Any Christmas Content?

BarbarianRogue

I'm hoping for some Christmas Content. Like an epic reindeer mount! (No glowing nose) and snowballs! I liked those in WoW.

Anyone else have game content holiday hopes or maybe you've heard rumors of any Holliday content?

Any

reguvin

Christmas Bundle Pack 6000 Crowns ... soon.

DMBCML

I was hoping for some Christmas content too. Years ago I played a Korean MMO and they put a huge Christmas tree in the center of the capitol city, complete with presents and candy canes. You could actually take the candy canes off the tree and get a speed buff.

phairdon

You'll get answers about the content being lore breaking. No holiday events in this game. Gw2 also does them. Wintersday event just started today.

BarbarianRogue

They could come up with something to make it wedge in. Beside it just has to be a holiday, it doesn't have to be a real one. And I don't see a rideable reindeer being lore breaking.
What a bummer. . .

BeardLumber

nimander99

You buy stuff in the Crown Store, that's what holiday content is in this game thus far... I reeeeeeeealy hope that changes Soon(TM)

found1779

Halloween was celebrated with the pumpkin and scarecrow polymorph I don't know why Christmas isn't being celebrated in the same way but hey they are bringing back some good items this month like the black panther so im happy finally get a chance to buy it since it was never available for console players

Ravalox

found1779 wrote: »

Halloween was celebrated with the pumpkin and scarecrow polymorph I don't know why Christmas isn't being celebrated in the same way but hey they are bringing back some good items this month like the black panther so im happy finally get a chance to buy it since it was never available for console players

Halloween wasn't celebrated in ESO. The Witches Festival was. Here are some excerpts from the ElderScrolls Holiday Calendar:

Annual Events during Frostfall
5th of Frostfall: Dirij Tereur celebrated in the Alik'r Desert.
13th of Frostfall: Witches' Festival celebrated in Tamriel. It is the day when the forces of Sorcery and Religion clash.
23rd of Frostfall: Broken Diamonds celebrated in Tamriel. The day on which, in 3E 121 when Kintyra II was killed in Glenpoint (referenced in Daggerfall).
30th of Frostfall: Emperor's Birthday celebrated


Evening Star
Evening Star is the final month of the 12 Months in the Elder Scrolls universe. It is considered to be a Winter month (by our definition). It is homologous to December. (June in the Southern Hemisphere.)
Annual Events during Evening Star:Edit
15th of Evening Star: North Wind's Prayer is celebrated.
18th of Evening Star: Baranth Do is celebrated (Redguard festival). It is a celebration of the new year.
20th of Evening Star: The Invocation of Molag Bal.
24th of Evening Star: Chil'a is celebrated. (Redguard festival). It is a celebration of the new year.
25th of Evening Star: New Life Festival is celebrated. The New Life Festival comes a few days early in Wayrest. Originally a holiday for a long forgotten god of debauchery, it has become a time of gift giving, parties, and parading.
31st of Evening Star: Old Life Festival is celebrated.

Source link: elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Calendar

The lore breaking argument set aside, ZOS could certainly host some in game events to celebrate the more important ES holidays (which happen to coincide with RL Holidays).

PainfulFAFA

Makkir

Walrus mount FTW

Krainor1974

They did Black Friday sales might be similar sale next weekend

Shardaxx

I hope Santa sends me some v16 glyphs.

BarbarianRogue

Ravalox wrote: »

found1779 wrote: »

Halloween was celebrated with the pumpkin and scarecrow polymorph I don't know why Christmas isn't being celebrated in the same way but hey they are bringing back some good items this month like the black panther so im happy finally get a chance to buy it since it was never available for console players

Halloween wasn't celebrated in ESO. The Witches Festival was. Here are some excerpts from the ElderScrolls Holiday Calendar:

