Delays to Writing Contest, Fireside, and Black Friday Sale

November 19, 2019 12:26 pm

With the recent site changes, we’ve pushed back the start for Fireside, Fireside Writing Contest, and Black Friday. Fireside will extend into December, don't worry. <3 Luminaire will not change. Luminaire will work like normal, starting December 1st. <3

Black Friday

You'll have from November 23rd through December 7th at 11:59pm to load up on sale goodies! We'll be bringing back lots of old items and debuting some brand new ones! The old items will be retired again after the sale.

We will not price match items purchased before the Black Friday sale. Don't mistakenly buy something before the sale expecting to be refunded the difference!

Custom Wearables will be discounted 25% off of their listed price! In most cases, the CW creator will still get the same commission they would normally get, but if an item is priced where the commission would be larger than the amount paid for the item, the CW creator will only receive the amount paid for the item instead. This is so a base 500 CSC item cannot be priced at 10k CSC, giving a commission of 9500 CSC with only 7500 CSC paid for it, for example. In that case, the CW owner would only receive the full 7500 CSC payment instead.

As we've mentioned previous years, these are no longer included in the Black Friday sale: pet slots, pet name changes, username changes, and pet overlays. As per usual, monthly collections, weapons, and CS challengers will not be discounted.

Delish Energetic, Straightforward, Gentle, Devoted, Clever, Sharp, Observe, Brave, Sincere, Loyal, Tender, Inclined, Stardust, and Nova will all be retired at the end of Black Friday.

Glass figurines, Johnny Misfit, and Ruby Lee will retire from the Cash Shop at the end of Black Friday.

The following themed sets will move to the Themed Set Vending Machine after the sale: Gyrephon and Desert Bone Garden Fairy set.

Fireside Writing Contest

If you haven’t checked admin posts recently, we posted an update on the Fireside storytelling contest.

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Hello, eager writers!</p>
<p>We are very much looking forward to releasing the contest submission page for your themed short stories, but are trying to get the site a bit more ironed out first! We appreciate your ongoing patience, and hope to be able to read your entries soon.</p>
<p>Thank you!

November 23, 2019, 11:15 am by

if BF isn't gonna start at midnight like literally every other event on site, could we get told what time it will start?

November 23, 2019, 10:19 am by

It's mid-morning on the 23rd. When do Black Friday prices start?

November 23, 2019, 10:06 am by

I just want the site fixed.

November 20, 2019, 1:17 pm by

's face after having to repeat there will be no Pawn Shop sale on BF

November 20, 2019, 11:07 am by

Finally you're waiting till things will have straightened out before starting events! THANK YOU!

November 20, 2019, 5:21 am by

I adore hearing all this news on my first lumi/fireside.

November 20, 2019, 4:46 am by

Oh t'wasn't, not at all!

And to think I used to laugh at the people who would anonymously post shit about staff for fear of retribution. XD

November 20, 2019, 1:46 am by

i hope everyone is excited for the server hosting Subeta actually catching on fire and exploding - because Lumiside/Fiaire is definitely gonna make it happen! i'm excited for all this to go on, let's GO!

November 20, 2019, 1:33 am by

thanks for the update :) can't wait for BFS, i've been waiting alll year~ woohoo!

November 20, 2019, 12:18 am by

Thank you so much for your hard work! All excellent news. Definitely looking forward to Lumiside/Fiaire.

Do we have an ETA for when vending will be back? :'D (Just curious)

November 20, 2019, 12:05 am by

Uhhhh HOW exactly was THAT one justified?

November 20, 2019, 12:01 am by

On Subeta, what is Black Friday about? I don't quite understand.

November 19, 2019, 10:54 pm by

Agree with , I'm one of the unlucky ones with a completely broken avatar. I'd be glad if it was just my hair salon that was broken... Haven't had an avatar since the downtime.

November 19, 2019, 10:20 pm by

How nice that you put important information in the forum, from which I am banned for life, for arguments held off site.

Never get tired of pulling that one out. ^-^

November 19, 2019, 10:13 pm by

I kind of want to complain again about pet slots not being included in the BF sale, but really I should thank you for saving me some cash because I would throw so much money at that. :P

( I did see that you were looking into lowering prices for some features and hinted that this might be one of them, and that's awesome. I wait in eager anticipation to trade more of my paychecks for pixels X'D)

November 19, 2019, 9:37 pm by

the grinch in me is pleased. BURN LUMINAIRE ohohoh eh

November 19, 2019, 9:21 pm by

So can we make it a fiaire/lumiside tradition to with a Charity vs Melody thing?

November 19, 2019, 8:50 pm by

"I'm not a Subeta coder but I know a little bit and I would think that, even with the server switches, having a full entire week of "Lumiside/Fiaire" is gonna cause massive lag due to double the server load. Like: we're gonna have floating fairies AND floating dragons, Charity running the donations while Melody is giving out goodies, Fantine trying to handle the pies, snowballs going on at the same time as dragon blessings/fire attacks..."

