Loading... Fabled or Forgotten?

[Sardu]

Once upon a time in the magical land of MMOGs, in-game anniversary celebrations set the bar for what would become one of the staples of the industry in the years to follow. Much of the more recent flood of holiday themed events came into being thanks in large part to how developers formerly opted to commemorate milestones in the overall lifecycle of their creations. With two such major milestones just around the corner, we take a look at how one of these events stacks up to the celebrations of yesteryear today in Loading… Fabled or Forgotten?

[zarlon]

I firmly believe that the developers should hold celebrations with rewards and special goodies for the loyal who have stayed around and paid their dues with all of the headaches an problems they encountered.

[AngryBeaver]

I liked getting the 4 year baby blizzard bear.

[Aruvia]

I do think there should be events to celebrate the milestone anniversaries five yeas is a good one and I think something more than a party on a test server is in order.

as far as events go, I do miss the times when they had actual GM controlled events. Like in the origonal EQ when one of the avatars of the gods would appear controled by a GM I'll never forget the day I was heading into black burrow and ran smack into Bristlebane, who promptly sent me flying across the zone about a hundred feat in the air. he was there for a couple hours asking riddles and playing pranks on anyone who happened by. good times. =)

[Khalus]

Originally Posted by Aruvia

Like in the origonal EQ when one of the avatars of the gods would appear controled by a GM good times. =)

Oh heck yeah, I remember the first time I encountered one of these events up in ButcherBlock Mountains. several GMs had an area kinda roped off from the mobs they were spawning{mostly consisting of the undead} from getting out to the other low lvl areas.

Anyway once you stepped into this area it was craziness ensued 100-fold, and was extremely difficult to survive for long, and you still took an XP penalty when you died. For those that stuck it out which lasted several hours the GMs were giving away special fabled gear they were making up on the spot by request of what you wanted on it, but nothing too overly powerful. Still these items were a one-of-kind, and extremely rare with tags on them as well. Only a handful of them were rewarded to I think 1-2 groups that survived the event.


Sadly I think the biggest reason these live events with special rewards aren't done anymore is because of the masses of players that would say, "well I wasn't high enough level and couldn't participate" {WoW already does this a lot} so they start shouting foul play, or on-noes, "that person has something better than me from an event I wasn't able to participate in cause I was offline"....etc etc Guess this is why major events are now in holiday form mostly and take place over several weeks or less to allow everyone a chance to participate and reap the rewards.{again sadly the rewards really suck these days too!} I wish more super rare gear was distributed like in the past that defined that you won a special live event...screw all the tards that would QQ about it....as there is tons of things you're never gonna see or earn anyway....sheesh