Bring back an old event

I’ve been a member for years now, and though some people here probably haven’t actually seen these, I definitely remember them. For the first little while after I joined, there would be a raffle every few months, in which members would pay a small jewel fee for raffle tickets up to a certain max number of tickets per user. They would win prizes ranging from jewels to a voucher for an item or weapon, even things like CC or lacrima on rare occasions. I think it’d be a fun thing to bring back, as they were always wildly successful in the past. To top it off, they’re not really a high effort event, as staff don’t need to custom write items for them like they do with the IOTM shop. Anybody have any thoughts on this?

We actually had a raffle about 3 months ago, which, in my opinion, makes this suggestion, at least in intent, somewhat redundant :'D

Staff is, of course, not opposed to raffles at all, as evidenced by our Halloween event last year, but flooding the site with prizes and rewards like we did not too long ago as a common occurrence would definitively be too much. About 1 raffle event per year would be ideal, giving people the chance to win and get some neat rewards while still keeping the events themselves special.

Of course, other people can feel free to throw in their opinion as well.

Oh, I wasn’t here when that raffle went on, so I didn’t know. Now my intent isn’t necessarily anything with crazy big prizes, a big raffle like what you said should definitely be limited to once or twice a year at most. However, what of smaller raffles? Where maybe you win a neat little 50k jewels or a strong weapon? Some of those raffles got quite big, but I was thinking more along the lines of smaller and more periodic ones, with a big one only with long stretches of time in between. Like maybe a big one once a year around the site’s birthday, and smaller ones spaced out maybe every 3-4 months?

I think, to throw my two cents in, there's an easy way to make this all work. What about having a raffle every three or four months? That makes about 3 or 4 raffles a year. A majority could be small raffles without any significant prizes that people can buy into while one would be tied into an event and contests the way the Halloween raffle was structured. This keeps the raffles from being too often while also having one raffle be a special event. No flooding the site with items and people can participate in raffles throughout the year.

Helloooo,

Nessa here to throw in my thoughts on this matter, as the person who took a great effort in handling the last raffle with Johann during halloween. I’m going to go ahead and say that this suggestion is a nice dream but an inefficient one.

No offense to anyone, but I honestly thinks this comes more so from the fact that the people who might want such an event aren’t admins and don’t know how much work goes into organising a raffle. Nor are you aware of our tremendous list of to do’s that we already have. So I’ll fill you in, a little, your staff team has so many plans for this forum to make it a more fun and better place that it would probably shock you. If I could show you are unbelievable list of tasks I would, but I cannot because that kind of ruins the surprise. So to add all these raffles is honestly just a lot of work and a big ask of your admin team.

Additionally, I honestly don’t think handing out freebies so regularly is really warranted.  Like we do so many events with GREAT rewards as it is, not to mention contests and whatnot. I don’t see why we should give out SO much more, when we already give you guys a lot already. So In the words of Simon Cowell, it’s a no from me.

I don’t really see the point of a raffle, unless it is tied to events or contests but even then, there are other alternatives. A raffle on its own is in my eyes basically gambling, it offers nothing more than the potential to win something instead of being a reward for roleplay or additions to the site (such the lineage contest etc).
That was the opinion I had before I had read Nessa’s post. If it is so much work to setup then I do not think that it is worth the effort to do raffle’s over the more traditional reward system.

Seeing as the opposition was pretty unanimous, and this is a massive workload on staff this suggestion has been Rejected.