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Last night, there was another event in an ongoing plot in Asheron’s Call. In the final battle (of this stage anyway), the reward for the person who vanquished the shadow general was a nice set of (heavy) blue Celdon armor. After this event, the Umbris Shadows (which only increased in number as this plot has developed week by week) are mostly gone. You know, because they were defeated. Not a hard concept to grasp.

The message boards were promptly filling with comments about what had transpired:

For those of us who do have a RL to live….Oh well, maybe some day Turbine will make some thing for the casual player…(Small random unannounced town attacks)

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I’m playing to quest with friends and have fun. AND I DON’T LIKE MISSING QUESTS BECAUSE I WAS HELPING A FRIEND!!!!!!

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I’ll go back to powergaming now that I’ve seen RP’ing and questing is a waste of time..

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The entire shadow event is a load of BS … I can’t even survive Teth without shadows! How the hell do you expect me to kill a shadow general! Frankly, the entire concept is complete bullshit. Oh, and if you are not on when it happens, hahah, your screwed.

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No one cares about the Umbris per se. They were just thrilled to have a high level loot source besides 5 nobles and an overlord. Now that’s gone.

Fortunately, there some voices of reason amidst the rabble. I’ll only quote one, specifically Fragilesoul of Thistledown:

If I hear one more person bitching about how they didn’t get into the nexus or didn’t get to kill a shadow captian, I think I’m going to puke. Is everyone so self centered and greedy?

COD’s Dev Board has a more thoughtful thread about the subject, including comments from Jason Booth. Remember, COD expires messages quickly, so hurry!

Turbine puts a lot of effort into maintaining ongoing “play anytime” as well as “real-time” events that only happen once. They’re consistently adding actual content in a game world that changes; you’re not going to see mirror lands or new exclusive levels to camp that require 40 people to pre-register via a form filled out in triplicate.

The AC community has it better than anyone else. Don’t blow it.

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