Champions Online: Did you enjoy Attack of the Misfit Toys?

While I do appreciate the devs taking the time to listen to the community and respond to issues brought up, even to the point of bending their plans to the will of the player base, Sakura Park.

Sadly, I did not get to partake in this event as much as I would have liked. most of the time I was on, I was doing actual missions with my brother. The rest of my free time was eaten up by Modern Warfare 2.

I'm sorry, Cryptic!!!! Please don't be cross with me!!

Anyone else do it and have fun? All I did was open a few of the packages and kill a few guys. I wish I wasn't so addicted to cappin foo's.

No. It was way too grindy, with not enough of a reward. People who wanted action figure pieces would just buy them at the AH, at least until the prices skyrocketed. Hunting toys just isn't much fun. And if you want to fully complete the event, you have to hunt down the ultra-rare spawn, which means listening to rumors, bouncing between instances, and hoping you get credit for the kill. The Halloween event killed any desire to do that again.

Very few MMOs get events right straight away, so I'm not real concerned. I just hope they do better next year.

Except that if you understood irony you would understand that my point. Aside from my usual Sakura Park nonsense, it also underlines the fact that Cryptic makes a big show of listening to its player base but then does nothing. As per the Sakura Park issue. The three likes and dislikes idea is good, but there will be no follow-through.

But yeah, it's all just the ranting of a moron, which is why most of the 100+ comments on the STO article a few stories down sight exactly this reason among others as to why they won't be picking up STO

It was an Event that wasnt without issues, such as Clarence not showing up everywhere initially, also nothing to do with the toy drops initially (vendors for trade in for items were not added until after the fact)..

It seemed to follow an increasingly growing trend for Cryptic of nothing working as it should at launch, which does make you wonder why they have the PTS server for testing this stuff if it blatantly isnt working.

There was also the issue of the costume unlocks everyone wanted from the Black Harlequin and Clarence encounters not dropping for those who wanted them irrespective of how many times they did the spawn (and for some it was a LOT). It seemed to be the case of the few 40's at the top of the score list largely getting the drops "IF" they happened, otherwise all anyone else got was a cookie.

After the first week it became abundantly clear that if you were level cap, dont even bother turning up for anything other than the participation in the battle perk.

It did have its positives, the abundance of healing consumables can't be scoffed at, those were/are useful and the various festive Action Figures although purely cosmetic are also a nice collectible touch.

It was a horrible event... Pure grind. For those that weren't there, there were basically 2 things to do: open presents scattered around the world, and fight a giant mecha teddy bear.

Opening presents was just a straight up grind. You click a box, and it either gives you a random item(part of an action figure, a cookie that restores health, or a random present that is used as a turn-in), or spawns 1-3 evil toys that knock your travel power out and attack you(and also drop one of the aforementioned random items). Collect 3 action figure parts, and you get an action figure. Collect 10/50/250 of each random present turn-in(there were 5-6, I forget), and you can get a random piece of gear.

Fighting the teddy bear was an open mission that spawned once per hour per instance. It was a pure DPS race -- the players with the highest DPS had the highest chances of getting a good drop... The rest of the participants literally got a cookie. The teddy bear uses chain knock-back attacks, which if unblocked send you flying 100-200 feet backwards, and take 3/4 or more of your health away. Since he spams these attacks(sometimes 3 times in a row), you spend most of the time blocking, flying through the air, or running back into attack range after flying through the air.

When the event ended, I had 80 of the teddy bears cookies... And none of his drops.

Hang Roper.

I, for one, did not participate in the event too heavily. I opened a few presents, helped down Clarence a few times and enjoyed the snow in the Bank. I didn't participate in Blood Moon to much either: beat on the undead, ran a couple of dungeons, smacked Toka on the ass. I'm not a collector, I'm not nostalgic in MMO's and I'm not an over achiever who wants to keep every scrap of every game I play.
That being said, I think I enjoy events much more than the gamers above because my expectations are not at the same level. I equate that to RL in that I don't make a big deal out of holidays, I don't go broke buying gifts and spreading cheer, I don't build elaborate costumes or create intricate meals. I spend time with those I love and I try to enjoy whatever season it happens to be (most of the big holidays coincide with the seasons anyway).
Life is what you make it. When it gives you snow in the bank, you can complain or you can throw your hat and scarf on and enjoy.

There new secret MMO Crypitc is working on is called Flagship Online...um, jk.