Were Micro Holidays a complete failure?

[Stephanie-rara]

They're all for fun. Un'goro didn't interest me so I didn't do that one. I -loved- the Hatching of the Hippogryphs and the Silithis events.

[Ashenhoof]

I don't know. I have not been to any of them.

WoW is about challenge and character progression. These "holidays" do not give me any of that.

Sadly this seems to be the general consensus for the loudest people playing WoW.

Blizzard tries to install again a sense of wonder, discovery and fun, only for it to be datamined, grinded into oblivion or to be ignored.

[Soulwind]

In my opinion, the end goal of these is to someday have one everyday, perhaps even more, so that the world is always changing and you find them by chance. "You" being a player leveling up or exploring, not someone who looks for a challenge or a reward, knowing beforehand there will be none.

For what little development time these must take, they're fine.

[HeiAggra]

I did the ungoro event this week and its literally a waste of time. All u do is run back and forth between 3-4 elites and burn them down so they can drop an item that boosts ur dmg by like 1% each kill and then it lasts 3 days. The most u can get is 15% dmg increase. Does anyone really need that? Mobs die almost instantly anyway no matter where u go on broken isles.

I saw some ppl doing that for pvp.

[Mormolyce]

Seems like as a whole the time spent on these could had been better utilized somewhere else.

I don't think the game is much the poorer for that 5 minutes of development time.

[Aggrophobic]

Sadly this seems to be the general consensus for the loudest people playing WoW.

Blizzard tries to install again a sense of wonder, discovery and fun, only for it to be datamined, grinded into oblivion or to be ignored.

A few random dinos won't add "discovery and fun" though.
Being ganked over and over just to see the same devilsaurs we had since vanilla is not fun at all.

[McCrazy]

I was at Un'Goro this week, but did not participate in the poll.

[Barnfargen]

... I think Micro Holidays are a waste of their time, it could be put to better use improving things like 1-60 leveling experiences and such.

Didn't they have an entire expansion that fixed 1-60 leveling?

[Waniou]

I literally only just realised that that Un'goro thing was not just an ad for the new Hearthstone expansion.

[Deleted]

The events should have dropped AP and Legendaries - or at least some thing that was absolutely mandatory and required for people to keep their raid spots. But all of them items should have had really astronomically tiny dropchances.

Then everyone would have been happy and these events would have been truly awesome.

[Laronda]

These threads are always quite sad to see. Someone else said it before me, but it's really unfortunate that these are the type of posts that get heard the loudest within the community.

I personally didn't check out this one, but the others were fun. Does this mean it was a complete failure? I bet a lot of the people whining in threads like these would play a new MMO and be like "X MMO is sooo good, it's got so many cool little things that WoW doesn't have like *insert thing similar to micro-holiday*".

In my eyes, just because it doesn't give you a loot cache doesn't mean it's a failure.

[Ulfric Trumpcloak]

Why is this even a question? Obviously they were indeed an utter failure.

[Ol Scratch]

Were Micro Holidays a complete failure?

Yes.

I mean, how could they not be just from the raw conception?

They reward nothing -- no mount, no pet, no costume, no toy, not even an achievement -- and they duplicate things people are already "forced" to do for actual rewards (farming rares, gathering, etc.).

What exactly was the point supposed to be? To "have fun?" That's the one thing Blizzard has no idea how to achieve in WoW anymore. They seem to firmly believe that "fun" equates to "tedious, repetitive work," and according to these micro holidays, they also seem to think tha people will want to have such "fun" even without being rewarded just for the sake of "having fun"... even though the *only* way they've gotten people to do the vast, vast, vast majority of shit in the game over the years is by offering rewards. Arenas and rated battlegrounds, I'm looking at you in particular.

And even more bogglesome? They can't even contemplate why the vast, vast, vast majority of the community is tired of their shit and constantly complaining.

I'm sure a host of sycophants will come pouring out of the woodwork to state how wrong I am, how they're "having fun," and all that crap. Bully for them. It doesn't change the aforementioned facts one bit, no matter how in denial they are about them.

[Decisive The Hallowed]

Would be nice to get some sort of small buff for a few days while they are active, if we participate in the event. Maybe like a 5-10% Exp/Rep increase similar to the Darkmoon Faire buff?
Nothing too big to make a massive difference, but something enough to make you participate and help out in other ways.

[thilicen]

Mini-events that are just for fun for the people who care enough to do them, how can these even be a failure? They already said the day they announced these things that they were just minor events for lulz. Were you expecting a way to gear up or what?

[Tradu]

I personally never cared about the concept of them. I did like 5 min of the Silithus one because I was gonna do AQ40 anyway, that's it.

[Deleted]

Oh look a stupid who takes mmoc players for the the whole wow community - how 2006....

Answer to op: On the contrary to this topic, NO is the answer you are looking for.

[WowIsDead64]

Some usual x.1 patch "illusion of content" crap on a par with selfie camera.

[tankbug]

I like the concept. If I was bored and a little burned out on the main content, maybe I would do em instead of trying to improve my character.

[Osmeric]

More people might have done this had they not made "worthwhile" grind so endless in this expansion. As it is, doing something that's just fluff feels like you're wasting your time, when you could be grinding some more AP.