Talk:Arcane Pentournament/@comment-6613158-20160826114452

Time for a different opinion...

Players are suffering from event fatigue. Same thing happened to me, last year, with The Great Dragon Faire. That one became boring after the first week or so. We still had another two months to go. The Faire wasn’t much more than a big garage sale, with some interesting, but totally random, dragons thrown in. The entire Faire in itself was completely random, no theme, nothing. For the more experienced player it didn’t provide anything new. It just became a chore. Almost straight from the beginning.

The Arcane Pentournament is the exact opposite of the Faire. It has a very well defined theme. The Olympics have always been important in the Game. The Olympic Dragons, the Snowy Dragons, the Victory Dragon: all have been introduced during either the summer or the winter games.

There are theme based extra’s (Arcane Arena, Parade Gardens, Rings when Racing, the Triple days), the five Houses.

The fact that right in the beginning of the event dragon number 300 was introduced was a (pleasant) extra. Three three-headed dragons to commemorate this occasion isn’t extravagant. My opinion, of course, but so is this entire post.

Which leaves Dawnbringer. It’s the odd one out. Not a regular new dragon like Ivy, for it could only be bred or bought with rings. It would make sense if there was one final event dragon to complete the table of five. But then again: Dawnbringer is so beautiful, so unique, I am totally at ease with it having just slipped in when it did.

So are the dragons hard to get? Maybe. All house dragons will have breeding combinations sometime in the future. All players received two already, one could be bred (if you didn’t happen to select the wrong house to belong to...). All other event dragons are epics, so they can always be bred. With patience. And one of them will be a freebee, so that only leaves eight…J  They will have breeding combinations in the future as well.

The other event ‘prizes’ are quite exciting as well. The Monument is, even more than the Relic was, a great addition to the game. In itself, it prolonged my long-term goals with at least a year. Islands are always nice, as are useful Habitats.

Everyone plays his or her own version of this game. Everyone experiences the rules and regulations in his or her own way. It’s not possible to make valid statement about how other players may feel.

It’s wonderful to see that the game is still around: almost five years after it has started, over 300 different dragons living on their islands in the sky. I’m still playing too much. I’m still being distracted by it too much. I’m still having too good a time doing so. Event fatigue or no event fatigue: I will be around for quite a while yet.