Cows Loves Cake

I don’t know, a lot of us were looking forward to this when it showed up in the in-game calendar. Granted most of the enthusiasm was based on it being of a new breed of new shiny one day holiday events. But for anyone who actually took part it was pretty rubbish, and I use ‘take part’ very loosely as most people would have found it hard to find anything to actually take part in.

Rubbish :/

Essentially the event boiled down to, if you fly to Booty Bay and talk to an npc, you get turned into a pirate for 12 hours and a 10 point achievement. Thats it, no quest to complete, nothing else – just that. The whole thing just felt like it was cobbled together in about an hour by one of Blizzard’s interns when he/she was bored. I mean OK it’s a one day event so don’t expect massive amounts of content, but the problem was that even the stuff they did didn’t work properly. The 12 hour pirate suit could have easily be made pretty cool but it wasn’t, and to top it off if you mounted on a flying mount it any where near Dalaran it would disappear (why???).

As we know from Halloween’s in game events the whole shape shift thing can be done very well. It’s pretty fun during those two weeks when you’re raiding and half the people are ghosts or orange zombies or whatever, that is cool. The same at winter veil when 1/2 the raid is a tiny green Xmas gnome, it’s not like I’m super giddy about it though, being a druid kind of sucks when any form you shift into removes whatever cool shape shift you had.  I don’t really understand why they couldn’t make these shape shifts stay on druids but only show when in caster form – so you don’t get your cool gnome costume removed just because you needed to actually play your class for a second.  But back to the point, why did they make this pirate costume so fucking shit?  Firstly it’s not a random pirate costume for everyone – it’s just a white shirt on whatever race/gender combo your character is – which is boring.  This could have been cool still if they had made the buff persist through death and basically not be removed by anything except it’s eventual timeout.  Then we would have had full servers of pirate hatted people (again, except the druids *shakes fist*) which would have been okay.  They also could have made you randomly shout/say/emote piratey things, or added ‘arr!’ randomly to the end of everyones sentences (same mechanic as the ’sh’, and ‘..hic!’ when someone is drunk) – this would have been pretty fucking funny IMO. Also it is meant to be parodying the ‘talk like a pirate day’ in RL so why not actually do that, cmon imagine gchat and /2 filled with random …arr! and stuff.

Everyone loves Halloween

In reality there’s about one thousand things they could have done to make this 1 day ‘event’ (again, don’t really class it as an event…) a lot of fun, and yet none of it was done and a lot of the improvements are really really simple too.  It’s a shame really because a lot of what they’ve done in the past with holiday events has been good – I already mentioned Halloween which is probably my favorite in game holiday event. The absolute worst thing, however, is I was really looking forward to the ‘Day of the Dead’ one day event.  After seeing this pirate’s day piece of shit I’ve changed my mind. A lot of us were hoping that day of the dead would be a revisiting of the WotLK launch event where there was a zombie infection that could be spread (turning people into zombies).  This was by far the best event Blizzard has ever done and having this come back for just one day a year would be pretty awesome.  It looks like day of the dead will just be something crap like this though, talk to some random npc in a graveyard and collect your 10 achievement points, yay. In typical forum style I give this event 1/10.  Mainly due to the potential it had, which it didn’t even try to live up to.

It doesn’t look like I’m the only one with these sentiments either.