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Title: Hula's Magical Quest
Post by: fantasymooma on January 20, 2008, 06:20 PM
 :wtf?:  156 PEOPLE in the CENTRAL PLAZA   :wtf?:

Title: Re: Hula's Magical Quest
Post by: Antjewel on January 20, 2008, 06:22 PM
Maybe they all think the new magic shop is out and are just getting in line to see what is going on.  :jester: :jester2:
Title: Re: Hula's Magical Quest
Post by: Happy on January 20, 2008, 10:02 PM
 :rofl1:
Title: Re: Hula's Magical Quest
Post by: gshawen on January 20, 2008, 10:22 PM
I waited in line at 179 for Central Plaza only to find out I got ahead of myself and was suppose to be in line for Town Square. When I finally got back to Central Plaza I was like 139 . :cry:
Title: Re: Hula's Magical Quest
Post by: stargate_fan on January 21, 2008, 11:34 AM
There were two dumb moves in the creation of that quest.  The first was to have the last location as central plaza instead of main street.  I get that they wanted a stroll down main street in a line, but that final "have a seat" task would only disperse people and avoid long lines if there were no chairs in the final room!  This was a recycled quest and the lines were kind of bad the first time, but this time they had the second mistake - treasure magic!  A lot of people were finishing the quest and sticking around in the plaza to use their magic, which takes some time to use.

A lot of people feel the fun has been draining out of VMK...I think a lot of it boils down to not thinking things through (of which this is an example), not putting enough of a priority on fun, and having a somewhat cavalier attitude of not admitting mistakes.  The quest was obviously poorly thought out to begin with and yet they used it again and made it worse.
Title: Re: Hula's Magical Quest
Post by: Happy on January 21, 2008, 03:36 PM
When I signed in there were close to 7,500 characters in the game.  This is certainly more than an average weekend.  While questing I did see a member of VMK Staff in Central Plaza.  Players were asked kindly leave the room after they got the second clover and to use their magic in another room.