Will ESO have a good halloween event this year?

qsnoopyjr

Post things you would like to see for this year Halloween event, they working on it now

qsnoopyjr

The best Halloween event I ever seen in MMORPG has to be from Everquest.

They had this event, where EVERY ZONE was invaded by zombies, and the zombies dropped hella good loot, but so many of them everywhere, back then you had to travel by horse or run to get to where your going and all these zombies EVERYWHERE, literally EVERYWHERE, no place was safe, most intense Halloween event I seen in MMORPG. The best one too, defiantly something that I will remember for a long time.

Most MMORPG's nowdays, they put everything in an instance, either too kind to the players, or too lazy to make it an open world event.

I do remember ESO halloween event or some event, it's always a scavanger hunt, and let me tell you something... Scavanger hunts... ARE TERRIBLE events. Basically tells me, "I'm a lazy developer, I add a few mobs here a few mobs there, and make it such a grind that people spend hours doing a tedious task"

The EQ halloween I remember, those zombies... EVERYWHERE. they ROAMED, you couldnt just go find a spot and farm em, they was EVERYWHERE all different levels and kinds of em EVERYWHERE. They had the high level truck smashing ones in the lowbee zones. People were literally scared ***, because they had to sneak around these guys to get to the zone they wanted to goto. I want an event.... that scares *** out of me... Not in some instance, not some kiddie version of scarying me... But literally no place is safe type of *** scaring. Thats what I want this halloween.

SirGabenOfSteamia

I don't get the why the only two choices are either super kiss-assy or downright negative? Of course it'll be a good event. Last year's was great, so they could literally just copy the same format (which they probably will).

It was however quite simplistic, and most of the fun to be found out of it was based out of dungeoneering with your friends, which was cool.

As long as there's no problem getting onto and staying on the servers, and the event is one that everyone can get everything out of, I'm sure there'll be very few complaints... No matter how much or how little work ZoS put into it.

qsnoopyjr

SirGabenOfSteamia wrote: »

As long as there's no problem getting onto and staying on the servers, and the event is one that everyone can get everything out of, I'm sure there'll be very few complaints... No matter how much or how little work ZoS put into it.

Do you ever get feeling ZoS dev's say to themselves "If it isnt going to be a DLC content, I aint gonna work hard on it"

As in, if I aint gonna make money off of it, why should I put some heart into it.

Simple scavenger hunt, typical MMORPG move. And everyone considers them good.
It's like if its average, that means its good.

You know in college, average means your bad. Nobody strives to be average. If you got a C in bachelors, B in masters... Thats bad.

So many of you stuck on this average content, and reply to surveys as good. You know what that means to the people calling the shots??? Don't bother doing anything more, they are happy with it.

Do you want the most bang for your buck???
THis is what they tell you in the military... Even if its truly good, give them a bad score, that way they make improvements and do something rather than be content with it.

You have so much money left over in the military? You don't just leave it and show you did good work in saving money. You spend it on those 60 inch TVs and other stuff, you spend every penny of it. That way they keep sending you more... Rather than cut your spending. You dont spend all of it. They will give you less, because they know you content with less.

You people need to stop being content with bare minimum and let these guys know... Average is bad. These developers, getting away with average... No, you did not do a "good" job, you was average, you did a "bad" job. Average is "bad"

SydneyGrey

I missed last year's event, so I'm really looking forward to this one. Can't wait.

Smmokkee

Boring, you already know.

qsnoopyjr

SydneyGrey wrote: »

I missed last year's event, so I'm really looking forward to this one. Can't wait.

These developers are typical and predictable.
The last year content will be the standard for the halloweens to come. Until one of the innovating MMORPG's come up with a better system to holiday events... Which right now, the flavor is "scavenger hunts".

Trust me friend, ESO is not innovating at all, these developers do not have heart, it will be a repeat of last year.

SirGabenOfSteamia

qsnoopyjr wrote: »

SirGabenOfSteamia wrote: »

As long as there's no problem getting onto and staying on the servers, and the event is one that everyone can get everything out of, I'm sure there'll be very few complaints... No matter how much or how little work ZoS put into it.

Do you ever get feeling ZoS dev's say to themselves "If it isnt going to be a DLC content, I aint gonna work hard on it"

As in, if I aint gonna make money off of it, why should I put some heart into it.

