D3 Holiday Plans

pheregas

Firstly, I'm a long-time player (d986) and am actually pretty happy with how the game seems to be renovating itself.

The pros: Reworking some bad characters, increasing rewards, clearance levels, new boss event, and now these magical Iron Man ads (big fan and even went VIP for the first time to support it)!

The cons: Well, that boss event was pretty rough... But we'll hopefully see it again with less steroids.

The meh: PVP changes. I'm actually shielding less but now not getting top prize anymore. So more HP, less CP, it's a toss-up.


However, a tried and true MPQ experience involves multiple new character releases over the holidays. I believe we had major releases over Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years last year.

I'd like to make a plea to the devs that if they release new characters between now to the end of the year that they may consider running the same event with the same rewards back to back. That way everybody gets a chance (and some get two!) I'm not a religious person, but I do respect the traditions of all religions and there are many different festivities for several different cultures over the next 6 weeks. And while my family gatherings during this time are not religious in nature, it is one of the few times I see certain relatives during the year.

I'm also okay with having no new characters during this time frame if that helps even the playing field. I'm not looking for a preference for anyone in this situation. I love this game, but when it comes to real life, family comes first.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

-Pheregas

Phumade

They really should run the antman, Chulk, htd, gauntlet over the weekend with a 3 event holiday season pvp. Those pve events aren't grind focused and people can play at a pace that makes sense for their holiday plans. A simple 3 event season lets people checkout for family plans and not cripple their standings or cause alliance issues.

While many alliances still compete for holiday events, it seems like most top alliances view those seasons much more casually vs 28 day seasons

Jarvind

If it's like previous holiday seasons it's gonna be a new character released right on the holiday weekend, people will be upset about it, then they'll forget.

JFisch

Unless they try to squeeze some extra ones in, the current release schedule would work out to...

PVE starting November 17th - new 4* character.
December 1st - new 5* character.
PVE starting December 15th - new 4* character.

Then the next 5* either the 29th or maybe they squeeze in another new 3/4* instead.

I don't think last year was a deliberate effort to have release PVEs on every fall/winter holiday, that's just the way the every other week fell.

babinro

pheregas wrote:

I do respect the traditions of all religions and there are many different festivities for several different cultures over the next 6 weeks. And while my family gatherings during this time are not religious in nature, it is one of the few times I see certain relatives during the year.

I'm also okay with having no new characters during this time frame if that helps even the playing field. I'm not looking for a preference for anyone in this situation. I love this game, but when it comes to real life, family comes first.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

-Pheregas

Apologies if this sounds crude but if you look at the calendar for global important events then trying to respect global religions becomes extremely intrusive.

While it's fair to say that North America has forms of Christianity as its dominant faith it's also important to know that it's a melting pot of cultures and beliefs. Also, MPQ is very much a global game.

Below is a spoiler listing of just some of the worlds MAJOR religions and their holidays.

Jewish Holidays:

Jan. 25: Tu B’Shevat

March 23-24: Purim

April 22-30: Passover

May 22: Second Passover

May 26: Lag B’Omer

June 11-13: Shavuot

July 23- Aug. 14: Fast of 3 Weeks

July 24: Fast of the 17th of Tammuz

Aug. 13-14: Fast of Tish’a B’Av

Aug. 19: The 15th of Av

Oct. 2-4: Rosh Hashanah

Oct. 11-12: Yom Kippur

Oct. 16-23: Sukkot

Oct. 23-25: Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah

Christian Holidays:

Jan. 6: Epiphany

Jan. 10: Baptism of Jesus

Feb. 2: Candlemas

Feb. 10: Ash Wednesday

Feb. 14: St. Valentine’s Day

March 17: St. Patrick’s Day

March 19: St. Joseph’s Day

March 20: Palm Sunday

March 24: Maundy (Holy) Thursday

March 25: Good Friday

March 27: Easter

March 28: Easter Monday

April 23: St. George’s Day

April 30: St. James the Great Day

May 5: Ascension of Jesus

May 15: Pentecost

May 22: Trinity Sunday

May 26: Corpus Christi

June 29: Saints Peter and Paul

July 15: Saint Vladimir

Aug. 1: Lammas

Aug. 15: The Assumption of Mary

Sept. 8: Holy Cross Day

Sept. 29: Michael and All Angels

Oct. 31: All Hallows Eve

Nov. 1: All Saints’ Day

Nov. 2” All Souls’ Day

Nov. 20: Christ the King

Nov. 27: Advent-First Sunday

Nov. 30: St. Andrew’s Day

Dec. 6: St. Nicholas Day

Dec. 24: Christmas Eve

Dec. 25: Christmas

Dec. 28: Holy Innocents

Buddhist Holidays:

