Like, the theme and the decorations and the items are still romantic love, but someone decided to try and make it about, like, appreciating what others do and, like, selfcare, and other hippy-dippy stuff.
Certainly not saying that stuff isn’t important but this is the Valentines holiday. It’s always been the Valentines holiday. It still in every way looks like the Valentines holiday. It’s about romantic love, not a trip to Ponyville.
And I say all this as someone not all that into romantic love, I probably count as ace, honestly, and a trip to Ponyville might be nice, if it weren’t for all the creepy talking ponies. But if you want a holiday for this make a new one. Don’t shoehorn it into an existing holiday.
Hallow’s End is now a holiday about apricating the farmers who grow pumpkins, but it just looks like it’s about Halloween.
Lunar Fest is now about learning about the biology of wolves, it just looks like it’s about Lunar New Year.
Winter Veil is now about competitive ice-skating, it just looks like it’s a WoW version of Christmas.
Pirates’ Day is now about learning a second language, it only looks like a reference to Talk Like a Pirate Day.
I get your viewpoint and somethings are not very desirable in the game. Thus one doesn’t or isn’t forced to do them. Like hallows end… I avoid the realm while this is active. I think you have to view this with a grain of salt and do what you can or want from each of these just to get free exp points.
Yup, that isn’t great either. Have to farm it on alts with the dailies to get everything, and who knows if that will even be possible when they add warbands. With so much shared across characters holidays might be a once a day per account thing in the future.
Since when was “take care of yourself, find ways to de-stress, appreciate yourself and others” considered “hippy-dippy stuff?”
It’s Love is in the Air. Not Valentine’s Day. They’ve never been exactly the same. Just like Noblegarden isn’t Easter, Winter’s Veil isn’t Christmas. Similar, but not the same.
So there’s nothing wrong with targeting those who are in relationships and those who aren’t.
The lovely charm bracelets were made out of the crushed bones of our foes. It was pretty metal. I had no idea anything changed in this holiday, but I have a very low-friction brain.
I disagree on most of what you said, but this really stands out. How can caring for yourself or appreciating others be hippy-dippy? I love the 2 daily quests. I think they’re a lot of fun and fit the event nicely.
Love is in the Air used to be a rather sardonic look at the real world Valentine’s Day. If you actually looked past the pink hearts and did the quests, it was about a manufactured holiday so that a group of undead could attempt to poison everyone. It was a thinly veiled comment on the corporate nature of Valentine’s Day.
This new version, to me at least, is about detoxifying it and making it more community focused. Even though there is still the undercurrent of consumerism to it. It’s just a hopefully more benign Artist’s Consortium behind it.
But having your own thing doesn’t own le heckin’ chudderinos.
On top of that it doesn’t come with the pre-packaged appeal of Valentine’s Day, so you’d have to put forth an effort to sell people on it.
Call me crazy, but the context of the statements implies, to me, they’re hypothetical examples of what they would consider alterations to other holidays similar in effect to that done to Love is in the Air.
