Remember how stuff like July 4th is during the summer when most of the staff don't have school. There's Christmas break for Christmas, we are mainly dominated by American players and staff members.  

Posted by Hayze

Are you serious? I can't tell if you're kidding or stupid. This shouldn't be biased and put the same amount of effort into all important holidays. Not just the US holidays.

^^^
I am a little disappointed that only 2 hats were released for Australia Day, and how last year's July the 4th had many furniture items and hats. Even Halloween had its own event. I'm glad CNY had a shop, though. It is a big thing for Chinese members of the society. I know most of the staff are busy after NY but preparing in advance may be an option for next time?  

This argument is pointless and you all know it.

Hehe...

It's funny,

Cause' I'm celebrating the CNY right now.

新年快乐!  

Posted by Platinum

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I am a little disappointed that only 2 hats were released for Australia Day

no one cares about a island that was originally one gigantic prison. nuclear war doesn't even care

 

Laziness was not it, I assigned one person to do it. And I think the graphics that were put out were pretty damn good so there isn't much reason to complain. It is not "racist" that we didn't do as much for CNY as we do for 4th of July. It's just our entire graphics team is american, so naturally more will be done for the holiday we actually understand. Not only that but most of our player-base is american, so once again it would be natural to put more effort into the holiday that most of our player-base is accustomed to.

This goes with Australia Day as well. I'm not going to assign a bunch of people to do a holiday that most of our player-base knows nothing about, or even when it is without looking it up on google, when we have holidays coming up that we plan to do a lot on.

I'd be grateful if I were you. I mean, the only reason Australia day or CNY had items was because it was requested. We could, ignore your requests, but we don't. So please be a little more understanding that we have a very small development team, and very big goals for updates to come. I plan to at least make sure something is done for all the holidays players request. But you really dont need a full furniture set and 10 different hats that 90% of the world won't even be let out of school early for.

Posted by Hayze

Are you serious? I can't tell if you're kidding or stupid. This shouldn't be biased and put the same amount of effort into all important holidays. Not just the US holidays.

The only 'US holiday' that's really celebrated on graal is 4th of July. Keep in mind when that was celebrated we had an abundance of staff, and it was over the summer, when none of them had to worry about keeping up with school. So we were able to produce lots of content for it. If I had a full team right now you can bet we'd have lots more stuff for holidays like this.

If you guys want to see what our chinese new year could be like if our team really didn't care, feel free to log onto classic and visit their Onnet Town General Store.  

Posted by Tashkin

Most of the staff have been busy the last couple weeks. So we released what we had. This isn't our day job so stop expecting it to be.

Honestly I don't think it's in your best interest to release work that you know is sub-par.  

Glad some stuff was released.

Hopefully Valentine's Day will be large, looking forward to seeing new content such as guns, playermade hats, etc.  

Posted by Isaac

Glad some stuff was released.

Hopefully Valentine's Day will be large, looking forward to seeing new content such as guns, playermade hats, etc.

As far as I know, no player submitted vday hats have been sent.  

Posted by MattKan

Honestly I don't think it's in your best interest to release work that you know is sub-par.

Just because we didn't release 100 items doesn't mean it's sub-par. Items were released which didn't have to be released at all. Should be happy we had anything at all so for that standards were met.

This has nothing to do with non-american countries... my staff work and go to school. Just because China has their new years a month late doesn't mean Americans are out of school. We don't get other countries holidays off. So as I stated before... be happy we were able to get what we had done.

You all can submit stuff as well. Nobody is stopping you from working on things as well. Just some food for thought.  

The graals should have news updates for like "Want to send in some Chinese New year stuff? email __________" If you spread the word I bet many would love to send graphics in, they just don't know if you're doing the holiday or not. Obviously the graphics staff were busy, that happens but if they ever need help just do a news update and I bet tons will send some stuff in :0  

Posted by TayTayGraal

The graals should have news updates for like "Want to send in some Chinese New year stuff? email __________" If you spread the word I bet many would love to send graphics in, they just don't know if you're doing the holiday or not. Obviously the graphics staff were busy, that happens but if they ever need help just do a news update and I bet tons will send some stuff in :0

No offense to you, but we have stated numerous times that if you want to submit graphics to the server to send them to [email protected]. It has probably been stated 100 times now.  

Posted by Tashkin

No offense to you, but we have stated numerous times that if you want to submit graphics to the server to send them to [email protected]. It has probably been stated 100 times now.

In announcements?  

Posted by Tashkin

Just because we didn't release 100 items doesn't mean it's sub-par. Items were released which didn't have to be released at all. Should be happy we had anything at all so for that standards were met.

Posted by Tashkin

Most of the staff have been busy the last couple weeks. So we released what we had. This isn't our day job so stop expecting it to be.

Tashkin you're the one admitting that the update wasn't all that you thought it would be. I know you've done a lot for Zone, but I still don't think knowingly releasing unfinished stuff is going to get you/it anywhere. Worst case scenario you save the content for next year's holiday and release an outstanding holiday rather than just a meh one. If you don't have the capacity to release outstanding holiday updates (which is pretty understandable when you think of how many there are) then maybe alternate them out each year? Or maybe you could just forgo some holidays altogether and put your emphasis on particular ones instead of trying to please everybody which will never happen lol.  

Posted by MattKan

Tashkin you're the one admitting that the update wasn't all that you thought it would be. I know you've done a lot for Zone, but I still don't think knowingly releasing unfinished stuff is going to get you/it anywhere. Worst case scenario you save the content for next year's holiday and release an outstanding holiday rather than just a meh one. If you don't have the capacity to release outstanding holiday updates (which is pretty understandable when you think of how many there are) then maybe alternate them out each year? Or maybe you could just forgo some holidays altogether and put your emphasis on particular ones instead of trying to please everybody which will never happen lol.

The graphics were pretty damn great (latte made them), so the items themselves weren't finished. I myself don't think there's really much to complain about content wise.
http://gyazo.com/20ff810e0abbcb68b8c9981a897d6e8d.png (Unsupported image host)

This is a screenshot of the released merch incase anyone is interested. I think that is enough for a quaint little holiday that no iserver has ever actually done a lot for. Seriously in the four years or so that this holiday has been celebrated this is about what has been put out by most servers, I can barely see how it doesnt meet expectations, unless you guys need a hat.  

Posted by MrSimons

The graphics were pretty damn great (latte made them), so the items themselves weren't finished. I myself don't think there's really much to complain about content wise.
http://gyazo.com/20ff810e0abbcb68b8c9981a897d6e8d.png (Unsupported image host)

This is a screenshot of the released merch incase anyone is interested. I think that is enough for a quaint little holiday that no iserver has ever actually done a lot for. Seriously in the four years or so that this holiday has been celebrated this is about what has been put out by most servers, I can barely see how it doesnt meet expectations, unless you guys need a hat.

2 more hats and a nifty cheap gun would have taken you guys a day or two to make, gani staff a day or two to gani the weapon. I mean, what were twiz or bleck or lord or you doing?