I wasn't a big fan of the Holiday shop, but I can 100% understand this topic if we think we're getting seasonal restockables scattered across several different shops. I mean, if you're going to do seasonal restockables, why not keep it all in one place...
Yet, I much prefer seasonal shops with permanent stock sold for event currencies or sp, along the lines of what said and following the Alegarten model (except without the rotation, if possible).
To the exception of Freyalise, which I can understand, I'd rather we just not get more seasonal restockables if the Holiday Shop is meant to stay dead :x Some items should be brought back, yes, but imo it'd be nicer if they weren't restockables since that's something the site wants to move away from.
Personally, I hate having to try RS'ing holiday stuff, whether from the Holiday Shop or anywhere else. My Internet is too slow and I'm too inaccurate a typist to get the captchas in fast enough and I just wind up getting upset and stressed out about it, lol. My preference is for Vesnali/Survival-style, where you do stuff with other users and get the holiday currency to spend as you will, but I'll take having to pay with sP as long as it's not like Alegarten and its RIDICULOUS PRICES and STUPID ROTATING STOCK.
The restocking part isn't what I am against,I am against them being scattered throughout all the shops making it more difficult,I love restocking and so do a vast number of other users on site. I hardly think restocking is "boring" as keith has said before and I know a lot of other people feel the same. I spend most of my time restocking and talking in the shoutbox while on subeta.
I just don't agree with the holiday shop being removed and having shops that use one currency just ticks me off too because there is no effort,You have all the items laid out for you right away. The holiday shop was a middle ground...yes all the items went there but you had to make an effort to get them and they weren't impossible to obtain like they are now with how they currently restock in shops.
Just want to pop in and say that we aren’t going to be bringing back the Holiday Shop. We are, however, going to try to start doing more special shops like we have for Alegarten or Vesnali. Things that have different twists so you can get your holiday items but it make it a little challenging/fun. :)
Fireside is really our last holiday this year that we have a lot of restockables for, so next year look for something different for Morostide and Fireside. :)
( and I aren't completely sure what we are doing with ornaments yet, so I don't want to say we aren't going to do restocking for Luminaire when we might still have those restock.)
After the Holiday Shop closed I gave up on collecting Holiday items. It got too hard and the prices at the Alegarten shop are just ridiculous so as much as holiday items were my favorite, I had to stop collecting them.
Offtopic, but
aah I'll be sad to see the ornament boxes go! ;-; I thought they were a cute idea, available cheap/often enough to be a "nice" gamble and still adding up to a fair share of sp as a sink ;c (but I can understand the need for some things to be rarer and all that)
Please leave some type of Holiday Item restocking. I love the RSing aspect of this site and having RSable Holiday items is super fun and I love the challenge!