[Tahitoa]

Originally Posted by ABERCROMB68 Not good enough sorry Tahitoa I now your trying hard but looking back over this thread you have officers and guild leaders representing over half of Crom one of the most active if not the most active server. You add the officers from Fury and other servers. Then this is not a minor upset you can say sorry for an it will go away. You have a game damaging event that needs a direct and honest responce from someone who can make a difference. Its that or all the effort others have made will be pissed away by a foolish and ill thought out annoucement and responce in game.

Ok

You are free to have your view on this of course, I will still ask people to calm down now because I think there is really no need for rage or ranting.

Regards

Tahi

[-h4mi-]

Originally Posted by Tarib I also want to point out that this 'event' was planned and executed by the community management team with the resources and the tools available. Developers had nothing to do with it.

I think that's one of the main problems. You would think that the 1 year anniversary should be the highest prioritized event so far, and actually have a few devs working on it in advance.

[Slackstar]

Originally Posted by ABERCROMB68 Not good enough sorry Tahitoa I now your trying hard but looking back over this thread you have officers and guild leaders representing over half of Crom one of the most active if not the most active server. You add the officers from Fury and other servers. Then this is not a minor upset you can say sorry for an it will go away. You have a game damaging event that needs a direct and honest responce from someone who can make a difference. Its that or all the effort others have made will be pissed away by a foolish and ill thought out annoucement and responce in game.

sign so much!!!

[afoaa]

Originally Posted by Guvadan Because you set your expectations too high and were disappointed by the result? You need to take a share of responsibility in that I'm afraid.

Oh I weren't hyped at all, I just logged into the game because I wanted to check some trades and noticed some 24 of my guildies were in the noble district and then I remembered the announcement.

What I am reacting to was the mood in guild and open chat when it became clear the Funcom had FUBAR'ed again and how all the drive and positiveness about the game you could sense about the game just evaporated.

FunCom should have made a public statement in game when things went wrong. When that didn't happen people got a feeling that they either didn't have a clue or didn't know, both options that made any people feel that their trust in FunCom were wasted.

[Tarkadahl]

Originally Posted by Tarib I also want to point out that this 'event' was planned and executed by the community management team with the resources and the tools available. Developers had nothing to do with it. We had to decide to either have nothing happening or to at least give players the means to have a place and opportunity to celebrate together. Besides the few technical issues, I honestly think that a correct announcement of this would have helped a lot in terms of managing expectations. And that alone might have lead to player run celebrations, like it was intended. I'm sorry that it turned out the way it did. If nothing else, we did learn for future happenings and events.

May I suggest that in future perhaps Sil can assign a dev or two who's sole jobs are to create the necessary tools and facilities so that you guys can create a more appropriate and meaningful event without these problems occuring again.

Tarib, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you also part of the Anarchy Online community management team?
If so, let me ask you this, how come FC can manage to get Funcom managed events working in THAT game, but not in AOC?

Or is the FC devs intentions that ALL events in the game should be created AND managed by the players themselves?

[Raffachicken]

The community team putting this stuff together with their limited resources and capabilities seems to be a recurring theme...

How long will it be before some actual development is allocated to making things happen in this desolate, static unchanging world?

[Tarib]

Originally Posted by Tarkadahl May I suggest that in future perhaps Sil can assign a dev or two who's sole jobs are to create the necessary tools and facilities so that you guys can create a more appropriate and meaningful event without these problems occuring again. Tarib, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you also part of the Anarchy Online community team? If so, how do you manage to get Funcom managed events working in THAT game, but not in this?

Without going into too much detail, for AO there are some more tools available that make events easier to happen than in AoC. To get developer resources to work on additional tools and possibilities for AoC events, the time was not really at hand. There are other matters that need to be focused on in terms of developer resources than events for the time being.

This does not mean that additional possibilities will not be available for future events of course.

[Tarkadahl]

Originally Posted by Tarib Without going into too much detail, for AO there are some more tools available that make events easier to happen than in AoC. To get developer resources to work on additional tools and possibilities for AoC events, the time was not really at hand. There are other matters that need to be focused on in terms of developer resources than events for the time being. This does not mean that additional possibilities will not be available for future events of course.

Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps some good will come from this situation because it may help to emphasise to the devs, the importance for such tools to be made available to you guys when trying to create events in AOC.

Perhaps the devs should take a look at not only Anarchy Online for inspiration, but also the other MMO's (patches often get rolled out with additional in game features for seasonal events).

Of course, this still doesn't excuse the lack of community notifications via server messages and the forums. But that can be dealt with by creating procedures for such things in the future.

[Liffero]

Originally Posted by Tarib Without going into too much detail, for AO there are some more tools available that make events easier to happen than in AoC. To get developer resources to work on additional tools and possibilities for AoC events, the time was not really at hand. There are other matters that need to be focused on in terms of developer resources than events for the time being. This does not mean that additional possibilities will not be available for future events of course.

i would like to believe the celebration of 1 year alive was enough for the devs to actually create those tools and make easy stuff such as having an npc appearing and greet his army. i didnt expect anything tbh. but i was shocked to see there was NOTHING happening.

[ABERCROMB68]

I think some of the anger I'm feeling is not just about how poor the event was but about how badly it was planned.

Even if we had managed to get food sellers in all the instances. What kind of major anniversary event has as its main attraction the ability to buy food of a trader?

This game is full of players who have played other games. We have an understanding of what makes an event, both seen them and taken part in them. The planning, the annoucement and the implimentation of this 1 year Conan celebration was shameful. The game and the players deserve much better than it was given.

I am sure I am not the only one that is sitting here thing what the hell have I spent the last year and all that money on.