taking away something players enjoyed?

[Ollie]

No one is argueing that these mini games dont have custom rule sets...

Theres no reason why these mini games should not have their own rulesets. Thats what they are.. mini games inside UO. You could turn them into rp storylines pretty easily. You could fancy them up anyhow you like in that sense.

'Lord British is holding an ongoing l33t wizard pvp contest that will be awarding silver to champions for the next year!' Now you have an ongoing seer/gm/admin run event. Do the same for bagball, survival ctf, etc

Arguing that some how these mini games are an entire different facet of uo that didnt exist during t2a so you can attempt to throw it under the era accuracy bus is bogus.

True enough, one issue with that I think is that these PvP events are regularly occurring while RP events are one time only.