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The Grinch Stole Christmas

Unfortunately my grand plans for THE BEST HOLIDAY EVENT EVAR™ didn’t quite pan out this week. As I’ve talked about (and proven!) many times in the past, one of the pitfalls of a 2 man development team is that when unexpected interruptions pop up for me, everything grinds to a halt. I apologize for not being able to make this event happen in time for Christmas, but rest assured that none of this past week’s interruptions will slow our overall momentum on the much larger and more important Monster Companion/Content Expansion updates.

FYI: A very tiny update (v1.57) with a few fixes/tweaks just went live on all of the servers. It’s nothing to write home (or a blog post) about, but there it is.

I’ll be back after New Years with lots of cool new stuff to show, but until then I hope that all of you enjoy your holidays. Merry Christmas!

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14 responses to “The Grinch Stole Christmas”

  1. Sonix Avatar
    Sonix

    Damn you Grinch! D:

    I wouldn’t mind if the event was a Tad late. =p

    1. DinoTurtle Avatar
      DinoTurtle

      Holiday events last longer than the one day that the holiday is actually on, so I don’t see why they need to start at the exact moment of ______day. You’ve already planned it out, and it’s not even Christmas yet, so it’ll be another day or two before it could even be considered late anyway.

      I vote for Christmas event.

  2. uzumaki360 Avatar
    uzumaki360

    T___T

  3. anastasiaanne Avatar
    anastasiaanne

    This makes me so sad. After getting excited for the Halloween event, and it not happening I was really looking forward to this event, as were many others. </3

  4. puppetshowjustice Avatar
    puppetshowjustice

    I don’t know how much total work was done on the event but if it was far enough along then it would be a real shame to scrap it. Run the event late and make a joke of it. It doesn’t necessarily have to mirror the same time frame as the real world holiday.

  5. saloman Avatar
    saloman

    Yeah in NEStalgia Grinchmas starts in February!

  6. tismondo Avatar
    tismondo

    Nevermind all the frills just gimme a new boss to slay 😀

  7. blacksniper Avatar
    blacksniper

    Christmas in July.

  8. hanta Avatar
    hanta

    You can move that damn npc’s walk path in the market in Ardan as a christmas present to make up for it 😉
    It’s a bummer that christmas didn’t work, but honestly I was more disappointed on halloween. You guys let me down on my birthday XP
    I hope the interruptions clear up for you guys soon, and Merry Christmas!
    PS we don’t mind if it’s a bit late 🙂

  9. josh Avatar
    josh

    Give it to me late!

  10. Chaoseon Avatar
    Chaoseon

    That’s too bad.

    Maybe you can teach Jared how to program just as well as you and Spiff. That way, he could fill in for one of you, if something unexpected happens like this. I think the best team to have is a flexible one. I don’t imagine that a holiday event could be way too hard to program into an already fully functioning game. Perhaps you could code in some kind of cool “template” made just for special events like this, to make it simple to plug in various events for any holiday. Sorry if you already have such a thing in place. I don’t really have the knowledge to suggest how things could be run.

    Anyway, I hope to see lots of great things next year!

  11. deadfool Avatar
    deadfool

    Where is Cindy-Lou Who when we need her?

  12. xiamae Avatar
    xiamae

    ;S Can we have the event late, if possible? It would be the greatest gift of allllllllll. *w*

  13. lordrith Avatar
    lordrith

    Yeah I’d be ok with seeing it after new years. It’s not like Christmas gets out of peoples minds so soon.

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