The prizes are collectively an excuse to release NPC's in an attempt to reduce the tickets in the economy, but I don't understand how that is justified when all you're essentially gaining is some kind of contrived bragging rights. I know some people who have wasted their tickets at current "just because" but I don't see how you expect players to be dumb enough to bid for items with their tickets on a constant basis that they can get for free in the future. To me, the lineup of quest items just looks like a substitute for lack of creativity.
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The Lottery isn't exactly a give-away,
by the time these Holiday NPCs are available again maybe a handful of people may have earned them with this method, it's just a potential speedy method of obtaining it with the large risk of being empty handed, hardly degrading.
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Oh when you put it like that, it all makes so much sense. "You're essentially removing their purpose and degrading them into random "fun" NPC that you can get from various methods." They're holiday NPCs.
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Again, it's not like absolutely everyone is going to end up with this Weapon, but for those that do there's a chance it might encourage them to start Bowling again because there's no hassle of spending gelat towards lanes.
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It's like adding the CTF Trophy or the Egg Hunt Trophy as a prize that you can win. You're being rewarded for having skill with things like this, winning a prize in a lottery is not a skill, nor does it reflect it.
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This is just something that was planned for an eventual quick release anyway,
you wouldn't expect it to wow anyone under normal circumstances but this method gives the rarity factor to this item.
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You're expecting an NPC that only one person has first during a short amount of time (that does absolutely nothing of use) is going to hype the useless NPC up through some kind of boasting? What the hell?
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Again, just a speedier method of obtaining it before it becomes widespread,
DC has agreed with them being prizes so hardly undermining the Dev Team.
And yes it will be disabled within events.
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"Hey guys, the development team aren't working fast enough so we're going to give you the opportunity to win the prize before it's out!"
That's essentially the message you're giving off here, because they're currently working on the quest. It's not even a type of teaser or a means of hyping the future quest, it's more like a spoiler. "This is what you're going to get in the new quest, get bidding yo!" I wasn't aware that quests were just a means of gathering items, and that's certainly not how most new players I talk to I see them. Quests are supposed to be an adventure, and somehow the mystical Fireball and Superbomb NPCs have shown up in the castle, but if you don't win them it doesn't matter because it's ALSO in a quest? Right.
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You could call it a portable bush,
i'm sure some people would appreciate that.
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Not seeing the humor here.
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The Torch is like an upgrade to the Lantern,
you can damage and burn other players with it,
and even spread fires across objects (bushes, signs, healthpots etc),
players on fire temporarily cannot use fire weapons.
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How does a Torch upgrade into a Lantern?
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Until it gets re-added, yes,
I don't see why that's funny.
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Because it's a cop-out?
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When the NPCs get released theres no reason Quests would be unavailable to them, if they choose not to go ahead with the Quest so be it, some might even prefer that, plus we can always make Chests reward seperate items to those already with the prize like Zelda.
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If you're going to release additional NPCs in quests as a replacement for an item that you bought in the lottery, why don't you just add those NPCs to the lottery? Why would someone choose not to do a quest if the quest prize was something that they had purchased from the lottery? "It doesn't exactly make for interesting quests with basic adventure features such as backtracking if you've already got the NPC." I don't see how that logic is "like Zelda" either.