Tag: Event

MapleStory 14th Anniversary Event Goes Live: Play As The Pink Bean


As we noted previously, MapleStory’s 14 Anniversary event has gone live, and will run from April 24 through June 12. Events named after past seasonal updates will be available under the 14th Street event. Players will receive the 14th Street Fairgoer title at the start of the event and increase their reputation and stats as they complete missions to receive the 14th Street Celeb medal.

You’ll also be able to create a Pink Bean character through June 12 by talking to Pink Bean outside the Chaos Pink Bean Theatre. The character is temporary, so get as much use out of it as you can. For more on MapleStory, check out the official website.

Source: Nexon Press Release

MapleStory Retro-Theme Arcade Adventures Live


Nexon’s MapleStory has launched its latest event: Arcade Adventures.

The Retro World Event runs until April 9 and can be enjoyed by players with characters of level 61 and above that will take them to 8-bit pixelated worlds where they can hunt monsters, collect coins, practice their dodging and jumping, avoid traps, and more.

  • Promote the Game!: Players will be able to hunt monsters near their level to retrieve Retro World Promo Coupons and receive coins for a special reward.

  • Eliminate Bug Monsters!: Retro World monsters will begin to appear in Maple World. Players who eliminate the monsters can acquire EXP, mesos and coins.

  • Call of the Goddess: Maplers can learn a special event skill from the ancient Retro World Goddess. As they use this skill, players will be able to earn additional coins after eliminating monsters.

In addition, Retro World brings forth the Demon King’s Tower dungeon, and Detective Rave’s Case Notes theme dungeon.

For more information, check out the official website.

Maplestory Starts Gathering of Heroes Event


Nexon today released the latest event for Maplestory. Dubbed Gathering of Heroes, the event adds the Maple Alliance outpost where players can get set up and prepare for the battle against the Black Mage. The goal of the Alliance is to gather “Determination” and power up the holy light in the outpost to be able to fight the Black Mage.

The event runs from November 14 to the 28, and rewards for the event include exclusive pets, items, beauty and money boxes. Also starting today, players can reach level 200 by participating in the Tera Burning Project event. For the duration of the event, you’ll be able to create and assign new characters as your Tera Burning Character and receive a Snail pet and gain two extra levels each time they level up until reaching 200. Characters level 61 and up can accept the Destiny Awaits quest to unlock new areas and new enemies.

Players level 200 and up will have access to Moonbridge and all of the hordes of monsters that come with it.

Jagex Wants To Publish Your Indie Games


Gamesindustry.biz is holding its Investment Summit in September, and RuneScape developer Jagex will be there to seek out new publishing opportunities. After announcing last year that the company is seeking to publish more independent titles, Jagex will join a list of publishers and investors including Nintendo, Sega, Fig, Humble Bundle, and others to give speeches, have lunch, and hopefully close some deals between big name publishers and indie developers.

 “Our participation is an important part of the third age of Jagex as we look to support studios and development talent by opening our live game publishing services to studios seeking success in the living games market.”
-James Burns, Jagex

For more information on the event, check out the link below.

(Source: GI.biz)

Arenanet Talks: Guild Wars 2 Friend/Ship Campaign


Last month Arenanet held a Guild Wars 2 campaign called Friend/Ships, asking players to send in their stories of forming friendly relationships in the popular MMO. The campaign brought in tons of stories from gamers who made new friends and even some who went on to tie the knot.

This week I managed to get in touch with Elisabeth Cardy from Arenanet for a quick Q&A regarding the Friend/Ships campaign. Let’s see how it went.

Q. How did the name “Friend/Ships” for the campaign come about?

Elisabeth Cardy: When we first started brainstorming around this campaign, it was based on stories we’d heard of people who had met their significant other in game, but we really wanted to recognize that it’s not just romantic relationships that can have a deep impact on our lives. To that end, we were looking for a title that encompassed relationships of all sorts. Especially in English, the word “relationship” can have some hefty connotations of romance, so it didn’t feel right on its own. “Shipping” is a fandom term that has to do with primarily romantic relationships (“ships”), so when we were taking some early notes, we started using “Friend/Ships” as a shorthand to kind of indicate both platonic and romantic relationships, and the whole team liked it so much that when it came time to think of the final title for the campaign, we all decided that we wanted to keep this one around.

Q. What was the inspiration for this campaign? There are countless stories of people forming friendships in MMOs but developers are often hesitant to acknowledge them.

Elisabeth Cardy: We built Guild Wars 2 with the idea in mind that it should be good to see other players. We regularly see the success of that in the stories that we hear from guilds, couples, and BFFs about their in-game and out of game adventures. Hearing stories like these is incredible rewarding and heartwarming and we wanted to share some of that joy with the world!

Q. Guild Wars 2 centers a lot of its content on drop-in cooperative group play with strangers. Do you think that forms stronger bonds between players than those that are primarily competitive?

Elisabeth Cardy: Certainly the casual grouping and reinforcement that seeing other players in Guild Wars 2 is a good thing helps people meet others that they might not have normally. But, I think people can bond a lot of ways! Some of my fondest memories are of cooperative content, like running into people repeatedly at open-world boss fights, but I know plenty of folks who have stories of their own of friendships forged in the fires of a particularly fierce rivalry, or facing off together against a common enemy.

