friendly.

Having some from the lore not relater to the IRL ones is ok.

nimander99

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

Cadbury wrote: »

mgharris wrote: »

Maybe for Columbus day an imperial NPC can run around and kill Argonians and claim their lands.

#ArgonianLivesMatter

#NotReally

FireCowCommando

NO... ESO is no place for these events!

No until the fix the most basic things like CC immunity or other long standing combat mechanics that detract from the whole game.

I dont want them to get the idea that graphics are more important than game mechanics and hire the wrong guy for the job.

NobleNerd

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

Akrasjel wrote: »

RL holidays are not lore friendly.

Having some from the lore not relater to the IRL ones is ok.

Yet another one that failed reading comprehension 101. I said nothing about using real life holidays in the game. I did say that lore friendly holiday events would be wonderful in the game.

nimander99

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!....you people who want to screw over the legitimacy of ES lore I have 1 question, what is wrong with you?

If I see Santa Claus in Tamriel he will meet the sharp end of someone's sword if you catch my meaning....now as for actual Tamrielic dates mentioned in such games a Daggerfall that is another story.

Here this may help you: http://uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Calendar

And anyone else saying holidays have no place in ESO...

robkrush

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

I would pay crowns for this. I'll never pay crowns for a glass motif.

Cadbury

NO... ESO is no place for these events!

robkrush wrote: »

This.

Aww yeah. I can feel the holiday spirit rising.

robkrush

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

Cadbury wrote: »

robkrush wrote: »

This.

Aww yeah. I can feel the holiday spirit rising.

Yes! Christmas spirit even a athiest can respect.

FuriousFridge

Completely nuetral... I don't care either way.

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!....you people who want to screw over the legitimacy of ES lore I have 1 question, what is wrong with you?

If I see Santa Claus in Tamriel he will meet the sharp end of someone's sword if you catch my meaning....now as for actual Tamrielic dates mentioned in such games a Daggerfall that is another story.

Please do it, if it will make people like you upset because it disturbed the lore or your immersion then I support the holiday events.

purple-magicb16_ESO

NO... ESO is no place for these events!

Not really no. But it would be good to recognize some significant time periods (ie of power) that yeild consequence in eso. But I don't care to have a bunch of drunken Nords running around wishing me a "happy drink mead until you puke" day.

robkrush

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

Check out what other MMOs are doing this year for Halloween.

DC Universe Online: The Witching Hour – now until November 2: Klarion has returned to Gotham City. All previous years’ activities and rewards are back, including the Midnight Masquerade. You can access it under your Events tab in the On-Duty menu. New base items, feats, a Boo trinket, pet and a redecorated Vault are also in the mix. There’s also a Halloween sale going on at the moment.

Dragon’s Prophet: The Styx Festival – now through November 6: The Styx festival contains six achievements to unlock and rewards such as a companion, new costumes, transformation potions, and new items in the marketplace. If you head over to the forums, you can have a look at some of the drops as well as a guide to the event posted by the community manager.

Final Fantasy 14: All Saints Wake – October 20 – November 3: The Continental Circus is on tour and it is hosting a costume parade on the Steps of Nald. Volunteers will be “transmogrified into fantastic forms matching those of the performers,” and the parade will be led by a member of the troupe dressed as an ogre pumpkinhead, the legendary Great Gourd. Godriquelain is suspicious over the Continental Circus’s motives, so you will need to speak with him outside Mih Khetto’s Amphitheatre. Players who complete all of the quests during the event will be handed two new types of face paint.

Guild Wars 2: Blood and Madness – started October 21: The annual Blood and Madness, Halloween festival returns for two weeks which means the realms of the Mad King is back, and players will be facing off with the son of King Oswald Thorn a.k.a the Bloody Prince Edrick. Players will gather in Lion’s Arch to participate in “tricks, treats and terrible jokes,” and they will also venture to the northwest corner of the Black Citadel for two story instances. The entire list of patch notes with more information on the event can be found here.

