127784-join-us-for-an-in-game-surprise

== Content ==
			
Hello Everyone!!!!
 
We've organized a fun-in-game surprise for you! Be in Entity's Capital cities (Illium and Thayd) on June 11th, 2015, at 6:30pm PDT SHARP for more details!
 
See you on Nexus!!!!
 
Team WildStar	
----
			What if people can't be in game at that time?	
----
			I'd love to but, I gotta work.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
What if people can't be in game at that time?
----
			I agree some of us do have raid at that time	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Hello Everyone!!!!
 
We've organized a fun-in-game surprise for you! Be in Entity's Capital cities (Illium and Thayd) on June 11th, 2015, at 6:30pm PDT SHARP for more details!
 
See you on Nexus!!!!
 
Team WildStar
----
			
Yeah.. I remember what happened last time; 
 	
----
			x3 Oh goodie~	
----
			
My favorite event they ever did was at the end of one beta cycle they ran a stress test on Olyssia, the first time we used a second server. They set it up so everyone who logged in was level 6 and started in a fixed village Tremor Ridge first, then Bloodfire Village for the second test. As soon as they had enough people they said Go, and our job was to run as far as we could from the start point. Since server load increases more based on the number of areas the game has to push out and update, more than the raw number of people, it was a great test to get 100s of people scattered across the continent, generating all kinds of locations at the same time. We had something like 30 minutes to get as far as we could, and it was great, particularly trying to get through Whitevale or Auroria as a level 6.I'll be there tomorrow night, but I'm hoping it is something a bit more interesting than spawning a bunch of monsters on top of us. :)
 
Took me few minutes to remember where the picture was, but they released a picture on Facebook after the test was over. This is the Dominion side test, each dot is a player, and colors other than green are where multiples are stacked up.
 
I'm still a little annoyed at myself, because I was about 50 yards from the spot where the winner was, and with about 5minutes left to go I thought I could get a bit farther east by going down to that southern corner. I was wrong and didn't get the "win" :)	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Yeah.. I remember what happened last time; 
 
----
			
I remember....never forget the Loppenning!
 	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
"A fun-in-game surprise".... "Be in Entity's Capital cities"....
 
I was there, I remember.
 
It was the last day of beta. The fake air was cold that day. The Devs had the players gather in the capital cities. I remember as the last bit of light faded into the shadows....
 
The silence was maddening. We knew what was coming next... and yet we waited. How bad could it be, after all?
 
And then it happened! Giant demon rowsdowers to the left of us! Giant killer Lopps to the right! Monsters, ungodly abominations, surrounding us! We fought without rest... we gathered our forces and fought the beasts back to Farside. And then... just when we had the upper hand....
 
It all went dark.
 
I was there the last time there was a special surprise.... I know what your special surprises in the capital cities are! They are death, they are destruction! You gather the masses and reign destruction upon us all! I remember.....
 
See you then, can't wait! Toodles!
----
			
Ahh yesssss....dun dun DUN! 
One moment everyone was alive...
 
...and the next, everyone was dead. :o
 
AHHH!
 
Don't move...
 
And just when it couldn't get any weirder...
 
...a wild Kraggar appears. :o	
----
			Any info about the EU version of the event, or are we just unlucky and have to be up at really bad hours?	
----
			
Those who know, those who remember, those who were there....
 
And answer the question:
 
To Crate or not to Crate?
 
HAIL CRATE!	
----
			What about those that cannot game at this time given it's the middle of a work day for oceanic players	
----
			
The memories....
 
 
Trying to join in. As you can see, i was level 11. I wasn't a big contributor lol!
 
 
The chua campfire party, watching the carnage from what we assumed was a safe distance.... we later found out it wasn't all that safe.	
----
			Something tells me I should be on my tank for this.  :ph34r:	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Hello Everyone!!!!
 
We've organized a fun-in-game surprise for you! Be in Entity's Capital cities (Illium and Thayd) on June 11th, 2015, at 6:30pm PDT SHARP for more details!
 
See you on Nexus!!!!
 
Team WildStar
----
			
And Europe?
When is Europe getting events?	
----
			Lets hope they think about EU players as well .	
----
			Before I go into my last stash of Max Rager... just to clarify, this will go down on ALL servers simultaneously? 	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Before I go into my last stash of Max Rager... just to clarify, this will go down on ALL servers simultaneously? 
----
			
WUT? No no no no nope. Can't do that. No can do.
 
Don't care if you'll do something on the EU servers later. The surprise will be gone. I love me some surprises!
 
*crushed*	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
This is for Entity server only 
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I agree some of us do have raid at that time
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
This is for Entity server only 
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Most people who raid NA are raiding during that time. Guess the trick is to be so leet that you finish your pull a minute before the event, make a portal to Thayd, and hit the event.
 
Actually now I'm worried about the servers dying. The potatoes have enough trouble with Scorchwing and you're going to pack it with every person on the server who can possibly be there...
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Those who know, those who remember, those who were there....
 
And answer the question:
 
To Crate or not to Crate?
 
HAIL CRATE!
----
			lol are people so bothered about the event only being on NA? Even as a EU I don't really care all that much, but I'll check out the reddit/forum post later when it's happened. 	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
The plot thickens - stress testing at it's finest. Let's see if our servers can handle what might just get the norm once ftp hits in fall. And if you can pack some neat supermobs in the midst - why not.
 
*wants to be there so badly*
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
lol are people so bothered about the event only being on NA? Even as a EU I don't really care all that much, but I'll check out the reddit/forum post later when it's happened. 
----
			
Cool.
 
Kinda sad we're not getting one EU but still, can't wait to see what happens!
 
(next time do it on eu k :P)	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
lol are people so bothered about the event only being on NA? Even as a EU I don't really care all that much, but I'll check out the reddit/forum post later when it's happened. 
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
This has been going on for over a year now.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to get something going on the EU servers from Carbine side?
Unless it's an automated rewards in the game : NOTHING
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
What other events have we missed out which the NA guys had this past year? If anything NA people got screwed over by Gamescom 2014 in Cologne as well if you want to really argue for it. 
I'd be more pissed if this happened often, but I actually rarely ever hear of any Carbine hosted events to begin with.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
What other events have we missed out which the NA guys had this past year? If anything NA people got screwed over by Gamescom 2014 in Cologne as well if you want to really argue for it. 
I'd be more pissed if this happened often, but I actually rarely ever hear of any Carbine hosted events to begin with. 
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
It has happened several times to see Carbine people in the game doing things together with players.
Only one I've seen ingame so far was Delacron because we were investigating latency issues in Datascape.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Those were player run events. The Devs just came in to be part of the fesitivities and to enjoy themselves. They were not Carbine sponsored events.
 
I have a feeling that they are doing a stress test for Entity because of all the lag issues it's had the past few days. I couldn't even log on last night, I would get stuck at the loading screen. But, I could be wrong. :)
----
			I think everyone needs to calm down a bit. Until they say otherwise this is one event that does not preclude other events on EU servers. They set this one up at a time that works for them for NA, they could easily set up one next week at a time that works for EU.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
It has happened several times to see Carbine people in the game doing things together with players.
Only one I've seen ingame so far was Delacron because we were investigating latency issues in Datascape.
----
			
Remember you cannot 'create' without CRATE....(of course there's an extra letter e in there but seriously you can't spell the word without all those other letters)
 
KNEEL BEFORE CRATE!
 
