Posted May 13, 2012
Over at the Bioware Social Network, a user named BelowtheBelt has posted a pretty cool event that will be going on in June. Since NWN is 10 years old this year, (...wow, really?) he wants to celebrate it in style:
NWN is turning 10! According to Wikipedia (the end-all-be-all-source-of-indisputable-truth) the original version was launched in the US on June 18, 2002 and on July 3, 2002 in Europe. Wow. To be here, still playing the game with the community as strong as it is, the players still playing, and the developers still developing is a testament to the revolutionary game that we all love.
Juxtapose that milestone birthday with the PW community's need to retain said community, players, and developers in the face of ever newer hardware/OS systems and newer games. We need to retain as many of those that are still left.
To accomplish this, I propose the following:
NW Player Appreciation Days (NWPAD)
Dates: June 18 - July 3, 2012
What is NWPAD?
Glad you asked. NWPAD would be a community-wide celebration of the most important component of our community: our players. The idea is that participating PWs would host events throughout those days (2 weeks +1 day) in celebration of their playerbase and encourage new players to visit. This could be through hosting "social days" where players can just lounge about enjoying each other's company to special roleplay events for veterans and new players.
As a special cross-PW event, I'd like to propose that we have a player challenge, such as an around-the-world-in-80-days event where players need to acquire a piece of information or a code (gained by "checking-in" with a PW's admin/DM). Players who achieve a certain number of these codes could redeem them for valuable cash and prizes in the participating world of their choice (e.g. XP, gp, or items of proportional worth in-game).
Ultimately, the goal is to let players know how much we appreciate them taking time out of their lives to live in our worlds.
A conversation has started on just how this will go down. It sounds like a cool idea to me and I think some of you might like it.
Go here to read more and participate in the planning.
NWN is turning 10! According to Wikipedia (the end-all-be-all-source-of-indisputable-truth) the original version was launched in the US on June 18, 2002 and on July 3, 2002 in Europe. Wow. To be here, still playing the game with the community as strong as it is, the players still playing, and the developers still developing is a testament to the revolutionary game that we all love.
Juxtapose that milestone birthday with the PW community's need to retain said community, players, and developers in the face of ever newer hardware/OS systems and newer games. We need to retain as many of those that are still left.
To accomplish this, I propose the following:
NW Player Appreciation Days (NWPAD)
Dates: June 18 - July 3, 2012
What is NWPAD?
Glad you asked. NWPAD would be a community-wide celebration of the most important component of our community: our players. The idea is that participating PWs would host events throughout those days (2 weeks +1 day) in celebration of their playerbase and encourage new players to visit. This could be through hosting "social days" where players can just lounge about enjoying each other's company to special roleplay events for veterans and new players.
As a special cross-PW event, I'd like to propose that we have a player challenge, such as an around-the-world-in-80-days event where players need to acquire a piece of information or a code (gained by "checking-in" with a PW's admin/DM). Players who achieve a certain number of these codes could redeem them for valuable cash and prizes in the participating world of their choice (e.g. XP, gp, or items of proportional worth in-game).
Ultimately, the goal is to let players know how much we appreciate them taking time out of their lives to live in our worlds.
A conversation has started on just how this will go down. It sounds like a cool idea to me and I think some of you might like it.
Go here to read more and participate in the planning.