Breakfast Topic: Did you accomplish your Lunar Festival goals?
by Fox Van Allen 
Feb 13th 2011 at 8:00AM
Try to hold back your tears: Lunar Festival, the World of Warcraft in-game holiday based around the Chinese New Year, has come to an end. Personally, I don't know what I'm going to do with myself now that the event is over. I've been spending the past few weeks obsessively running old and outdated dungeons on my max-level characters, watching 20 different people standing around Moonglade without any idea about how to summon Omen, and deleting tons of spam-like in-game mail from all sorts of "elders." And what do I have to show for it? Nothing, because I still haven't done the stupid Children's Week PvP achievements. (And I probably never will.)
But enough about me. What about you? Did you accomplish your goals for the Lunar Festival? And, gosh darn, how are you ever going to survive the next 40-plus months without experiencing the joy and fun of the holiday?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Faither Feb 13th 2011 8:07AM
I finally got the last achivement í needed to becom "Elder Faither" its two years ago i did all the other ones :p
Tribunal Feb 13th 2011 10:37AM
I became an Elder and a Master Flyer on my two alts, saving myself 10k (well, 8k) gold in the process c:
Considering they're my miner and herbalist, I'm pretty happy.
I started the holidays on them with the XP or money-making stuff (like candy buckets) or stuff that gave them loot (HH rings) and then I finished a few metas out of boredom, or 'ooh neat title'. After about two on my druid I was like "Ooooooo 310 Flight Form" and I was hooked. Then my Shaman finally hit 80 and I realized they would still be even since my druid had missed Lunar Fest as well, and they were doing them too.
It was time consuming and frustrating at times, but fortunately most of them were already done on my main (I was missing one meta and one or two non-metas or pieces of vanity loot here and there) so I stuck with it.
Udderpowered Feb 13th 2011 8:07AM
Oh god the mail spam, they just had to throw something in to add frustration to an otherwise bearable holiday. I don't want your crappy fireworks, damn you! I'm changing my address for next year.
Eisengel Feb 14th 2011 7:23AM
I'm not sure if he meant it in the picture, but this brings to mind a famous Computer Science paper titled, 'Get me off your f***ing mailing list'. Not just the title, but the entire paper, and all the graphs, consist of the phrase 'get me off your f***ing mailing list' (asterisks added for politeness!).
It was actually published in an academic conference. As you gain some notoriety over time you can quickly get inundated with calls for papers from every new workshop or conference out there. Some will ask you submit 'invited' papers, usually with very lax review requirements. This paper was likely submitted to one of those.
You can find it on Google Scholar:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22get+me+off+your%22+%22mailing+list%22&btnG=Search&as_sdt=0%2C31&as_ylo=&as_vis=0
.. it's the second link
The first link is another fun one about a paper that was accepted at a conference after being generated entirely from jargon buzzwords by a computer (it also wasn't peer-reviewed).
Liena Feb 13th 2011 11:35AM
I did :) The first holiday I have completed (started playing in Sept). Have also completed Love is in the Air. I only had "the Patient" before so I'm enjoying the novelty of my new titles.
Got to agree though, the Lucky Red Envelopes were pretty lame.
Rauchmalz Feb 13th 2011 8:38AM
First holiday event that I completed. They should also award an achievement for your mailbox crashing from all those annoying messages.
Basil Berntsen Feb 13th 2011 8:42AM
I most certainly did! Not a single lunar fest NPC interacted with, and I spent absolutely no time working on vanity achievements.
Toothy Feb 13th 2011 11:13AM
Hard to accept from someone who has their own OCD occupation. Did any of your alts leave the auction house long enough to realize there was an event of any kind? :)
Basil Berntsen Feb 13th 2011 11:31AM
I'm not trying to claim that my pixels are somehow more valuable than yours, I just prefer not to spend time earning virtual currency that can't be spent. Things like gold, valor points, and conquest points can be spent to get that ability to earn these points faster. It's all part of the feedback loop that has us all logging back in every day and paying our monthly fees. Achievement points, however, feel empty.
Toothy Feb 13th 2011 12:27PM
Didn't mean to insinuate any superiority BS going on. Just pointing out the irony (since I recognized the name) of what I read as your sense of accomplishment: "I didn't waste my time on meaningless pursuits...I'm too busy making gold"
The irony of course being that all that gold (and as you implied, what it buys), and my violet drake are all equally nonexistent and meaningless. The only value in either is the enjoyment we receive in "gathering" our digital rewards. I found the implicit comparison laughable, hence the comment.
Vani Feb 13th 2011 8:44AM
Well, at least now I can look foreward to runnning all over Azeroth again for midsummer's festival, Hallow's end, and some other third travelling holiday I forgot.
But...
I really want my purple dragon! XD
Craig Feb 13th 2011 9:32AM
But for a leveling character hallows end and midsummer are worth since candy baskets and flames actually reward xp...I feel if holidays offered that quick xp like those holidays id do them more...if the elders rewarded xp id be more inclined to talk to them but even when I clearly see them I still don't talk to them.
Vani Feb 13th 2011 4:04PM
I guess the xp thing is some motivation, but all my alts can't fly, and who wants to WALK that?
...
I'm so glad I didn't play in vanilla :D
Molly Feb 13th 2011 9:00AM
I didn't. I was really excited at the beginning of the holiday, but then I got hit by a massive wave of Not Caring and decided to level alts instead. I normally don't mind the travel-heavy holidays, but I just lost interest this time around.
Now I have to decide whether to do the PVP achievement for Love Is In The Air...
Sky Feb 13th 2011 12:33PM
What pvp achievement? I got the Love is in the Air meta without having to do a single point of damage. If you were referring to "I Pity the Fool" then just queue for AB, mount up to the Blacksmith, drop Love Fool and pity it and leave BG. Stop whining about everything.
Molly Feb 13th 2011 1:11PM
@Sky
Where was I "whining about everything." I merely stated I may or may not finish "I Pity The Fool" based on personal preference (esp. because I feel it's rude to enter a BG only to leave a minute later; if I'm going to PVP, I will PVP until the battle is finished). Expressing personal ennui about the holiday achievements can hardly be called "whining".
Miggs Feb 13th 2011 9:06AM
No.. I left it late and couldn't get the Wintergrasp elder.... Dammit
ammosj Feb 13th 2011 9:22AM
I got the Elder title for the first time woot! (And I saved all those glowy things f/ "Elder mail" so I can sit in dungeons getting mana and looking uber-cool under that beam of light) ;)
Naryn Feb 13th 2011 9:17AM
I was on holiday for most of the festival but managed to do EK and Kalimdor before I left, just about managed to do the dungeon ones and the Northrend ones all yesterday and finished the elder achievements 1 hour before it ended, so yes, fairly successful
RedMosquito Feb 13th 2011 9:18AM
I completely ignored it, although I did get the elders that were on my path.
After getting my violet proto-drake on my hunter, I just don't have it in me to do it all over again on another character. I tried to, but I just couldn't find the motivation. Nothing's changed on the events, and I'm not gonna do it all again.