Necryn |
I played a MUD in the mid 1990s called Gemstone. Coincidentally, it was made by Simutronics - the company that made the HeroEngine. At this point I was new to online gaming. To this day, I've never been in an online world that felt as real as that text based game did.
In Dragonrealms the main town Crossing and smaller towns would periodically be invaded by various high level monsters that really could only be fought by similarly high level characters. The monsters would ride mammoths or be dismounted and the mammoths would rampage as well.
I also played Gemstone III and Dragonrealms, and I have many fond memories of those games! They're what first got me into online gaming, along with a MUD called Dragon's Gate, and I miss the role-play, the GMs being real, interactive presences in the game, the puzzles (in particular, I remember a warehouse in Crossing that I got lost in trying to find the Thieves' Guild, and to get out you had to solve a puzzle involving floor tiles), and the monster invasions. Wasn't really an event, per se, but a lot of people used to hang around the Crossing Thieves' Guild with samplings of different drinks from all over the place, and tobacco from the little shop in the city of Riverhaven and role-play.
Anyway, I digress...
It wasn't really organized, but one fond memory from WOW occurred on a PVP server I was on. I was a druid, often playing with a RL friend who was a warrior. We were doing quests around Hillsbrad Foothills when some alliance rogue started attacking us. We managed to kill her a couple of times, so she came back with a friend, and they killed us. We got a few people to come help us, and things continued to escalate, them killing us, us killing them. Finally, the Horde sent out the call and amassed a bunch of people including higher-levels. Someone had that quest to raise the NPC that attacks Southshore, so we did that, then went in en masse, wiping out the entire town. Don't know if you'd call that an "event" per se either, but it was a lot of fun.