When will the Arena's open up?

Ascii - Harshlands
Ascii - Harshlands Posts: 450 Arc User
edited August 2009 in General Discussion
I’m just wondering if anyone knows when the arenas are opening back up, for those who don’t know or forgot about them, there huge instances you can enter by talking to the arena manager in any of the towns, the one by the giant floating glowing sword (of death) that was PVP, and when you died u just got ported back to safe zone.

That place rocked, I remember being in there soon after the heavens tear server came out, I was in the one inside plume city getting ganked as a 3x by 18’s 19’s. Happy days.

So dose anyone know? A GM response would be cool, also a reason why they actually closed down too.
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  • BratFury - Heavens Tear
    BratFury - Heavens Tear Posts: 1,293 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    This thread wasn't necessary. They always do it the same time, you can find your information on the forum :)
    Ah now you added more than just "I" to the question!

    I have no info for that. To begin with I thought you were referring to just the dragon race and the likes.
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  • Ascii - Harshlands
    Ascii - Harshlands Posts: 450 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    BratFury - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    This thread wasn't necessary. They always do it the same time, you can find your information on the forum :)

    You obviously don’t know what arenas I’m talking about, seen as you responded when all I typed was “I “ because the forums ate my post. Next time wait till you read the whole thing and stop being such a wanna be mod, god them people irritate me.
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  • Cotto - Heavens Tear
    Cotto - Heavens Tear Posts: 373 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    I'd like to know this too.

    I've never been in one in my noob days lol - but i've heard about it.

    You get neat prices don't you? Think someone in HT got a Warsoul helmet cause of it .. anyone more info would be nice. PW is boring without events like that. Its the same grind, dailies, bounties, and long TTs with fail blessings lol.
  • Viper_girl - Heavens Tear
    Viper_girl - Heavens Tear Posts: 541 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Here is a great video of what the Arena is like. This is from the PW-MY version I think so some of the terms in the commentary are different.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61I4w177WnE

    YES ... bring it back now please.
  • Ryiah - Heavens Tear
    Ryiah - Heavens Tear Posts: 65 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    They're down for three reasons. First, nobody ever used them. From what I saw during the period they were up nobody ever entered except me and some lowbies. Of course at the time I was a lowbie too.

    Second, they make more money if you have to PK outside of it because then guardian angels are consumed.

    Third, they consume server resources regardless of them being little used. People seem to complain a lot about lag concerning the genies, but running the arenas will also eat up processor power and memory while they're running. So that'd just be one more thing lagging the server. As it is, we've already got all these instances being run from Bounty Hunter, that we don't need more adding to the lag.
  • Blancheneige - Heavens Tear
    Blancheneige - Heavens Tear Posts: 1,494 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Ryiah - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    They're down for three reasons. First, nobody ever used them. From what I saw during the period they were up nobody ever entered except me and some lowbies. Of course at the time I was a lowbie too.

    And was replaced by the Cube arenas, that even less players use than the city arenas were.
    Second, they make more money if you have to PK outside of it because then guardian angels are consumed.

    No GA are consumed either in the Cube Arena.
    Third, they consume server resources regardless of them being little used. People seem to complain a lot about lag concerning the genies, but running the arenas will also eat up processor power and memory while they're running. So that'd just be one more thing lagging the server. As it is, we've already got all these instances being run from Bounty Hunter, that we don't need more adding to the lag.

    The Cube arena is also an instance, running 24/7.

    To the OP : they will probably never be back. The Cube arena replaced the city arenas. At least the city arenas were used a little bit, while no one use the cube arena. Why did they closed them to replace them by the totally failed cube arena? Ask the chinese devs....
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  • Ascii - Harshlands
    Ascii - Harshlands Posts: 450 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Ryiah - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    They're down for three reasons. First, nobody ever used them. From what I saw during the period they were up nobody ever entered except me and some lowbies. Of course at the time I was a lowbie too.

    Second, they make more money if you have to PK outside of it because then guardian angels are consumed.

    Third, they consume server resources regardless of them being little used. People seem to complain a lot about lag concerning the genies, but running the arenas will also eat up processor power and memory while they're running. So that'd just be one more thing lagging the server. As it is, we've already got all these instances being run from Bounty Hunter, that we don't need more adding to the lag.

    Yea part of me thinks there gonna stay closed forever purely because people will keep buying angels from the *cough* cashshop *cough* but there’s hope right :(
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  • MentalEdge - Heavens Tear
    MentalEdge - Heavens Tear Posts: 629 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    It could help drain coins from economy if GM's serious about that,10k entrance fee isn't too much but with enough people wanting to use it(especially pve servers)it would make a bigger impact than say,jolly ole jonesy
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  • Tup - Harshlands
    Tup - Harshlands Posts: 79 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    No arena, I am afraid.
  • blindeyesniper
    blindeyesniper Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    I saw the arena on youtube and i love it!~
    Gimme gimme gimme gimme!

    Of course when everyone was a low level, no one would be interested in the arena. Now that everyone's reached a pretty high level, they are looking for more than just the usual grinding and what not and having an arena would be great! PKing without consequences of losing your items? YES PLEASE!
  • LaDolceVita - Sanctuary
    LaDolceVita - Sanctuary Posts: 66 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    On the MY-EN version, the arena served as a PVP area where PK didn't have any consequences. Players could go there and kill others without ever having to worry about dropping items. There were also no red name penalty for killings done in the arena. It was a really great place to go if one wanted to brush up or learn how to PK. There was also an event associated with the arena. On a certain day and time, players can enter the arena. There, they would have to PK other players and kill mobs to get to chests, which contained various items.
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  • Baraya - Dreamweaver
    Baraya - Dreamweaver Posts: 148 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    If the GMs/Devs simply did things to make the Arenas popular (like events and such), then they would certainly be worth bringing back. I'd love to go there when I'm bored.
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  • Amarta - Sanctuary
    Amarta - Sanctuary Posts: 118 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    I wish they'd bring back arena just for the chance to get aerogear tickets for those sweet sweet flying mounts.
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  • Ninnuam - Sanctuary
    Ninnuam - Sanctuary Posts: 1,086 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Wow, just seen the YT vid and it looks awesome.
    It's exactly the no penalty thing which makes it interesting. Granted, it wasn't being used much while the average level on the server was 20, but now that its 80+ I'm positive it would be a good addition.

    A lot of high levels are aching for pvp, especially on the pve servers. However, the GA cost (especially with gold as high as it is now) is most definitely a limiting factor in just how much pvp you can do.
    This would solve that problem, enabling us to pvp to our hearts desire, without having to waste a couple hundred k in GAs to have some fun.

    Plus, from what I understand it also had a raid event with chests and bosses, which would definitely add to variety, something the game is seriously lacking in higher levels. While you're at it, the forest ruins look fun too.. >:D
    b:dirty

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