So whats everyones favortie live game event and why. What type of live events would you like to see. EQ does holiday themed events every year
Mine would be Brew day from EQ2 for two reasons
1: You got to pub Crawl around different pubs
2: There was an instance where this all started. It was a bar you would zone into and on a PVP server it was no PVP flagged. Well one year they messed up and we figured out that it was somehow taged free for all you could kill anyone in not in your group. The zone was small and so AOE classes could cause major damage. our guild zoned in 2 groups and raided up and unleashed hell on hunderds of players. The best part was the immunity timer could start counting down as soon as they revived. We got an easy 1,500 kills before a GM zoned in and froze us all. We did try to kill the GM at first but it didnt work :(
I don't remember many that stood out. One I remember was at the end of the World of Warcraft beta, they unleashed loads of level 50+ infernals and other demons all of the major cities and hubs before shutting down the servers. It was fun at the time because I hadn't even seen most of those mobs let a lone 100ft tall versions of them shooting out fireballs and shadowbolts all over the place.
I don't really consider seasonal or planned events like brew day as "Live events" the once I remember and would call live events where the GM and Guide ran events in early EQ. Sometimes it was a scavenger hunt, other times it was dueling, I remember one time was trivia where the GM would turn herself into an NPC and the first person to say the name right got a point. Everyone always got milk and cookies and often times some people would get a special metamorph wand or some other visual goody.
Now those where the good "Live Events"!
I'm actually not a fan of MMO's taking RL holidays and celebrating them in game under different names. Not that Im offended or whatever, just doesnt seem to fit, seeing trolls in santa hats and what not. What I do love are events that revolve around the Lore of the game and driven by the GM staff (Battle of Kith) and random events run by GM's that somehow tie into the world.
Lets say a lost faction of the Dark Myr, very not nice, appears from the sea between Reignfall and Kingsreach and lands ashore to march on and attack Faerthale. GMs are spawning these mobs, perhaps controlling some named mobs and we as players can fight them or choose not to. Once Faerthale is protected and the enemy defeated, those that partook in the battle might receive a title (ref: some other thread about titles, this is how I think they should be earned), maybe the named mobs dropped some artifact items for some lucky folks, and when the smoke clears it's discovered there is a new underwater dungeon (cant believe I just said that....kedge /shudder) now available to play.
To me, THATS a live event.
-Garmr
My most memorable live event was during Asheron's Call. They had monthly events and in the first one the weather changed to winter. There was snow in places there had never been, northern mobs moved further south and new ones showed up. It was the first time I'd ever experienced anything like that in any game (I think) but definitely a first for an online one.
I'm also not a huge fan of in game events that mirror rl ones and prefer it when they are related to the lore of the game world.
Garmr said:I'm actually not a fan of MMO's taking RL holidays and celebrating them in game under different names. Not that Im offended or whatever, just doesnt seem to fit, seeing trolls in santa hats and what not. What I do love are events that revolve around the Lore of the game and driven by the GM staff (Battle of Kith) and random events run by GM's that somehow tie into the world.
Lets say a lost faction of the Dark Myr, very not nice, appears from the sea between Reignfall and Kingsreach and lands ashore to march on and attack Faerthale. GMs are spawning these mobs, perhaps controlling some named mobs and we as players can fight them or choose not to. Once Faerthale is protected and the enemy defeated, those that partook in the battle might receive a title (ref: some other thread about titles, this is how I think they should be earned), maybe the named mobs dropped some artifact items for some lucky folks, and when the smoke clears it's discovered there is a new underwater dungeon (cant believe I just said that....kedge /shudder) now available to play.
To me, THATS a live event.
-Garmr
I can remember a few GM events back in EQ. Word spreads on ther server and a mad-dash for the zone ensued. Characters of all levels were running everywhere; it was chaos. It was great! We talked of the events for weeks every time one happened. I'm a big fan of "live action" events.
All my favorite "Live Game Events" where on a private roleplay server for minecraft. We had some amazing times organising, planning events for 250ish people and then running them in the Events team. They weren't just generic events either.. but proper RP live events.. was awesome. But my favorite general mmo event has to be WoW's Zombie "unlive" event.. :)
Been to a few EQ events before and they where always poorly organising and fairly small.. (atleast the ones I went too).
hrmm favorite live event, mine would have to be the Kerra Isle raid event. it was a huge mishmash of players trying to kill a GM controlled monster. and at the end the GMs handed out a couple prizes to the people that they think did the best. it was great fun.
as for holiday events mostly i do not like them, with an exception to Halloween events. Halloween events are much easier to tie into the lore of the game and do not break immersion (at least for me). i agree that santa hats and suits do not fit with the high fantasy setting. but this may be because the devs of those games are always trying to make the game fit into the holiday season. i think it would be fine to have events on holidays, but dont try so hard to fit them into the holiday. just give us a special quest or mob to kill on these days that can only be done during the holiday. and have it give a reward worth having. maybe something like the fabled events from EQ would even be nice. take the gear that drops from named mobs regularly and have a holiday version with an extra effect or something. this would be a great present for the players without needing to program a bunch of unsightly, immersion breaking, holiday themed, garbage. and the extra effect doesnt even have to be anythting too awesome, even just a particle effect or something could go a long way with most players.
