One Year Community Anniversary Contests! Options

[G1-Kanillius]

Hello everyone, and welcome to the One Year Community Anniversary for Sword of the New World! Also known as OYCASNW!

We've come a long way since this time last year and in no small part due to all of you! And what better way to show our gratitude than to have an event and give away mass prizes?

Without further ado, it is my pleasure to announce the One Year Community Anniversary for Sword of the New World Event Extravaganza: Your Families Year in Review! (aka OYCASNWEE:YFYR). Starting April 14th, there will be three separate contests taking place. One winner will be chosen per contest, and all participants will receive raffle tickets!

Here are the contests:

*When the Competition begins we will open the relevant threads to submit your entries! So start thinking now!

Screenshot Contest
No doubt over the year, you have collected quite a few intriguing screenshots of your escapades. Be it amazing landscapes, treacherous monsters or showing off your family, if you've taken a screenshot of it, we'd like to see it. It may earn you a prize!

Only one entry is allowed per person, so find your favorite screenshot and submit it!
Grand Prize- 5000 Gold
2 Raffle Tickets earned


"The Written Word" Contest
As the years build up, so do the memories and experiences. Take your families past year's experience, and immortalize it with pen and paper (so to speak). Short stories, poems, diary entries, biographies, you name it. If you're a warrior of words, send in your work, and you may be rewarded!

One entry per person, pick your best work!
Grand Prize- 5000 Gold
3 Raffle Tickets earned


Media Contest
What better way to cherish memories past than through a movie or song? Create a short movie, music video, machinima, song, or anything media related about your families experience from the past year. (Please note: screenshots will be moved to the Screenshot Contest. If you already have a submission in the Screenshot Contest, the submission will have to be removed )

One entry per person, choose your favorite!

Grand Prize- 5000 Gold
5 Raffle Tickets earned

RAFFLE TICKET PRIZES!
Raffle tickets will be collected for another prize giveaway on top of the contests that were already held! There are a few ways to earn these raffle tickets. For each contest you participate in, you will earn more raffle tickets. Here are the number of tickets you'll be able to earn per event.

-Screenshot Contest- 2 tickets
-"Written Word" Contest - 3 tickets
-Media Contest - 5 tickets

Earning raffle tickets through the contests is not the only way to earn them though. Each Gold purchase made on Gamersfirst.com will earn you one additional ticket, with a maximum of 15 tickets available through this method.

On top of this, your first 10 raffle tickets will get you 50 Gold a piece, for a total of 500 free Gold, just for participating!

Raffle Prizes:
- One Grand prize of 1 Stat-less Archangel Wing, 5000 Gold, 1 30-Day Combat Manual 100%, 1 30-Day Tactics Manual 100%
- 4 prizes of 5000 Gold
- 16 prizes of 15 Day Archangel Wings.

Let's recap shall we?
-3 contests, 5000 gold each
-25 available total ticket entries
-Up to 500 FREE Gold just for participating!
-21 Raffle prizes (24 counting individual contests)

All submissions for the One Year Community Anniversary of Sword of the New World Event Extravaganza: Your Families Year in Review! (OYCASNWEE:YFYR) must be in by April 30th.

MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR FAMILY NAME AND SERVER IN YOUR POST!

Winners of the contests will be announced on May 10th.
Raffle Ticket winners will have been randomly chosen and announced by May 15th.

Good luck, and most importantly, have fun!

*When the Competition begins we will open the relevant threads to submit your entries! So start thinking now!

[cragmodee]

*drools*

[Barstool]

kewl.

[usagi665]

- 16 prizes of 15 Day Archangel Wings.

What exactly will Archangel wings do? Are these going to be a normal cash shop item soon?

[Barstool]

Linnie was wondering if she could win a date with an AM....

[Ravrohan]

You mean May 10th and May 15th for winner announcements?

[kingraver92]

omg *head explode*

[Loth]

niice I should have expected something like this...

*hits head on the desk for deleting his beta screenshot folder a week ago*

[Unname]

Ya know there 55% or 60% player seldom read forum and 10~15% player dont know english and 7%~10% player never read forum So is there any event in game?

[G1-Neume]

Ya know there 55% or 60% player seldom read forum and 10~15% player dont know english and 7%~10% player never read forum So is there any event in game?

Actually we have found about 50% of our player base lurk on our forums. Only about 20% post actively and abuot 10% post semi-actively (1-5 post a week). So thats about 80% of the player base that come to the forums regularly.

That said, yes there will be something happening in-game, but the focus of this anniversary is the COMMUNITY since it's the COMMUNITY Anniversary (the website and forums launched April 17th 2007) and not the LAUNCH Anniversary which will have more in-game events going on.

[RockmanX]

Winners of the contests will be announced on March 10th.
Raffle Ticket winners will have been randomly chosen and announced by March 15th.

[Unname]

Actually we have found about 50% of our player base lurk on our forums. Only about 20% post actively and abuot 10% post semi-actively (1-5 post a week). So thats about 80% of the player base that come to the forums regularly.

That said, yes there will be something happening in-game, but the focus of this anniversary is the COMMUNITY since it's the COMMUNITY Anniversary (the website and forums launched April 17th 2007) and not the LAUNCH Anniversary which will have more in-game events going on.

Got it Thx

[July]

Wow one year already, can't belive it.

Happy Birthday OYCASNW, I guess?

[G1-Kanillius]

You mean May 10th and May 15th for winner announcements?

Hahah, yeah. I'll change that asap.

[vanWolf]

Actually we have found about 50% of our player base lurk on our forums. Only about 20% post actively and abuot 10% post semi-actively (1-5 post a week). So thats about 80% of the player base that come to the forums regularly.

That said, yes there will be something happening in-game, but the focus of this anniversary is the COMMUNITY since it's the COMMUNITY Anniversary (the website and forums launched April 17th 2007) and not the LAUNCH Anniversary which will have more in-game events going on.

a bit confused of the preparations for this aniversary ?

50 % of ALL players are looking to the forum
from this 50 % - 20 % post actively
from this 50% - 10 % post semi actively

that doesnt make 80 % of ALL players - just only for mahematic freaks for info
there are still only 50 % who are reading the forum

[Paws]

He didn't say ALL anywhere in there. 50% lurk, 20% post regularly, and 10% post infrequently; 50 + 20 + 10 = 80.

[JeremyR]

Not that I'm in favor of spam, but stuff like this probably should be emailed to all players. Since they did give an email when they signed up...

[delta2693]

What exactly will Archangel wings do? Are these going to be a normal cash shop item soon?

also want to know this been wanting to know this

i also want to know that can we use the same screenshots from the the thread we used a while ago

This post has been edited by delta2693: Apr 5 2008, 06:41 PM

[July]

Not that I'm in favor of spam, but stuff like this probably should be emailed to all players. Since they did give an email when they signed up...

Or just broadcasting it over the servers.

[Kanroji]

Or just keep it secret between us forum users