The One About The League of 'Extraordinary' G.E. Fans
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Meanwhile, we were having our weekly Ops meeting and all of us were swapping stories about the various funny incidents that happened during the GE Raid Party. Hope you will enjoy the compilation of stories brought to you by Team Vespanola Tabloid Times!
[Vesponola Tabloid Times] The League of 'Extraordinary' G.E. Fans
The Gentleman
A kind gentleman was telling one of our staff that the French Maid girl was being photographed from 'below'. The 'upskirt' episode was quickly resolved with the poor girl retreating to the back of the Hakkyu Kim Signature booth. Talk about modern day chivalry!
The “Baron”
A young man went into “Baron” mode, ran across our Quest Reward booth and “PKed” the G.E. Quest station NPC by snatching the G.E. Quest stamp from him. Our personnel gave chase but lost him in the crowd. However, our “Baron” soon came back to our quest reward station to redeem his “freshly-stamped” (i.e. STILL WET WITH INK!!) quest card. Our keen-eyed staff spotted the difference and questioned him. He returned the stamp and apologized to us. For his passion and desperation for the reward of those virtual 'Angel Wings', we just had to give him a little G.E. door knob for providing those few laughs.
The “Curious” Queue Ticket G.E. Fan
A young lady requested to our Pirate manning the queue to have a look at the Signature Booth ticket. She then literally RAN away with it and her friend came back with that same ticket to get into the signature queue. The amused Pirate did spot what she was doing after all (even with one eye!); but again, for her creativity and courage, he let her into the queue anyway.
The Man with Extended Inventory
A man presented 1 queue ticket with 1 G.E. Limited Signature Box to get into the signature queue. When he got to Mr. Hakkyu Kim, he opened his haversack and out came 4 more boxes to be signed. Mr. Kim shook his head smiling and graciously autographed all his boxes after all. We are not so sure about how the guy waiting behind him felt about that though!
The “CheeKorPek” aka “Licentious Photog”
Overheard near the FHM gamer girl, Eunice - “Shoot her legs! Shoot her legs! Got ‘zao geng’ ”. Enough said.
The CosPlayers
Do you know that out of the Cosplayers you see during the party, there were only around 10 real Cosplayers? The rest of the characters you see are IAHGames employees who were sporting enough to wear the costumes to liven up the fun element of the party. Among them were the COO, the Creative Director, the Marketing AVP, the Regional Product Manager, the Regional Community Manager, the Web/Graphic Designers, the Game-Masters and even the Database Administrator! Can you tell who’s who?
The Hill Giant Slayer
Some hyped-up party-goer took the monster a little too seriously and decided to deal some damage to the monster at the entrance of Zouk. He/she should level up his/her stance more - only the nose of the Hill Giant was chipped off! There’s a “Wanted” notice for the perpetrator but it’s only because we want to show him/her the REAL Hill Giant in-game.
The Early Birds (who forgot to eat their worms)
A group of gamers came as early as 8am to queue up to buy the Limited Signature boxes so that they can get Mr. Hakkyu Kim’s signatures on their boxes. They managed to buy the boxes at 1pm but in their excitement, they forgot to get the queue tickets! Luckily, the alert retail staff was able to recognize them and get them into the signature queue later on. The early birds did get their rewards after all; they had pictures taken together with Mr. Kim.
The Figures, the Logistics
To make the party happen,
- 20 pallets of goods and material are delivered to Zouk at 0600hrs by 2 x 18 feet Lorry with mechanical arms,
- 96 signages were made and displayed across the entire Zouk venue
- 32 staff started creating the entire Zouk setup (stage, draperies, standees, etc) from 5 am onward, right after the previous night party ended.
- 20 staff started packing 4,000 goodie bags (including VIP, Trade and Media, etc.) from 6.30am onwards.
- 38 helpers from the G.E. community as well as students from Temasek Polytechnic, assisted in crowd management, registrations and quest stations.
- 2 long months of planning and endless meetings
- 30 sponsors supported the event in one way or another
You, the party attendees,
- Drank 3,508 cans of Coke
- Took home 3,167 goodies bags
- Filled up 6 shuttle coaches
- Completed 2,198 quest stations in all.
- Won more than $15,000 worth of prizes in the lucky draw and PvP tournament
That’s all the stories we have for now. Hope you had a good read and we’ll look forward to the next community event. Last we heard, our Regional distributors will be holding their local parties (Read:BIGGER!) in their countries really soon.
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