The holiday season is in full swing and the kick off event, Halloween,
is in the books. With most games offering an in game celebration, or
some candles and a lore lesson if you play Aion,
comparisons
become inevitable. Who offered the most bang for the buck this year?
Who served up the treats and who left us holding a bag full of tricks?
Two games personified all that is wrong and right about in game holiday
tie-ins, join Medawky this week as he looks at these two games and at
the broader picture in celebration immersion.
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of Warcraft has an event for every season, and this year with a nod to
El Día de los Muertos, they have two around Halloween.
Sadly, with each
holiday event they get less and less fun, and become more of a grind.
This year’s event was probably the most eagerly anticipated
holiday
since WotLK was released as it was the last one many gamers needed to
complete the meta achievement that awarded them a 310% speed flying
mount, which is a pretty big deal for most WoW players. The tying of
these holiday events to the achievement system is what has led to them
being less about fun and more about grinding the same inane events over
and over, some as often as once an hour, in the hopes of completing
them all before the event is over. While many of the games most diehard
adherents will tell you the reason they play WoW over other games of
the genre is because the other games are too much of a grind, holiday
events such as this are a perfect medium to expose this myth and make
the grind more transparent, just because you aren’t camping a
mob
doesn’t mean you aren’t grinding folks.
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