New Life Event is extremely dull

Syldras

Aliniel wrote: »

I should've put that in quotes. By "forcing" I meant creating FOMO situation.
Every year, we get some themed cosmetics you can unlock with Event Ticket. You don't know how much tickets you'll be able to earn over the year. You can be sure you can earn at least enough to unlock everything. But what if you miss an event for whatever reason (in the future, or you already missed one)? This creates fear of missing out. So you want to get your tickets from any event that comes. bB it dungeon-themed, PvP, daily-quest-based, etc. even if you don't enjoy those events

I never do any PvP events. I only do a bit of the dungeon events since soloing most dungeons takes too much time I rather spend on other things and doing the extremely easy ones that take less than 5 minutes gets dull fast because it's always the same ones. Still, I never know what to do with the masses of tickets I have left during the New Life event. It's very easy to skip several events a year and still get every event collectible.

Do I like the principle of event vouchers? No. I generally dislike limited-time content. But it's really not like one misses a super important one time thing if one misses one event day. If players feel panic about that, it's self-induced.

Cooperharley

Also, while we’re at it, let’s just get rid of the fragment system. Give us a meta achievement for the event and give us the mount or house or whatever for doing that. The fragment stuff with the pet is so dumb IMO

Also, just get rid of event tickets and give items for doing stuff. Giving the option to just buy event tickets in the store is so dumb. Just another avenue of monetization

O_LYKOS

You dont have to take part. Its completely optional. And while new content is always good. Theres a lot of players who dont have max cp. They have low level characters to level. And genuinely enjoy the content and the rewards.

valenwood_vegan

AzuraFan wrote: »

valenwood_vegan wrote: »

Overall there is no real reason to do them. ...

This is where there's a disconnect, I think, between people who play the game for stories and questing and exploration, and those who play for shinies (not that it can't be for both, mind you). Between those who do an activity because they enjoy it, and those who need the carrot to do anything, because if there isn't a carrot, it's meaningless.

I enjoy questing, so it doesn't matter to me that there isn't an achievement or shiny or whatever associated with every single quest in the game. For me, it's just fun to have another quest to do that I haven't done before, to hear some new voice acting (sorry to non-English speakers - yeah, it sucks that they released it without translations), to do another silly errand. That's the reason for me.

Oh hey I totally get that! I did all of the quests yesterday and enjoyed some of them at least. But I still worry that it overall didn't add much to the event for many players... Even as someone who enjoyed some of the new quests just for the questing experience, I'm still not eager to keep repeating them for days for the same static dialogue and outcome. So it added like 20 minutes of content for a rather long event that was already super repetitive if you've done it in the past.

I know they had some limitations this year and like I said, I really do appreciate them trying to add *something*, but I hope they can innovate more in the future to keep these events relevant for longer term players.

Maybe something that will help in the future is the overland difficulty revamp; I mean obviously event quests should be very accessible to new and casual players, but it would be also nice to have an optional challenge for more advanced players who are seeking that (like how they added the event "bosses" for witches' fest). I guess for me at least, even though I do like to explore and quest, what keeps me coming back long-term is either a challenge and/or a new reward or accomplishment to work toward.

AzuraFan

valenwood_vegan wrote: »

Even as someone who enjoyed some of the new quests just for the questing experience, I'm still not eager to keep repeating them for days for the same static dialogue and outcome. So it added like 20 minutes of content for a rather long event that was already super repetitive if you've done it in the past.

Like I said somewhere else, I'm only doing one new quest a day, and I won't be repeating any. So they won't be repetitive for me. I like that the New Life event is low pressure. The boxes don't give anything spectacular, so it's okay to just do a quest or two a day and that's it. Just the right pace for this time of year.

But I understand what you said, too. It's not only the New Life event that feels repetitive, but all of them. Events need a revamp - after everything else we all want!

shadyjane62

I was in the middle of doing the New Life event when it flashed I had one enough to max out golden pursuits. I stopped in mid quest deleted all I had and stop doing event.

Getting one more useless gold reward from a writ that cost a fortune to complete was the end.

Just read off line that seasons were the way it was going to be from now on. This new was disheartening as I has hoped for something that would keep me in the game.

The writhing wall was such a disaster I cannot believe that is the way of the future. Didn't buy that, and won't sub again. Am in the process of giving away all I have in my account and craft bag for the gift exchange. One pleasure I have left here is giving someone a million gold when they least expect it.

I was day one player and always hoped I would last until the end. I lasted but the game hasn't.

whitecrow

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

whitecrow wrote: »

Syldras wrote: »

whitecrow wrote: »

I think that if he is able enough to go out fishing, he can make himself a baked potato. Even I can make a baked potato.

Why gift anyone anything, really? They can buy things themselves, after all?

When I first received the quest I thought it would be someone elderly and housebound.

Showing appreciation for someone by making them food from my experience is a common thing whether the recipient is able bodied or not, whether the dish is complicated or not. Do you really find this concept that strange? I mean this genuinely not sassy, I feel like this question sounds very aggressive, but I don't mean it that way.

Don't take it too seriously.

spartaxoxo

I would like to see some new gameplay during event quests (that dragon cave mission seems like it would have been a good opportunity for a festive stealth mission) but I can't complain about their tone. There's a lot of quests with a variety of tones.

And it's a festival. Ofc the villagers should be having fun at a holiday festival. It would come off edgy dark grim if they were like nothing fun or joyous happens on New Life.

Like I think if one is annoyed that the Christmas time event includes content that is merry and bright, then maybe they're just a bit burnt out on the game. Which is fine. It's natural to need breaks from games that you have played a long time.

Hapexamendios

I did the new quests on a couple characters the first day. It was enough for me. Back to doing one s day for event tickets.

fall0athboy

SolidBeast wrote: »

(if I see f*****g Rigurt one more time in new content, I will LOSE it).

Monkey's paw curls, and now it's all just his sister Britt the Bold.

AvalonRanger

I regard "New Life Event" as praying for people passed away.
I don't want to noisy moment like usual event. I want silence for it.