Thou shall have no other containers before CRATE	
----
			I must admit, I saw this and was bummed that it's an NA event only. Seriously does the EU server not deserve some love too??? *insert puppy dog eyes here*	
----
			EU will have an event soon guys according to twitter. Sorry you'll have to wait and be patient, but Carbine hasn't forgotten you!	
----
			*goes digging* Ah found something from Sunshine, no details yet though. Just a message saying that they'll announce it after the Entity event!	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
EU will have an event soon guys according to twitter. Sorry you'll have to wait and be patient, but Carbine hasn't forgotten you!
----
			Check out @CRB_Sunshine's Tweet: https://twitter.com/CRB_Sunshine/status/609011270944063488?s=09	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Check out @CRB_Sunshine's Tweet: https://twitter.com/CRB_Sunshine/status/609011270944063488?s=09
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
They of course will write up announcements as they see fit, but might have saved alot of huff and puff from the community had they simply added that little bit of info in the original announcement. :)
 
Thanks for the link and heads up.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
They of course will write up announcements as they see fit, but might have saved alot of huff and puff from the community had they simply added that little bit of info in the original announcement. :)
 
Thanks for the link and heads up.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Or people could have you know, just not freaked out.
----
			Could we have an answer about why this event only happen on US server and not EU ?	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Could we have an answer about why this event only happen on US server and not EU ?
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Could we have an answer about why this event only happen on US server and not EU ?
----
			
I agree its been a bit badly announced, and considering the short lead time from the announcement, I think it was overlooked that the EU community would not be happy to hear about a special NA event with no mention that they will be getting something too. It not unreasonable for us to be unhappy about it.
 
After all, how would you feel if you heard that the EU server was going to have a special event with no mention of anything going down on the NA server??	
----
			I'd probably assume we'd be getting something similar, but I'm a hopeful person. :o	
----
			
To be honest? It wouldn't bother me at all if EU got something that NA didn't. I'd be like "cool" and go about my business. Do I agree that something should have been posted at the time of the OP that the EU details are still being worked on? Yes, I do agree.
 
But to see people losing their minds over something that we don't even know what this event is yet. For all we know it'll be nothing more than some crazy announcement... Carbine HAS trolled us In the past.. but this thread?  It's like watching a kid jump up and down screaming "I WANT IT I WANT IT" when they have no idea what's being offered.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I agree its been a bit badly announced, and considering the short lead time from the announcement, I think it was overlooked that the EU community would not be happy to hear about a special NA event with no mention that they will be getting something too. It not unreasonable for us to be unhappy about it.
 
After all, how would you feel if you heard that the EU server was going to have a special event with no mention of anything going down on the NA server??
----
			I will be there!  I hope we crash the server :P.	
----
			First post ever. Must say though I love this game and have stuck around since beta/launch.. My guild has been going since launch. But my god wtf is with you guys scheduling events? Its like you dont know what actually happens weekly at certain times. I know our guild and the few other guilds that have been around since launch raid Tonight (thursday). I also see a bunch of other guilds that raid on thursday. Makes me wonder why you would schedule an event at a time that is known to be one of the most active raiding times of the week. Also a time when most of the veterans of the game are raiding. Is this event suppose to be purely for newer players. Would love to know the logic on scheduling an event on one of the most busy raid nights of the week.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Any info about the EU version of the event, or are we just unlucky and have to be up at really bad hours?
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Would love to know the logic on scheduling an event on one of the most busy raid nights of the week.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
The logic is pretty simple. They wanted to provide an opportunity for the most players to see the event. Highest concurrency is going to coincide with the busiest raid night...
 
Our raid is also being interrupted by this, and given Carbine's track record -- we're all pretty worried the servers are just going to choke and ruin the rest of the night.
 
There's no perfect solution, but it is pretty clear raiding wasn't really considered. Carbine: In the future you might throw raid instance counts into the mix when looking for a concurrency sweet spot, eh?
----
			Our group will be doing the same, heh.	
----
			What about the warhound people where is my cool RP event?	
----
			....no warhound :c ?	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
What about the warhound people where is my cool RP event?
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
all two of you can pop over to entity :D
 
 
----
			30 minutes to the event, over 250 people already sitting in illium!!	
----
			Stress test incoming. Would make sense considering the recent lag and upcoming f2p. Prepare to have your computers deep fried.	
----
			
I can honestly say I'm not surprised.	
----
			Yeah. Haven't been able to log in at all. ;_; Been trying for 20 minutes.	
----
			What's supposed to be happening?	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
What's supposed to be happening?
----
			
It's a surprise. Though for the look of it, what's happening is that the fabled megaservers aren't up to the task of handling all the curious people that are trying to get in to see the surprise.
 
Actually, I bet the surprise is that they will apologize for the problems, give each of us two or three boom boxes and remind us of the awesome things that can be found inside and how cheap they will be to acquire once we get a Cash Shop!
 
EDIT: Oh, I guess a demon rowsdowser killed the megaservers, then? Someone cas Revive on it! Or is that the wrong game...	
----
			
The realm broadcast told us to head out to Deradune (Dom) and Algoroc (Ex,) to the remote edge of the zone, and I got dumped when I got there. 
 
Apparently a demon rowsdower turned a bunch of people into rowsdowers and thanked them all for coming.	
----
			Seems carbine didn't learn anything? Game needs servers similar to gw2 where new instances are created when a certain threshold is reached. It's fun that theres so many people at first then it gets annoying cause of the latency/fps issues	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Well we all went to Algoroc and a giant Aniversrowsdower was cavorting around, then he turned demonic, then we could attack him, then most of us got DC'd and can't log back in.
 
He'll probably drop rewards that we won't be eligible for b/c our computers couldn't beat the server boss. At first I was having fun, but now I'm really not ok with this at all.
----
			
Don't know is there is anything more, but so far it has been immensely fun fighting that rowsdower!
 	
----
			
My wife managed to stay on and now a message popped up thanking us for celebrating with them. No reward. Just a stress test for F2P under the guise of a celebration.
 
DF? :angry:
 
Edit: should clarify that I enjoyed being around all my fellow players and taking crazy screenshots.Personal favorite was the taxi train out of thayd. I just don't understand. I feel like we just got rickrolled.	
----
			My in-game surprise was multiple server crashes and now a completely useless ui with every Carbine addon dead.  I really wish I could have participated in the event! 	
----
			lawl	
----
			yeah, that was pretty lame.	
----
			Y'know this event really has me hoping that sometime in the future this game will get a miracle optimization that'll fix the incredibly bad FPS. 	
----
			That is what that event just was.	
----
			You mean you didnt have fun attacking a giant rowsdower that doesn't take damage at 1 fps for half an hour???	
----
			Ah well, I logged into a nearly empty version of Thayd. Either stuff is happening elsewhere, or in a version I can't get to. Kind of what I expected when I knew I'd be a few minutes late.	
----
			Well, at least now I know my tea spill last night didn't kill my computer :D	
----
			
Wait, you could fight it?  It was untargetable for me. 
 
I went to Deradune with the mob, waited around for about 30 minutes wondering when the fun part of the event was going to start, then got the "Thanks for attending!" message.	
----
			
Was in Deradune for the event at Witchrock, but nothing happened :( A bunch of people were dissapointed and we left after we got a completion message. I'm glad I'm still on my free trial, otherwise I would be pretty miffed ;)
 
Edit: I had my hopes up for the event, and then wasted 30 minutes with nothing happening at the event location (apparently we were in a seperate instance of Deradune?,) I am only semi-miffed that I wasted my time for nothing. This "special event" did not leave a positive impression at all for me or my husband in our decision to to play until, and after, the game goes free-to-play... I'm not trying to being snarky; just honest!	
----
			Was this a *cupcake*ing joke?	
----
			
This was not a surprise at all.
 
 
gg	
----
	
----
			
It was just a stress test disguised as an event
 
"I went to the anniversery event and all that happened was a stress test"	
----
			
I think as an EU I could prolly do without this event  :D
 
Use the NA as your test subjects! YES! 	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
You mean you didnt have fun attacking a giant rowsdower that doesn't take damage at 1 fps for half an hour???
----
			
Well the demon rowsdower was a bust on Exile side. Couldn't turn into one and didn't get anything from it. Just kept bouncing around and then flopped over dead.
 
