Most cultures have things called “traditions”. They are usually repeated. Occasionally, things get added and/or removed, but the overall theme…is the same year after year after century…
There are a new rewards…either like them or don’t. Skins are nice “presents” and some of the patterns give you nice options to obtain some useful gear (for all but the super meta chasers). I’ve been after my gf to put together a decent corrupted ward set…this was a great solution for her. I made a few sets myself. They make good ECR sets.
A new boss (he is just a bit too much like the boss we JUST had)…that sure as heck beat running the roads for days fighting everyone for lost presents like last year. Those threads were never ending.
NOT needing to regrind the rep again was awesome…felt good to pick up where I left off…like I was building off of last years efforts.
The really like the core of this event. I would like to see real quests next year. Where are the gleamite comets this year?!?!? Otherwise, if you just try to have a little fun and not expect BIS from an event…you might enjoy it more.
I have seen several, and had one burst directly overhead last night. I was running around gathering it all up because I was the only one in the area at that moment.
No Xmas tree, no Santa outfits, horrible world boss fights with 1 million ads that 1 shot you… SO FUNN especially on dead servers that never get merged. Turkey event for Thanksgiving was way more relaxing, a chicken walking around and shooting lasers. Halloween & Winter world bosses are a pain in every way. Unless you are on a streamer paid/promoted streamer, no one else is doing it.
I think the devs put about the right amount of effort into the events. I’ve seen a few gleamite showers and each time it was pretty exciting and I stopped what I was doing to gather it. Last year I think the gleamite was more common (or I was close to it more often) and I wasn’t even bothering to mine it at the end.
I like the big event boss style they have been using for the last few events and think the community aspect of the train running is quite suitable for the season. However, it would be good to see this scale to population, as a long fight with a few people for a fairly lacklustre reward is not fun.
The biggest failing would probably be a lack of generosity in the rewards. The presents almost always give the same 5 tokens and it seems very rare to get a pattern. Seemed like we got a lot more patterns and premium tokens last year. I don’t actually need more stuff, so it’s fine, but I’ve heard a lot of people complain and I think if there were more premium tokens in the gift boxes, people wouldn’t have to grind the Winter Warrior and could instead retain the fun memories of early battles.
Unfortunately that’s not quite enough information to make an accurate comparison. Lots of games have seasonal events but because you fail to describe the difference there’s no way to know how much better or worse NW’s events are when compared.
How do you know it’s not for me? When you haven’t explained anything beyond a very informative “…because.” I might very well agree with you, but you keep refusing to help me “get head out of the sand.” Even though I keep asking.
I am having a great day it’s almost Christmas, I got all my shopping done, I am off work for 5 days! The only thing left is to enjoy dinner and watch the first snow of the year fall!