How the MMOs celebrate holidays

by Ross Miller { Dec 25th 2007 at 6:00PM }

The holiday season isn't just relegated to the real world. Robert "Sabrehawk" Cox of the WarCry Network has a new article up detailing how many of the popular MMOs celebrate the season. Anarchy Online, World of Warcraft, the EverQuest series and a handful of others are there. For those handful of players still involved in Star Wars Galaxies, there's always Wookie Life Day.

One MMO missing for Cox's list is Guild Wars, and our sister site Massively has the information on their Wintersday celebration.

[Via Massively]

Tags: christmas, holidays, massively, mmo, mmog

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

cesar @ Dec 25th 2007 6:08PM

Hey! they didn't have Final Fantasy XI on the list and there is tons of X-Mas stuff in the game for the season!

Kendrick @ Dec 25th 2007 6:13PM

Yes, but the article in question appears to be focused on popular MMO games. It's arguable that Final Fantasy XI, Phantasy Star Universe, Tabula Rasa and many others are niche MMOs with only limited appeal. Still, I would have liked some mention of the fact that it's been Christmas continuously in the Xbox server for Phantasy Star Online for the last three years.

Xelloss @ Dec 25th 2007 6:53PM

FFXI has an active subscriber base of about 500k, with 64-128k people on at any given time, but they mention Starwars Galaxy which has never peaked over 300k total and same with Everquest 2. Also what about LOTR: Online, not sure how many they have but that game sold a bunch, and last I read though not sure they had upwards of a million subscribers.

Pikachief @ Dec 26th 2007 1:22PM

yay someone remembered little ol' PSU :D

A Pissed-off English Gamer @ Dec 25th 2007 6:10PM

Guild Wars is an MMO? Like Diablo 2 is. Or rather, isn't.

Ignatius @ Dec 25th 2007 9:44PM

When I saw the last sentence, all I could think is that the debate of whether Guild Wars is, or is not, an MMO will begin quite soon.

Thankfully it's Christmas night and everyone's too drunk and/or sleepy from all the food they just ate to argue.. hopefully. Anyhoo, no, Guild Wars is not an MMORPG. :P

Only time it's massively multiplayer is when you're in a town.

Shagittarius @ Dec 26th 2007 2:21AM

Guildwars is certainly NOT an MMOG.

Mr.ESC @ Dec 25th 2007 6:35PM

I love Guild wars holiday events,too bad I don't play GW anymore.

jovin6 @ Dec 25th 2007 7:00PM

Yeah. Back when I played, at least, they really put a lot of effort into special events. I still have a bunch of screens of the last day of Beta, with the fireworks and the exploding gnomes and that one guy who kept dying and coming back to life in the middle of town.

For the second game, I really hope they improve on the GW model without changing what was great about it.

Gangsta Smurf @ Dec 25th 2007 7:34PM

Maple Story anyone?

Ryoga Vee @ Dec 25th 2007 9:52PM

http://domo.aeriagames.com/
DoMo is not on the list.
They have a BIG Christmas event going on.

Korova @ Dec 25th 2007 10:03PM

MMO have great Christmas. I remember they put on treasure hunts and everyone got gifts in their inventories. Slaying reindeer made the grind a little more fun for a little while. And fireworks. Good times.

ThornedVenom @ Dec 26th 2007 2:58AM

Even though Christmas = family time, such events bring cheer to the mmo community, giving us activities and goals to do altogether. :)

Plus on a deeper aspect, it provides us an impression of an ever evolving world on which we do have an impact.

... Crap I miss playing GW.

BananaBoat @ Dec 26th 2007 6:00AM

The MMO I used to play (Baram / Nexus:TK) used to give out Santa hats and allowed players to wrap items in gift boxes for use in exchanging gifts.

Ofcourse.... I never had time to play at Christmas, but atleast the lonely people out there have somewhere to go, I guess

Merry Christmas

/goes back to playing Warhawk/