Now that almost every game out there has some form of play for free level, I can juggle five of those suckers at once, where before I had enough cash for maybe one or two at a time. And it seems like every blasted one of them has a Christmas/Winter festival during December (and further, thankfully). Except you SWOTR, thank you for that. Although you get negative points for the lifeday items. I thought malls had cornered the tacky Christmas Kitsch market.
And it seems like each one of them not only expects you to drop by for a cup of eggnog and coookies but MOVE IN FOR THE DURATION OF THE MONTH LONG “SPECIAL EVENT!”.
In Star Trek Online, the big, big , big reward (the ship, not the starbase ornament) takes logging in for a quest once a day for 25 DAYS!!! Of a 35 day event! Well, thank goodness I have no other commitments in my life that take me away from home! The quest takes about 10 minutes, but I still have to get to the special playground during my daily tour of the galaxy for my ongoing duty officer assigments. Being a single guild dad sucks.
I’ve just started the event in Secret World (after spending literally days before the End-Of-Days with the ARG that ended on the 21st) where I have to kill Mayan zombies and take their secret coins. Of which drop about 5% of the time from remains that drop about 50% of the time. In 6 hours I have about 1/10 of what I need for all the cool goodies. On ONE character. The good thing is if I stand still long enough, one just pops up in front of me so I can decapitate him with a swing or two. The bad thing is if I’m doing any other activity in the game, one just pops up in front of me that I have to decapitate. I’ve had to buy 30 extra inventory slots just to keep up with the garabge I’m getting.
I’m hoping just a few days of playing Ancient Whack-A-Mole will let me finish, and then I can start (START!) on the LOTRO one, which I have missed the last few years. Yeah, I know, people should be so lucky to have this problem.
Oh, look, found some cheese for a few store points to go with my whine. MERRY CHRISTMAS and keep on plugging. For tomorrow, it goes away. Until nex time. When we can do it again (and again and again and again….)