Sunday, January 13, 2013

Any evil you vanquish has been vanquished a thousand times before.




Three Days Only
Lost Shores was teased as a one-time event, and that's exactly what it was. One time, and one time only, no fooling, no exceptions, no rain checks. If you were out of town for your nephew's bar mitzah, if you had a big deadline at the office, if it was your anniversary, or if your power was still out from Hurricane Sandy, you were out of luck. You missed it. There will be no repeats, no make-up dates, and no do-overs.(1)  buy guild wars 2 gold


That exclusivity is both the best and worst thing about Lost Shores. The idea of something happening only once is anathema to MMOs, which are hells of eternal recurrence. Any evil you vanquish has been vanquished a thousand times before and will be vanquished a thousand more times. You will never really save a princess because there are thousands of people on your server who need to save her as well. So I welcome anything that breaks out of this pattern -- it imparts to an MMO a sense of a place, where irrevocable things can actually happen. That makes them less like the dolphin show at Sea World with shows at 10:30, 1:30, and 4:30.
  


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