Xiah has announced that they will be holding and in-game event titled "Find the GM". The concept is simple, first player to find the GM and open a trade window will receive a reward.

San Jose, CA June 1st, 2007 - Xiah announced today that it will be hosting the in-game event, "Find the GM".

The GameMaster (GM) will be in the game every day from 2:00pm-3:00pm PST. The first player to find the GM and open a trade window with the GM will win a prize.

Everybody is allowed to participate in this event. Everyday the GM will come online to a random server. He will announce his appearance on a specific map. After his announcement you will have 5 minutes to get to that map and find him.

Find the GM here.

It's so sad what passes for news these days. 

Back through the '90s I worked as gamemaster on Legends_of_Future_Past - where the gm staff scripted and ran events virtually every night.  I probably pu an average oft 8-10 hours of programming in for a 2-3 hour event, twice a week for several years.  Events ranged from storytelling evenings where NPCs would provide history or information relevant to upcoming serialized stories, to what equate to instanced quests in todays games.

Nowadays it seems most games consider GMs nothing more than customer service reps, and usually fairly powerless ones, at that. Even so, I've never understood why instanced events could not be utilized more frequently than the one at Christmas, one at Valentines Day model that has become the norm.

It seems sad to me that a gm sitting somewhere and waiting to be talked to is considered a) an "event", and b) worth reporting here.

Originally posted by Szark

Xiah has announced that they will be holding and in-game event titled "Find the GM". The concept is simple, first player to find the GM and open a trade window will receive a reward.

San Jose, CA June 1st, 2007 - Xiah announced today that it will be hosting the in-game event, "Find the GM".

The GameMaster (GM) will be in the game every day from 2:00pm-3:00pm PST. The first player to find the GM and open a trade window with the GM will win a prize.

Everybody is allowed to participate in this event. Everyday the GM will come online to a random server. He will announce his appearance on a specific map. After his announcement you will have 5 minutes to get to that map and find him.

Find the GM here.