OMG RPG

Once upon a time, there was a game called World of Warcraft.  People played this game, and it was a good game, full of many little references and secret joys known only to those who searched for them.  They were called Easter Eggs.  The best Easter Egg happend on Easter Sunday, when the starting areas were filled with virtual little eggs for people to find.  Find them they did, and collect from them candy, and tuxedos, and one extremely rare dress.

Now that achievements have changed how we play the game, this year the developers decided that the Easter Egg within a Easter Egg with some Easter Eggs in it deserved to be a world event all its own.  Starting on Saturday, the Noble Garden ingame holiday has unleashed a bunny epidemic that has infected all the small towns in Azeroth, and the results are quite disturbing.  People everywhere are flocking to previously vacant locations and sitting around staring at the shrubbery.  That's right, it's another achievement that encourages people to camp spawn points.  

 I understand the original intent, but honestly, spam right-clicking on an area for four hours was not my idea of a hot Saturday night, but that's what you have to do if you want to get the several hundred chocolates required to get your Noble title.  My favorite part of this holiday is the one achievement that requires you to hide eggs in Stormwind.  Had this been the heart of the world event, I think Noble Garden would have been much more interesting.  Imagine a mechanic where people hide eggs in Stormwind, and based on how long they were sitting there (i.e. how well they were hidden) the loot inside would become increasingly more valuable.  I think a system like this would create much more interactivity than standing around Dalaran waiting for the 5-minute cooldown to expire on your Spring Flowers so you can finally toss ears up on a Dwarven Female.

I'm doing the holiday achievements just like everyone else, so it's not like I'm sitting here mocking people from the sidelines.  But honestly, how strange is it that in a game about conquering the wilderness, holding back the demon hordes, we are reduced to Blair Witching in corners clicking on Brightly Colored Eggs?  That Violet Proto-Drake better be worth it.