So ever since this Halloween thing I’ve seen people wondering what Funcom might do for a hypothetical Christmas event, with lots of hemming and hawing over Santa, elves, and whathaveyou. Which, I agree, would be stupid given the setting.
But what if I told you that a Conan lore-friendly Christmas event is possible. How, you ask? Just leave out the Christmas!
It’s simple, really. The whole reason the holiday was invented in the first place was to compete with pagan winter solstice holidays, all of which long predated Christianity. And since Hyborian Age cultures are fantasy versions of real world cultures, it would stand to reason that the winter solstice held some measure of significance to at least some of them as well. So, just base a Christmas event around the winter solstice!
How? Uh, I don’t know, that’s for Funcom to decide. Maybe Mitra can ride around on a sleigh and-wait, no.
A sadistic part of me would love for magic be part of a temporary event just to see everyone who wouldn’t stop complaining about it blow their blood vessels when the event ends and it goes away.
Totally agree! While i’m all for a winter solstice event, lets not put any christian BS in - christ won’t be born for a good long while! I’m not even sure if moses has made an appearance. Or Noah! Keep it to the Long Night, and the feast of breaking winter’s back!
Thanks for the suggestions guys! I think a Winter Solstice event sounds like a pretty good idea, but right now we haven’t decided if we’re even going to do an event. If so it will probably be smaller scale than the Night of Lost Souls.
Christmas event:
Instead of flying reindeer, it’ll be flying rhinos… owait… we have those already.
Seriously tho, just having those same meteors as a special event would be nice. Maybe just change the colours they glow: eg, some red and some green for christmas, multicolour for easter, etc.
For the near term, until they get their virtual house in order, I hope there’s no further events. I enjoy the game, and see the tremendous potential it represents. But their implementation, and corresponding lack of testing for this event, is evidence they really need to go back to the drawing board when it comes to their internal development and QA processes.
I think a Winter Solstice event sounds like a pretty good idea, but right now we haven’t decided if we’re even going to do an event. If so it will probably be smaller scale than the Night of Lost Souls.