A late feedback for the Risia & Midwinter games
Hello,
since Cordovan announced in a reply that there is a new winter event planned, I thought it would be a good idea to give a feedback for the current Risia & Midwinter event.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Cordovan
Early next year we will be debuting a new winter event! This will be your last chance to take part in the Risia Ice Games and Midwinter Festival, called the DDO Winter Games. These events could return in some capacity in the future, but this will be your final opportunity to play them as part of a regular seasonal event. The rewards from these festivals will also be brought into the new winter event, minus the current recipes and related crafting ingredients, which will no longer be used. We'll have more to say in the future, but we want to make sure that you get one last chance to run Risia and Midwinter.
The one I like most first :
I really LOVED Festivult !
Why ? Because it was so easy to get nice stuff, and it didn't require any skill at all !
The only drawback was that the Jester of Festivult was indeed a JESTER : Meaning that no-one really knew whether the cookies would have the same abilities in the next year !
I really LOVED the Midwinter ice racing !
Why ? It was just fun, and not difficult at all !
It was so easy to get a huge number of Motes Of Winter, there was not much real skill needed, and ... it was just fun !
On the other hand, the Risia Ice Games were something I never really enjoyed.
Why ? Because it was so difficult. For example, I never understood the Bogwater Tavern half-pipe. I'm really not a skater, and I'm really not that great with twiddling in the keyboard, and it had mechanics I outright never understood in the first place.
I liked the Harbour jumping much more, but not the whole passage, just the jumping. That point from high above.
But I LOVED the snarky comments of that commenting NPC, what was his name ? Goosebump ?
What I didn't like of the Risia Ice Games was - compared to the Midwinter race - the possibility to get purple coins.
It was SO MUCH easier to get them in the Midwinter race than in the Risia race !
It seemed to me a bit like ...
- Risia was made for RL skaters.
- Midwinter was made for people with so much less skill.
- Looking at their difficulties, Risia and Midwinter should have been swapped : The Midwinter race should have been for complete Newbies of DDO, meanwhile the Risia Ice Games should have been for Veterans only, so to say.
So, my suggestions are these :
- Give the lumps of coal a morale damaging ability. Like ... a charisma damage. ("Apparently you were very naughty.")
- Give the Festival Twig morale damage capabilities as well. Charisma would be fitting here as well.
- Create a kind of snowball that returns.
More serious suggestions :
- Keep the Midwinter racing course ! It is so much fun ! Just change the rewards, but the Midwintzer Racing as such could be kept. It is just sad that this low-skill thing was not placed into the beginner's area (what about Borderlands ? The Borderlands are not public, though ... Or Korthos ?)
- Replace the Risia Ice Games course with one that requires much, much LESS skill !
- Make purple coins as easily to get like in the Midwinter racing course !
- And most of all : Keep the winter athmosphere at all ! During fitting months, of course.
- What about a winter event for those who live in australia ? Wouldn't it be nice for them to have something winterly during their RL winter as well ?
All in all I think that Festivult + Risia Ice Games + Midwinter Racing are not that bad. It's only that the Risia courses are so overly difficult. If they'd be easier, they'd attract much more people !
So, all in all I guess that it would be really okay if these events returned as a series of "Legacy Events",
together with the Easter egg hunt, which I greatly enjoyed, but it has one big flaw : It's "Signs of the Traveller" were ONLY available through the DDO shop ! That was imho a mistake ! But it's one that can imho easily be repaired by making that NPC named Taj into a giver of free tokens like the Midwinter event NPC does.
All in all I enjoyed Festivult trade-in, Midwinter racing plus jumping, commented by snarky remarks, most of everything.
But that's just my personal feedback, and since people are different, I'm sure that there are different opinions on these three combined events, too.
Alrik