Simple scavenger hunt, typical MMORPG move. And everyone considers them good.
It's like if its average, that means its good.

You know in college, average means your bad. Nobody strives to be average. If you got a C in bachelors, B in masters... Thats bad.

So many of you stuck on this average content, and reply to surveys as good. You know what that means to the people calling the shots??? Don't bother doing anything more, they are happy with it.

Do you want the most bang for your buck???
THis is what they tell you in the military... Even if its truly good, give them a bad score, that way they make improvements and do something rather than be content with it.

You have so much money left over in the military? You don't just leave it and show you did good work in saving money. You spend it on those 60 inch TVs and other stuff, you spend every penny of it. That way they keep sending you more... Rather than cut your spending. You dont spend all of it. They will give you less, because they know you content with less.

You people need to stop being content with bare minimum and let these guys know... Average is bad. These developers, getting away with average... No, you did not do a "good" job, you was average, you did a "bad" job. Average is "bad"

It's free content, not DLC. We should be happy if they do anything at all. The reason why so many people were upset over the Midyear Mayhem bs was because it basically withheld any reason to do it behind a paywall.

The only money they should be making off of events is the seasonal crown store items. Reaper's Harvest crown crates have already been datamined, so if they're making any money from the Witches' Festival it should be that.

If any event is there, without limitations on who can participate, we should be content.

AbysmalGhul

qsnoopyjr wrote: »

SydneyGrey wrote: »

I missed last year's event, so I'm really looking forward to this one. Can't wait.

These developers are typical and predictable.
The last year content will be the standard for the halloweens to come. Until one of the innovating MMORPG's come up with a better system to holiday events... Which right now, the flavor is "scavenger hunts".

Trust me friend, ESO is not innovating at all, these developers do not have heart, it will be a repeat of last year.

What would be a great event for you? If you had the power, how would you improve the current system? What innovative ideas do you have?

Malic

Not if they have it in cyrodiil.

Stay the hell out of cyrodiil please.

qsnoopyjr

SydneyGrey wrote: »

What would be a great event for you? If you had the power, how would you improve the current system? What innovative ideas do you have?

Have every town at nighttime...
Invaded by zombies

Not ONLY every town, but every outdoor zone, everywhere no place is safe at night. Even in PvP.
*** them PvP'ers bitching about fighting NPCs, have horde of zombies randomly attack things, randomly show up at major fights.

Purpose of halloween isnt just pumpkins and ghouls... Purpose is making it a nightmare.
Make everyone experience a nightmare, make it epic.

The scared players can hide in the bank or taverns or inside the keep.

Bombashaman

If they give double XP, it'll be good. Only thing I care.

Remag_Div

It will be the same as last year's. lol

qsnoopyjr

Bombashaman wrote: »

If they give double XP, it'll be good. Only thing I care.

Thats what I just ranted about.

This is why these holiday events are nothing special. They get data from people saying stuff like this, they dont do anything special when they could have done something very special.

As long as I get paid time and half on sundays I'll be happy.
As long as I get any girl, ill be happy
As long as I can pay my rent and have stuff left over, ill be happy
Brah, you know what they tell you in school, and in college.

Dream big.
Stop being content with minimalist.

This isnt an indie MMORPG.
This is ESO, the worlds BEST OF THE BEST coders

And all you want to tell these coders for halloween "just give me double xp, and I be happy"

ThePrinceOfBargains

qsnoopyjr wrote: »

ESO has HARD working dev's, I know the halloween event this year will be a big hit

qsnoopyjr

You guys a new generation, let me tell you from years of experience of MMORPG, and what my generation found out.

Marketers control the developers. When you give feedback its good, I be content with minimal, only minimal work is needed.
Those marketers, tell the developers, dont work too much for the halloween event or just flip the switch on the event and do same as last year, the community doesnt expect much, so we give them what they want.

You know, how this is true? Because all they said in Everquest was "I blame Smedly, smedly this and that"

Whose Smedly??? Pretty much a marketer calling all the shots on the game.

Marketers rarely do stuff... What they focus on, what is their life... Is BIG DATA. Which is what you guys say about things.

You people flooding forums with "i'm content with average, I'm content with minimal, only double xp is needed"
The developers will not have chance to work their magic because the marketer wont put any budget into it and no new content/magical work will be produced....

