100-150k Christmas Giveaway/Contest on Thursday, December 22nd @ 7 PM CST

[Speedi]

Christmas is the time of year for giving and having fun with friends and family. With that said I thought it would be a great time to do another giveaway with my internet family, you guys! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I am doing another giveaway like I did before, only this time it's going to be much much bigger! For those that weren't at my previous giveaway, I will describe how I did it last time. The raffle is all done in my twitch chat. I pick some item(s) then I instruct everyone in twitch to pick a number between "X and X". Everyone will have 2 minutes to respond. Then I random in game and whoever picked the number closest is the winner. At the moment I have roughly 50kpp in raffle items.

I do plan to get more, that is why I say 50-100k raffle. 50k is what I have now for raffle items, but 100k in raffle items is my goal. After I do the raffle, I will be doing a contest with the assistance of P99 Department of Fun. I would like to thank these guys for helping me out with ideas, and also helping me coordinate this.

As for the contest, I am not going to go into a lot of detail about that. I want everyone to have the same chance at winning. But I will tell you the contest will have the prizes listed below ...

First Place: Lodizal Shell Shield

Second Place: Hierophant's Cloak

Third Place: Knotted Turtlebone Ring

For skimmers and teal deers

DATE: December 22, 2016
TIME: 7pm CST/8pm EST
PLACE: For raffle, on the twitch stream. For contest, it's a secret! Directions to come after the raffle.
STREAM: https://www.twitch.tv/pro5pt0

THE RAFFLE: Tune in (you'll need a twitch account - these are easy to make). I will pick an item(s) and tell viewers to pick a number between "X and X". I will then random and whoever is closest wins the prize.

THE CONTEST: Done after the raffle with the Department of Fun. Stay tuned into the stream after the raffle for details!

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[Sorn]

Huzzah! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Killenu]

good times. i'll be there.

[Burrito]

when do I get my free AON and COF?

http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...light=giveaway

[coki]

Originally Posted by Burrito [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

when do I get my free AON and COF?

http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...light=giveaway

[mattydef]

You're better than most, speedi. Keep up the good work and good luck to everyone that participates.

[Meep]

No manastone?

[Tupakk]

Early Morning Bump/ Promotion of Speedi and DoF Super Christmas Giveaway!!

[Sorn]

Speaking as someone who streams events, it actually provides a couple of nice advantages compared to simply keeping it in game.

1) More people hear about it/find it - the more the merrier!
2) People not necessarily in your zone can interact with you in a way besides tells. Also people who aren't in-game can speak with you.
3) It's ends up being a lot like a radio show, only with gaming video. In other words, it's a form of interactive entertainment. You can share music and chat with other players. I think Speedi's got a bot that lets you request music as well. You can do a lot of stuff with it.
4) You can archive the broadcast for people who want to watch stuff while at work without you actually playing, as well as document things you've done that you might want to go back to watch again. We never had that kind of stuff back when EQ was first out. Would've been nice, I think [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The question of whether or not promoting your twitch channel is some form of arrogant self-promotion hasn't really cropped up until recently, I think because twitch has really started to take advantage of the popularity of some streamers and turned them into a kind of marketing tool for the gaming industry. It's also very standard for streamers to allow others to donate to them for whatever reason (something I don't really agree with personally). Twitch and the twitch community make it very, very easy to obtain some sort of personal gain through the otherwise unlucrative activity of gaming as a regular player.

That said, I don't think all stream promotion is inherently bad. Yeah, you do want more viewers for your stream. More viewers means more people to interact with while grinding. You can find people to team up with when you wanna take down something bigger than the usual stuff, despite not being in a guild or anything. You can make friends through streaming. You can demonstrate unique facets of a game (EX: Sirken shows some of the inner workings of petitionquest - certainly not something you normally see) or teach others strategies.

In regards to if not streaming would make the event seem more charitable...maybe, if you have a poor opinion of twitch streamers in general. But at the same time, it's still a really good advertising tool if you want more participation. P99 has a pretty good twitch community, anyway.

Edit:

Originally Posted by Lhancelot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Are you saying that someone could possibly happen upon this live stream on Twitch then feel compelled to get a copy of Titanium EQ, install it according to P99 instructions and play just from seeing such an event?

Ok, again who is seeing it and being part of this event other than the players on the server?

To the first question, yes. I've seen this happen just with regular grinding streams. The person gets to ask a p99 player questions directly and even get help with installing or starting out. It's like a personal recommendation! For event streams, people actually see what's going on and see all the participation, and it's often quite different from regular MMOs and it gets them interested. Like a demonstration of the p99 community! Look at us, none of us are 15 year old boys screaming that we're going to rape each other! Yay!

Second question: p99 streamers are able to select which game they're streaming, in this case EverQuest. This lumps them in with the live streamers, so they tend to label their streams Project 1999 before anything else. People who want to watch EQ stuff will search for streamers playing this particular game, and voila! They've found Project 1999.

[Lhancelot]

Originally Posted by Sorn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Speaking as someone who streams events, it actually provides a couple of nice advantages compared to simply keeping it in game.

1) More people hear about it/find it - the more the merrier!
2) People not necessarily in your zone can interact with you in a way besides tells. Also people who aren't in-game can speak with you.
3) It's ends up being a lot like a radio show, only with gaming video. In other words, it's a form of interactive entertainment. You can share music and chat with other players. I think Speedi's got a bot that lets you request music as well. You can do a lot of stuff with it.
4) You can archive the broadcast for people who want to watch stuff while at work without you actually playing, as well as document things you've done that you might want to go back to watch again. We never had that kind of stuff back when EQ was first out. Would've been nice, I think [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The question of whether or not promoting your twitch channel is some form of arrogant self-promotion hasn't really cropped up until recently, I think because twitch has really started to take advantage of the popularity of some streamers and turned them into a kind of marketing tool for the gaming industry. It's also very standard for streamers to allow others to donate to them for whatever reason (something I don't really agree with personally). Twitch and the twitch community make it very, very easy to obtain some sort of personal gain through the otherwise unlucrative activity of gaming as a regular player.

That said, I don't think all stream promotion is inherently bad. Yeah, you do want more viewers for your stream. More viewers means more people to interact with while grinding. You can find people to team up with when you wanna take down something bigger than the usual stuff, despite not being in a guild or anything. You can make friends through streaming. You can demonstrate unique facets of a game (EX: Sirken shows some of the inner workings of petitionquest - certainly not something you normally see) or teach others strategies.

In regards to if not streaming would make the event seem more charitable...maybe, if you have a poor opinion of twitch streamers in general. But at the same time, it's still a really good advertising tool if you want more participation. P99 has a pretty good twitch community, anyway.

When such an event is portrayed as some awesome good will event, yet requires people who participate to also use a live stream site I can't help but become suspicious of it.

When some people promote it as this wonderfully altruistic event and then get very defensive of it when you question the motives of the event or how exactly it works, I become suspicious of it.

I just wanted some clarity on the matter because I never used Twitch, (and probably never will.) I really wanted to understand the true purpose behind a live stream and how it enhances the event that the streamer is holding.

Thanks Sorn and Redhorse, for some sensible explanations on it.