Path of Thule Halloween event

[Knowmercy]

Hello. I would like to express my gratitude and thanks to the p99 team and community for a great experience and event. I thought the lore/roleplayinng behind the event was cool, and it was nice to have a quest sending me to, and witnessing alot of players visiting different zones in a hectic mad dash for the npcs and items. I was in a group with a druid, we were helping people get around the world and complete the tasks. I felt like it was a good social thing, I made some friends, and there was some great teamwork involved. However after getting to the Kael stage, it became apparent the quest was a real challenge, and I thought that was nice. I spent alot of time in kael dragging corpses, and helping people get to the npc with invis and whatnot. I wasnt expecting a great reward for the event, but just wanted the satisfaction of knowing i completed it. I figured somthing like this only comes around once a year so what the heck. After de lvling in kael and finaly getting the item with my group - i recieve the serverwide message that was an appology for "bad rewards" and notifying everyone that the npcs have been "deactivated". I thougtht this was curious and strange as i was on the FINAL ITEM, and the message stated there would be another event on Sunday. I do not know why the event wasnt just continued throughout the weekend. I wasnt even upset, more just shocked that it was simply shut down. It would have been one thing for the event to end in a lore like fashion, maybe a message like "The strange creater in kithicor has subsited to the nether realm... It shall return next halloween!. Instead it was "Im sorry the event rewards were bad we are pulling the plug". I spent hours and hours doing this quest, and had i not taken the time to help people with it, I would have completed it. Anyway this is not a rant or a flame of any kind. Im not even upset more in shock that it ended like it did. Im just dissapointed that all this time was invested into this event that was intented to promote a healthy community, and teamwork. That was the essence of what i was trying to cultivate when working with my group. Im all about the cruel punishing classic eq style of play - but this feels strange, like a big troll/inside dev joke. I remember Verant's events were pretty cool and never ended in a cruel punishing joking manner. I really enjoy p99, but this is strange. Anyway, thanks for the great memories, I love the GMs and everyone on the server. Like I said alot of people were complaining about the rewards - wasnt expecting anything like that - maybe a token or item i could keep in the bank to associate the memories with, but its all good. Instead i got an appologie and a "your quest has been deactivated"message. Mad props for organizing somthing like this but shame on you. Shame on you. Don't be afraid to respond to this post with somthing real. Thanks and have a wonderful weekend! -Knowmercy XOXO