i do think it wouldnt hurt to innovate a bit from time to time....at the same time the question also remains where to spend the time - innovatinv old events or producing new content...or having fewer events that get more innovated...i don't know.... but a lot of these events have become another daily crafting writ...or doing your taxes... a "have to get through today before the fun" - its like the broccoli you had to eat as a child before getting your ice cream

I wouldn't go as far as to call them horrible, but I do agree they are mundane, predictable, and not at all memorable.

I remember a Halloween event in EQ around 2001 or thereabouts. Huge skeletons romping around dropping rare loot, and even one year we had GMs running around turning us into bats, vampires and zombies and giving out insane speed and flying buffs. I think I remember a similar event involving GMs in WOW too some years later.

It's those type of unexpected interactions that make experiences very memorable. Those were the days...…….sigh...

Datthaw wrote: »

They have a year....literally a year.... to make up some new stuff.

I swear if I give that pig apples one more time.....

Looks like someone (me) is not doing the event because I cant take these mind numbing fetch quest for the like 4th time.

They had a year and they added to it. They don't need to replace what happens in the event every year. That would be annoying.

I like events, I don't like the event schedule. Things need to be moved around for better pacing.

Inhabitants of Ilessan Tower and Silumm woefully agree, this event is horrible.

Also, I noticed random mobs turn into an ugly pile of greyellow dirt when they die. Not cool.

pauli133 wrote: »

I like events, I don't like the event schedule. Things need to be moved around for better pacing.

They do tend to get bunched together. Between them, I have to figure out what I was doing before the event happened.

I have to agree they could have had us festoon different NPCs in different zones, or go to different delves for items steal something different than a pig etc but they just keep it the same.
I'm kind of glad they actually added some new achievements even if I did finish them all bar one in less than a hour.

I started to completely ignore events after the first year... the only one I really enjoyed was the first event, the one where you'd get your box rewards by doing anything in the game you liked... this kind of forced silly quests is not the thing I like to do, so, I don't do them.

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

i do think it wouldnt hurt to innovate a bit from time to time....at the same time the question also remains where to spend the time - innovatinv old events or producing new content...or having fewer events that get more innovated...i don't know.... but a lot of these events have become another daily crafting writ...or doing your taxes... a "have to get through today before the fun" - its like the broccoli you had to eat as a child before getting your ice cream

I love all the events (maybe not the PvP one) and faithfully run as many dailies as possible every day on all my chars. However, this leaves almost zero time to actually play the game. Yesterday I managed to have my khajiit extricate Sai from the clutches of the Duchess of Anguish, and the day before I didn't do anything at all aside from dailies.

It's entertaining, okay. But does bring my gameplay to an almost conplete stop. Nothing advances while I'm running in that event treadmill.

Edit: which leaves a bittersweet feeling when I look at the Jubilee. Crafting dailies hell yeah!! Fast and easy, great rewards, and I already do them every day anyway. Delve dailies, apparently not all 'delve dailies' count as delve dailies. It's gonna be a mess figuring out which do, and spending all day pushing characters through that treadmill as well. Cyro dailies. Why... whyyy.... I am hoping for a truce where each alliance can enjoy one town peacefully with minimum aggravation. Pledges and trials. Am I glad I installed an addon recently to tell me which trial coffers are on cooldown and which are not. Although tbh I don't think there will be time to run trials at all, after all the pledges. We'll see. The last week is probably the best. Freedom to do what we want. Rewards everywhere! It will still be 5 more weeks of event treadmill.

I wonder when I'll be able to go back to questing and stuff.

They shold add Orc-event. There is no chance that it would be boring.

I agree that events can get mind-numbing when they feature the same old quests and especially when nice things are locked behind them so that people feel they have to get all the shinies. For new players this is a non-issue but the exchitement for events has probably worn off somewhat for older players. Still, I personally had a kick out of the stick mounts and it's nice to listen to the Jesters' jokes to break the monotony of regular play. I guess the trick to help with burn out is to figure out if the rewards are worth it or not, and allocate time accordingly. I know people who don't much care for the Indrik so didn't feel as pressed for tickets and so on, and therefore didn't feel they had to participate a lot. The one thing I don't really enjoy is the limited time to do event-related achievements, it's the most stressful aspect of events imo.