The taxi line was worth it tho :P	
----
			0/10, NO LOOT!	
----
			Hi Def slideshow......... LMFAO. Those little flip picture books you flip through had higher FPS then what just happened.	
----
			Well that was a big waste of time. Should have just said it was a stress test rather than a "special event."	
----
			I didn't even see the rowsdower. @_@ 40 minutes of d/cs, then logged into an empty Thayd and hoofed it to Algoroc on instruction of my guildies... meanwhile stressing because my husband's social panels weren't functioning and I couldn't get him in a group to summon him or sync to his instance. Then when I get there, it's just a bunch of people standing around. Supposedly there was a rowsdower, but it was completely invisible to me. :/	
----
			
So you put up a notice saying to be at your faction main city for a BIG surprise.
You tell us to go to a location in a starter zone for some "FUN"
We get there, and the BIG is you as a giant rowsdowser.
You Turn me into a rowsdowser, lead me into the water... and as this rowsdowser I can not move, swim or anything else.  I cant remove the buff.  SO I EFFIN DROWN.
You Then say thanks & make sure to post you screen shots to twitter?
 
HOW THE HELL WERE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW WE NEEDED TO DO THAT? 
 
And I bet you our reward for this "FUN" is your "thank you"
 
... next time please use FUN™ , because fun this was not, it was a total waste of 30 minutes, and for taking part I got the glory of drowning as pink sheep.
I left work early for this? Think about what your actions might be impacting carbine. Really, really poor PR Move.
 
Seriously, trolling you customer base is really insulting.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I didn't even see the rowsdower. @_@ 40 minutes of d/cs, then logged into an empty Thayd and hoofed it to Algoroc on instruction of my guildies... meanwhile stressing because my husband's social panels weren't functioning and I couldn't get him in a group to summon him or sync to his instance. Then when I get there, it's just a bunch of people standing around. Supposedly there was a rowsdower, but it was completely invisible to me. :/
----
			check your mail boxes you angry nerds	
----
			i recieved nothing in my mailbox	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
check your mail boxes you angry nerds
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
same here. I was running all over the place trying to find the damn thing, clicking on anything i could interact with. nothing. And to think, I planned to be on during this time, even set an alarm to make sure I was here.
 
Least you guys could've done was mass-killed us before you said thanks... It'd be something :/
----
			
RIP Warhound 
 	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
check your mail boxes you angry nerds
----
			Worst "event" ever.	
----
			Nothing in my mailbox.  What's supposed to be there?
			
				
	Edited June 12, 2015 by BusterCasey	
----
			
And to think, I had faith in you!
 
I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.	
----
			i got nothing.  also couldnt figure out how to turn into a rowdozer.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
RIP Warhound 
 
----
			Was entertaining as hell, wish I got turned into a Rowsdower. The chat window afterwards was probably the most entertaining. 	
----
			
 
No but seriously, haven't logged in all week....was promised fun....had my back turned most of the time because looking at everyone made me nervous that my PC might crash. :/
 
Okay was not promised fun, was told fun was involved though. o/
			
				
	Edited June 12, 2015 by henzilla	
----
			Lame I got DCed and cant log back in yet.	
----
			
i was just expecting a fireworks show! i didn't really have as high of standards as most people.
 
i thought it was entertaining. really not much /could/ be done with so many people in one spot - most people didnt even get the rowsdower costume thing.	
----
	
----
			
GUYS THE DEVS LISTENED, WARHOUND ALIVEEEE:
 	
----
			Well at least the EU people know not to bother with it if they even do the event on those servers	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
GUYS THE DEVS LISTENED, WARHOUND ALIVEEEE:
 
----
			It was neat, but hardly what I'd call fun.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
GUYS THE DEVS LISTENED, WARHOUND ALIVEEEE:
 
----
			Lol destroying the exiles when they were trying to attack Ilium was so much more fun than the event XD.	
----
			WARHOUND EVENT REP!	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Ooooo I bet all of you are jelly. Daneys and I got our OWN PRIVATE EVENT. Our accounts are worth mad cash right now  :ph34r:
----
			Ooooo I bet all of you are jelly. Daneys and I got our OWN PRIVATE EVENT. Our accounts are worth mad cash right now  :ph34r:	
----
			lol vork thats hilarious	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
1 FPS and an invulnerable giant rowsdower blipping in and out of existence for a half hour, then a request to post screenshots.
 
What "fun".
----
			
1 FPS and an invulnerable giant rowsdower blipping in and out of existence for a half hour, then a request to post screenshots.
 
What "fun".	
----
			
Here is the real surprise.
http://postimg.org/image/4h79z1z17/	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Should of gone and helped invade Illium
----
			
Wow, if it was 10 years ago people would be laughing and saying it was a blast just laughing at the event...
 
Now, a bunch of whiny, entitled babies either saying "wow lag is so fun!!!11one" or "why didn't we get anything.
 
Carbine, that was a really creative way to perform a stress test, grats	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Lol destroying the exiles when they were trying to attack Ilium was so much more fun than the event XD.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Wow, if it was 10 years ago people would be laughing and saying it was a blast just laughing at the event...
 
Now, a bunch of whiny, entitled babies either saying "wow lag is so fun!!!11one" or "why didn't we get anything.
 
Carbine, that was a really creative way to perform a stress test, grats
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Wow, if it was 10 years ago people would be laughing and saying it was a blast just laughing at the event...
 
Now, a bunch of whiny, entitled babies either saying "wow lag is so fun!!!11one" or "why didn't we get anything.
 
Carbine, that was a really creative way to perform a stress test, grats
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
But that 5% was fun.
 
I just sat back and enjoyed a good time with my guild.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I did, it was 5% PvP and 95% people getting 2 shot by guards. Tons of fun.
----
			I feel like this is a good time to try ESO.. 	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
You realize the only reason you "destroyed us" was because of your two shot guards right?
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
It was, made me wish CS would have disabled city defense so we could have had some real ransacking. 
----
			Missed Opportunity Carbine best part was the taxi roller coaster and me telling everyone it was in cave	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Umm compare that you YOUR capital city. Let's also not talk about the population imbalance. The fact is, you have a much better chance at invading us than we do you. So yes, we destroyed you. It was fun.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Pop balance has zero to do with doms sitting there watching exiles get 2 shot lmao. Your CITY killed us. So yes, the computer beat us.
----
			I had a lot of fun!  Carbine you should do more little things like this more often!	
----
			
There is the real surprise.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Umm compare that you YOUR capital city. Let's also not talk about the population imbalance. The fact is, you have a much better chance at invading us than we do you. So yes, we destroyed you. It was fun.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
You do realize WoW was out ten years ago and their were millions playing it? a 700 person event disguised as a stress test is NOT impressive. P.S. they were 8 days late for there anniversary.
----
			
Despite all the nay-sayers, I had a good time. It went about as I expected, with much less bloodshed than I wanted. My only wish is that the Rowsdower had interacted in some way with us. It was weird just watching this silent thing wander around. BUT I had fun, and I got turned into a rowsdower at the end!
 
The line of taxi's out of Illium.
 
BIG DEMON ROWSDOWER!!!!
 
Rowsdower invasion!
 
Rowsdower in a hamster ball.....
 
Taking a taxi ride back to Illium haha.	
----
			
So I was wrong, it didn't crash the servers. But it did crash my raid's morale and a quarter of them went to play Ark instead after the event. So, well done there.
 
Serious question: would it kill you guys to actually say what you're doing sometimes? If you want a stress test, announce a goddamned stress test. People would be happy to participate. But the deflation was palpable as the event finished up, people went from "hey this is neat" to "what the *cupcake* just happened."	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
There is the real surprise.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
WOW, NO I DIDN'T KNOW WOW WAS OUT 10 YEARS AGO, THANKS FOR INFORMING ME. 
 
