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Reminder: There WILL Be a Halloween Event this year

IiIiana·11/1/2015, 1:53:51 AM·4 votes·3,226 views

I'd just like to leave a reminder that there will be a Halloween event this year. The note about Harrowing being separated from Halloween only means the Harrowing Mist (Shadow Isles Lore) won't be the theme of every Halloween event from now on. This year we are having a Zombie Apocalypse themed event.

Quote from KateyKhaos, answering someone on PBE:

When you consider it's a Harrowing skin... ehh. I would have much preferred to see something like the Zombie Jinx concept that was floating around. It seems like wasted potential to me.

RIOT KateyKhaos: "It's not exactly a Harrowing skin, which is why it's not Shadow Isles-related or something we've seen in the past. This may make more sense when the event rolls out. I'd love to know what you think once the event is over!" - 12 days ago

also:

RIOT KateyKhaos: "We've got a lot of awesome stuff planned. Since it's going to be a bit different than other years, I'd love to hear your thoughts after the event ends!"

The only "mistake" (not really a mistake) by Riot's part was not releasing it on October 31, the official Halloween day. But the event will happen.

tl;dr: ** Halloween will happen. I just thought I should make this thread because I've seen so many people bummed that they had been saving RP for the previous years' legacy Halloween skins and they thought they wouldn't come back from the vault this year. I'm no Rioter to give you 100% of certainty, but Legacy skins have that name for a reason: they always return seasonly, and this year there will be a Halloween event, when they should open the Halloween vault. So don't go on a shopping spree yet! Your anticipated skin might come soon!**

source from the quote: http://boards.pbe.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/general-pbe-feedback/0WNQU63l-pbe-bugs-feedback-thread-slayer-jinx?show=rundown

I believe it has been stated by other Riot staffs that there will definitely be a Zombie event for this Halloween, but I couldn't find it. If someone knows where it is I'll be extremely thankful!

16 Comments

TheNothingLLC11/1/2015, 1:57:14 AM5 votes

Not the first time they've released zombie skins though, why are they talking about the shadow isles connection? Is Bewitching Nidalee supposed to be Shadow Isles? Or Franken Annie? As far as i've always seen harrowing skins they meant halloween. Now the lore has involved shadow isles, but I don't read the lore, so..I don't know why RIOT thinks we're concerned about that connection. Not everyone reads the lore, and it's obvious that all of the harrowing skins had something to do with Halloween, shadow isles? not so much.

DeynaTaggerung11/3/2015, 10:04:22 PM5 votes

>.< You can hardly call it a Halloween event if it doesn't occur on Halloween

Krigjer11/3/2015, 9:58:05 PM5 votes

It's not Halloween anymore, it's November, and I'm preparing for Thanksgiving.

I don't give a crap about zombie skins or any other Harrowing skins anymore. It doesn't matter if 'there WILL be an event' if it's that late.

Riotmoonstones11/3/2015, 9:44:54 PM4 votes

Hey IiIiana,

I wanted to hop in and clarify a couple things here.

The 'Harrowing' and other seasonal things are considered events. It's a pretty vague term and doesn't guarantee game modes, maps, etc. As I and other Rioters have mentioned, we're doing things differently than we have in previous years.

TL;DR - This year we have the following things planned -

  • Legacy Harrowing skins from previous years will be making their way back into the shop in this patch [5.21].
  • Slayer Jinx, Slayer Pantheon and Zombie Nunu will be available this patch [5.21]. Slayer Jinx and Zombie Nunu will be available for 975 RP at launch.
  • Updated biographies for some Shadow Isles champs.
  • Shadow and Fortune: A Harrowing Story.
Puynsi11/3/2015, 10:02:34 PM3 votes

Not on halloween, don't care.

Níx11/3/2015, 10:20:17 PM3 votes

Snowdown not for Christmas

Harrowing not for Halloween

Lunar event IS for Chinese New Year. GG rito

PupperBarksAlot11/1/2015, 3:06:48 AM2 votes

Thanks IIIlana while it still will be cool .. even though most of us are grown adults (which actually makes it worse) But it's going to seem more like a after Christmas day sell. I agree that they should have at the very least opened up the store have Halloween skins selling. I mean that should have been covered in the 1st week of How to Profit 101.

If they have skins for sale I will probably still pick a few up but its just not the "same", its going to seem more like an after thought. :(

Lord Boltrix11/4/2015, 5:25:18 AM1 votes

Forget Thanksgiving, give me the Snowdown stuff early so I can hibernate until Ao Shin gets released.