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Harrowing won't have the same feel anymore

Darius Strada··56 votes·2,369 views

The Harrowing is an event to commemorate Halloween festivities in the world of Valoran.

*Each calendar year, the celestial bodies of Runeterra align in a particular astronomical event. This lengthy occasion - beginning with a partial eclipse on the 18th of October and culminating in a full solar eclipse on the 31st of October - is of one of the most significant holidays in Valoran. *

Source:http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Harrowing

But Riot decided to make Harrowing when they want.Don't you see?Harrowing was special because it was that spooky time of the year that we were all waiting for, not only to play some cool new or old gamemode, but to grab some spooky skins that are unavailable all time of the year.Why can't we celebrate Harrowing while all people over the world are celebrating Halloween?We don't want to play Harrowing during Easter or any other date.What's gonna be next?Not celebrating Snowdown in Christmas and celebrate it on mid July?Please reconsider your decision because it continues like this, Harrowing will lose all it's magic.

17 Comments

Flaherty12 votes

Yeah I really liked the seasonal thing and now it feels like there isn't an event which makes me sad.

GreenLore2 votes

They said that they are still going to release holiday content,its just not that they'll restrict themselves to halloween when it comes to harrowing stories(because lets face it,that would grow boring rather fast and would be quite jarring if the shadow isles gets more and more lore every year,while other city states can be happy if they are even mentioned once a year)

Retillin8 votes

Yes and no. I mean why write up this most recent Harrowing story, have it finish right be Halloween, then not have a "Harrowing" skin/events this year?

GreenLore2 votes

They have already some halloween skins ready. Slayer jinx&pantheon and zombie nunu were on the pbe already,they are the halloween skins.

Horn Solo8 votes

and they aren't out yet? why? halloween was two days ago

GreenLore3 votes

dunno why they didn't release them already. Might be because of the worlds might be because they planned something else might be because they simply messed up.

not saying they didn't mess up,but it is a fact that they prepared some skins for the harrowing.

Sneak Dog3 votes

You think this glacial pace of lore is going to continue?

GreenLore1 votes

Well I guess they are going to be faster for now,but I wouldn't count on them now suddenly becoming super fast.

I mean we pretty much had 2 events this year in terms of lore and I wouldn't count on them suddenly being able to do much more in the coming year.

And if they had to make a harrowing event every year,then that would simply make the shadow isles overrepresented compared to other states. I mean we have 12 factions(counting the freljord as one and not counting the ones with less than 3 champs),now if they make a shadow isles event every year,then that would pretty much mean that every faction would get an event every 6 years,while the shadow isles would get one every year(of course there can be also events focused on multiple factions,I am more generally speaking)

Rolldembones7 votes

I would rather they cancel the lunar festival stuff and keep harrowing at Halloween. I, like the majority of people on the NA and EU servers have no attachment to the lunar festival but do to Halloween and the harrowing.

I mean I'm fine with both running but if their resources are so stretched that they have to start dropping one but not the other why not run harrowing on western servers and lunar on eastern?

KnivingDude4 votes

Riot/Tencent be milkin' http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/hmwikia/images/6/68/Ajsbkg.gif/revision/latest?cb=20120420032751

Dreckcop Vxz3 votes

Because LC$>Any ingame Holiday

RedWarrior19133 votes

Well hopefully they've now seen and realized how angry/sad this made a lot of people and will do it right next year... (sigh) one can hope.

GreenLore2 votes

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/special-event/first-light-after-harrowing

The harrowing map already showed that bilgewater had 3 harrowings in a year,the black mist grew in power over time and can now come multiple times a year(that doesn't have to mean that it wasn't a yearly thing before). Not to mention that runeterra-time =/= real-life time....

Ultima Weapon L91 votes

bg rito

PeachsProperty1 votes

RIOT re-writes lore all the time ;)

Noom Flow1 votes

My only hope is that they come up with a Halloween specific event to replace the Harrowing for next year and maybe hold the LCS in September. I've been playing for less than 2 years now and have largely missed every single themed event due to other obligations. Even then, I'm extremely casual because I am a single father of three and might get to play 5 (bot) games a week and occasionally more. This was the first event that I had a clear calendar (and saved rp to boot) to play and get all the goodies only for this to happen. Disappointed, sure, but I'll still play and purchase the skins when they are released this week since themed events aren't the only reason I play this game for but will love the hell out of the skins when I do get to play. The worst part about this for me is not being able to play on the Halloween Rift map this year. Hopefully Snowdown will still happen?...

Biff Manly1 votes

I... feel like that description may be a touch out of date. "Halloween festivities" "lengthy occasion" "HOLIDAY???"

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