Also, you never EVER feel like wow has millions of players in it due to all the servers, even 10 years ago it never felt lime millions of people were playing it, all I know is I remember seeing LOLS and "WTF" "that was hilarious" and so on... now its a bunch of people bitching for rewards...and I thought we were MORE mature than the WoW community, now I realize we might be much much WORSE.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
So I was wrong, it didn't crash the servers. But it did crash my raid's morale and a quarter of them went to play Ark instead after the event. So, well done there.
 
Serious question: would it kill you guys to actually say what you're doing sometimes? If you want a stress test, announce a goddamned stress test. People would be happy to participate. But the deflation was palpable as the event finished up, people went from "hey this is neat" to "what the *cupcake*just happened."
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I had a lot of fun!  Carbine you should do more little things like this more often!
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
That's about right. Unless they give everyone that was there something really cool tomorrow... this is just going to be another black stain. Kinda sad.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
You are far over exaggerating.
----
			I sound like a white knight, but I am just cranky... so this is angry Goren	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I sound like a white knight, but I am just cranky... so this is angry Goren
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I'm 100% with you. I don't understand all the anger. It was a fun event, if you didn't take it too seriously. People who are crying cuz there was no "stuff" are dumb. They did things, something different and fun! I got turned into a rowsdower! What's not fun about that?
 
There was lag... yeah, did you expect any less?
Some people had crashing problems.... that sucks, and I'm sorry you missed it  :(
We didn't get anything.... so what? We got a memory, something that we can talk about in a few years and say "I was there when..."
 
THANK YOU CARBINE, for making my evening fun, for giving me a reason to log in that wasn't about getting stuff, and for making me (and my 3 year old, who thought the whole thing was hysterically entertaining) laugh out loud for 30 minutes. You're the best, and you are appreciated!
 
Next time, tho, talk to us  :P
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Lol destroying the exiles when they were trying to attack Ilium was so much more fun than the event XD.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I'm 100% with you. I don't understand all the anger. It was a fun event, if you didn't take it too seriously. People who are crying cuz there was no "stuff" are dumb. They did things, something different and fun! I got turned into a rowsdower! What's not fun about that?
 
There was lag... yeah, did you expect any less?
Some people had crashing problems.... that sucks, and I'm sorry you missed it  :(
We didn't get anything.... so what? We got a memory, something that we can talk about in a few years and say "I was there when..."
 
THANK YOU CARBINE, for making my evening fun, for giving me a reason to log in that wasn't about getting stuff, and for making me (and my 3 year old, who thought the whole thing was hysterically entertaining) laugh out loud for 30 minutes. You're the best, and you are appreciated!
 
Next time, tho, talk to us  :P
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
You do realize WoW was out ten years ago and their were millions playing it? a 700 person event disguised as a stress test is NOT impressive. P.S. they were 8 days late for there anniversary.
----
			
I love the new monorail you guys put in for the event. Very cool! :P
 	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I was telling eveyone who asked how to get there, without planning to go myself. You're welcome.
----
			
Communication was lacking, but that's not a surprise. A lot of people were very, very confused at what was going on...even during the fight. It was fun though, just disjointed.
 
Anyway....endless cab!
 	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Am I though? The players found out that day 1 and forever subs get a mount, and there was an outcry that reminded me of the WoD flying debacle...which is *cupcake*ed up.
 
Theres a quick 10 minute funny stress test and people in game and on the forums go crazy saying how shit it was. EVEN THOUGH, People loved the end of open beta event, which this was just a mini version of.
----
			Those pictures just gave me an idea for a new Challenge. Instead of just clicking to take a regular taxi ride, every X minutes you can select the Challenge version where there are a ton of Infected cabbies and as you're flying through the air you jump from cab to cab killing them.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Wanna know why I loved the Beta event, because I expect that kind of stuff then. It's what I signed up for.
 
I didn't expect to get roped into a stress test masquerading as an event on a live server. My memory will be "Hey, remember that time Carbine rickrolled a whole server?"
 
If they said "Hey folks, we really REALLY need to test something and it has to be live." I'd been there and might of had fun.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Only players are stating this was a stress test.....
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
If it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.
----
			
Recording was rough with how much the game was slowing my computer down.  Here's a video with some commentary:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2_CYjjruwk&feature=youtu.be	
----
			Only thing I'm really rustled about is that the rowsdower couldn't jump. That's my only complaint.	
----
			They couldn't swim either lol! i got stuck in the water and had to drift around until i finally hit ground.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I'm 100% with you. I don't understand all the anger. It was a fun event, if you didn't take it too seriously. People who are crying cuz there was no "stuff" are dumb. They did things, something different and fun! I got turned into a rowsdower! What's not fun about that?
----
			
I too was standing and waiting on my Dominion character for over 30 minutes for something to happen with a crowd of very upset people standing around me. I recall how long I waited for the action during Beta and was pleased when the fun finally started. This time I waited for a very long time and my heart sank when we all got the "Thanks for celebrating with us" message. I didn't expect to get anything out of this event except participation, but was sorely disappointed when I didn't even get to do that.
 	
----
			glad some had fun. Found on the last min an event was running, nothing was going on when i loged.	
----
			some of you are angry and upset. I'm not saying that's it wrong for you to fell that way. However, in my opinion it was awesome to sit on the stairs in Thayd with my guildies just hanging out. Not doing anything stressful/needing concentration and just have a good time. A lot of time we forget that this is a game and that we play for fun. We get caught up in getting to end game, being the best ___, whatever each person aspires to do. Which is not a bad thing. However, it was nice to hang out and laugh with guildies. Yes there was lag, yes there was a lot of craziness. However, it was a lot of fun for me and quite a few others from what I have seen. Stress test or not the team did a great job and watching my guildies turn into rowsdowers really made my night! Great job Carbine/Community team on a fun event that let us stop and reconnect with the community that we play with! 	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
some of you are angry and upset. I'm not saying that's it wrong for you to fell that way. However, in my opinion it was awesome to sit on the stairs in Thayd with my guildies just hanging out. 
----
			
I only have one complaint. Should have just said from the beginning that this would be a small anniversary celebration with a surprise. Might have tempered expectations some.
 
That said, I liked it. Wasn't expecting much, and seeing all the people hanging out in Thayd chattering was pretty cool. And seeing the long line of taxis from the ground was just crazy. :)	
----
			Poor communication is definitely one of the things carbine needs to work on. From the way they advertise things all the way down to the wording on abilities and settings in the option menu.	
----
			
The reason I feel a lot of us are upset (myself partly included) is this thing was masqueraded as a "fun In-game surprise!!!" Which leads to people thinking there's going to be something to fight, or some kind of big party going on. What followed was neither. Yes, some of you were luckily enough to not only see that rowsdower, but become one, but did you stop to look at how many around you weren't a pink sheep? I spent 10 minutes clicking on rowsdowers because I thought one of them would turn me into one so I could participate, only to find out after the event that what I was actually looking for was a giant one that I couldn't see (and I wasn't the only one with this issue, mind you.) This means that for me the event panned out like this:
 
- gather in thayd, all hyped up for the event.
- wait around a while, poke at some party boxes, and finally get a message talking about their 1-year Anniversary (expecting this to be a party for their 1-year)
-  Get told to rush over to Algoroc to the snowy place (trail of taxis was pretty neat to see)
- Frantically running around trying to see wth people are attacking, how people are becoming a rowsdower, and waiting for the party.
- Get told "thanks for joining us!" after nothing happened. No special. No surprise. No fun.
 