Annual Events during Frostfall
5th of Frostfall: Dirij Tereur celebrated in the Alik'r Desert.
13th of Frostfall: Witches' Festival celebrated in Tamriel. It is the day when the forces of Sorcery and Religion clash.
23rd of Frostfall: Broken Diamonds celebrated in Tamriel. The day on which, in 3E 121 when Kintyra II was killed in Glenpoint (referenced in Daggerfall).
30th of Frostfall: Emperor's Birthday celebrated


Evening Star
Evening Star is the final month of the 12 Months in the Elder Scrolls universe. It is considered to be a Winter month (by our definition). It is homologous to December. (June in the Southern Hemisphere.)
Annual Events during Evening Star:Edit
15th of Evening Star: North Wind's Prayer is celebrated.
18th of Evening Star: Baranth Do is celebrated (Redguard festival). It is a celebration of the new year.
20th of Evening Star: The Invocation of Molag Bal.
24th of Evening Star: Chil'a is celebrated. (Redguard festival). It is a celebration of the new year.
25th of Evening Star: New Life Festival is celebrated. The New Life Festival comes a few days early in Wayrest. Originally a holiday for a long forgotten god of debauchery, it has become a time of gift giving, parties, and parading.
31st of Evening Star: Old Life Festival is celebrated.

Source link: elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Calendar

The lore breaking argument set aside, ZOS could certainly host some in game events to celebrate the more important ES holidays (which happen to coincide with RL Holidays).

Exactly. All we ask for is a lore friendly equivalent. That isn't so hard to come up with. And I'll say it again. A reindeer mount! (No stupid red nose)

SirDopey

This mount please!!!!! Thank yoooouuuuuu

TiberX

Orc Santa pls

failkiwib16_ESO

I want Santa from Zenimax, so I can ask him to create some dragons in ESO and also dragon mounts cuz dragons cool n stuff!!

Oh and give Sorcs some shield and dps buffs, the poor squishy glasscannons are suffering like Mandela in pvp.

MrDerrikk

SirDopey wrote: »

This mount please!!!!! Thank yoooouuuuuu

I want the costume he's wearing.

Artemisshrikes

nothing is lore breaking they created the lore and they can continue creating lore so its not lore breaking

Acrolas

I kind of wish they would do New Life celebrations randomly in major cities and have daedra crash the party. Like, you notice a group of new NPCs laughing and dancing and then a Titan just crashes down out of nowhere and scares them away. Guards get frozen in place so you have to rally your friends and take it down.

It's stuff like that makes sure you still log in during a holiday. Keeps the calendar.
Keeps things interesting.
Adds flavor to a world that has started to feel a little too familiar.

MrDerrikk

Random multi-zone roaming world bosses that are much more difficult than the Orsinium ones. If you help take them down then you get a special costume reward that is also available (with slightly different graphics) on the Crown Store for a hefty price.

Basically for the game to go insane during the Christmas period, like all those stories of when other MMO's have died off and gone out with a bang.

Catblade

My f2p casino mmo has Christmas content. They have text chat on console too. Puts ESO to shame lol

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Christmas stuff in Tamriel would be too tacky. (And yes, lore breaking. ) I was thinking that since Molag Bal's summoning day is around RL Christmas, all the Dolmens should spawn nothing but named bosses for that week...that would fit in neatly with the atmosphere.

MrDerrikk

Catblade wrote: »

My f2p casino mmo has Christmas content. They have text chat on console too. Puts ESO to shame lol

Having Christmas content isn't the sign of a good MMO, but having RL holiday content that actually is themed and used correctly for the games story so as not to break immersion is a sign of a good one.

Forestd16b14_ESO

This sums up wanting any IRL holiday in TES.

ChuckyPayne

Holiday is coming you have time to play. It would be some "things" to feel holiday in the game too, and of course no lorebreaking.

Daily quests during holidays. Daily holiday dungeons. Tamriel style, fun dungeons, these are not hard but only do once per day. You get a holiday coin that you can spend for items.