Q. What kind of response did you receive from the community compared to what was expected?

Elisabeth Cardy: We got absolutely flooded with stories from players from all over! It was a real delight to see so many people sharing their memories of people and moments that are special to them and how Guild Wars 2 has had a positive impact on their lives.

Q. Is this a one-off event or will it come around again next year?

Elisabeth Cardy: The in-game Friendship Tonic will be available to players in February in future years, and we certainly aren’t done celebrating and appreciating the Guild Wars 2 community.

Q. And finally, do you refer to friends met online as “online friends” to more local, in-person friends?

Elisabeth Cardy: Personally, I don’t tend to draw much distinction, and if I do bring it up, it’s normally as a way of giving context to how I know a person. Just like I’d say “a buddy I met in college,” as a lead-in to a story, I might say “a friend I met in Guild Wars 2.”

Fantasy War Tactics R Celebrates 800 Days With Anniversary Event


Nexon’s Fantasy War Tactics is hitting its 800 day anniversary and if you don’t know what kind of present to buy for that kind of event then don’t worry about it. The presents are coming to you. Starting yesterday (November 11) and running for eight days, players can log in and gain daily gifts and participate in events revolving around dishing out gold and diamonds.

The anniversary update delivers tons of new in-game giveaways and events for players to enjoy. Beginning on Thursday, Jan. 11, players who log-in daily will hail the 800-day milestone with 8 days of valuable item drops, such as:

  • Day 1 – Random Rune Box x3
  • Day 2 – Unknown Fruit x40
  • Day 3 – 15,000 Soul Stones
  • Day 4 – 8,000,000 Gold
  • Day 5 – Dungeon Subjugation Ticket x100
  • Day 6 – Universal Transcendence Ticket x1
  • Day 7 – 5-Set Selection Ticket x1
  • Day 8 – 6-Equipment Piece Selection Ticket x1

Those who seek more information can find it on the official Facebook page.

The Mad King Returns To Guild Wars 2


It’s Halloween time again in Guild Wars 2! Return to the lair of the Mad King, now equipped with both your Path of Fire mounts and Heart of Thorns gliders, and take on the denizens while navigating the twisting passages of this labyrinth. Race against time in the Clock Tower jumping puzzle or take on other players in the Lunatic Inquisition PvP game.

The Halloween event runs from today until November 2.

(Source: Guild Wars 2)

Defenders Event Comes To Marvel Heroes Omega


Gazillion Entertainment has launched the Defenders event on PC with console launch coming tomorrow, August 24.

The event will run on both PC and consoles, and tasks players with fighting off The Hand, a faction of ninjas pulled straight out of the Daredevil comics.

A new Defenders event launches today for PC and soon on Aug. 24 for consoles. The new event finds players facing off against members of The Hand for a variety of limited-time rewards. The Hand has returned to New York and Misty Knight is on the lookout for heroes to stop the ancient order. Head to Avengers Tower and speak with Misty Knight for your assignment and take the first steps towards suppressing The Hand incursion.

The event gives Orders from the Hand, an event currency that can be spent on a handful of artifacts. According to the news post, it looks like console users will be rewarded in the form of loot boxes specific to the event. In addition, Daredevil, Elektra, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage will receive a 50% experience bonus for the duration of the event.

(Source: Marvel Heroes)

Protector’s Jubilee Returns To Neverwinter: New Rewards/Events


It’s back! Like the McRib, the Protector’s Jubilee only comes around once every so often to the delight of its audience. While Neverwinter’s event may not be glazed in barbecue sauce, it does offer a host of freebies and sales during the week long event. Beginning Tuesday and running through June 26, players will be able to take part in several events including Elminster’s Messages which will task you with traveling to various zones to complete quests as well as the Protector’s Speech Skirmish, an instanced party mini-game involving the protection of Lord Neverember himself.

During the event, you’ll also be able to get your hands on free goodies including the bag of holding and level 60 experience boost. You’ll need to log in each day to claim the new item.

(Source: Neverwinter)

[Column] RuneScape Pride Day Provokes Bigoted Backlash


This Thursday sees the launch of a mini-event in RuneScape, something that given its scope and scale probably shouldn’t elicit much more than an “oh okay,” or a “that’s neat” at the peak of emotion. Jagex is adding in a rainbow scarf, obtained through finding a small number of rainbow fragments hidden all over the game world, in support of Pride Day. This is why players are rioting in RuneScape.

And because a small section of the base wants to show that they are not, in fact, bigots and simply don’t want politics “shoved” in their game, people are showing up in Old School RuneScape dressed in a manner to resemble KKK uniforms, shouting racist obscenities about Jewish people, lobbing homophobic comments at Jagex, and advertising for Alex Jones’s Infowars. Because it’s all about keeping politics out of gaming and nothing to do with bigotry.

RuneScape has previously held events for political subjects, including the YMCA, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Prince’s Trust. In case you were wondering if these players reacted similarly to “politics being shoved down their throat” when the subject wasn’t gay pride, they didn’t. Regardless, Jagex isn’t backing down from their plan to release the scarf. While there are no plans to ban players for simply protesting the event, bans have already been handed out for players using offensive slurs or bigoted speech in chat, as well as for those walking around dressed up as Klan members.

Despite the bigoted backlash, there have been level-headed players offering fair criticism of this event, including the fact that it was not polled. While players have disagreed on whether or not such an event needed to be polled, those of you who read MMO Fallout are likely aware that the game is pretty well built on polling for content, with updates not being delivered unless voted on by at least 75% of respondents.