All Good things...

I want to thank Gaile and ANet again for the awesome Haloween event!!!!!

This was a fantastic social event for Guild Wars. I was up past midnight for several nights in a row. All the LA districts were packed all the way down to d8! After much trying I made it into d2 and PARTIED! I had more fun at this party than I've have at some real life parties!!!

I even made a little party dress for Carinae, because battle armor didn't feel right for the event. We drank, we danced, we met other people and made new friends... BIG FUN!

And no hangover the next morning (but maybe still a little tired)

Brits have an event called harvest festival...that's the neares thing to thanksgiving. I wouldn't mind celebrating an American tradition anyway.
Any excuse for a party!

Thanksgiving's all over the place, don't think it could work.

Christmas, now...

FREE STUFF!!!!!!! WOOOOOO!!!!!!!

This man has it figured out. Who really cares whose holiday it is? Free stuff and interesting events means everybody wins. I wouldn't have a problem with celebrating every American, European, and Korean holiday, if it means getting stuff.

You said it all right there!
I don't celebrate Halloween, never had.
Yes I don't even know what candy corn is
Nonetheless, I still had a blast and made a few new in-game friends.

Great job Anet!!

Very nice to put more flare into the game and show us that you devs wuv us so much

i'd keep tombs the way it is right now with the ghost flying around. adds a nice touch.

I Demand A Giant Killer Robot Santa For Christmas!

I hope that I can keep my name when chrismas comes! I would not like an NPC to try to be me This world is not big enought for 2 Santas.

Holloween isn't celebrated in Korea either, yet we still had an event for it. Korea has a "Thanksgiving" (called Chuseok) that is celebrated in the fall. While Korea is growing in Christian population, it's very much the minority - Koreans have Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islamic as significant religous memberships (in that order) so to claim that Korea "celebrates" Christmas is incorrect. Only about 25% of the population is christian. Same would apply for any other christian religous holidays (Easter, etc).

If ANet had to account for every single special holiday from every single country GW is played from, we'd have a special event twice a day, and the expansion would never get done.

does Korea or other asian countries have something like a midwinter holiday or something?

Almost all asian countries celebrate the Lunar (Chinese) New Year.

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Christmas is also the celebration of the return of the sun (hence the candles on the trees), also known as the winter solstice. My family is atheist, and so does not celebrate christmas as the birthday of christ, but rather as the returning of the light, the end of the shortening of days. Please note that I mean no offense to christians, this is merely a different way of celebrating the holiday.

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Great job with the update ANet, and while I will be glad to see the return of "old" Lion's Arch, new scenery is always something I enjoy. I look foward to other holidays with much excitement now

well, let us have christmas trees, and we'll let you have firecrackers and dragons

It comes down to this. Anyone who wants to complain about celebrating this or that holiday can just give their items to me or not get them in the first place. Thanks.

I'd like this more too. Just get rid of the halloween moon and giant cauldrons, but keep the ghosts.

I think it won't be "christmas" per say, but more like the spirit of the holiday its self. Won't be based on "god", but probbably, hence the name "X-mas" (X standing for christ being crossed out). Alot of people celebrate x-mas. Its the sensation of the holiday season. (I love "")

A bit off topic but I always read that Confucianism was not a religion but a ethical system with no God just a founder. So scratch the number 1 off the list.

Good point about the various holidays, with the amount of time europe takes off work for holidays the release will surely be delayed.

People still spam every 3 hours... "OMG where is the Mad King?" in Lions Arch even though Halloween is over.

Well it's good that the decorations will be coming down. Since my hopeful halloween gift went down the crapper though, I guess I'll have to pray that part of the art team still cares about the...*cough*15ktormentors'set*cough*, and that I see it at least before Christmas. Honestly...