EverQuest & EverQuest 2: Nights of the Dead – now through November 5, November 3 (respectively): In EQ1, various Nights of the Dead themed Helms will be dropping and seasonal items such as a hat, robes and other items will land on the marketplace. Most of the events are the same as previous years. The blog post is rather extensive and you can have look at it here. In EQ2, several new features including a Candy Crusher achievement and a new annual quest “A Dream By Any Other Name” have been added ro the festivities. New holiday merchants will be selling house items, dungeon spawners, petamorph wands, and appearance weapons. Bounding Orc Skeleton and Shadowy Lich costumes are also available.

PlanetSide 2: Nanite of the Living Dead – now through the end of the month: Players will need to head to Auraxis to staunch the tide of space pumpkins shot up with growth hormones. Blow the things to bits and bring the seeds to a designated SPS-drop off zone to claim a reward. These seeds can be used to purchase new season masks – which can only be equipped while the event is going on, unfortunately. These masks include: three Inferno Skull types, other skulls, an Ichabod Crown, Frankenstein Facepaint and more.

Lord of the Rings Online: Harvestmath – October 21 – November 2: Once again, players will be venturing into Bilbo’s demented basement maze in order to open treasure chests (I want that red skeleton horse drop damn it!), bring lost hobbits to safety and chastise a few of them for dressing up and scaring folks. As usual, players will be gathering tokens for completing quests which can be used to purchase cloaks, maps, masks and the Spooky Steed of the Bat.

World of Warcraft: Hallow’s End – now through November 1: In this event, players will strive to defeat the Headless Horseman, visit inns and cities for items such as masks and costumes, and to eat candy. Currency such as Tricky Treats can be used to purchase candy and other rewards which are collected them by completing quests, and opening pumpkins which are located in various inns throughout the game world.

Neverwinter: Call to Arms Pit Fight – ended October 20 – Well, hopefully you played and enjoyed killing werewolves and were able to acquire Medallions of Battle and purchase the Shadow Wolf Mount. There was able the option to purchase a purple-quality Shadow Wolf Mount from the Zen Market which could be unlocked for all player characters. There’s also Masquerade of Liars event slated for October 30 -November 3 according to the game wiki, and kindly pointed out to me by tomas leiva in the comments. Arc Games has yet to post any information on the event in its news section, so you may want to keep an eye on the website.

Star Wars: The Old Republic: Rakghoul Event – starts October 28: According to Swtor_Miner a Rakghoul event is in the works and will reportedly go live next week. An event on Voss looks to be coinciding with it, according to some timestamps hidden in the client files. I’ll keep an eye on things for you.

RIFT: Autumn Harvest – tentatively scheduled for early November: Since the event doesn’t start until next month, we’re going to assume for now Autumn Harvest 2014 will be similar to last year’s event. In 2013, players were graced with The Fae dispersing loot, artifacts, and other goodies which they “borrowed” from Telara. Portals acorss the game world will port players to the the Realm where they can find Halloween-themed rifts with pumpkins. There’s also the Monster Mash Black Garden Warfront which offers boosts to various character attributes and spectral mounts will be available.

Star Trek Online: Hearts and Minds – tentatively slated for October 30 – November 1: These events take place on every Friday the 13th and on Halloween, during which players will be investigating the Donatu Prime Lunar Research Station. Apparently there’s some shady research being performed by the Vulcan Doctor Sibak.

Source:
https://www.vg247.com/2014/10/22/its-that-time-of-year-again-heres-your-mmo-halloween-event-round-up/

PainfulFAFA

NO... ESO is no place for these events!

Holiday events....

These guys can barely make a patch and balance classes lol

cmorning

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

I think Holiday events or even weekend events or how about a spontaneous event would be great. Double XP weekend....Increase loot drop weekend...Double Loot Drop dungeon weekend...