I'm glad some of you got to participate and become a pretty pink sheepy or attack the big sheepy, but you have to remember that while you got lucky to see the sheep others did not, or kept crashing, so we didn't have fun... And that's why people are miffed: We got our hopes up for something cool, and all we were given was an hour of lag and confusion.	
----
			
 
{| class="blockquote"
I'm 100% with you. I don't understand all the anger. It was a fun event, if you didn't take it too seriously. People who are crying cuz there was no "stuff" are dumb. They did things, something different and fun! I got turned into a rowsdower! What's not fun about that?
----
			
I guess ultimately I am happy that there was something done for the anniversary, even if it was a bit late. Carbine didn't really have to do anything, we already got our shinies and title.
 
That said... Yeah, I'm just going to echo the previous statements: the communication was very poor. Expectations were raised, and only a fraction of the people who followed this actually got to participate. I'd seriously consider you use more people to organize events like this - for my guild alone, which is certainly NOT somewhere around 5000 people like we saw here (guesstimating), I run it with at least 4 officers. We have around 200 unique members and see people in and out all day long, as well as organize weekly schedules around raiding, PvP and now RP again. Because of how individually specific this event was and the mechanics (turning people into rowsdowers one at a time) were on such a small scale, you really needed to...
 
#1: Put the event in multiple areas. Tell people to go to this region OR this region as a faction - make them equally distant from one-another, so that there's a good chance it'll be 50/50 split.
#2: Get more Carbine employees involved. Even 2 more would've been major, that's being able to work two different phases of the zones at a time. Lot more inclusion.
#3: Allow the players to interact with something themselves. I assure you a lot less people would've been unhappy if we had gotten to even just click a rowsdower player and become one. Like a spreading infection. Make a game of it! I'm sure there's a LOT of people still nostalgic about the Wrath of the Lich King pre-release event where you had the undead plague running about. That was fun as heck, and still something I remember.
 
I understand y'all wanted to be vague about this special surprise, but maybe a nudge in the direction you intended with your wording - small surprise, bit of fun, etc.
 
I do want to say - I appreciate that you guys still care about the game and the players to do this for us. All the complaints BY NO MEANS says we don't appreciate you for it. You guys still have a very passionate hands-on approach to us, and I want to say kudos for that. I hope you will always keep that spirit, Carbine.	
----
			
Maybe we in the EU got lucky given how messed up the system got! Apparently the game kept producing instance zones and allocating players to them, unfortunately no one told the Rowsdower and it failed to appear in most of them.
https://youtu.be/W2_CYjjruwk         http://www.mmo-central.com/2015/06/12/wildstar-event-results-mixed-experiences/
 
I forgive you Carbine, seems you used NA for crash test dummies, with the real event coming to the EU soon  :P
 
Just another Rowsdower who could not handle the truth, going on the rampage after being dropped https://youtu.be/NRHJZpX_9tM	
----
			
Gtreat job in your stupid event!  Hype up everyone to get excited about your "fun".   Fun?  You call dragging the entire population to the ass-end on nowhere for 30 minutes, only TO DO NOTHING  fun?
 
Great job.
 
I hope your next stupid stress-test  under the guise of a "fun and exciting 1year  birthday event"  fails,  because i will NEVER waste my time again.  Faith is you is nil.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
 
 
 
I got disconnected, which wasn't terribly fun. And then I relogged into a new instance where there had been no rowsdower, which also wasn't fun. Then Hildogen started letting people join their team simply to sync into the correct instance after the stuff with the rowsdowers was apparently already over. I do appreciate the effort on Hildogen's part in doing so, it must have been a little frustrating trying to drag 100 players into the right instance one at a time. Thanks, Hildogen! :)
 
And since it deserves saying, I hope the take home lesson from what Hildogen ended up having to do is that players need the ability to change instances themselves. I would suggest that the developers look at how Champions Online does it, because it was one of the first games to implement the idea and none of the games that have followed have done it as well, at least in my opinion. They have an interface that tells you which instance ID you're in, how many friends you have in each other existing instance, and how close to capacity each other instance is. And then they let you pick which one you want to go to, rather than restricting you unless you're trying to sync with particular teammates.
 
It's extremely helpful for getting to a particular instance without having to beg someone else for help. Which is likely to become more important as the game goes F2P.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Ddo has that instance setup currently and since... Ages ago. Tera also does the same, can swap whenever and tells you how full. Neverwinter also lists instances, allows swaps on cool down and lists exact player count.
 
System is done successfully in plenty of games, one only need pay attention and not live in ancient lala land. Tho ddo is old as sin and still had it, but let's say they get an exception for being an instanced mmo rather than themepark. Neverwinter and Tera are themepark like WildStar however.
----
			
Just throwing it out there, I saw this and ended up staying awake pretty late just to see what this event was, despite having to work early in the morning. It sounded like there was going to be some big announcement or worthwhile event -- I can deal with a little sleep deprivation in exchange for a cool experience or to hear a new announcement.
 
Instead, I got 20 minutes of 3fps in Thayd, kicked from the server, and stared at connection errors for 30 minutes. Then I find out that nothing really worthwhile happened.
 
If you're going to do stress tests for the F2P transition, that's really awesome -- but don't disguise them as though something important is going to happening. Just say "everyone go to Thayd so we can test the servers" and incentivize us with some silly reward, rather than trick us by promising fun but delivering client-server issues.
 
Now I'm at work running on very little sleep, since I thought there was going to be something worthwhile happening last night. I just bought Wildstar about 2 weeks ago, and this hasn't made a very good impression. I've got a pretty bitter taste in my mouth over the whole thing. 
Just my 2c. Think about your customers and try to value their time a bit more.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I think most people that are a bit upset are the people who left raiding and whatnot to sit at 5fps for an hour and a half of nothing. I personally don't care because I had nothing else to do, but it was a distraction, not really cool or interesting- which is what you'd expect from carbine event.
----
			
Stress test keeps being tossed around...but did Carbine say it was?  I didn't see anything when I was at the event, and it was first said, that I saw, in the zone chat at Deradune that it was a 'stress test' by the players.
 
If it was actually a stress test, where did Carbine say?  I'd like to think they'd be honest about it.  I've not seen anything in Twitter, either.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Stress test keeps being tossed around...but did Carbine say it was? I didn't see anything when I was at the event, and it was first said, that I saw, in the zone chat at Deradune that it was a 'stress test' by the players.
 
If it was actually a stress test, where did Carbine say? I'd like to think they'd be honest about it. I've not seen anything in Twitter, either.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Exactly. People were having a good time until about 30 minutes in, at which point they started getting confused.
 
Then they were annoyed, but still like "oh hey this rowsdower is flying through the air, heh, maybe the rest of the event is about to start."
 
Then finally when it just ended with literally nothing else happening is when people said "what the *cupcake*." And chat blew up with people who had cut their raids/dungeons/bgs/whatever short to come to a "fun surprise" which ended up being a stress test. Grown men and women don't appreciate being treated like kids that you have to trick into going to the dentist, if you can believe it.
----
			Well, here's my two cents:  If Carbine had told us the event was a stress test, then how many of you would have showed up for it?  I believe it would have been a fail stress test because from all the posts I'm reading, no one is really willing to do anything unless they think they're going to "get" something for it.  Well, I'm sure we did "get" something for it.  We gave them the info they need to make sure the servers are going to keep running when WS goes F2P and the population explodes (hopefully).  So think about that for a bit!!	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Well, here's my two cents:  If Carbine had told us the event was a stress test, then how many of you would have showed up for it?  I believe it would have been a fail stress test because from all the posts I'm reading, no one is really willing to do anything unless they think they're going to "get" something for it.  Well, I'm sure we did "get" something for it.  We gave them the info they need to make sure the servers are going to keep running when WS goes F2P and the population explodes (hopefully).  So think about that for a bit!!
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Well, here's my two cents: If Carbine had told us the event was a stress test, then how many of you would have showed up for it? I believe it would have been a fail stress test because from all the posts I'm reading, no one is really willing to do anything unless they think they're going to "get" something for it. Well, I'm sure we did "get" something for it. We gave them the info they need to make sure the servers are going to keep running when WS goes F2P and the population explodes (hopefully). So think about that for a bit!!
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
We love our EU and have plans for sure! More info is coming.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I think a neat title would have hooked plenty of people. And just because some people might not have participated doesn't make it OK to lie about it.
 
