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We had a couple of months were there was little or no activity, at least for me. Even though the addition of Gaia Pinball was great for the website and the Bag of Win (Fail, Whoops, s**t or whatever you want to call it xp ) left a lot to talk about there hasn't really been an event or any storyline update in quite a while. May is one of those months were nothing special happens, but Gaia was thinking otherwise.
With the summer vacations and graduation time for some students right around the corner Gaia decided to host their own version of a Senior Prom this year:
The only difference is that it wasn't exclusively for graduating classes, young students and university students like me could also take part of it. Is curious, but I don't think Gaia JUST felt like having a Prom. My guess is that they got the idea from the movie Prom Night coming out in theaters by the same time of the year. However this Prom wasn't going to be scary or deadly, but the event was called Prom Crashers even though there wasn't really much to crash xp .
As the Prom approached we finally had another storyline update, a quite dissapointing one in my opinion:
It was all about the NPCs trying to get a date for the Prom, Gaians were also trying to find their couple by making topics. There was also an item store update so we could suit up for the event, designs brought to us by Christian Siriano:
^Yeah, another way for Gaia to sponsor someone's work. xp
Well excuse me Gaia but I already have a wardrobe full of clothing that is fitting for the ocassion. blaugh
Anyways the Gaia Prom finally came, we could roam on a new virtual world for the ocassion. They added a new dancing game that was exactly like Dance Dance Revolution but the arrows scrolled horizontally and we had to use the up, down, left and right keys.
We had several themes to choose from and they all varied in difficulty from very easy to very hard, most of the time I did Night Song since it was one of the easiest and shortest themes. The goal was to complete a certain percent of the song (number of rights) that started at 25% and kept going up. As we completed a track we got gold and a certain event item as we completed more songs in a row. The funny thing was that as we typed our avatars moved to the music, I felt embarrassed and there wasn't any place to hide like in Towns (Very clever Gaia xp ).
The event items were:
- Satin Hairbow - Silk Bowtie - Prom Monarch's Collar - Prom Monarch's Crown
This last one could only be obtained by completing 20 songs in a row (80% required) and since there was some lag involved it wasn't as easy as it looked, you failed to complete a track and you had to start all over, that is complete 19 tracks before trying again. gonk Besides the dancing game there wasn't much to do except to lurk around the virtual world and there was also a photo booth for those interested. xp
Currently we are hoping that the dancing game is added to the list of permanent games soon, more games don't hurt anyone. cool
It was nice for Gaia to host an event for this time of the year, but personally I think they should work on more important things like the Battle System. After all they cancelled Easter apparently because they were focusing on the Battle System, so why host events now? confused
After the Prom Gaia released yet another special Cash Shop item called the OMFG Box. Just like the previous ones this one holded exclusive new items which I have no idea what they are (and don't care burning_eyes ) as well as random crap. At least it didn't threw millions of gold into the economy like the Bag of *Insert whatever here* did. Let's see what they take out of the hat for next month since that's what I think they are doing, a monthly random item generator.
As for this month's items we got the choice between the Oculus Mithica and the Elemental Wings which must have really been loved by everyone on the site because the regular price of 15k per letter doubled. Oh well, bye bye to aproximately 100k. I just hope that price doesn't stick forever or I will be forced to stop buying them, I will stick to not waste money on pixels.
I am personally starting to get bored, that's why it took me long to write this entry because I didn't felt like it for all these days.
Until next month (if I feel like it xp ), which is my birthday by the way. blaugh
Flux · Sat Jun 07, 2008 @ 05:37pm · 0 Comments |
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