Anyone got screenshots/videos of the slaughter??
is my video of it, and the slaughter is near the end. It was amusing to watch.
My thoughts on the parade in general and the yelling by some at FA for zerging it:
I think FA had all the right in the world to do that, if they wanted. I’d rather they have done that than not shown up at all! For me personally I see the parades as breaking the 4th wall as a salute to the memory and understanding that, behind all the anonymous names, is a person just trying to have fun too.
I like the sheer madness of the event because it’s unique, and because five, ten, twenty years down the road, after everyone has moved on (perhaps even GW2), no one will remember or care about any particular epic fight you had in game. I’m not going to meet random person X in another MMO and be like “Hey, remember that epic fight in Bay throne room in TCBL mid July three years ago?” But mention a dolyak event to someone else that may have been in it, and bingo, eyes light up.
We will remember the people, the friends we make, and the strangely unique events like this that will never happen again on another server in another MMO, as it needs a particular kind of bred community spirit, and game mechanics that must come together for it to work in the first place. And that’s why these moments are so precious, above all else (keeps, camps? pah.), and why even if rampaging death occurs, we need to embrace it and think of it as enhancing rather than ruining the moment.
You hear people raving about fondly-remembered events in MMOs long gone, as being part of the unique culture of a game and how they “don’t make games like they use to anymore”. And then you realise things like this have a potential to turn into memories like that in the future.
But hey, if they prefer the immediate payoff of loot bags and the surge of personal pride and power from bulldozing down a buncha smelly cows, to the long term payoff of all that, then so be it! Well within their rights if they choose so, and we all still get the memories from it.
/salute to all. See you all around. Golem’s a-knocking on south Hills! Again.
Also, great story, poster above me.
Tarnished Coast – http://forthetoast.com/