"You wouldn't have come if I had told you the truth!" Come on, now.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Yes, but as the "test" has shown, 600 people is enough to bring down the server.
So, Carbine better get's moving on that hardware 
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I don't see where they lied about anything.  They said join them in game for a big surprise.  There was a big Rowsdower to kill.  Surprise!!  They didn't say, "Join us in-game and we'll give you all big prizes and presents".
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
*big rowsdower to stare at for 30min. SURPRISE!!! 
----
			
Interesting, some of the people that didn't have fun are venting their frustration at Carbine, while some of the people that had a good time are insulting the players that didn't have a good time.  
 
It's great that people had a blast, they were able to get/stay in the game, they got turned into Rowsdowers and were able to attack the giant one.  While I was able to stay in the game, I wasn't able to do much else.  I guess if I'd been on a Warrior, I could have made my own fun with Power Link spam.  /shrug.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Bring down? The server was fine. The FPS drop was purely lack of processing power on our end. I mean did you look away from the mob at any point? 4fps- 60fps- 4fps- 60fps. Tests showed the servers are GTG for F2P, and we are chumps.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I don't see where they lied about anything. They said join them in game for a big surprise. There was a big Rowsdower to kill. Surprise!! They didn't say, "Join us in-game and we'll give you all big prizes and presents".
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
 
Interesting, some of the people that didn't have fun are venting their frustration at Carbine, while some of the people that had a good time are insulting the players that didn't have a good time.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Well, here's my two cents:  If Carbine had told us the event was a stress test, then how many of you would have showed up for it?  I believe it would have been a fail stress test because from all the posts I'm reading, no one is really willing to do anything unless they think they're going to "get" something for it.  Well, I'm sure we did "get" something for it.  We gave them the info they need to make sure the servers are going to keep running when WS goes F2P and the population explodes (hopefully).  So think about that for a bit!!
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Try that argument some time and let me know how it works! "I didn't 'technically' lie to you" will get you exactly nowhere in the real world.
 
What fighting? We just stood there watching an invulnerable rowsdower almost die from a radiation sickness debuff he got from the quest area next to him.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Bring down? The server was fine. The FPS drop was purely lack of processing power on our end. I mean did you look away from the mob at any point? 4fps- 60fps- 4fps- 60fps. Tests showed the servers are GTG for F2P, and we are chumps.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
My favorite event they ever did was at the end of one beta cycle they ran a stress test on Olyssia, the first time we used a second server. They set it up so everyone who logged in was level 6 and started in a fixed village Tremor Ridge first, then Bloodfire Village for the second test. As soon as they had enough people they said Go, and our job was to run as far as we could from the start point. Since server load increases more based on the number of areas the game has to push out and update, more than the raw number of people, it was a great test to get 100s of people scattered across the continent, generating all kinds of locations at the same time. We had something like 30 minutes to get as far as we could, and it was great, particularly trying to get through Whitevale or Auroria as a level 6.
 
I'll be there tomorrow night, but I'm hoping it is something a bit more interesting than spawning a bunch of monsters on top of us. :)
 
Took me few minutes to remember where the picture was, but they released a picture on Facebook after the test was over. This is the Dominion side test, each dot is a player, and colors other than green are where multiples are stacked up.
 
 
I'm still a little annoyed at myself, because I was about 50 yards from the spot where the winner was, and with about 5minutes left to go I thought I could get a bit farther east by going down to that southern corner. I was wrong and didn't get the "win" :)
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
It might not have gone down completely, but the server kicked me at 9:32 PST and I spent the next 30 minutes starting at login error messages. The servers certainly didn't handle it well if they had to refuse login requests.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
It's not about 'stuff', although people do like to get something for their time.
 
Many of us rearranged our schedule or opted to stay up instead of go to bed (I work an early shift) to see what the 'big surprise' was, and we got....well....you know.
 
It's about being respectful of your customers' time, not their entitlement.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I disagree.  Take responsibility for your own actions.  You opted to stay up late because you wanted to see what the big surprise was, for whatever reason.  If you had known it was going to be a stress test you probably would have went to bed.  Your choice, not Carbine's fault.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
What? Take responsibility huh? You yourself recognize there was extreme reason to expect something unique/cool from the event, reward/or experience, then you go on to say "if you had known it was going to be nothing you wouldn't have come"? While faulting us for taking time out of our day for this?  C'mon man. Are you serious?
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I disagree.  Take responsibility for your own actions.  You opted to stay up late because you wanted to see what the big surprise was, for whatever reason.  If you had known it was going to be a stress test you probably would have went to bed.  Your choice, not Carbine's fault.
----
			mhm	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I've been in the real world for quite some time, thank you very much, and believe me, I have learned not to expect much from anybody, because all you will get is disappointment. As for my experience with the Rowsdower, I was able to get some hits in, but yes, the fps was really bad and it wasn't smoothe at all. Maybe my computer is better than yours?
----
			Well, I would have shown up if Carbine had announced it truly was a stress test.  I'm silly.  :rolleyes:	
----
			The more I read the more im starting to think this was just a cupcaked up event because if all of the people had turned into party rowdowers and chased the big rowsdower around that would have been pretty fun like a giant herd of party rowsdowers but alas I do not know if that was their intention	
----
			
Foolish organic lifeforms. Obviously CRATE does as CRATE pleases and we all most merely accept it.
 
CRATE!!!!	
----
			
Well last night was kind of a fun train wreck. I had fun just watching everyone gather in one place and chat. But it was a train wreck with the fps issues and confusion.
 
We all gathered in Thayd, then was told to go to Alogoroc. The taxi train was quite amusing. Got stuck for a minute when the taxis landed. I couldn't move till there was a break in the taxis landing on top of me. Went to the snowy area above Tremor Ridge to lag through 30 mins of watching a huge Anniversary rowsdower flicker in and out for the first 10 minutes, then have it turn into a purple one, then disappear. And the confusion and frustration was real.
 
Some got dc'd and couldn't get back on. Some couldn't log on at all. Some got dc'd, was able to log back in but had their communication stuff broke, so the couldn't do anything. Everyone had very little fps or was watching a slideshow. Myself, I had 4 fps at one time, but the average was around 8 fps.
 
I do hope they got some good information for server performance from this.
 
Sorry, I didn't take any screenshots. I was too busy being amused by some of the comments in zone chat. :) I went to this 'event' with the thinking it was a stress test and not expecting anything.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Just a Correction.
 
This isn't instancing, this is called Server Channeling.
and the vast majority of MMORPGs have server channeling.
 
GW2 does something similar with Overflow, but you can't particularly help which overflow or main instance you end up in.
 
TERA has standard MMO server channeling, as does most of the MMO market. Server channeling is standard and required in korean MMOs, and most Tai, HK, CN, and SEA MMORPG systems.
 
Server channeling essentially places as many players as possible in the same persistance server Realm, but then channels it so that all players can communicate and interact on the same realm without divinding them up.
Each channel on the server essentially is a duplicate with its own spawns and timings.
Full channels can't be logged into, and swapping between channels is instant and there is no need for any extra server additions.
 
With server channeling you can essentially merge all server types into a standard server and dedicate a Channel.
EG You could merge Warhound and Entity on the same server, and then make a dedicated PVP/PK channel.
 
