The PAX East Fan Event 2011 was a great success! Check out the pictures, and the NCsoft video and summary of our presence at PAX East!
NCsoft is at PAX East this year, and we're having a free fan event to celebrate! Players from all the NCsoft games are invited to our party to meet fellow players and staff from their favorite games, play demos and receive exclusive game-branded items!
Breaking News! We are happy to announce that we'll host the North America Exclusive Limited Debut of a playable Tech Demo for Lineage II: Goddess of Destruction, which showcases new some of the new skills and stylish combat the development team is working on. To play the tech demo, you must sign up for a timeslot on a first-come-first-served basis via the RSVP method explained below. Each player that signs up for the tech demo will be reserving a 15-minute timeslot. See VIP hour below for details about how you can get special access and potential notoriety among Lineage II fans.
Date:
Friday, March 11, 2011
Time:
VIP Hour: 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
- We have 4 timeslots available for people who will get early access to be the first players outside of Korea to get their hands on this Goddess of Destruction Tech Demo. In your RSVP, please include a statement why you believe you should be selected, and the NCsoft Lineage II team will evaluate the submissions to select the 4 VIP players, who will be notified on March 9. We'll have a film crew there to document your initial impressions, which may be used as part of our announcement video!
- During this time, the doors will open to the public and people that play the Goddess of Destruction Tech Demo are invited to give their feedback but will not necessarily be filmed.
Location:
The Harbor Ballroom at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel. This building is across the street from the location of PAX East, at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Attendance to the fan event is based on capacity. Attendants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Photo ID will be verified by the hotel staff upon entering the event.
Attendance:
- Moxie - Lineage II Associate Producer
- Sace - Lineage II Community Manager
- Representatives from all NCsoft games, including Lineage, Aion, City of Heroes, Guild Wars, and Guild Wars 2.
- You!
Activities:
- Play the first-ever Tech Demo of Lineage II: Goddess of Destruction outside of Korea!
- Fun games and swag giveaways, including some brand new Lineage II items!
- A raffle with excellent gaming peripherals as prizes! All event attendees will be given a raffle ticket upon arrival.
- Game demos of certain NCsoft games.
- Full bar, with ID.
Sign Up by RSVP'ing
RSVPs are not required to enter the fan event, but they are required to play the Goddess of Destruction Tech Demo and to be a part of the VIP hour. Also, we have a special reward for all players that RSVP! If you RSVP following the instructions below, and then at the fan event on March 11, 2011 check in at the Lineage II table, you will receive an exclusive in-game item as a thank you gift for attending! RSVP'ing attendance to the PAX East Boston Fan Event also helps us make sure that we have enough swag items for all Lineage II players that come.
To RSVP:
- Create a ticket.
- In the Subject line, write "PAX East Fan Event".
- In the Question line, write down the following information:
- The first and last real-life names of yourself and anyone that is attending with you. Please include each persons age next to their name.
- If you wish to play the Goddess of Destruction Tech Demo during General Attendance hours (between 6pm and 10pm), please write down what timeslot you would like. Timeslots are 15 minutes long and are distributed on a first-come-first-served basis.
- If you wish to be a part of the VIP hour, you must request so by March 8, 2011. Remember that being in VIP hour means you will be filmed while playing the Goddess of Destruction Tech Demo as well as giving your initial impressions. As part of your request, please include a brief statement explaining why you believe you are the best choice to represent Lineage II players around the world by experiencing and providing feedback on this tech demo. You should ideally be comfortable in front of a camera, and possess deep knowledge about Lineage II.
- The first and last real-life names of yourself and anyone that is attending with you. Please include each persons age next to their name.
- In the Product box, select "Lineage II."
- In the Department box, select "Screenshots & Player Stories." This will direct your RSVP request to the community team.
- Fill out the rest of the required information in the ticket form and click on the "Continue" button.
- On the next page, click on the "Finish Submitting Question" button.
- You're all done making your RSVP request! When your RSVP is received, you will receive a response via the same ticket and also to the email address you provided in the form. If you've requested a timeslot to play the Goddess of Destruction Tech Demo, you will be informed if you have been confirmed for that time, or must choose a different time. If you've requested to be in the VIP hour and be filmed playing the demo, you will be notified if you are selected for this priviledge by March 9, 2011. None of the information that you put into the ticket, including your email address, will be used for anything but this fan event RSVP and the subsequent item reward after attending the fan event.
Pictures from the Event posted on March 21, 2011.
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Boston weather outside the PAX East convention:
The PAX East showfloor:
Sace (Lineage II Community Manager) and Nyx (Lineage Community Manager) being silly with a prop on the showfloor.
Preparations for the fan event begin and go on for many hours...
In this large event room, Guild Wars 2 demo machines lined the center aisle. Against the back wall, demo machines for City of Heroes, Aion, and Lineage II Goddess of Destruction were set up. In a corner, the Lineage, Lineage II and Aion swag game was set up. At the other end of the room, a large screen and a small stage played music and later showed game videos and presented the raffle. Multiple bars giving free drinks to adults lined the long walls.
Moxie (Lineage II Producer), Trine (Aion Community) and Nyx (Lineage) taking a quick break at the swag game area before the event begins and the fans arrive.
Moxie and Sace, at your service!
VIP hour begins, and a representative from EOgamer is the first player ever to check out the Goddess of Destruction Tech Demo in English and outside of Korea!
VIP hour continues and more lucky VIP'ers begin to fill the room.
Outside of VIP hour, fans line up for entrance and wait for the doors to open at 6pm. Over the course of the next hour, the line filled the whole entrance area and continued down the stairs to the hotel lobby!
Upon entering, every fan received a booklet of game trial codes, a raffle ticket, and a lanyard and event badge on which they could attach a "flag" of their preferred NCsoft game. With these game flags, fans were able to identify other players of their game inside the event room and make new friends.
Fans playing and watching the Goddess of Destruction Tech Demo as Moxie walks them through it and explains the new features.
At 6pm, the doors opened to all fans and the room filled with excited NCsoft players!
The Lineage, Lineage II and Aion swag game was immensly popular! To play, the fan filled out a trivia card (that's all the blue papers in peoples' hands) asking easy questions about each of our games. Once they turned in a correct card, they got a chance to roll the inflatable dice. Whatever number they rolled was the swag prize they received. Some prizes were single items, and some lucky numbers were bundles of various items! The line to play the game was constantly full and eventually all of the swag was given out.
After a few hours, attention went to the main event screen and small stage where the games presented some of their latest videos. Next, the raffle tickets were drawn and winners received some awesome gaming peripherals as prizes!
At 10pm, the event came to a close. Fans and staff alike were both exhausted yet exhilirated. More pictures and video footage of the PAX East Fan Event are posted on the NCsoft News site.
