So whats you guys opinions on seasonal event bonuses?

I dont like dailies/consecutive login bonuses as it really triggers my fomo of all or nothing and in most cases i would choose nothing and avoid games entirely if the bonuses were too good.

but what about limited time events? for sure we have temp leagues. but what if GGG went a step further.

for example during halloween players could randomly encounter a halloween specific monster that on kill could drop various goodies maybe even having MF bonuses during the event week.

i personally dont know how id feel for it for now because it really depends on how passionate i am with the game. back when i played MH its certainly fun to see the town decorated with seasonal mtx (ironic coming from me who asks to allow us to never need to go to town in POE).

this could be something that they can make recurring. some ideas i have are

halloween (obviously), christmas, chinese new year.

also oktoberfest or saint patricks day (leprechaun irish thing). we could have drinks that cause players to experience a debuff that causes our screen to go blurry/wobble the more we use flasks consecutively.

That sort of shite can stay in Blizzard games

I can't stand those events especially when rewards are tied to them.

They only ever work in region-locked games. Global games lead to people participating in events they could not care less about nor even understand and it ends up being exclusively about the rewards.

I'm really glad PoE doesn't do any of this.

Yeah no thanks.

Not feeling it. Hard pass.

Well it would actually motivate me to play the game after being done with challenges, since I usually quit the league instantly if I'm 40/40 and the league mechanic itself isn't fun or rewarding. Honestly I'll take anything at this point the content drought is insane. Can't believe we might have to wait over 6 months for next league lol, that's definitely gonna affect the steam player numbers for the next league release.

Like if there was some kind of unique halloween content/rewards right now I would login just to see it. So +1


Or they could do custom events, like they used to. That would also solve people's boredom. And hopefully when poe 2 is finally out they can maybe even do 2-month league cycles with a month between the 2 games league releases.

No thanks. Imagine the fomo in this community.

I think it's as bad as real-time quests and game mechanics but I'm a minority so I don't expect it to change for next league IF Settlers goes core.

Good news, everybody! Some info regarding GGG's PoE1 plans for the year appears to be incoming:

https://x.com/pathofexile/status/1851364499036791262

Also, if you really wanted spooky seasonal tat, GGG have that covered, too:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3584187

Happy Halloween!

nah, part of the draw is that you don't feel forced (well i don't) to log in just because of seasonal events, also i would prefer development time to be spent on the league content and not trying to shoehorn a once a year event into a constantly changing game and keep it working.