Server channeling is a far superior method and choice for MMO design because it allows the entire population of a game to persist on the same server, and channels have their own defined settings, and the workload of such a design scales extremely well and is low impact.
 
It prevents the need for a developer to add new realms that divide the player base, and rather they just add hardware that supports the realm to be turned into a channeled server.
 
Keeping the population together= Good!
Splitting it up= Bad, reduces player content, causes issues with population.
 
Server Channels can be setup to be PVP exclusive, eliminating the need for a dedicated PVP realm. Everyone whom wants to be on a PVP realm now can be on the same realm as the PVEers and can populate or default log into the PVP Channel of the server.
 
If this were applied to WildStar we could look at a server list like this
 
NA - Entity Ch1. Ch2. Ch3(PVP)
EU - Jabbit Ch1. Ch2. Ch3(PVP)
 
And this set up allows ALL players to be on the same server and there is no longer a need for dedicated PVP realm, and all the PVP realm users now have access to all the community of the PVE server, but don't have to sacrafice their PVP realm interest.
 
Server Channeling is a far surperior system.
Carbine, Make it happen.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
We got our hopes up for something cool, and all we were given was an hour of lag and confusion.
----
			Ok, if Rick Asltey had been there, that would have been amazing . . . 	
----
			
Felt it was a little underwhelming on the whole.   The giant rowsdower was cute, but choosing the area with radiation damage was a poor choice, and the vast number of people in the zone made it difficult to tell what was going on.  Not everyone got transformed, and no real climax to the event.  
 
I think for these sorts of things you need to come at it like a fireworks show.  You got the introduction and attention VERY well, but then sort of muffed the middle and end phase.  If you've ever been to a good fireworks show there's a rhythm and it'll definitely end on a bang.  
 
Of course this all takes time and resources, but it would have been cool to do what you did, maybe pick some sort of announcement you've been sitting on to tease with.  Have someone sending out realm messages.  Have some sort of event at the very end, the Entity looming over the area in the sky, or actual fireworks... something to give some sort of closure and if you're really good whet the appetite for more.	
----
			I had fun, especially the Taxi train...  sure, would have been nice to have more giant Rowsdowers along to interact with (the one we got didn't even render on my Wife's computer)... but, it's good to see the servers were stable.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Felt it was a little underwhelming on the whole. The giant rowsdower was cute, but choosing the area with radiation damage was a poor choice, and the vast number of people in the zone made it difficult to tell what was going on. Not everyone got transformed, and no real climax to the event. 
 
I think for these sorts of things you need to come at it like a fireworks show. You got the introduction and attention VERY well, but then sort of muffed the middle and end phase. If you've ever been to a good fireworks show there's a rhythm and it'll definitely end on a bang. 
 
Of course this all takes time and resources, but it would have been cool to do what you did, maybe pick some sort of announcement you've been sitting on to tease with. Have someone sending out realm messages. Have some sort of event at the very end, the Entity looming over the area in the sky, or actual fireworks... something to give some sort of closure and if you're really good whet the appetite for more.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Good to know, I hadn't heard from anyone I knew that they/anyone else had server issues. Was just us sitting there with shitty FPS because our 'puters couldn't handle rendering so many players.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Critical hit from wall of text! Instant death!
 
1. The word instanced referred to ddo's style of mmo. It means that most content is in dungeon types with cities and minimal or no open world. If you had ever stepped into ddo, you'd know what it was. Since you're all up on Asian games, pso/psu were even more extreme versions of instanced mmos. Refers to open world (theme park) versus not open world (instanced)
2. Discussion was about game not handling 1000 people at the same time and people not being able to join in to the particular area where the real event was happening because we have no choice where we get placed. Not that warhound didn't get to participate in the same server. Your model would still suffer from that issue if it would not give you choice to go to a particular instance. if there's 4 PvE instances and only one with the event... No way to swap to the one PvE instance where you want to be is the problem.
 
Instance or whatever you want to call things, your wall of text was unwarranted and completely missed what I was saying. I'll forgive you, but my eyes may never recover! Lol
----
			
Glad to see I'm not the only one that had some amusement last night.
Yes, I drowned as a rowsdower. ( :rolleyes: )
Yes my FPS went down. Alot. (I think they hit negatives at one point. :P  )
Yes, there was lots of negative vibes from some players.
But overall, it was a fun time, in my book; my thanks to the players who kept the mood lighthearted
in the chaos.
Especially the player who said (after the big boss battle), "WAIT! Noone move! ...I dropped my contact."
 :lol:	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Don't forget that the rowsdower models can't swim up, so people who got transformed and went into the water were stuck there until they drowned.
 
So radiation or rowsdower, you're gonna die somehow!
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
seems like rowsdower are like dodos and will be doomed to extinction by their own stupidity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqOJUSCzHtY
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
seems like rowsdower are like dodos and will be doomed to extinction by their own stupidity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqOJUSCzHtY
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
seems like rowsdower are like dodos and will be doomed to extinction by their own stupidity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqOJUSCzHtY
----
			I dunno. I had fun. I didn't really have any high expectations, though. Hung out with my guildies beforehand. We expected fireworks, so we hopped onto higher parts of Thayd. Then, we got into the endless Taxi train (which cracked me up). Getting off the taxi took a while - like...I was stuck with hundreds of taxis landing on my head. Took a good minute or so for me to move again. LOL I thought the giant Anniversarowsdower was cute :) I didn't get turned into one, though *sadface*. All in all, we started our raid a few minutes late, and we went on to finally kill SD. All in all, a great night, in my book :D	
----
			
I don't know why, but logging into the game right before the start of the event, I had the best FPS I've ever had in Illium. No lag, stutter, anything. It was like that the entire time until I loggged out while on the beach.
 
It was pretty sad seeing how a few people were getting so mad over not getting loot rained on them for logging on during that time. Crying over having to miss raid time for nothing, somebody even going so far as to try and get #wildstar #sux trending. It was pretty pathetic IMO. Even though I couldn't sync to the instance that saw everything it was still cool to see all those people in one place. That ws worth it alone to me. Hope the neckbeards that didn't feel they were compesated enough get outside and grab some fresh air, maybe come back a little less high strung.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I don't know why, but logging into the game right before the start of the event, I had the best FPS I've ever had in Illium. No lag, stutter, anything. It was like that the entire time until I loggged out while on the beach.
 
It was pretty sad seeing how a few people were getting so mad over not getting loot rained on them for logging on during that time. Crying over having to miss raid time for nothing, somebody even going so far as to try and get #wildstar #sux trending. It was pretty pathetic IMO. Even though I couldn't sync to the instance that saw everything it was still cool to see all those people in one place. That ws worth it alone to me. Hope the neckbeards that didn't feel they were compesated enough get outside and grab some fresh air, maybe come back a little less high strung.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Good to know, I hadn't heard from anyone I knew that they/anyone else had server issues. Was just us sitting there with shitty FPS because our 'puters couldn't handle rendering so many players.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I don't know why, but logging into the game right before the start of the event, I had the best FPS I've ever had in Illium. No lag, stutter, anything. It was like that the entire time until I loggged out while on the beach.
 
