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Please give special items on special days =)

Every other on-line game I play, for special days (holidays, anniversaries of the game's birth), special items are given out to players... Glitch is the only one I've played that *doesn't* do this.  Sure it's a greedy request but hey I pay actual money for this game every month and I feel I have a little wiggle room to be a little greedy.  =)

Here are some examples.
For Valentine's Day, on a game I play each player was gifted a special rose that was equippable and gave mood / intelligence bonuses to the character on whom it was equipped.
On Christmas, there was an Advent Calendar where each day we got a different present that was a different exclusive item only available on that day from the Calendar.
On the anniversary of the game, a Extravaganza was held where lots of different events were run and all participants were awarded a special item just for participating, with winners getting an even more rare and exclusive item (silver jewel gauntlets, again equippable for strength / intelligence bonuses).

I'm sure I'm not the only player who would love to see this in Glitch. =)

Edit - I'm not counting the valentine's quiz they put out for today since it's insanely hard and way too difficult to get something special, and anyways they didn't make special items for it!  They're just offering as prizes things you can get in the game other ways (ie the rook cubimal, can be found if you buy enough cubi boxes.. or the Icon which, I already have all 11 Icons).  :s

Posted 10 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • More like the pumpkins and candy for Zilloween?
    Posted 10 months ago by Kookaburra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And crackers at Christmas. More things like that!
    Posted 10 months ago by EmiB Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Honestly, while in the future I'll likely feel differently, right now I just want new housing and group locations to come, and I'm happy that they're concentrating on that.
    Posted 10 months ago by Scarlett Bearsdale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Kind of Kookaburra, and Emi... The way I see it though it's like, the crackers, we could buy at vendors... granted they were limited items .. and the pumpkins and candy, but Zilloween comes around so often it's not really that big a thing... But they never give us exclusive items just for being members at the site, and I think it would be nice if they kind of rewarded loyalty by producing and giving out special and exclusive items once in awhile.

    I agree that the new housing is huge, but I'm sure they can *also* do something like this.  It just doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to add, especially since holidays only come around a few times a year.  =)
    Posted 10 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Or Valentine's Day should be a holiday on the Glitch calendar. VaLEMtine's Day, maybe?
    Posted 10 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So more along the lines of the weird Special Thing only Alpha members got?
    Posted 10 months ago by EmiB Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That quiz was not put together by TS, but by another player!
    Posted 10 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • For real Emi.
    And Pascale I didn't know that.  So see.. they didn't even do *that*.  :s
    Posted 10 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ Auren

    Giants most likely don't imagine in real life holidays and that is why we don't really have items to celebrate those days here in Glitch. New holidays will be added in the future, but as many point out it is not the priority at the moment. If you were working flat out on a major project would you have time to do extras truely? Yes we are among giants here, but team Tiny Speck still need sleep and to do real life things as well as creating this amazing game for us.

    Getting special real life holiday items every year would make them less special, besides what holidays do you suppose they should celebrate here? as there are players the world over, should they try to include all the holidays for all the countries? Or are you asking for just those that are important to you?

    Personally I'd rather have in game specific days. You say Zilloween is not a big thing, well make it something special to you and behold it becomes special.

    When I decided to do the Valentines event I did so with a determination not to add additional burden by requesting any special items, I felt the Devs were better working on the big priority stuff rather than foccusing on a real life day that really has no bearing on the world of 11 Giants.

    The four teams that worked on the project spent many hours to bring a first time ever day long event The staff that could (player support ) got behind the project, produced some pretty outfits and even took time to come and join us in the fun, which when you look at it made the day special. I believe we had a successful event.

    Another player organised In real life holiday special is in the pipeline, if you are looking for new items for that you will most likely be disappointed, but then as I said why would 11 Giant imagine real life days when they have no bearing on the world of Ur.
    Posted 10 months ago by Faereluth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Getting special items every year would make them less special" --> Well sure if they gave the same items every year, the point is to make something different and new for every holiday.

    And Yes, yes I am just asking for those holidays that are important to me.  :p  Because Americans are the ones that matter most around here after all. >_>

    :: cough ::

    Anyways who wouldn't have liked a box of chocolates, for example, from TS on Valentine's Day?  Would you really have complained if your character had been gifted with an exclusive candy necklace, say?  NO you wouldn't have complained.

    Other games manage to do big things AND put out little things every year, it's just a matter of making it a priority.  I think they can and I think they should.  Period.  I don't care if you disagree because I know that the overwhelming majority of users, if they DID do this, would LOVE it.  Because in the other games I go to, they love it there and appreciate it every time something new is released.  So there.  Hmph.
    Posted 10 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'd prefer holiday spawn points for certain items - preprogram the streets so that at the start of a new day at a certain time on the glitch calendar, streets produced a free item drop somewhere on them that was themed to the glitch holiday. Anything that encourages people to get away from the main locations is a nice bonus!
    Posted 10 months ago by Moehr Ossum Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What, the piece of stinky cheese ya got in the Glitchmas cracker from TS wasn't enough? Picky, picky :)
    I'm sure that I wasnt the only one who got a wee bit excited when the mail frog proclaimed "the Glitchmas Yeti has something for you..." Foolish me, believing that the Glitchmas Yeti would bring a...Glitchmas Yeti :( LoL, joke was on me. Slightly disappointing, but what I've come to expect from TS's humor.
    Posted 10 months ago by N2ZOrtolanaBlue Subscriber! | Permalink
  • No, the stinky cheese *wasn't* enough.  Because I can make it myself. >:(

    And the holiday spawn points.. that's a cute idea.. humm..  :: nods nods ::
    Posted 10 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think you have some unreasonable expectations when you compare Tiny Speck to "other games" -- for one, when other games are working on "big" things, most of those games are working on "big" content things, which simply utilize the tool sets they've built in the past in order to create more content or somewhat new mechanics, rather than changes to the basic code to make things possible like live rendering of changes when Glitchen are building and changing their homes.  The changes coming up had to have required rewriting at least some of the game code from top to bottom.  I'm a veteran of online gaming, and I've never been part of a game that undertook such a huge endeavor after their initial launch.  That's why they unlaunched -- it was either rewrite all the code or give us content.  In the long run, I'm quite confident they've made the correct decision.

    For another, most other online gaming companies are much larger than Tiny Speck.   The entirety of Tiny Speck's employment roster, including player support in fact, is about the size of a single team at an established game company.  So again, "other games do it" is simply not a fair evaluation of what the capabilities of Tiny Speck should be, whether they are or not.  

    I also feel pretty comfortable assuming the only reason why we got any items for Glitchmas is that they were already in development before the Unlaunching.  The Unlaunch was the end of November, so I doubt they started on those items after then.  If they weren't already finished at that point, they simply assigned whomever was needed to finish them, then moved them back on to the priority projects afterwards.  

    We were told at Unlaunch that content would be sparse and bug support would be slower.  That's why you had the opportunity to cancel your sub and get all your money back.  Choosing not to take advantage of that but then choosing to complain at the company in their forums that content is sparse is essentially choosing not to listen and then blaming the speaker.  They tried to tell you.  

    Ultimately, I do agree that they should have holiday items for various in game and out of game holiday periods.  But so does Stoot, and he said as much in the live Q&A.  But that's not going to happen while they are completely reworking the code.  Calm down and wait for the game to launch, then make demands on content.  
    Posted 10 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Birthday cakes!
    Posted 10 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink