Valentine’s Day is coming, and MMORPGs like Blade and Soul or World of Warcraft are using it for an event.
It’s quite a hassle with these annual events in MMORPGs. Halloween is fine, but what do you do with the Festival of Lovers, the flower and chocolate industry? Valentine’s Day isn’t really suitable for a fantasy world. How do two such different MMOs like World of Warcraft or Blade and Soul handle this?
World of Warcraft: Feasting, Achievements, and the Love Rocket
In World of Warcraft the event “Love is in the Air” is celebrated – this means that you sign up for an instance dungeon, revisit the old Shadowfang Keep to hit Apothecary Hummel on the chin in a randomly formed, anonymous 5-man group as quickly as possible. Hoping that he might finally drop the Love Rocket, a coveted mount. If necessary, you take a 635 amulet with you, but that’s probably not much fun with the current equipment status.
Also in Azeroth: Some of the typical event quests, most hang on AVs. It’s about stuffing your belly with chocolate, bothering others with love arrows, or picking a bouquet of roses. Everything is quite modest in Azeroth. The main thing is that you eventually complete the meta-event “What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been.”
In WoW, the Festival of Love revolves around chocolate, AVs, and loot. And it might only differ from a festival like Halloween in that everything is pink instead of orange.
Sexy Nurses in Blade and Soul
Blade and Soul is an Asia MMO that doesn’t handle Valentine’s Day very decently. On the occasion of Valentine’s Day, the romantic aspects are overlooked, and they simply bring a “hot nurse” costume to the cash shop with accessories like glasses, syringes, and so on. Where agents from thrillers usually carry their gun in a garter, here they carry a syringe.
At least, and here the circle closes, it’s also somehow pink. The fact remains: Valentine’s Day just isn’t really suitable for a fantasy MMORPG.