The only thing you will see more of... What marketers focus most on... MONEY first... Customer service SECOND.
You all satisfied with game... Just double xp will satisfy you??? minimal work is good work??? customer service checkmarked... 100% focus on how to milk all the $$$ outta the customers pocket is now the focus for the programmers and developers.

These developers and programmers that work for ESO are world class best of the best, but if you tell the people calling the shots, you just want minimal then dont expect anything new... Those world class ESO developers and programmers wont be making any new halloween content for you, no budget is going into it, the big boss will say no to any new content suggestions for halloween, all because YOU ALL was satisfied, you all didnt want anything new.

StormWylf

qsnoopyjr wrote: »

You guys a new generation, let me tell you from years of experience of MMORPG, and what my generation found out.

Marketers control the developers. When you give feedback its good, I be content with minimal, only minimal work is needed.
Those marketers, tell the developers, dont work too much for the halloween event or just flip the switch on the event and do same as last year, the community doesnt expect much, so we give them what they want.

You know, how this is true? Because all they said in Everquest was "I blame Smedly, smedly this and that"

Whose Smedly??? Pretty much a marketer calling all the shots on the game.

Marketers rarely do stuff... What they focus on, what is their life... Is BIG DATA. Which is what you guys say about things.

You people flooding forums with "i'm content with average, I'm content with minimal, only double xp is needed"
The developers will not have chance to work their magic because the marketer wont put any budget into it and no new content/magical work will be produced....

The only thing you will see more of... What marketers focus most on... MONEY first... Customer service SECOND.
You all satisfied with game... Just double xp will satisfy you??? minimal work is good work??? customer service checkmarked... 100% focus on how to milk all the $$$ outta the customers pocket is now the focus for the programmers and developers.

Lets assume you are correct (and frankly at this point I have no reason to doubt you) then what would be an appropriate response to this poll to ensure a great Halloween event?

qsnoopyjr

StormWylf wrote: »

qsnoopyjr wrote: »

You guys a new generation, let me tell you from years of experience of MMORPG, and what my generation found out.

Marketers control the developers. When you give feedback its good, I be content with minimal, only minimal work is needed.
Those marketers, tell the developers, dont work too much for the halloween event or just flip the switch on the event and do same as last year, the community doesnt expect much, so we give them what they want.

You know, how this is true? Because all they said in Everquest was "I blame Smedly, smedly this and that"

Whose Smedly??? Pretty much a marketer calling all the shots on the game.

Marketers rarely do stuff... What they focus on, what is their life... Is BIG DATA. Which is what you guys say about things.

You people flooding forums with "i'm content with average, I'm content with minimal, only double xp is needed"
The developers will not have chance to work their magic because the marketer wont put any budget into it and no new content/magical work will be produced....

The only thing you will see more of... What marketers focus most on... MONEY first... Customer service SECOND.
You all satisfied with game... Just double xp will satisfy you??? minimal work is good work??? customer service checkmarked... 100% focus on how to milk all the $$$ outta the customers pocket is now the focus for the programmers and developers.

Lets assume you are correct (and frankly at this point I have no reason to doubt you) then what would be an appropriate response to this poll to ensure a great Halloween event?

Haha funny I was thinking the same thing after writing that.

Well, having been in navy, even when they do good, and send you survey saying how they did...
What they tell you in navy is to send them results saying they did bad and could do better, because they do better then.

So the best option is to say these developers are predictable and lazy, this way the people calling the shots see bad results and inform the developers.... Hey go do work, and this gives the developer the opportunity to do work on halloween event.

Rather than, having good results, the people calling the shots says, you did good work, no compaints so just keep it as it is until it breaks aka complaints come in.

People usually go with the "if it isnt broken dont fix it" route.
Well... Its not really broken... But tell them their last year halloween was bad. So they strive to make an improved halloween event.

This is one of those games... Where, level doesnt increase, nothing really increased... So they can just leave the same old content for years and years to come.... Do you want new and improved???? Or you just satisifed with old and as long as you get double xp... You happy.

CheepsNSalsa

I liked the previous Halloween event. All the achievements could be completed in one day if you were dedicated enough and extra rewards were granted by killing bosses which dropped containers. These containers had motifs, recipes and rarely a mask runebox. I'd like an event similar to that.
What I really don't want is another jesters festival where there were a bunch of repeatable quests which could only be completed once per day on each character. It felt really limiting. I liked being able to get rewards as fast as I could kill a WB or complete a dolmen.
No repeatable quests please.

