Oh well...
the event haters are often forgetting about the fact that after an "old event" - before the trophies were removed from ctf etc. - people were having group fights in buccs. The event just was like a warm-up!
This doesn't appear like game destroying to me if anything it encouraged people who aren't into pvp to participate and try to "gank the red" with their buddies
Then trophies were removed and only a few continued to participate at events. I did so until i realized that this is a great waste of time and i could have easily farmed millions of gps instead doing events that dont even have a prize with a low number of participants.
After the patch including the removal of trophies for ctf, dd etc. there definetly was a player decrease and took place over several weeks. A lot of players argued for and against this change but fact was, the player count dropped!
Finally, after having the shard stagnate for about 6 months the silver coins were implemented and events got more attention although it wasnt the amount they had before - but enjoyable again.
At this point i would like to ask the people that claim as an argument that if there were no silver there would be noone attending one single event if they would ever go out farm one single balron if the corpse was empty? Of course people need some form of reward to do this, they are investing their time and at least want the chance to earn something. This applies to the automated events same like to any other playerheld event.
Same situation today and i cant help myself but i think i've already met some of the event haters in this thread at tourneys and events i took part.
The current status of events is horrible. No new player will get the chance to earn any reward and dont underestimate the power of rares. Majority of the people will like rares, like someone already posted before in one of the numerous old threads regarding events / trophies "people love to collect junk"
Please don't make the mistake and say those people only logging in for events ruining the gameplay theres simply no reason for this.
Another point i would like to say is that these whole topics (events/trophies/trophie-system) lare living in symbiosis with each other. With the time the silver price will climb and climb and the complete trophie-turn-in system will be senseless because no player will invest years of playing, farming and hoarding for his personal bless deed.
As i first played an event and luckily won a trophie for ctf (makes me really sad talking about the good old days..) i didn't want to sell it - i first looked what they were good for and decided to collect this stuff because it gives players some kind of long time goal to achieve and binds players to this shard - please dont ruin that.
Let me give you for example a quick shot on my recent event statistic - there simply is none! As a european i dont have the time to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning for participating in special events held by staff or for the majority of automated events. So i am really glad about the chance to play in a large group of players you dont see here and there at fixed times during a week.
Wharf CTF on tuesdays and DD on sundays are the two times i really wanted to log in and sign up but it was never the case that i logged in ONLY for this few minutes.
Now, Wharf CTF has been removed and i was spending my time posting here on sunday during the only attendable event for me. But okay i can see loving events is something very evil and the shard don't need players THAT LOG IN FOR FUN.
I for my part think the shard never needed complainers and whiners and those are the people that wont be missed. Thumbs up for another patch in the face of the playerbase...