Comments on: [Question of the Day] What is your favourite live event/ holiday event in an MMO?

By: arbitrary

arbitrary — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:41:51 +0000

I liked all the GM-run stuff DAOC did, even when it crashed the server!! The poetry contest just made me weep with joy though, when everyone did the luri-bomb dance we made up on the fly.

The lotro theatre thing was cool, and even melted my cynical heart. Also liked their haunted burrow. But none of the dumb horse races, pick stuff, grind tokens rubbish..

Also the serverwide stuff. LotRo did an unlock event, not as grand as Ahn’Q in WoW, but where everyone could help to open access for the entire server. Liked that too. It fosters community without being internally competitive.

I dislike these events when they become mandatory, or super grindy. A small daily component is cool, but not if it means I have to log on every day for two weeks to achieve anything, since I have other commitments and start to grow bitter.

I love the infection party on fleet atm, it’s so friendly

By: arbitrary

arbitrary — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:38:04 +0000

Plus, we can do a smaller room of just Spinks and me, if that helps ease you into it!! I was terrified the first time I went on voice chat during my lotro days. Now I never shut up.

By: welshtroll

welshtroll — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:58:20 +0000

My favourite holiday event has to be trick or treating in City of Heroes/Villains, throw in some Giant Monsters and it was a great recipe for fun.The bonus was it worked better the bigger your group size, just like the real thing!

By: Five Years of Lord of the Rings Online « The Ancient Gaming Noob

Five Years of Lord of the Rings Online « The Ancient Gaming Noob — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:15:24 +0000

[...] But there is also a series of anniversary events going on in LOTRO. And while there are some nice items to be earned between now and April 30th, I have an ambivalent relationship with in-game events. And because of that, I really have no favorite in-game event. [...]

By: Chris Whyte

Chris Whyte — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:27:01 +0000

For its scope, access, lore brilliance and sheer audacity, the Opening of Ahn’Qiraj has got to be the winner. One of the biggest pains of playing WoW for me nowadays (other than appalling class development, particularly for warriors) is that we’ll never see its like again; proven by the amount of whiners that complained about the completely unintrusive Cataclysm launch event, and the pitiful apology from Greg Street.

“I can’t get to the auction house, this is terribad”.

So instead of saying that what they did was awesome but really needed a lot of fixes to make the next one REALLY epic, they just decided to never do it again because of some server instability.

It’s a huge shame.

Zell

By: Ephemeron

Ephemeron — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:20:27 +0000

My personal favorite was the zombie plague pre-WotLK event.

By: Bronte

Bronte — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:38:15 +0000

Gates of Ahn’Qiraj by a large lead! I put up a post about my favorite vanilla WoW memories a while back. This was one of them.

Events like Hallow’s End, Noblegarden etc. are cool, but I feel like a large part of those is just an incessant rep/item/fluff grind.

By: spinks

spinks — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:33:43 +0000

You should totally join us on mumble sometime, feel free to tweet me if you’re considering it and I’ll let you know who is around. The guild are a friendly bunch, bit smutty, but nothing you won’t have heard before I’m sure

By: Kadomi

Kadomi — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:52:51 +0000

One of these days I need to join you guys on Mumble, but I am terribly voice chat shy. :/

I just pondered that the rakghoul event is kinda genius because it combines some of the two most popular WoW things of the past. The undead plague before the release of WotLK where you got to turn into a ghoul and the Zandalari fever from Zul’Gurub that people used to create a pandemic in the capital cities. Quite clever.

By: pkudude99

pkudude99 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:36:03 +0000

Last night on RepFleet the group of infecters/explodees was all standing around the respawn point. Makes sense to just respawn and not have to run anywhere, I suppose.