Vanguard, yet another double exp weekend

[Chaotic]

oh, ding 1000. Neat.

[Zarcath]

Nothing like ruining your intended leveling curve!

[Reggie]

Originally Posted by Zarcath

Nothing like ruining your intended leveling curve!

Yah, there sure is nothing like that.

I didn't bother with the first exp weekend, was having more fun playing Supreme Commander.

Maybe i'll pop in and see how my Shm/War combo is working. I sure am glad I am playing this game casually.

[Aradune Mithara]

Originally Posted by Kidriot69

This is good proof that VG is failing, sales/subs wise. SoE did this when SWG was turning to shit, now VG is doing it.

Nope, we continue to grow quite nicely in terms of subs and registered players. That said, we want to have special events like this and while churn and conversion is fine, we'd rather offer events like this ahead of time and not in reaction to a problem. That said, we don't want to over do it either, so I wouldn't consider double exp periods to happen that frequently. It's a cool thing to do occasionally, but can also easily be over done, and we're aware of that.

[Nattac]

Originally Posted by Aradune Mithara

Nope, we continue to grow quite nicely in terms of subs and registered players. That said, we want to have special events like this and while churn and conversion is fine, we'd rather offer events like this ahead of time and not in reaction to a problem. That said, we don't want to over do it either, so I wouldn't consider double exp periods to happen that frequently. It's a cool thing to do occasionally, but can also easily be over done, and we're aware of that.

I think it's great since i missed last week.. probably gonna miss this week to though, cause of karazhan. we're still noobs workin our way up =p But i would really love to hit this up if at all possible.

The only reason my acc is active is because for a week i couldn't remember my secret asnwer to cancel my acc- be leaving for 2 months with no comp errr "kind of wish it asked before billing"

[The Hiram Key]

Originally Posted by Aradune Mithara

Nope, we continue to grow quite nicely in terms of subs and registered players. That said, we want to have special events like this and while churn and conversion is fine, we'd rather offer events like this ahead of time and not in reaction to a problem. That said, we don't want to over do it either, so I wouldn't consider double exp periods to happen that frequently. It's a cool thing to do occasionally, but can also easily be over done, and we're aware of that.

edit: after actually reading that several more times and putting it through my spin decoder, I find Aradune is shooting straight on this one.

Apologies

[TheCutlery]

Originally Posted by Aradune Mithara

Nope, we continue to grow quite nicely in terms of subs and registered players.

Out of curiousity, would you tell us if you weren't?

[Greyform]

Originally Posted by Nattac

I think it's great since i missed last week..

ditto...

[Bolero]

Well the first bonus exp weekend got me to resub on March 1st, so it worked. Hopefully you will find another carrot to dangle in front of me come April 1st. I like carrots.

[Aradune Mithara]

Originally Posted by Bolero

Well the first bonus exp weekend got me to resub on March 1st, so it worked. Hopefully you will find another carrot to dangle in front of me come April 1st. I like carrots.

April 1st is reverse exp day.

[Eomer]

Someone want to write me a script to repeatedly jump off cliffs with a new character, so I can come back an hour later and be 50 on that weekend?

[Ayeshala]

Originally Posted by Eomer

Someone want to write me a script to repeatedly jump off cliffs with a new character, so I can come back an hour later and be 50 on that weekend?

You know a special 1h event where dying = XP!, and where the amount of XP is determined = the harder the fall, the higher level/more dot the mob, etc. That would kick some serious ass.

Just say it's some god of trickery fucking around with reality or something.

[Javvo]

Originally Posted by chackle

When did Blizzard nerf and break the shit out of classes whilst ignoring the already implemented broken skills? I must have missed that bit.

Umm.... have you ever actually played WoW? Honest question.

[Kazgrim]

Not trying to be a wiseguy, just curious, what does make this game fun? Aside from newness, everything I have read just reminds me of the things I hated about EQ only it is larger and has prettier pictures.

I haven't decided if this makes it "fun" or not but I'll tell you what I enjoy about the game.

1. I play a cat furry (Kurashasasasa something). They have some rather intriquing lore, far more than I ever expected from a generic high fantasy MMO. It's not original, per se, its lifted from a Short Story in Michael Moorcock's Multiverse mythos, particular an Elric story called "In the Machinery of Dreams" IIRC. Moorcock's Multiverse Mythos is the basis of the D&D Planescape setting, btw. The lore only holds through until level 5 when you are sent to Telon and from there on out its like it never happened, you're stuck doing Qalia barbarian quests AFAIK (Diplomacy quests may cover the lore more perhaps, I don't do diplomacy), but it was cool enough new player experience to give me a feel good vibe that's lasted for the last several weeks of boring ass telon shit. It's far better than "oh btw, we have Cats on the motherfucking moon, snakes and vampires too" from EQ1. I just created a new cat person to screen shot a bunch of the newbie area treats and quest text you get, i'll probably throw it up on a site for people to check out if they don't want to bother making a cat furry themselves.

2. Dread Knights get Shadowstep. Go play Raiden in MKIII to give yourself an Idea. This ability is just pure, unadulterated fun. We've nicknamed this ability "Ninja Vanish" in my guild/group of friends and the naming convention is starting to take hold on my server. It pisses off rogues if you use it randomly while tanking (which is a Plus if that's your goal) but its awesome for setting up mob positioning on pulls and such, plus your Mez and Lifetap's pretty much require its use, and its range is damn nice. If they ever nerfed this skill I would quit, regardless if they made DKs 20X more powerful than they are in the process. It's that pivotal in the whole cool/fun factor.

3. I'm playing in a guild full of old EQ1 peoples from my server. Despite the number of MMOs that have come and gone, our old EQ1 server boards are still an active community and we still shoot the shit daily. We're a pretty tight nit group of about 50-100 active daily posters, probably 300 or so total users who check in less frequently. Every MMO that comes out those of us that are interested in it all hop on and form a guild of sorts and give it a go. Not everyone is interested in every MMO of course, but we have like "chapters" in basically all major MMOs, no where near say SA forums but still. There's about 6 of us in Eve, probably 100 or so in WoW (spread to the 4 winds though), 4-5 in EQ2. 2-3 in CoH/V. Hell there's still a few on our server replaying or still playing EQ1. Vanguard especially has a special bit of nostalgia for this group so there's a bit more comraderie going on here than would be in other MMOs. It started off about 50 players but its dwindled down to about 10

4. After 23/7 overwatch in 0.0 in Eve or constantly doing instance runs in WoW, its nice to just sit back and camp mobs for a few hours, shoot the shit with old friends, not worrying about elaborated scripted encounters or anything, paranoia of checking local every 20 seconds for red boxes or neutral spies, just good old fashioned mindless mob slaughtering. It's relaxing, in a way.

[kcxiv]

DK shadowstep owns all. People tell me in group, how do you do that, it looks bad ass. lol Positions you perfect everytime.