Guild Wars celebrates Wintersday in July

by Lesley Smith Jul 10th 2009 at 9:00AM

Filed under: Fantasy, Guild Wars, Events, in-game, News items

Here in the UK, the concept of Christmas in July is almost unheard of. Indeed I've only heard about it because, as a journalist, the Christmas in July events are where all the big consumer companies and department stores unveil their Christmas must-have toys and gifts. The whole thing seems much more prevalent in the US and Australia, oh and in Guild Wars.

Yes, that's right, Guild Wars. NCsoft have announced their 2009 Wintersday event, the Tyrian New Year celebrations, will be taking place between noon PST on Friday July 17th until 11:59pm PST on Sunday July 19th. It's just a matter of chatting to a seasonal priest in the decked-out locales of Ascalon City, Droknar's Forge, the Great Temple of Balthazar, Kamadan, or Lion's Arch to get teleported to the Snowball Arena. You can then do battle with other players and earn candy cane shards which can be exchanged for a wealth of seasonal gifts.

For more information, check out the official Wintersday site here.

Tags: christmas-in-july, guild-wars, guild-wars-festivals, in-game-events, ncsoft, snowball-arena, snowballs, wintersday-in-july

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

John said on 9:16AM 7-10-2009

hmmmmm.....candy cane shards......hmmmmmm

Wootson said on 9:22AM 7-10-2009

I think Guild Wars needs a little boost in the form of a new free expansion like they did with the first game. The game is a little dead these days, compared to the first two years. I don't think that an event like this is going to change that.

It's a great game, but not many people play it anymore. To me it feels empty and events are not making me come back to the game.

Vulturion said on 10:23AM 7-10-2009

Well, that is just weird.

If it was a full-scale Wintersday event I'd wonder if they were doing something shiny & new in December, but since it sounds to be only a partial 2 day implementation I expect it's just a novelty.

As big of a Guild Wars fan as I am (and I think it is my most played game of all tiem by some margin), I'm in the unplaying demographic that Wootson mentioned nowadays - I certainly geeked out for the recent Ritualist overhaul, but even that didn't translate into more game time as I've simply seen & done everything (including having my fill of Wintersdays).

GRT said on 12:03PM 7-10-2009

Actually we don't get to have Christmas at all in the States these days. It is apparently too exclusive. We have Mid-Winter Non-Denominational Holiday in July!

hloukonen said on 5:56PM 7-10-2009

Guild Wars is pretty stale atm. Last expansion was released in 2007. All events are just same old same old that we saw last year. When i quit GW, I went ingame just for the events, but not anymore.

I cant wait for GW2 but it would be super awesome to have more content for GW1.