Posted by Coco

Giving away things for free that were for sale the year prior is not a good idea and simply won't happen.

Well, your concept of "giving away things for free" and mine are very different... I don't see grinding for days to get seasonal currency (which is what candy really is) for redeeming prizes as being given away or free.

If you guys really see an issue in throwing old, public hat shop hats into a pool of seasonal rewards, then I think you're always going to be overworked and/or underappreciated when it comes to the community's opinion of the event, and it'll always be because of the quantity of prizes available.

I'm not complaining about the event at all BTW, just trying to help give translated feedback of what I think many other people are wanting to say, except for them it comes out as "DURRR, DIS EVENT SUCK."  

I like the event. As for the amount of graphics, I'd say let more people work on it. For example Coco would tell some people 'make a gooey witch hat' the image (and final hat) they have in their head will often be so different you could use both. What Thallen said about people prefering quantity in these events, I agree. People will see a few hats they want, but when they get an uglier hat they won't be mad, they'll think 'ah well it is still a hat.' And keep trying to get the hat they really like.  

Basically. Either:

1.) Throw old hats into the mix

or

2.) Make new, quality hats

One is harder and more "honorable" than the other but I guarantee you that nobody will complain if you do either. Till then you will continue to get **** over not releasing enough content for us.  

Posted by David

Basically. Either:

1.) Throw old hats into the mix

or

2.) Make new, quality hats

One is harder and more "honorable" than the other but I guarantee you that nobody will complain if you do either. Till then you will continue to get **** over not releasing enough content for us.

3.) Built onto the pool every year.  

Posted by David

Basically. Either:

1.) Throw old hats into the mix

or

2.) Make new, quality hats

One is harder and more "honorable" than the other but I guarantee you that nobody will complain if you do either. Till then you will continue to get **** over not releasing enough content for us.

That's incorrect to say people won't complain if you recycle hats.  

Posted by PigParty

That's incorrect to say people won't complain if you recycle hats.

They'll complain less than they are right now... I can pretty much guarantee that. These people will always take reused and recolored content over nothing.  

Posted by Thallen

Well, your concept of "giving away things for free" and mine are very different... If you guys really see an issue in throwing phased-out, public hat shop hats into a pool of seasonal rewards, then I think you're always going to be overworked and pooped on by the community when it comes to these events.

In what ways are they different? The chance of the getting them being low or not is irrelevant. The bottom line is that they would still get them and they would still be free, even if it was only a few people that got them. People that paid 2-8k on them last year would feel cheated and would rather take their chances trying to get them for free rather than buying them.

Making a few new things every year for the event isn't that big of a deal. It's when everyone expects unrealistic quantities and are disappointed when they get most of the prizes on the first day after whining about how they haven't gotten all the prizes yet not even half a day after the event was released. It's ridiculous.

Posted by Thallen

They'll complain less than they are right now... I can pretty much guarantee that. These people will always take reused and recolored hats over nothing.

I completely disagree with that. They would probably complain just as much if not more. And they aren't getting "nothing". There is a good amount of items being given right now, only people were complaining because they weren't getting them fast enough. So we raise the chances of getting things and everyone starts complaining that they aren't getting enough. If we recycle old hats people will start complaining about that. There's always something.  

Posted by Dusty

3.) Built onto the pool every year.

Why weren't the hats from previous years included this year then?

Posted by Coco

There's always something.

Hey, there wasn't in 2013 where you guys used a bunch of hats that were pretty low quality compared to these! If there was, then I don't remember it. Maybe you and Dusty should do the Richaard's/Onett hats then tell the rest of the GFX team to open their buttholes and poop out as much as they can.  

Don't take the following in a hard way.

Posted by Dusty

Of course we knew! We always know! And we can't do anything about it!

No... you didn't know, you don't always know, and if you did, you could have done something about it. Do you play the game? Have you tried to catch butterflies recently? They are hard to catch, due to the amount of players on. If somehow you did, why would you even bother with the ghosts? If something will obviously go wrong, why would you even release it?

Posted by Dusty

The event is out now and yet there's still no good suggestions. I don't think that was the problem at all.

The problem is, you can't know what a good event to please everyone will be. Everyone had their own ideas, and obviously liked their own ideas. Others might have not, but there were a lot of suggestions.

Even this event could have been fixed with just simply allowing players to know what they could win. I'll post example pictures later on.  

Let's face it, someone's bound to complain.  

The point is more content > less content.

This has never been false in the history of any game ever. If you think that people are excited to play all day for 4 hats that they may or may not even like then you're insane.  

Posted by Aguzo

No... you didn't know, you don't always know, and if you did, you could have done something about it. Do you play the game? Have you tried to catch butterflies recently? They are hard to catch, due to the amount of players on. If somehow you did, why would you even bother with the ghosts? If something will obviously go wrong, why would you even release it?

I'm not taking it a hard way, but you're being insulting. We know very well about the lag and there's nothing we can do about it. Stop acting as though we're idiots and don't know the server has lag issues.

If ghosts were the ONLY thing you could get candy from you'd have a point, but it's not. It's one of three ways, and we intended to have more(including the candy bowls). We can't magically have NPCs not lag and everything on the server is an npc. Everything goes through the server before it gets to you, and the server is laggy. Therefor everything is laggy. We can't just not use the server because all it does is introduce loopholes for memory hackers.

Again, feel free to post your amazing, well-thought out ideas and fixes to all these problems you know the answers to.

PS. There was a lot of demand for ghosts to be brought back. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  

Posted by David

The point is more content > less content.

This has never been false in the history of any game ever. If you think that people are excited to play all day for 4 hats that they may or may not even like then you're insane.

That may be true, but that doesn't mean it can be easily done.  

Posted by Dusty

Surely we can just *poof* people out of thin air and fill the positions, ya? Then absolutely make sure they stick to the strict schedule and make stuff in time for the next event... and if they don't do it then what? We fire them... ah man, now we have even less graphics staff to make content!

I applied for graphics and I can level but I have a ban record sooo  

Posted by Ivy

I applied for graphics and I can level but I have a ban record so

I don't see why ban records should mean someone doesn't get the position.