This thread is for reflection on the most recent Christmas shop and Christmas event.
So to start it off timed events are terrible especially if its a one day deal that is hosted the same day as the holiday. Christmas is a huge time where lots of people are receiving all kinds of gifts, where family comes over, and where you overall have a good time. Most people aren't going to put in that free time and family time to log onto zone day one of the Christmas event. It really isn't smart to host an event the same day as the holiday. What should have been done is that Christmas gifts should have been released, and then the shop. The event could have carried on the day after and extending for a solid week.
As for the shop, I personally thought the level was really well done. Props to you ChubbyCatGamer. The weapons weren't really visually appealing to me, thats just a personal thing on my perspective. The hats were all lame especially those massive used condom like sock hats. The animations for the weapons, were garbage from what I heard from several people who bought the items. I didn't purchase it myself, but I will make sure to do so tonight or tomorrow that way I can give my own response to it.
Now touching up on the event itself and the entire loot box system. The first however will be the loot box. I thought the idea of a loot box was a dumb idea when I first heard it, however I held out to be optimistic about the concept. When I received 5 magical cookies around 6pm as a commiseration for the team being 4 hours late, I quickly categorized how the rest of this event would go. "Disappoint disappoint, disappoint all."
The event is trash, it was a cool concept but the execution was poor and late. Making players wait for something just builds anticipation, if you release trash after they waited so long, you are going to get bad results.
Improvements for the future could be maybe planning this more than two weeks in advance. I recommend a solid month maybe? Idk, a lot of this event was really half assed. Maybe take in player recommendations for ideas if yours will just be trash.