Jan. 24: Mahayana New Year

Feb. 8: Chinese New Year

Feb. 15: Nirvana Day

March 23: Magha Puja Day

April 22: Theravada New Year

May 15: Wesak-Buddha Day

July 11: Obon

July 19: Asala-Dharma Day

Dec. 8: Bodhi Day

Islamic Holidays

May 5: Lailat al Miraj

May 21: Lailat al Bara’ah

June 7: start of Ramadan

July 2: Laylat al Kadr

July 7: Eid-al-Fitr (end of Ramadan)

Sept. 10: Waqf al Arafa-Hajj

Sept. 13: Eid-al-Adha

Oct. 3: Hijra- Islamic New Year

Oct. 12: Day of Ashura/Muharram

Dec. 12: Milad un Nabi

Hindu Holidays

Jan. 15: Makarsankranti/Pongal

Feb. 12: Vasant Panchami

March 7: Maha Shivaratri

March 8: Telugu New Year/Ugadi/Gudi Padwa

March 13: Vaisakhi/Baisakhi/Vishu

March 15: Ramanavami

March 23: Holika Dahan

March 24: Holi

April 8: Hindi New Year

April 13: Tamil New Year

April 14: Bengali New Year/Bihu

April 22: Hanuman Jayanti

May 9: Akshaya Tritiya

June 4: Savitri Pooja

July 6: Puri Rath Yatra

July 19: Guru Purnima

Aug. 7: Nag Panchami

Aug. 12: Varalakshmi Vrat

Aug. 18: Raksha-Bandhan

Aug. 25: Krishna Janmashtami

Sept. 5: Ganesh Chaturthi

Sept. 14: Onam

Sept. 16: Vishwakarma Puja

Sept. 30: Mahalaya Amavasya

Oct. 1-10: Navaratri

Oct. 11: Dusshera

Oct. 15: Shardad Purnima

Oct. 19: Karwa Chauth

Oct. 28: Dhanteras

Oct. 30: Diwali

Nov. 1: Bhai Dooj

Nov. 6: Chhath Puja

Nov. 14: Kartik Poornima

Dec. 10: Geeta Jayanti

Dec. 15: Dhanu Sankranti

Pagan Holidays:

Feb. 2: Imbolc

March 20: Ostara

May 1: Beltane

June 20: Midsummer

Aug. 1: Lughnasadh

Sept. 22: Mabon

Oct. 31: Samhain

Dec. 22: Yule

Sikh Holidays:

Jan. 5: Guru Gobind Singh Birthday

Jan. 14: Maghi-Lohri

March 24: Holi

April 13: Vaisakhi

April 18: Birthday of Guru Angad Dev

June 16: Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev Sahib

Oct. 20: Birth of the Guru Granth

Oct. 30: Diwali

Nov. 14: Guru Nanak Birthday

Nov. 24: Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib

Baha’i Holidays:

Feb. 26-March 1: Intercalary

March 2-20: Nineteen Day Fast

March 21: New Year

April 21: First Day of Ridvan

April 29: Ninth Day of Ridvan

May 2: Twelfth Day of Ridvan

May 23: Declaration of the Bab

May 29: Ascension of Baha’u’llah

July 9: Martyrdom of the Bab

Oct. 20: Birth of the Bab

Nov. 12: Birth of Baha’u’llah

Nov. 26: Day of the Covenant

Nov. 28: Ascension of ‘Abdu’l-Baha

Shinto Holidays:

Jan. 1: Oshogatsu

Jan. 7: Koshogatsu

Jan. 15: Seijin Shiki

Feb. 17: Toshigoi

March 3: Joshi-no-Sekku

March 21: Shubun-sai

May 3: Taue Matsuri

Family should come first.
YOU have the power to not play an event at all or simply not play it optimally. MPQ has done a great job at relaxing the requirements to get a single new character cover on it's release event. Even if you miss that entirely you can still reach max prog in the next pve and then grab the new character from the 800 point PvP progression.

xidragonxi

Phumade wrote:

They really should run the antman, Chulk, htd, gauntlet over the weekend with a 3 event holiday season pvp. Those pve events aren't grind focused and people can play at a pace that makes sense for their holiday plans. A simple 3 event season lets people checkout for family plans and not cripple their standings or cause alliance issues.

While many alliances still compete for holiday events, it seems like most top alliances view those seasons much more casually vs 28 day seasons

100% definitely this.

SummerGlau

The more of them there are the less "epic" the five stars seem

beyonderbub

pheregas wrote:

I love this game, but when it comes to real life, family comes first.

I think of my roster as my family. I've raised it from "birth" and I find myself spending all my hard earned money on it. I plan on spending lots of quality time over the holidays with my MPQ family

Moon Roach

I don't really mind what events they have planned. As long as there are no changes to game play or a brand new event style introduced just before the office closes for the long break.

If you think it's bad sometimes getting a response over the weekend when scaling's broken or the progression rewards are set way too high, just wait until the special holiday event starts on the afternoon of Friday December 23rd...

broll

My guess is they'll take some time off and go get drunk with their family and friends.