[Poll] What's Your Thoughts on The Honk & Seek Event?

What Are Your Overall Thoughts on The Honk & Seek Event?

  • Very Positive

    Votes: 16 6.3%

  • Positive

    Votes: 83 32.5%

  • Negative

    Votes: 94 36.9%

  • Very Negative

    Votes: 62 24.3%
  • Total voters
    255
ActualAnthonino said:
As a celebration of April Fools, SkyBlock's brought about a new Honk & Seek event, a scavenger hunt-esque event not too dissimilar to the Great Spook event. There are several joke items to be discovered in a variety of places - some easier to get than others.

Though it's been less than a day since it came out, considering the holiday (I guess), I wanted to see what peoples' thoughts were on the event a bit sooner than usual.

What are your thoughts on the Honk & Seek April Fools event?
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needs a mid option.

also a "havent played it"

that aside the event felt very lazy, and not rly enjoyable.
droprates are bugged (ragnarok is supposed to be 4% but def is either 1 or 2%)

novice skull is also supposed to be 4% but actually is 1% still.

i woudnt even call it an april fools, and more like here enjoy a random lazy grind event that has no purpos.
 
notoeti1 said:
needs a mid option.

also a "havent played it"

that aside the event felt very lazy, and not rly enjoyable.
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Not to coerce you in to thinking or voting a certain way about the event, but those personally sound like negative feelings to me rather mixed or neutral in a sense.
 
ActualAnthonino said:
As a celebration of April Fools, SkyBlock's brought about a new Honk & Seek event, a scavenger hunt-esque event not too dissimilar to the Great Spook event. There are several joke items to be discovered in a variety of places - some easier to get than others.

Though it's been less than a day since it came out, considering the holiday (I guess), I wanted to see what peoples' thoughts were on the event a bit sooner than usual.

What are your thoughts on the Honk & Seek April Fools event?
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lazy, uninteresting, unrewarding, and takes way too much effort to grind for literally nothing in return (not even some npc dialogue recognising your achievements like damn)
 
I actually just changed my vote from Positive to Negative. Frankly, I only got a few of the items, but then moved on to work on other profile stuff. I didn't fully complete the event, and I don't even want to. So, I don't believe I see it as positive.
 
ActualAnthonino said:
I intentionally leave out neutral/indifferent options as it encourages answerers to genuinely think about whether they like something or not; I view indifference or apathy as unhelpful and generally a sign of a negativity anyway. If people aren't encouraged enough to engage with an event/update, I don't think that's a sign of positive feelings, personally.
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okay this is a bit of an ew take

indifference is quite literally neither positive nor negative (it’s in the name) and also highly depends on context so don’t push people to a particular side

in the words of a certain chess grandmaster “i literally don’t care.” the event doesn’t affect me that much, neither positively or negatively. it’s just there and just exists, and i can choose not to interact with it (i did spend like 30 minutes getting 10/12 items tho, dont care enough to get novice skull or vitamin life)
 
stevemcgowen said:
I have all but novice skull and gave up.
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I HAD given up, but yesterday I got Ragna Rock, and today I've been grinding my final item (Novice Skull ofc) without success. Haven't changed my vote, it is still "Positive".

And I'd just like to ask/comment that this event will probably be a yearly event, no? Don't you think? So perhaps if we don't finish this year, we'll have another chance next April? If they've already said this is a one-time-only event, someone will surely chime in to tell us... but I predict this will be just like the Halloween Event (the real Halloween, not the Spooky Event) which also returns every year.
 
Alizona said:
I HAD given up, but yesterday I got Ragna Rock, and today I've been grinding my final item (Novice Skull ofc) without success. Haven't changed my vote, it is still "Positive".

And I'd just like to ask/comment that this event will probably be a yearly event, no? Don't you think? So perhaps if we don't finish this year, we'll have another chance next April? If they've already said this is a one-time-only event, someone will surely chime in to tell us... but I predict this will be just like the Halloween Event (the real Halloween, not the Spooky Event) which also returns every year.
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The only thing I'm worried about is if there is a soul bound talisman for completing it. If not I won't ever do it again. They clearly messed up the drop rates.
 
The concept is cool I just wish it wasn’t so useless. Sure the warden art is cool. And from a collectors perspective it’s okay. But like nothing was really added. It’s just a really boring nothing.
 
I think I'm gonna change my vote to negative.
Just followed the instructions to the letter, ate my Fudge Mint Core, and
*NO SURPRISE AT ALL*
nothing happened. No item.
So the people who said they added RNG to the final item were apparently correct.
This has got to be the absolute dumbest waste of time in a game FILLED with dumb wastes of time.
I am not a happy camper, now instead of continuing to grind for Novice Skull, I have to put on my FD armor grab my Vorpal Katana and now go grind more Enderman Slayer
DUMB STUPID IDIOTIC BULLCRAP
There. I don't feel any better for getting that off my chest.
Bah humbug.
Please don't ever add anything like this again, Hypixel, you wasted an entire week with this silliness.
VOTE CHANGE CONFIRMED, sorry if I disappointed you OP.
 
Alizona said:
sorry if I disappointed you OP.
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You should not - and should never - feel ashamed, embarrassed, or apologetic for coming to terms with your emotions and feelings. I'm glad that you changed your vote, not because it aligns with my ideologies, nor with that of the majority, but because it what you know how you feel about this event. And that's the hardest part.

