An MMO I play just started their yearly Halloween festival in-game. There’s a dungeon/zone where you roam around an area in groups of players, and the area is filled with enemies and occasionally floating ghostly doors that, when you interact with them, monsters appear and drop candy.
I played some of that for about half an hour earlier when I realized that the whole idea of trick or treating is… Not really a thing anymore. And that’s weird to think about. Because somehow, the event of Halloween is now basically entirely about the candy getting? Like, they eliminated the door-to-door at night thing. So now it’s basically a car show with kids getting candy?
As I stood there, in-game, knocking on doors and trick-or-treating and fighting mummies, spiders, and ghouls, I was just so confused how they took the traditional aspect of a weird and quirky but harmless and fun holiday away in favor of… just candy.
Like… No more spooky, no more pranks, no more mischief. Just “here’s your cheapass candy”. Maybe I need to go to one of these to understand it or something, because I can’t imagine it.
Like nightmare before Christmas but everybody’s a lobotomized eunuch.
An MMO I play just started their yearly Halloween festival in-game. There’s a dungeon/zone where you roam around an area in groups of players, and the area is filled with enemies and occasionally floating ghostly doors that, when you interact with them, monsters appear and drop candy.
I played some of that for about half an hour earlier when I realized that the whole idea of trick or treating is… Not really a thing anymore. And that’s weird to think about. Because somehow, the event of Halloween is now basically entirely about the candy getting? Like, they eliminated the door-to-door at night thing. So now it’s basically a car show with kids getting candy?
As I stood there, in-game, knocking on doors and trick-or-treating and fighting mummies, spiders, and ghouls, I was just so confused how they took the traditional aspect of a weird and quirky but harmless and fun holiday away in favor of… just candy.
Like… No more spooky, no more pranks, no more mischief. Just “here’s your cheapass candy”. Maybe I need to go to one of these to understand it or something, because I can’t imagine it.
Like nightmare before Christmas but everybody’s a lobotomized eunuch.
Well in the US nowadays, People will shoot you for ringing their door bell. It’s all the freedom, you know?