Change to Seasonal Event Boxes

[Togepi 8]

Hi RW community!

We used to have Easter, Halloween and Christmas event boxes, which was a lot of fun and I know many players miss. The frequent rotation of new interesting items to get made the game very enjoyable and the current rotation of just Winter and Summer boxes every 6 months is not nearly as exciting. I understand the reasoning, RW was cycling through the available cosmetic pool faster than Runescape was releasing them, which meant we would quickly run out. However, I propose a different approach.

My idea is to bring back an Easter (e.g. April>June), Summer (e.g. July>September), Halloween (e.g. October>Early December), and Christmas event (e.g. Late December>March). This would mean we get a more frequent rotation every 3 or so months to keep the server frequently feeling fresh.

To circumvent the issue of introducing too many cosmetics each year, I suggest making it so only 3 or so items are released each event, rather than 5+ and a set like currently. I also suggest making tickets 2-3 times harder to get so the more limited number of event items aren't flooded into the economy and keep feeling rewarding to obtain.

I also understand this would be more work for the team, so instead of having a full-scale event each rotation with a new boss, etc, I suggest two of the four events (e.g. Easter and Halloween) are simply a change to the boxes/tickets without the other features. 

Keen to hear everyone's thoughts. Thanks for reading.

 

Edited March 31, 2023 by Togepi

[ThePoverty 0]

I really like this idea. As there is many more players like Togepi said, the market gets flooded and it doesn't become as valuable so would be cool and interesting to have the rarity increased and have 4 different events not needing to wait on a 6 month rotation for next event.

[Togepi 8]

Thanks, Poverty. I know a lot of us get very impatient waiting for the next event and hopefully this would solve that problem!

[Joyerino 46]

Not enough cosmetics to fill all the boxs like the old days.

[ThePoverty 0]

The current winter box that will last around 6 months has 12 items inside it. if that was to be split into 2x 3 months that would be 6 cosmetics however we're actually suggesting to reduce that amount to compensate for the lack of cosmetics being released. I think it would allow people to look forward to the next event and what it could be even if it is only 3/4 cosmetics in comparion to 12 cosmetics for 6 months and the surplus it has right now.  

Edited March 31, 2023 by ThePoverty

[Jarry 17]

If the team could find the balance between number of rares, difficulty to get tickets, this could work. 

[Togepi 8]

On 3/31/2023 at 9:20 PM, Joyerino said:

Not enough cosmetics to fill all the boxs like the old days.

Agreed, if the same amount of cosmetics are put into the boxes as before. However, as Poverty mentioned, I'm suggesting that there are less cosmetics are put into the boxes to compensate, and the tickets become harder to get so those fewer cosmetics don't flood the market. What are your thoughts on that?

[Togepi 8]

On 4/4/2023 at 9:31 PM, Jarry said:

If the team could find the balance between number of rares, difficulty to get tickets, this could work. 

Thanks, Jarry. I think so too and could keep the game feeling more consistently fresh and exciting.

[mamopepita 4]

thx joye goodd bro <3