It was pretty sad seeing how a few people were getting so mad over not getting loot rained on them for logging on during that time. Crying over having to miss raid time for nothing, somebody even going so far as to try and get #wildstar #sux trending. It was pretty pathetic IMO. Even though I couldn't sync to the instance that saw everything it was still cool to see all those people in one place. That ws worth it alone to me. Hope the neckbeards that didn't feel they were compesated enough get outside and grab some fresh air, maybe come back a little less high strung.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Great post, but the majority of the people in this thread can't bear to hear the truth.  
----
			I just love how people claim they were lied to because "all Carbine wanted to do was stress test for F2P." Protip, people. No one but other players has said this. I do think the interaction with players was lacking, but otherwise, the event was exactly what they said it would be.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I just love how people claim they were lied to because "all Carbine wanted to do was stress test for F2P." Protip, people. No one but other players has said this. I do think the interaction with players was lacking, but otherwise, the event was exactly what they said it would be.
----
			Hey Everyone -Thank you for your participation in last night's event, but most of all, thanks so much for your feedback. This was the first in-game event that we’ve run since the close of Beta and we were very excited to do it, even though it didn't produce the outcome we had hoped for. Still, there was some very valuable information that we took away from this event.While it was never intended as a stress test, it certainly turned into one when more people than we ever projected, showed up to kill our rowsdowers. This is information that will help us make future events much better (and there will be future events). It was great seeing everyone come together even though it did cause noticeable lag and other issues. We will take everything we've learned, make adjustments, and expand on it moving forward, in order to bring you better in-game events.We want to make your in-game experience as fun as possible, and we want to bring you some more in-game events in the future and your feedback has greatly helped us in that process.Thanks again - our next event will be better because of your participation and feedback.See you on Nexus!	
----
			
Thanks for the response, Sunshine!
 
Super glad to hear that more events are slated to happen, I'm looking forward to them!	
----
			To be clear, the rowsdower was being controlled by a Carbine employee. If it was intended to be fought, why was it flying through the air doing loopy loops and regenerating its health? (No shit, that is what was happening. I'm sure it was recorded on at least one twitch stream.)	
----
			Good to know it was intended to be an event, care to elaborate why it turned out the way it did?  :huh:	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
It's hard to claim there's no justification for being really let down/taken for a fool, and even upset that the "event" disrupted your evening. Stress test is the only reasonable explanation of the event, and you can't fault people for feeling rather lied (despite no outright lies having been told) to and used.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I understand and empathise with people who felt let down by the event. I too wish there had been more interaction and more actual ACTIVITY involved in the event. By all means, complain about that and I will support you.
 
But I swear if I hear one more person say "Carbine should have just said they wanted to do a stress test" I might have to kick a (stuffed) kitten or something.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Carbine should have just said they wanted to do a stress test.
----
			
After a stunt like that do you honestly expect people to show up for future events? 
 
A simple realm message, during the event, keeping players informed about any technical problems you were having on you end would have gone a long way in reducing the backlash you received. 
 
From my point of view this was a poorly planned "event" and a colossal waste of time. I won't bother showing up for future "events".	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I just love how people claim they were lied to because "all Carbine wanted to do was stress test for F2P." Protip, people. No one but other players has said this. I do think the interaction with players was lacking, but otherwise, the event was exactly what they said it would be.
----
			Just give us EU people the next event while the NA is trying to recover from their trauma of having 30 mins wasted. 	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
 :P Well I guess since they told us nothing about what it would be, we can't argue with that  :P
 
(not directed at you Mae)  So a lot of y'all apparently had fun.  I'm glad, since it was supposed to be fun(and no snark there at all, I'm sincere).  That being said, so why the need to insult those that didn't and try to convince them they were wrong for not having fun?  When some of them couldn't even get in the game, a lot of us weren't able to interact with anything once there, or some couldn't even see what was supposed to be there.  I thought having fun was supposed to remove negativity, or is that y'all's idea of fun?
----
			
CRB really needs to take a hard look at their community team and start replacing as needed.
 
We've had a full year of poor Community Support, Events, Livestream, etc.  I hate to sound so critical, but enough is enough, and I think a lot of people agree with me on this one.
 
Professionalism is something to be expected.  The livestream guy not being able to get 50 on a Zero to Fifty event, constant technical difficulties, filler fluff, inadequate communication about these events (hello 1 day ahead of time, no rewards, no incentive, etc,) just generally creates distrust between Carbine Studios and the consumers.
 
Think about it guys, you're creating an environment of distrust that is reflected in game reviews, population, etc.  People are willing to pay 15$ a month that they think will improve because they trust the studio.  People jump ship and say, "they'll come back if they ever fix the problems," when they have no trust for the company.
 
... and I personally think that's a fatal error.  I know that I don't see everything that goes on, and I'm not at the studio, but I'm not naive to think that I know better than everyone else at Carbine.  What I do know is that I absolutely do not trust Carbine to make the right decisions.  I base this distrust off of my experience each drop, the horrific itemization system that has been overhauled and still no better, the tremendous neglect of PvP systems, content, and support, and the overall experience of the livestream.
 
I'm not some egotistical jerk who thinks I could make a better MMO, at all.  I'm just a consumer making a decision on the information that I've been given, and I don't feel that Carbine is professional enough in their outward facing departments to secure and create trust in the consumers.	
----
			
I've played MMO's basically since the beginning (Blackthorne, Island of Kesmai, River, Circle, Diku).  I have personally contributed to several major MUD engines, and I have maintained ports of MUD engines.
 
Without a doubt.
 
This is the single most
useless
idiotic
ill-thought out
excuse for an event I have ever witnessed.
 
Seriously, you couldn't even give the Rowdowser hit points in line with the low level world bosses?  31k, that's what, two hits -- at absolute most -- from a level 50 who is in shiphand gear (let alone dungeon gear)?
 
No story, no interaction, just "hey everyone come out to this spot" and a huge lag fest.
 
A complete and total waste of time, and an insult to your entire player base.	
----
			I really hope you fix the lag issue	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I've played MMO's basically since the beginning (Blackthorne, Island of Kesmai, River, Circle, Diku).  I have personally contributed to several major MUD engines, and I have maintained ports of MUD engines.
 
Without a doubt.
 
This is the single most
useless
idiotic
ill-thought out
excuse for an event I have ever witnessed.
 
Seriously, you couldn't even give the Rowdowser hit points in line with the low level world bosses?  31k, that's what, two hits -- at absolute most -- from a level 50 who is in shiphand gear (let alone dungeon gear)?
 
No story, no interaction, just "hey everyone come out to this spot" and a huge lag fest.
 
A complete and total waste of time, and an insult to your entire player base.
----
			
#megaservers
 
Need I say more?	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Carbine should have just said they wanted to do a stress test.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I really hope you fix the lag issue
----
			
As stated earlier, I did have fun! That is the first time carbine's ever really done an event for us. Other events have always been community designed, and I would love if Carbine could create more events for us!
 
However reading these comments gives me flashbacks of launch. Basically what I'm saying is the 1 year anniversary event was basically launch. Crazy lag, a rushed and poorly planned event (game), and tons of disappointed players.	
----
			Why do you state that the event was to kill a rowsdower? It was a lvl 50 dev medic with a giant rowsdower skin that was untargetable! not an Avatus warplot boss token with a giant rosdower skin.... It's sad that even the community dev posting in this topic doesn't even know what was happening in their own event..	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Why do you state that the event was to kill a rowsdower? It was a lvl 50 dev medic with a giant rowsdower skin that was untargetable! not an Avatus warplot boss token with a giant rosdower skin.... It's sad that even the community dev posting in this topic doesn't even know what was happening in their own event..
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
The only thing I'm asking is for people to stop saying it was "just a stress test in disguise" when that was never the intention and just something bitter players are saying.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
I've played MMO's basically since the beginning (Blackthorne, Island of Kesmai, River, Circle, Diku).  I have personally contributed to several major MUD engines, and I have maintained ports of MUD engines.
 
Without a doubt.
 
This is the single most
useless
idiotic
ill-thought out
excuse for an event I have ever witnessed.
 
Seriously, you couldn't even give the Rowdowser hit points in line with the low level world bosses?  31k, that's what, two hits -- at absolute most -- from a level 50 who is in shiphand gear (let alone dungeon gear)?
 
No story, no interaction, just "hey everyone come out to this spot" and a huge lag fest.
 
A complete and total waste of time, and an insult to your entire player base.
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Not to say that I thought this event was good, but I've seen worse.  :lol:
----