Sounds like a typical family reunion, bring on the chaos!

November 19, 2019, 7:47 pm by

I'm really looking forward to the black friday sale!! New items!! Delish discounts!! Woohoo!!

Delaying is probably a good call. No sweat on the writing contest, I have been in the SAME BOAT. But I'm really looking forward to things chilling out and starting to run smoother, both on Subeta and IRL.

November 19, 2019, 7:38 pm by

Can't wait for Melody and the Red Rreign to collab their holidays! Plus there's still whatever spooky nonsense is going down at the carnival :o

November 19, 2019, 7:15 pm by

Agreed I'm not a coder either but that just sounds like entirely too much stress on a still less than stable site

November 19, 2019, 7:07 pm by

Okay, are we SERIOUSLY going to have to try to contend with two of the most user-active events occurring at the same time? And we're just... assuming or hoping that it's not going to crash anything further? I'm not a Subeta coder but I know a little bit and I would think that, even with the server switches, having a full entire week of "Lumiside/Fiaire" is gonna cause massive lag due to double the server load. Like: we're gonna have floating fairies AND floating dragons, Charity running the donations while Melody is giving out goodies, Fantine trying to handle the pies, snowballs going on at the same time as dragon blessings/fire attacks... I dunno about y'all, but I am Large Grimace and Huge Yikes because I do NOT foresee this going off very well at all.

November 19, 2019, 7:06 pm by

Well crap, went and broke it PMSL guess I jumped the gun with the previous comment

November 19, 2019, 6:27 pm by

I have been saving csc since the last month, I have more than I have ever had but I think I'll never have enough to buy all the things I need lol.

November 19, 2019, 6:27 pm by

I know some will see this as bitching and honestly it's not, venting maybe, but definitely not bitching ok. Typical, all the 'bonus' events have ended and NOW the site seems to be -oh god don't jinx it by saying this- loading fine, no problems other than a few notifications not coming through (pet finished training) but it's quick again with most things I've encountered so far, I just wish now the weekend bonus's were available so I could do them. The positive is as I said the site seems to be back and in time for the holiday events so here's hoping.....

November 19, 2019, 6:18 pm by

I would like/need my HA! be nice to see my new purchases...

November 19, 2019, 5:50 pm by

Now hoping I have enough CSC to buy all the retiring items I want 😖

November 19, 2019, 5:37 pm by

Thanks for the updates (and hard work). It's going to be a busy time around here... can't wait!

November 19, 2019, 5:14 pm by

I assume the writing contest will have its own news post when entries are being accepted? I need more info on what kind of story we're allowed to write.

November 19, 2019, 5:10 pm by

I miss my HA :c (i already tried cache clearing many times, no luck)

November 19, 2019, 5:01 pm by

Can we please have 1 official thread/place for downtime related issues updates?? Maybe a temp subforum? ">This was the first thread people were officially directed to and it's just been abandoned with reports being ignored.

I know stuff isn't working right (like pings) and that's not helping but that's literally more argument to centralize it, not less.

November 19, 2019, 4:49 pm by

it's fiaire

(i wanted a gif of samwise fighting orcs with frying pan i searched for so long i failed)

November 19, 2019, 4:26 pm by

u wanna fite bro (I'm jk lumiside seemed to work better have a good dayyyy)

November 19, 2019, 4:21 pm by

Finally, we can kill the monster that is Lumin--- oh, never mind.

November 19, 2019, 4:12 pm by

-Disease :) Like I've said multiple times, no. If it was included it'd be in the news post! <3

November 19, 2019, 4:04 pm by

Will the CW pawn shop open again for BF sale?

November 19, 2019, 3:57 pm by

Lumiside is kind of an amazing concept and I'm here for it.

November 19, 2019, 3:18 pm by

I'm glad staff has been taking the choice of delay events rather them push them through and half of it not working, therefor making us miss a chunk of the whole thing

November 19, 2019, 3:08 pm by

everyone else: lumiside me, an intellectual: fiaire

November 19, 2019, 3:05 pm by

please sir may i have some more a functioning salon?

November 19, 2019, 2:26 pm by

Lumiside...that sounds so festive and cute. I hope we get special items to commemorate the occasion. If not, that would be a shame

November 19, 2019, 2:24 pm by

thanks for the update, I look forward for it! :)

It's just from a business point of view, pet slots are one of most "hot" product of Subeta, a discount would bring more sales than the regular times, from many people who can't or don't want to pay the 2k CSC.

November 19, 2019, 2:04 pm by

LUMISIDE WEEEE

November 19, 2019, 2:04 pm by

LUMISIDE WEEEE

November 19, 2019, 1:58 pm by

So we haven't missed the deadline for the writing contest, because I have been so busy and this would make me so happy!

November 19, 2019, 1:56 pm by

All good. Fireside going into December will give us something to do once we visit Melody daily. Actually glad writing contest got pushed back as I have t done anything for it yet. Lol. Thanks for the update. We appreciate your hard work. Keith and staff.

November 19, 2019, 1:55 pm by