Any of my favorite events would be any of the GM lead events where a town was raid etc and there was lore or a story behind it. Great times to be had.
Also I personally despise IRL holiday events in game. There is nothing more gimmicky/lazy a developer could do in my eyes. If I wanted to celebrate those events I would turn off my computer. The only thing they mean to most of the US population is free gifts, time to trample people to death for deals, time to be gluttonous, and time to get drunk. None of which I want any part of in my escape from the world (Well maybe just one or two stout ales...). Again it's my personal opinion from my experienes and travels.
At the very least it would be very nice to be able to turn those holiday effects off if they do indeed put them in.
EQ1's Bloody Kithicor was fun as was the Battle for Grobb. What upset many of us (especially those who played Trolls) was that the outcome of the battle was pre-decided. The coming expansion was bringing the Froglok as a playable race to EQ1. The Battle for Grobb was the event that would usher in that expansion...kicking the Trolls out of Grobb and making way for the Frogloks. But on the Lanys server, there were so many players fighting for the Trolls that we beat back the GM lead masses until eventually they had to take down the server. Next morning the Trolls were stuck in a forgotten corner of Neriak and the Frogloks were in Grobb.
Yes, we knew that the outcome was predetermined, but we were making a point to Sony, one that the players wanted to have a greater impact on the game world.
So I ask VR, if such an event were to happen in Pantheon, would a server be allowed to keep their status-quo if they defeated the GM lead event? Could servers diverge from each other based upon player actions?
Vandraad said:So I ask VR, if such an event were to happen in Pantheon, would a server be allowed to keep their status-quo if they defeated the GM lead event? Could servers diverge from each other based upon player actions?
That is one of the things that EQNext promised and if ever comes to fruition would be really cool. In one server you have Freeport ran by Ogres while in another it could be by humans.
In another thread on this subject I liked the idea some had as far as calendar events - instead of mimicking our real life holidays, it might be neat if those types of 'holiday events' were based on Pantheon's lore. For example, and it's been a while since I've read the lore so I might be a bit off lol, but off the top of my head: the halflings could have a festival on the day they escaped the curse, or the dark myr might have a holiday for the day their god gave her life to save theirs. And no, these would not coincide with any of our calendar holidays, it would be new dates picked by the staff.
As for live events, I didn't get to experience many. A lot of people say they liked the coldain prayer shawl quest live event (I didn't do it since I didn't like crafting). There was a huge barbarian in the Lake of Ill Omen and fought some other big thing that came out of the lake (with us helping) - I was new and didn't know what the hell was going on though. There was a dark elf goddess that appeared in oasis I think, we followed her through NRO, Innothule, Feerott, and in to Rathe Mths where we stopped at those big beetle with egyptian sounding names. It was a big anticlimatic though when she asked the players a riddle and no one could figure it out lol, I don't remember what happened after that.
AgentGenX said:In another thread on this subject I liked the idea some had as far as calendar events - instead of mimicking our real life holidays, it might be neat if those types of 'holiday events' were based on Pantheon's lore. For example, and it's been a while since I've read the lore so I might be a bit off lol, but off the top of my head: the halflings could have a festival on the day they escaped the curse, or the dark myr might have a holiday for the day their god gave her life to save theirs. And no, these would not coincide with any of our calendar holidays, it would be new dates picked by the staff.
As for live events, I didn't get to experience many. A lot of people say they liked the coldain prayer shawl quest live event (I didn't do it since I didn't like crafting). There was a huge barbarian in the Lake of Ill Omen and fought some other big thing that came out of the lake (with us helping) - I was new and didn't know what the hell was going on though. There was a dark elf goddess that appeared in oasis I think, we followed her through NRO, Innothule, Feerott, and in to Rathe Mths where we stopped at those big beetle with egyptian sounding names. It was a big anticlimatic though when she asked the players a riddle and no one could figure it out lol, I don't remember what happened after that.
I would be super happy if Pantheon had its own holidays based on the lore. Heck I bet a lot of them could be turned into IRL holidays for some of us and we could meet up and celebrate them together! :)
Liav said:I like in-game events that revolve around major irl holidays. :(
I like them too if they aren't too frequent and don't last for ages. If you are immersed in a game for months at a time, it is refreshing to get some reminders that there are actual things going on outside the game world. But once they start adding events for every minor holiday in every culture and it becomes the norm, that really breaks the immersion we used to feel.
EQ1 - Fennin Ro (yes, roleplay) server. A crazy group/guild of all bards (The Soerbaird) used to put on their own live events. They would perform plays and songs at various venues like the theatre in Freeport. Crowds zipping through town would stop and gather wondering what all the fuss was about, then join in the fun. They also ran their own weeks long complex quest/mystery story line - playing all the "NPC" parts. I miss those days...
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