Runes of Magic US / AU

Quoted from "Aqualink"

Quoted from "FarmerTom"

SO.. to start the qq train....
2016= Worst Christmas event in 7 years i have been playing..... Cant wait for anniversary....
someone had to say it...

for reference for the Christmas 2016 events, are you referring to the PoM event et cetera, or the events posted here:

Board Contest Festive House Decoration Contest!
Board Contest Holiday Dessert Contest
Board Contest Holiday Costume Contest!
In-Game Event Snowball Fight!

Those four aforementioned events we as GM's (not Gameforge) came up with and tried to host quickly, efficiently and tried to make it the best rewards we could. The Snowball fight on Mithras was a bit botched but I tried my best to salvage it and make the rewards worth it.
Please let us know for context as there were a lot of events for Christmas and New Years 2016 and we want to try to improve for next year.

i liked the planting event (red seed) poinsetta, and the comic strip event, and the finding awka event

My guess is the PoM event. Just because I'd agree with Cerb if that were the case.

We just need more transparency. Why was it too hard to add Ez Mode? Isn't it just a drop table thing? Why was it too hard to make harder instances drop more than just 1 PoM? Isn't it jist a drop table thing again?

If someone actually in the loop came and let us know what's going on people would be a bit more placated. Bad news is infinitely better than no news at all...

The board events were actually pretty good. It's the pom event that's complete and utter trash.

Quoted from "Magío"

Why was it too hard to add Ez Mode?

Bureaucracy reasons.

Quoted from "Magío"

Why was it too hard to make harder instances drop more than just 1 PoM?

Technical reasons.

Nothing like a gag order to keep your hands tied and your mouth shut.

But Aqua's right, we made a set of events (the ones he listed plus Poinsettias and our regularly scheduled Finding Aqua which we revamped the loots a bit to be tastier) with the express goal of making christmas to be .... christmasier and we had some decently large participation so that was nice.

I don't really see much point in reviving the QQ train, except to be ornery. If you've got a notion to express about the ones the team made, shoot us a PM or something. Otherwise ... meh.

QQ train, bleh. But it's either that or nothing. Something needs to change. Servers are hemorrhaging players. Which comes to my next point.

Quoted from "Heron"

Nothing like a gag order to keep your hands tied and your mouth shut.

Exactly this is the problem. There's a complete disconnect between the people in charge and the community. Something happens, or will happen and they either don't/didn't tell the GM's (e.g. Proof Event), who are the connection between the community and the people in charge, or they tell you but don't let you guys tell the community what's going on (e.g. aftermath of Proof Event).

Basically the community is kept in the dark. People get agitated, then leave.

To me, it's not even about wanting more proofs anymore. I just don't want the game to die because of bad management. Proof event now is just the most recent example.

Just look at the comments on the RoM Trailer event video. There's several from people who used to play the game. If I'm not mistaken there's a few along the lines of "I remember this game had potential". HAD... Most of them are remembering good memories.

Quoted from "Magío"

Why was it too hard to add Ez Mode?

because with gf past, it breaks.

Quoted from "Magío"

Why was it too hard to make harder instances drop more than just 1 PoM?

because you can only add 1 item per boss, which is why currently it is limited to 1 proof, there is ways around it, but how it would work currently wouldn't work at all, and to fix it would rely on runewaker.

They've done more than one proof per boss in the past with the HoS events, and bosses drop multiple ancient mementos.

Quoted from "Cenre"

Quoted from "Magío"

Why was it too hard to add Ez Mode?

because with gf past, it breaks.

Quoted from "Magío"

Why was it too hard to make harder instances drop more than just 1 PoM?

because you can only add 1 item per boss, which is why currently it is limited to 1 proof, there is ways around it, but how it would work currently wouldn't work at all, and to fix it would rely on runewaker.

yes but that was with the old settings, where there was less control. Hence why the adds drop proofs.