The goal was to just have fun and enjoy the mystery of the event. And simply put, we just don’t know what’s going to happen currently. Lots of things in Andrew’s RuneScape we didn’t know either.
I witnessed not just one method of obtaining a rare but nearly equally distributed across various skills which made people just play for the most part. Lots of interesting community chatting and oddly people digging for rares lol.
Everyone is assuming that this weekend has set the standard for every weekend, Thinking Pazaz will sit on his arse for 4 months, then when you grind every weekend, 4 months straight and don’t get a rare he’s gonna say “tough one kid”
Most active player count is on weekends, when most have free time. We seen a condensed double player count almost on the weekend and i bet we wouldn’t see that consistently if it was everyday of the week. It felt like a mini version when 04 scape just launched.
Like you I sweated hard and got skunked but I had lots of fun and the grind didn’t feel like a grind at all. It felt like it went by in an instant.
Try not to feel discouraged. I really don’t think Pazaz and the contributors intend to disappoint majority of the player base and to make them feel like they need to grind hundreds of hours to obtain a single rare.