That's downright idiotic.They've participated in events, they know they can't win them.. thats like the entire reason for it.
This has nothing to do with people simply not liking or enjoying the events, nor is the majority of people who voted here simply bad at these events and thus, out of spite, want them removed.
Simply put, what made UO great was that it allowed the players to do whatever they wanted, but as the players did as they pleased, it created conflict and interaction.
The events here distract from the regular gameplay, by taking a decent portion of the online/active players, taking them out of the regular world, to a different map, to where they can contend in a game completely separate from the rest of the playerbase.
Pvmers, newbies, pks, anti's...all manner of players are taken out of the game world to occupy themselves in something else entirely. As such you see diminished activity during events.
This is not about being able to find field action, it is a distraction that detracts from the entire game.
When you compound this, taking into account the amount of time that each event takes up, the fact that they're run multiple times a day, throughout the day, and held every single day of the week, then I think it is a valid argument to say that these do in fact detract from the actual gameplay of the server.
The events here have nothing to do with the era. Bagball? Capture the flag? What does these have to do with Ultima?
Slowly phase out events, add some content here and there to spice things up, and allow players to go back to creating their own fun.
Just like it was in the era.
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