SydneyGrey

LOL, qsnoopyjr, you attributed a quote to me that wasn't from me. Someone else wrote that.

bottleofsyrup

I think it'll have more to it this year compared to last.

Slick_007

qsnoopyjr wrote: »

SydneyGrey wrote: »

What would be a great event for you? If you had the power, how would you improve the current system? What innovative ideas do you have?

Have every town at nighttime...
Invaded by zombies

Not ONLY every town, but every outdoor zone, everywhere no place is safe at night. Even in PvP.
*** them PvP'ers bitching about fighting NPCs, have horde of zombies randomly attack things, randomly show up at major fights.

Purpose of halloween isnt just pumpkins and ghouls... Purpose is making it a nightmare.
Make everyone experience a nightmare, make it epic.

The scared players can hide in the bank or taverns or inside the keep.

thats nice. what a selfish idea. people wont be able to login and just craft or talk with trade vendors without being smashed by zombies. we get it. you dont like the game or the devs. i believe you know where the door is.

supaskrub

StormWylf wrote: »

Lets assume you are correct (and frankly at this point I have no reason to doubt you) then what would be an appropriate response to this poll to ensure a great Halloween event?

Well an appropriate response would have been posting this/or a similar poll right after last years event so that the devs could be given feedback then, rather than with just two months to go before the next Halloween event.. Its already on PTS now and very similar to last year with a few newer type rewards (housing items for instance) so there will be no majpr changes.

ChildOfLight

No offense, but do you really guys spend your summer brooding about Hallowen events?

Bombashaman

qsnoopyjr wrote: »

Bombashaman wrote: »

If they give double XP, it'll be good. Only thing I care.

Thats what I just ranted about.

This is why these holiday events are nothing special. They get data from people saying stuff like this, they dont do anything special when they could have done something very special.

As long as I get paid time and half on sundays I'll be happy.
As long as I get any girl, ill be happy
As long as I can pay my rent and have stuff left over, ill be happy
Brah, you know what they tell you in school, and in college.

Dream big.
Stop being content with minimalist.

This isnt an indie MMORPG.
This is ESO, the worlds BEST OF THE BEST coders

And all you want to tell these coders for halloween "just give me double xp, and I be happy"

It really is the only thing I care about these events. I solo PvE only and I am now leveling new toon. I don't want any bullsh*t interaction with other players in a form of "funny" competitions etc. I want him to 50 as soon as possible so I can help him raise CP as my other 50 level toons.

Only thing I want added to this game is a possibility to buy any set there is, with ingame money. So let's add that to my "wishlist for this event."

The time they code these events is away from some other content OR bugfixes. I rather take new quests or DLC's and bugfixes than these events (if they don't give double XP or let me buy any sets with ingame money).

code65536

LOL. There is absolutely nothing to speculate or guess on.

1. It's the same event as last year.
2. Reward table has been slightly expanded.
3. How do I know this? Because this year's event is currently activated for testing on the Public Test Server. If you want to see what it's like this year, go onto the PTS.

Bombashaman

code65536 wrote: »

LOL. There is absolutely nothing to speculate or guess on.

1. It's the same event as last year.
2. Reward table has been slightly expanded.
3. How do I know this? Because this year's event is currently activated for testing on the Public Test Server. If you want to see what it's like this year, go onto the PTS.

I wasn't here last year, so...double XP?

Inhuman003

ZoS might make the Halloween event a little more interesting because we do have Friday the 13th in this year of October, they might.

tinythinker

qsnoopyjr wrote: »

SydneyGrey wrote: »

I missed last year's event, so I'm really looking forward to this one. Can't wait.

These developers are typical and predictable.
The last year content will be the standard for the halloweens to come. Until one of the innovating MMORPG's come up with a better system to holiday events... Which right now, the flavor is "scavenger hunts".

Trust me friend, ESO is not innovating at all, these developers do not have heart, it will be a repeat of last year.

They will still use the same achievements. The question is whether they will find new/interesting ways to earn them.

Countcalorie

no.they are lazy and the people working at Marketing are greedy self-serving ***.

Shardan4968

Where is "I don't know" option?