Slaughter Week?

[katriell]

I'm thinking maybe they will dress the Yubo's up like Ninja! Giant Jack-O-Laterns in the capitals (like they did the trees at Christmas last year). Maybe we'll see a skeleton or ghost!

*...runs* *agrees with Kyerna*

[johntf]

Now the christmas event I liked simply because of the beautiful graphics especially on the tree's

[grimjim]

We have a greek goddess (Atys) a Babylonian sun god (Marduk/Ma-Duk) Japanese nature spirits (Kami), evil space gypsies (Karavan) and the precursor to Kami and Karavan religion-wise seems to have been a sort of Animism (used to be under the Fyros section mostly).

Halloween makes as much sense as anything else

[truce1]

Since you asked for it ...

I honestly fail to see the need to implement RL religious, national and/or commercially hyped holidays, disguised to amply fit the gameworld one way or another, just like that other game. I'm not gonna start on politically correctness on an international shard as that's whole other can of worms; I hope others won't either lest this gets ugly.

What I rather would have seen are ingame festivities and celebrations that are really relevant to the gameworld; something as the Festival of Light in Jena's name which is hosted and planned by players. I'm pretty sure there's more examples on which to expand on, things to comemorate: the Fire of Corriolis; the Exodus; the Treaty of Four People, the Force of Fraternity, Jena's Commandments, ...

So many opportunities to make the world more lively, so many opportunities missed ...

Please keep in mind that Halloween is a commercial holiday of fun and celebration, and vaguely resembled the rites and rituals it is based on and or the multiple cultures it is taken from.

Its just a fun celebration. Nothing Religious about it.

Now Christmas, that would be another one that was taken from one religion and converted and clamed by another to increase sales.

Anyway, i think your over reacting.

[katriell]

and vaguely resembled the rites and rituals it is based on and or the multiple cultures it is taken from.

Rites, rituals, and cultures that never existed on Atys. Thus Halloween has no basis/right to exist.

[truce1]

Rites, rituals, and cultures that never existed on Atys. Thus Halloween has no basis/right to exist.

Yor crazy, Whats all this Kami worshiping going on? What are the spells and animations?

There is a ton of it in the lore.

Halloween, no. But that’s why its slaughter week. Not Halloween.

I’m not trying to start something, but what’s your aversion to it?

Is it breaking what you feel is the immersion of the GAME, or does it offend your RL religion?

[grimjim]

Rites, rituals, and cultures that never existed on Atys. Thus Halloween has no basis/right to exist.

Lots of cultures have an analogue though.

[rushin]

what Kyerna said

and:

Allright, you´re right that per say something like that does not have to do anything with Atys on a quasi-religious basis.
But, as with all Seasons-Events in the past:
IT´s JUST FUN!!!
IT´s JUST a GAME!!!

So please don´t get started about it making sense or not.
It´s just a week of something different.
Nothing to rant about or get angry about.
Just something to have a whee bit of different fun with our game.

So shut the **** up and enjoy yourself!!!

Acridiel

1) is being abusive really necessary? i find your st **** u really out of order - the first time someone said that to me ingame i quit the guild i was in (a guild i started) because i couldnt believe we had recruited someone so rude. If you cant communicate without swearing its often better not to bother.
2) it doesnt require any more effort to celebrate Atys holidays instread of RL ones, with little treats as we have seen before. would be a lot more fitting and immersive.

[johntf]

Lots of cultures have an analogue though.

Yes but not presented and commercialised the way american and to a lesser but more growing extent england do now. I'm not fond of commerical holidays don't even start me on how I hate christmas and would have it destroyed

[katriell]

Is it breaking what you feel is the immersion of the GAME, or does it offend your RL religion?

I tend to have some degree of aversion to anything that is plopped into the game with no lore backing (shush grimjim; I think EP2 did have sufficient backing). Honestly, Ring had no lore backing - its terminals just...appeared. But Ring is an extremely useful tool, whereas Halloween or a similar holiday is frivolous. Therefore the latter can have the brunt of my suspicion.

In essence, I play the game purely to roleplay. When that is potentially disrupted (in a way I can't ignore by turning off public chat channels), I get rather bristly.

I don't have a religion.

This could be an opportunity for "them" to inject some interesting lore, however. I just hope they have this well thought out.