Get ready for a Night Revels encore!

[Cordovan]

The Night Revels event will return for a one week encore! Begins next Thursday, December 15th, late morning/early afternoon Eastern time, and runs through December 21st! This will also be available on the Hardcore server for those interested.

[CaptainSpacePony]

This will also be available on the Hardcore server for those interested.

That is a pleasant surprise!

[AlcoArgo]

The Night Revels event will return for a one week encore! Begins next Thursday, December 15th, late morning/early afternoon Eastern time, and runs through December 21st! This will also be available on the Hardcore server for those interested.

Why? What could possibly be the logic behind this? You will be trying to run hardcore, festivult and night revels all at the same time when you can't even do an update without crashing the game for a day?

Plus, who is even asking for this? Stop trying to distract the players with shiny baubles and concentrate on fixing your core issues.

[AlsoWondering]

Why? What could possibly be the logic behind this? You will be trying to run hardcore, festivult and night revels all at the same time when you can't even do an update without crashing the game for a day?

Plus, who is even asking for this? Stop trying to distract the players with shiny baubles and concentrate on fixing your core issues.

The reason for Night Revels is that when HC season 6 ended a lot of people had keys and ingredients on HC that they couldn't get back to their main server (and at this time still can't them to their server, but I am guessing this should be fixed by early next week).

As for running all three together I doubt that it effects the computer work load much (the likely increased number of players would increase the computer work load much more).

[Cauthey]

This is an odd play. Hmm...

[korgat]

Cool, another chance to buy a Pick of Light before next year. Anyway I always thought Halloween should be moved to December
My 4yr old would love a 2nd chance at trick or treat too, can that be arranged?

[Cordovan]

The timing is really just a matter of needing to get it done since we did in fact promise it, and we wanted to run it reasonably soon-ish so people could use up their remaining ingredients prior to us expiring them. As for Hardcore, we've been running recent events on there, so we're giving it a wider shot this season. We're happy to hear from folks about whether they like or dislike these seasonal events taking place on the Hardcore server.

[CaptainSpacePony]

We're happy to hear from folks about whether they like or dislike these seasonal events taking place on the Hardcore server.

Since the events don't directly affect the HC benchmarks (RAP or favor) I don't see any good reason to not run them there as well.

By not running them, players may feel forced to choose between HC and the event.

Furthermore, most event loot is not particularly unbalancing or OP. (A few exceptions, but I don't think they are all that bad.)

[Blastyswa]

The timing is really just a matter of needing to get it done since we did in fact promise it, and we wanted to run it reasonably soon-ish so people could use up their remaining ingredients prior to us expiring them. As for Hardcore, we've been running recent events on there, so we're giving it a wider shot this season. We're happy to hear from folks about whether they like or dislike these seasonal events taking place on the Hardcore server.

Personally (as someone who enjoyed Festivult in HCL5 as well) I like the seasonal events running on hardcore to avoid it feeling like you're "missing out" by being on the hardcore server compared to live when hardcore intersects a seasonal event.

I also think that generally things like Festivult cookies or Night Revels rewards are pretty fair to have out- you can get most of the benefit from those events (a few useful cookies like jump and some heals, a few resto/DW pots and a hood of unrest) pretty easily, and if someone wants to grind like crazy to have hundreds of cookies or stacks upon stacks of resto pots then they still aren't really gaining a massive benefit- especially when it's one of these encore events that feels less leaderboard competitive and more "last chance to grab your season 2 rewards".

With that said, personally I've found some of the event champions to really punish certain playstyles. Night Revels and Crystal Cove champions are in recent memory as examples of champions that were a big pain to deal with on martial characters (especially with more limited access to ghost touch on HCL compared to live servers) while providing very little additional challenge to casters, or even technically being easier for casters since there's proportionately less champions of the types that casters are likely to struggle to. If the events were able to run without the event champions on HCL (which would come with less key/compass drops of course, but that just gives a bit of a benefit to the live servers if you want to majorly grind the events), I would be a full avid supporter of running seasonal events on HCL.

[Sir_Noob]

Essentially you are punishing HC Enthusiasts.

The reason the encore Night Revel is coming about is because all of the people who had ingredients stranded on HC.

Now you start a surprise HC, get people to jump into a shortened season for a few days and then announce the encore of Night Revels is happening?

We are entering the holiday season with Christmas parties, trying to finish up getting gifts and such done.

Where in the heck do you think we are going to get the playing time to get it all done?

Why couldn't the encore have been 2 weeks ago?

Do you think your player base consists solely of 15 year olds and retirees who can spend a wee bit of extra time to get it all done?

I know for myself, as I am not a zerging style player, will have to sacrifice to attain my goals in HC to get the goodies I wanted in the Night Revels. Or do I forget those and try for my HC goodies?


This kind of stuff, the short thinking is making me reconsider playing a game I have loved since 2009.

I am VIP, have bought a bunch of expansions. This is too much.

I could not believe you were running HC during the Christmas season anyway.

Maybe it is time for me to move on and enjoy my life in other ways.


EDIT: Yes, I enjoy the seasonal events on HC.

[Rexthor007]

Night revels yeah, the exp top notch cannot get more exp, missed a few alts for exp this is great.

[cdbd3rd]

....As for Hardcore, we've been running recent events on there, so we're giving it a wider shot this season. We're happy to hear from folks about whether they like or dislike these seasonal events taking place on the Hardcore server.

Also agree, having events run on HC is a good thing. I would've said before that just getting ingredient/collectible drops was enough, but this last season shows why the NPCs need to be there, too.

[DarkChilde]

The timing is really just a matter of needing to get it done since we did in fact promise it, and we wanted to run it reasonably soon-ish so people could use up their remaining ingredients prior to us expiring them. As for Hardcore, we've been running recent events on there, so we're giving it a wider shot this season. We're happy to hear from folks about whether they like or dislike these seasonal events taking place on the Hardcore server.

Use them up? I sold them because it was coming to an end.

[Sqrlmonger]

The Night Revels event will return for a one week encore! Begins next Thursday, December 15th, late morning/early afternoon Eastern time, and runs through December 21st! This will also be available on the Hardcore server for those interested.

Late morning is gone and early afternoon is here, can we get this show started for those of us prepped and waiting?

[Zavier]

Late morning is gone and early afternoon is here, can we get this show started for those of us prepped and waiting?

I agree.

Make it so.

[Halciet]

Prepare thyself, Soon™ approaches!

[Sqrlmonger]

Prepare thyself, Soon™ approaches!

I'm generally of the opinion "soon enough" is an oxymoron =)

[Cableman]

I guess their definition of late morning / early afternoon is different than mine.

[Halciet]

Looks like the launcher and sales just got updated, so probably in the realm of actual soon.

[rabidfox]

They just appeared on Khyber.