Image Retrieval - March 05, 2008

Aizehn

As the Merovingian said:

"Disappointing... But not unexpected."

Anniversary deja-vu FTL.

**ZippyTheSquirrel**

Just like with Datamine, please keep your Epic Fail/Win calling to a minimum until the actual patch notes come out.

Zudrag

I remember when gang spawns were replaced by red eyed agents/n30 ag3nt spawns for a while, I wonder if they'll do something like that this time around?

**MetaLogic**

*waits for more information before passing judgement*

JetBlack

I think I still have my smith Virus ab in my hot bar still some where??

Hm, it was fun last year, i'm hoping there are some fun supprises install but I guess the waiting game is what we have atm :S

**GypsyJuggler**

AltDimension wrote:

So WHAT, who wears those things.

Everyone. They're very popular even now.

**Villemar_MxO**

I think the resources and hard work put into Datamine (which isn't even completed yet) took away from the possibilities of the Anniversay Event, which is a fair trade off considering our always terrible lack of resources by Papa SOE in the first place.

ThePigeonKing

Zudrag wrote:

I remember when gang spawns were replaced by red eyed agents/n30 ag3nt spawns for a while, I wonder if they'll do something like that this time around?

hell yes. please replace all spawns with burning Smith. That would be epic beyond belief.

**Kybutra**

ThePigeonKing wrote:

Zudrag wrote:
I remember when gang spawns were replaced by red eyed agents/n30 ag3nt spawns for a while, I wonder if they'll do something like that this time around?
hell yes. please replace all spawns with burning Smith. That would be epic beyond belief.

QuotedFT

**Oldskool**

Ugh... Smith... again?

I'm not gonna girl-dog about this until we know for sure, but if that's it... my expectations have been pwned.

I'd much rather see a return of the Sleepwalkers. At least they had a "Story" we never knew where they came from or who was holding their leash. And instead of more white on black t-shirts, how about we get some blue jeans, leather jackets, or a real top-coat, you know... with a belt. An eye patch would be cool too. Yo ho!

**Neoteny**

I really hope this doesn't dominate live events, and that we can just proceed with the storyline like we did with the winter event this year.

If this is just last year's events plus items... Eh, I'm not all that impressed, really. And killing ubar smith has never been one of my life's goals, especially not if he's just going to come back around next year.

**cloudwolf**

Meh, i'd always liked the fact the anniversary events were pretty much original content while the seasonals were the same but improved. Twas a nice format.

But if, like Rarebit said all those many moons ago, largely recycling content gives them more time to work on solid all year round stuff then i aint really gonna complain. I'll just skip this one out in my own little canonicity i have going in me head. heh.

**FrozenFyre**

Personally I don't have a problem with it storyline wise - Smith was an extremely poweful program that overwrote THE ENTIRE MATRIX - he didn't just make himself powerful or copy himself he even managed to change the nature of the simulation to what he wanted ("do you like what I've done with the place?" SMILEY

- a program that powerful and widespread, even when defeated would be very difficult to completely erradicate and so traces of the virus eventually managed to replicate and grow after about 2 years and made their presence in the matrix felt. So the program was beaten back, but now it has grown and has returned again and it's up to us to make sure it doesn't get any more powerful.

So yeah I'd have preferred something new, of course I would, but I can understand why and I hope there'll be enough tweaks to make this year as memorable as last year. In terms of story I think it fits ok and doesn't need to be a problem - but they'd better not use it for next year!!!

**Procurator**

Like a couple of others have said, we've just had a brand new construct made for us, something that took a lot of time and hasn't been done since the game was released. If anyone's seriously expecting an entirely new and original anniversary event, they need to get a better grip on reality.

By all rights they could give us nothing new at all, but they're still trying. Be a little more appreciative.

**PBlade**

I don't see why people are getting miffed about this. It's established fact that Rarebit recycles Season content so that he can focus on other things.

However, I doubt you'll see an exact carbon copy of last year's event, because, well... Smith must've made some progress, right? SMILEY