Halloween Event Feedback - Page 7

EQsale · #1 11-01-2015, 04:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Juhdo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Deactivating it without warning is just rubbing salt in the wound. My group spent 5 hours doing it, got to the last 2 guys for it to be stopped cold turkey. I don't care if rewards are bs, i wanted to at least finish it!
Bad for devs, bad form.

farvak · #2 11-01-2015, 01:54 AM

Thank you for Wasting my Time on a Saturday Night/Holiday...Wasted about 5hrs of my life for No Reason and have absolutely nothing to show for it...maybe give a heads up or a count down when your gonna end the event so people know whether or not its worth putting their time into it....Thanks

paroxysmal · #3 11-01-2015, 02:01 AM

The event itself was fun. The ending with no warning was not fun. After having worked on it for multiple hours to get it turned off when my group were so close to finishing and have that work wasted. I would have to say this is probably the worst experience I have had on p99 as of yet. I would have been happy to finish it and get my loaf of bread rather than have it turned off before getting the chance.

Comptonlive · #4 11-01-2015, 02:04 AM

Sure am glad I spent a couple hundred plat on invis potions for nothing. Doing this was not easy at lvl 18. Getting to velious and working the last leg was sick. Till the event ended. Thanks guys, that was great.

Sarcasm btw, just in case you didn't catch that.

Tethler · #5 11-01-2015, 02:04 AM

I enjoyed the event and was even prepared for poopy loot as the reward when it just ended abruptly. A warning message ahead of event ending would have been nice. Other than that, thanks for putting the event on!

1stCrusader · #6 11-01-2015, 02:06 AM

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I enjoyed the event and was even prepared for poopy loot as the reward when it just ended abruptly. A warning message ahead of event ending would have been nice. Other than that, thanks for putting the event on!

You're completely okay for wasting time out of your holiday to find out your reward will be taken away? What kind of pills are you on? This is NOT okay. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tethler · #7 11-01-2015, 03:02 AM

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You're completely okay for wasting time out of your holiday to find out your reward will be taken away? What kind of pills are you on? This is NOT okay. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I was having a good time while doing the event itself. Rewards are awesome, but its not always about the reward. If the event wasn't going on, I'd have been bashing some dumb mob on an alt. Event gave me something else to do for a bit that isn't normally part of the game.

Lifebar · #8 11-01-2015, 03:32 AM

When I got ported from WK to EC I decided to go do something else.

But I'm so glad that we have a staff that cares enough to put an event -- ANY event -- together on the 100% free nostalgia server I love.

Thanks guys & Happy Halloween!

Nilasbik · #9 11-01-2015, 03:39 AM

Events are suppose to be fun. If you look at the event rewards from SoE/Verant events. Specifically the 2001 Halloween event. The rewards were no drop and they were upgrades for people in the 20-40 range from trash mobs and then very few mobs that had to be killed by multiple groups to drop decent items for people above 40. They later switched to the scavenger hunts for the anniversaries in which case everyone got the same reward and it wasnt always great but it wasnt a waste of time either. Each year the previous years scavenger hunts were available and i know on FV the exp pot one was farmed like crazy because they were tradeable per FV ruleset. Where as on normal servers they were not. The last few years they would do augments. So to have rewards that are mediocre when you are lvl20-30 that you can always get in the game any day of the week its not special. The point of holiday events is to do something that you dont get to see every day.

1. The running around was fine.
2. The scripting a good idea.
3. Add random new mobs to zone with random no drop loot. in fact just use the old halloween loot nothing was super op.
4. giving a boss that will draw people together at the end is a good idea as well.
5. its ok to give out something that's risk vs reward is easier than normal because it doesnt happen all the time, its a holiday event. make it no drop and lore.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...tml?quest=6782 link to all of the anniversary events page so you can get an idea of reward types that people enjoy.

Sorn · #10 11-01-2015, 04:17 AM

What I liked:

1. Cecil and Barm looked awesome.
2. Getting treats (Kunark's acolytes were making some kind of casserole for sure, and I suspect the ones on Faydwer were some sort of school reference).
3. Solving a new quest. I like puzzles!
4. Knowing I could get turned into something fun and run around like that for a while.

What I disliked:

1. Could not complete quest before the abrupt cut-off time - although honestly I was kind of relieved I wouldn't have to keep playing by the time I got to the Velious section.
2. The idea of eating an ice comet in Kael, possibly repeatedly.
3. Some of the tricks, like porting and straight up murder, upped the ante a little too much considering the potential reward.]
4. Lower levels essentially could not do the later sections of the quest - this doesn't apply to me but did apply to several of the people I saw struggling to finish the quest. There were no intermediary rewards, either.