I'm sorry to hear you didn't get the Extremely Difficult Item; many others have experienced the same annoying thing and I think it's a prime example many would point to - alongside the unnecessary RNG, frivolous nature of the new items, and overall lack of actual content in the event - as to why they have primarily negative thoughts about the event.
 
ChespinFrosty said:
okay this is a bit of an ew take

indifference is quite literally neither positive nor negative (it’s in the name) and also highly depends on context so don’t push people to a particular side

in the words of a certain chess grandmaster “i literally don’t care.” the event doesn’t affect me that much, neither positively or negatively. it’s just there and just exists, and i can choose not to interact with it (i did spend like 30 minutes getting 10/12 items tho, dont care enough to get novice skull or vitamin life)
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We don't want to encourage people just picking indifference because they can't think about their opinion for more than 5 seconds
 
ActualAnthonino said:
You should not - and should never - feel ashamed, embarrassed, or apologetic for coming to terms with your emotions and feelings. I'm glad that you changed your vote, not because it aligns with my ideologies, nor with that of the majority, but because it what you know how you feel about this event. And that's the hardest part.

I'm sorry to hear you didn't get the Extremely Difficult Item; many others have experienced the same annoying thing and I think it's a prime example many would point to - alongside the unnecessary RNG, frivolous nature of the new items, and overall lack of actual content in the event - as to why they have primarily negative thoughts about the event.
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Just got it the final item, took me about a half hour of Eman Slayer 1's and had to eat 4 Fudge Mint Cores to get it.
Not gonna change my vote back, however. I still haven't gotten Novice Skull, and the fact they did put RNG onto the final item is really cruel in my opinion. The closer it gets to the deadline in 8 hours, the worse players are gonna feel about it if they have to grind more Fudge Cores at the last minute. I won't quibble with Hypixel adding content to the game, that's obviously fine and even encouraged. But the way this entire event was implemented just leaves something to be desired. Again, not necessarily Hypixel's fault, after all, its their game and they can run it any way they like. But for me, I am really getting sick and tired of dealing with RNG in a game that is already a MASSIVE time-consuming grindfest. The April Fools event was trivial, its the RNG with items like Divan Alloy (still trying for that drop) which I'm really getting terribly sick of. Thank for listening, and thanks for the good thread and poll. Your words here convey understanding and compassion - thanks for that. :) Best wishes and good luck to all!
 
Alizona said:
Just got it the final item, took me about a half hour of Eman Slayer 1's and had to eat 4 Fudge Mint Cores to get it.
Not gonna change my vote back, however. I still haven't gotten Novice Skull, and the fact they did put RNG onto the final item is really cruel in my opinion. The closer it gets to the deadline in 8 hours, the worse players are gonna feel about it if they have to grind more Fudge Cores at the last minute.
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This is a major reason I stopped. It felt better to let it go than to grind items that have no real value (to me) or use.
Alizona said:
But for me, I am really getting sick and tired of dealing with RNG in a game that is already a MASSIVE time-consuming grindfest. The April Fools event was trivial, its the RNG with items like Divan Alloy (still trying for that drop) which I'm really getting terribly sick of.
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I sincerely wish every item was like the Great Spook items, or, if they wanted players to go searching for each of them, make one CRAZY item that was like the Golden Ball/Kuudra Mandible (ok, not to that extent, but you get what I mean). It's April Fool's, not April go and grind for the next few Day's. If the RNG was the joke, it wasn't very funny. Inversing level prefix colours was funny. This event ended up with a lot of frustrated players.
 
This event was a sad reflection of the state of skyblock. It was completely unrewarding. Stuff, we got, offered no clue for the last things and I'm sure the way to find 12th item was eventually leaked by admin on discord or forum. It could have been really fun but 3 hints in and nobody was any wiser. All 12 things are completely useless, no reward for completing the task, not even memento. RNG stuff for ragna rock, slayers or dungeon items was frustrating.
 
Fun fact - it had bell curve distribution when I checked last time, but now it is skewed towards "very negative"
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I wonder what happened...
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As for me - I dislike this event. It is poorly made and items are obtained trough grind where admins, using cosmic power of the universe, somehow messed up odds and made ranga rock and novice skull 0.4% instead of 4% and despite people complaining whole week about it they didn't feel like checking their config files to change like 2 numbers in it

3 actually - 4% healthy drop doesn't seem 4% either as while grinding for skull I've gotten it only once despite killing a lot of healthy mobs, but you will get it before getting skull

To make it even worse - everything is known in comparison and for comparison we have Great Spook which also had "find item" content. However...
  • Items were more much more creative. No "uh nuh grind doogan 250 times" or "uh nuh kill that slayer 50 times"
  • Items were timegated so not only you had time to get them, but it also was a mystery element
  • Did I mention that items in that event never required anything too complex? Like it wasn't putting a strain on ah/bz supplies
  • Items had edition (if you care about those) to show off if you found it first
  • Almost no RNG involved (apart from that thing, which was added in 2021)
  • No "<1% odds" RNG involved at all
  • It actually had some rewards - like new talisman and pet
  • And after few years it turned into a fully fleshed out event. With even more rewards
That thing had effort and some passion. Current event, also related to IRL date, is bland boring "we have to put something out". Out of 12 items only 3 aren't RNG gated in that stupid event. I can't even say that catgirl was good because originally it was a prank that almost got turned into a lawsuit
 
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