How about a weekend, kill 1 Million Undead enemies as a gaming community and get a special chest when the community reaches this 1 million kill total.

I mean the possibilities are endless if the Developers really wanted to come up with something cool, different and special in regards to loot drops or special chests or whatever.

Other games have these special little contests and such. Is there really a bad or negative reason as to why this can't happen?

robkrush

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

cmorning wrote: »

I think Holiday events or even weekend events or how about a spontaneous event would be great. Double XP weekend....Increase loot drop weekend...Double Loot Drop dungeon weekend...

How about a weekend, kill 1 Million Undead enemies as a gaming community and get a special chest when the community reaches this 1 million kill total.

I mean the possibilities are endless if the Developers really wanted to come up with something cool, different and special in regards to loot drops or special chests or whatever.

Other games have these special little contests and such. Is there really a bad or negative reason as to why this can't happen?

I've read everyone of the "no" explanations and the vast majority just wants no real life holidays. And bunches of them threatened to leave if the real life holidays came out, of course they convientently overlooked the pumpkin headed costume for Halloween. LOL. The devs will do what they want to I guess and we all will deal with it one way or the other. Just seems like it'd be a lot funner to have some playful stuff thrown in there every once and a while.

RedTalon

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

Are those new cosutmes out yet, need to roll around the pvp area in them dresses always get you chased after sure these will to, already planning on getitng one costume and a skeleton gear or cat we shall see!

Ghrimn

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

@robkrush
ESO is not those MMO's, it has no need for those silly events that most people don't even celebrate. You have to think that TES has been around for 21 years. 21 year of lore, and what you're saying is: "F that, I want my pumpkin head, and my Santa costume!" If you don't care about Lore, what does it cost you to not have real life holidays? TES already has its own holidays, let's not ruin it with real life ones. If the events are lore-friendly then everyone wins.

We've been complaining about the pumpkin and scarecrow ever since they were datamined. Believe me, they haven't been overlooked. Playful doesn't need to break the Lore, we can all have the same amount of fun if they stay true to Elder Scrolls Lore. You'll be happy because you get your holiday events and your funny little items, and we'll be happy because none of the lore was broken.

Why not celebrate Witches Festival on Frost Fall (October) 13th, and have Wizard costumes, undead pets/mounts, waves of horrible monsters/undead for us to fight with, instead of having a good for nothing pumpkin costume for a festival (Halloween) that doesn't even exist in TES?

mklundub17_ESO

NO... ESO is no place for these events!

My reason isn't that I dislike holiday events - it's that any update, regardless of how small, ZOS seems to royally screw up and introduce new bugs each and every time.

robkrush

Yes... I love Holiday events. Make them lore friendly.

Ghrimn wrote: »

@robkrush
ESO is not those MMO's, it has no need for those silly events that most people don't even celebrate. You have to think that TES has been around for 21 years. 21 year of lore, and what you're saying is: "F that, I want my pumpkin head, and my Santa costume!" If you don't care about Lore, what does it cost you to not have real life holidays? TES already has its own holidays, let's not ruin it with real life ones. If the events are lore-friendly then everyone wins.

We've been complaining about the pumpkin and scarecrow ever since they were datamined. Believe me, they haven't been overlooked. Playful doesn't need to break the Lore, we can all have the same amount of fun if they stay true to Elder Scrolls Lore. You'll be happy because you get your holiday events and your funny little items, and we'll be happy because none of the lore was broken.

I won't buy an item from the crown store to celebrate a holiday in ESO I've never heard of. If they want to make more money of me, and anyone like me, then they're gonna have to do real life holidays.

Or, they can treat this game like other buy-to-play games and make money on DLC then throw in little extras just to keep the fanbase interested.

You may not like that, but it is the honest to God truth. I understand there is a whole bunch of guys that think like you. I'm not saying my opinion matters more than yours. I truly respect your opinion but the final decision is in the hands of devs. I'm just saying if they want my money they have to put out stuff I want to buy. Seriously.