The Rain Nightclub event

[Illmaeran]

This just in: the whole thing was a set-up by SE to do stress tests without telling us they're doing stress tests.




I'll see myself out.

[Neoyoshi]

No one spends that much on Billboard ad spots unless they think they have something to gain financially; whatever fun people may or may not have had at the event- someone was intending to make money off of this event; some food for thought.

[Deveryn]

Wanderers would be expected, there's been a lot of world visit going on for the various nightclubs on the data center for the past 2 years.

I was more interested in the Travelers because it shows how effective the publicity stunt was. I doubt that there would have been many non-Crystal players attending otherwise.

The stunt may have garnered some interest, but probably not enough to have justified the billboard. There were other events happening on Crystal last weekend. It seems to be a little more active in that regard. I went over to check out the Aquarium on Malboro. They seemed to be very popular and their success could actually be measured. I saw plenty of tweets about that and an all elezen event, but nothing about rain.

[Necrotica]

The stunt may have garnered some interest, but probably not enough to have justified the billboard. There were other events happening on Crystal last weekend. It seems to be a little more active in that regard. I went over to check out the Aquarium on Malboro. They seemed to be very popular and their success could actually be measured. I saw plenty of tweets about that and an all elezen event, but nothing about rain.

Yep. Totally dead event. No one showed. No effects on servers or que times at all.

[Renalt]

Yep. Totally dead event. No one showed. No effects on servers or que times at all.

I mean I did notice a few corpses floating in the ocean. Sign of a good party really.

[SackPirate]

We goes there with some friends around 12:30ish (EST) and it takes about 5-6 min to gets over, then another few to gets into the event, which by that time was jus all over the ward, mostly on the beach though. Someone tells us about the Lala tunnel, so we hangs out there for awhile, then jus wandered around, hasing fun with others.

Around 5:00-5:30 we see's people gathering doing group pictures, so we joins in...

Then we says our goodbyes and come home. All in all it was a fun time.

[Deveryn]

Yep. Totally dead event. No one showed. No effects on servers or que times at all.

Looks like you quoted the wrong person there. Try again.

[Renalt]

Looks like you quoted the wrong person there. Try again.

but they did quote the right person?

[Bunnycake]

Looks like you quoted the wrong person there. Try again.

They didn't quote the wrong person, more specifically sarcastically replying to this.

I saw plenty of tweets about that and an all elezen event, but nothing about rain.

Yep. Totally dead event. No one showed. No effects on servers or que times at all.

[Andanie]

Tbh I literally forgot all about it. I had legit rp to do and most club rps are... Eh? Rare is it actual roleplayers at events like that so going in hopes of actual cool ic interacts was pointless. Glad to read the people who went had fun though. Like genuinely

I will say while I hope the damage from the billboard is minimal, I doubt nothing will happen. If nothing else this was a pretty flagrant rule break on several levels so I imagine even if not immediate, there will be consequences. Like the Modding community is getting increasingly dumb about things and Square Enix will only look the other way for so long.