This quests come back every year, every holiday. U have chance to collect these items next time if you can't. Holiday Mini games (fishing, horse riding, killing wild animals (hunting), lockpickings are not the minigames)
- Horse race, Dice poker, knife thrower, barroom fight etc. that would be the minigames. These minigames are avaiable during holidays.

Rewards
- Food, drink for a party (feast) for 4 and 12 ppl. The feasts only avaiable during holidays and very good buffs. Then you will wait the next holiday for theese and want collect lots for the new whole year This a little thing is give meaning for a holiday.
- Legendary materials
- Decorations in the house
- special sets only avaiable during holidays.
- special achievements, title, colors that can only be collect during holidays.
- special costume, minipet, mount but no lorebreakers

Crown store, only during christmas holiday you can buy (throughout December) winter themed mounts and minipets (white bear, snow leopard, frozen horse, white wolf etc.) You know, I missed it but next december I will have chance to buy it or collect it.

BarbarianRogue

I really don't see Christmas decorations as being tacky or lore breaking. Not if they use the old ones.
Every single decoration except the nativity is borrowed from, not just more ancient holidays but each one was already borrowed over and over, being used by many holidays by the time that the early Christians borrowed them. Original Christmas lights, luminary is one term or device. Usually red, green, blue, yellow, purple and sometimes orange (meant to represent gold) filter (usually paper, fabric, glass or even thin wax, not sure how that worked) placed between a series of lanterns or candles to make beautiful colored lights.
Bringing greenery and trees inside.
Decorating with precious metals.
A winter feast (the feast of saturnalia to name one)
Brightly colored clothing.
Singing in the streets.

OH! The Wild Hunt! The wild hunt was something watched for by nearly every European group this time of year and blamed on everything, gods, elves, fairies, the dead. They could have a chariot piloted by Talos careen around the country side with his hunting dogs and huntsmen. Always under a dense fog with thunder and lightning! And they could come up with their own thing for what to do if you meet the dogs or the men or Talos. I think the irl thing was to carry bread incase of the dogs and steel incase of the men. I don't remember much more.
Would anyone else love to see the wild hunt? It was actually a bizarre weather pattern that hasn't existed in hundreds of years and likely never will again. They could recreate something spectacular and then inject it with the fantastic!

Fuzzywuzzy196

We can only hope to have the ability to chunk snowballs at Molag Bals' dumb head.

FlicksZ

I love a good snowball fight irl and in games

I wouldn't mind unwinding in ESO once in a while with some random events

Volkodav

SirDopey wrote: »

This mount please!!!!! Thank yoooouuuuuu

I been asking for this for a couple of months now.Maybe some day?

Volkodav

BarbarianRogue wrote: »

I really don't see Christmas decorations as being tacky or lore breaking. Not if they use the old ones.
Every single decoration except the nativity is borrowed from, not just more ancient holidays but each one was already borrowed over and over, being used by many holidays by the time that the early Christians borrowed them. Original Christmas lights, luminary is one term or device. Usually red, green, blue, yellow, purple and sometimes orange (meant to represent gold) filter (usually paper, fabric, glass or even thin wax, not sure how that worked) placed between a series of lanterns or candles to make beautiful colored lights.
Bringing greenery and trees inside.
Decorating with precious metals.
A winter feast (the feast of saturnalia to name one)
Brightly colored clothing.
Singing in the streets.

OH! The Wild Hunt! The wild hunt was something watched for by nearly every European group this time of year and blamed on everything, gods, elves, fairies, the dead. They could have a chariot piloted by Talos careen around the country side with his hunting dogs and huntsmen. Always under a dense fog with thunder and lightning! And they could come up with their own thing for what to do if you meet the dogs or the men or Talos. I think the irl thing was to carry bread incase of the dogs and steel incase of the men. I don't remember much more.
Would anyone else love to see the wild hunt? It was actually a bizarre weather pattern that hasn't existed in hundreds of years and likely never will again. They could recreate something spectacular and then inject it with the fantastic!

Christmas was originally a German pagan holiday.Christians DID borrow it as you say. :}