The 24 hour gaming marathon for charity

[Sapience]

Sapience, if the community could get you up to $5000, would you consider playing a freshly rolled reaver for an hour and streaming it? If you can agree to this, I will donate again I'll also make my friends and kinnies donate again also.

Challenge ACCEPTED!

I'll work out the streaming (will have to move upstairs to the gaming rig, but that's cool).

You can name the server, too.

[Celestrata]

Challenge ACCEPTED!

I'll work out the streaming (will have to move upstairs to the gaming rig, but that's cool).

You can name the server, too.

Oh snap. It's on now. :O

[Ravyrn]

You're on! I'll work out the streaming (will have to move upstairs to the gaming rig, but that's cool).

You can name the server, too.

As much as I'd love to name my own server, I'll have to opt for Brandywine as it has far more players who can enjoy this than Gladden. Btw, your goal of $1500 has now been reached! Let's go PVPers! Donate for your chance to help or kill Sapience in the Moors on Brandy!

[Jaedor]

Sweet! Goal #2 is done. Now on to Goal #3...

[Celestrata]

Woah, I somehow missed this, but I'm only 50 away from my $700 goal! That goal is to make me come into work wearing my LARP costume and armor and work a normal day in it.

If anyone wants to help push me over my goal... well... come on over! =^_^=

http://www.extra-life.org/participant/seraphina

[Rrys]

How will a player's donation be verified (so as to award the forum/in-game titles)?

[Sapience]

How will a player's donation be verified (so as to award the forum/in-game titles)?

When you make your donation, make sure I can see your email address (it's a field in the form), I'll contact you with details and info. The In game title is a code just like the one we use on twitter, so those will be directly emailed to you at the address you give in the donation.

All titles and other things will be sent out after the actual event on the 20th. I'd rather do them all at once than try to keep track of who I did or did not send to.

[Sapience]

Quick Update before I leave for the night.

First and foremost, YOU ALL ROCK!

So far, your donations to Clover, Celestrata and myself have raised $2,785.37 combined. Donations to Team Turbine across the board are $6,671 to date. There's still 15 days to go!

Finally, you're $143.63 away from getting a bearded community update. Goal #3 is within easy reach!

[Eartholloth]

Roflzzz, not anymore, some drunk idiot from England jsut pushed you to $2,000

enjoy the beard

ROFL......

[Sapience]

Then we're on! I also saw the note to play WoW for an hour, so I'll get that squared away, too.

And we're on to $2500, which I can now confirm will be a producer, not a dev joining me in the Video, also sporting epic dwarf beard.

Also going to look into adding a new goal if we manage to go past the $2500 goal on our way to the $5000 Ettenmoors goal. I'll have to confirm with the dev responsible, but I think if we hit $3k, we might be able to convince Horse Dev to lose the mask during a community update. Maybe even the same one.

[Jaedor]

Awesome job, LOTRO community!!

[wikjif]

As much as I'd love to name my own server, I'll have to opt for Brandywine as it has far more players who can enjoy this than Gladden. Btw, your goal of $1500 has now been reached! Let's go PVPers! Donate for your chance to help or kill Sapience in the Moors on Brandy!

I hope Brandywine gets a server upgrade before this little event if $5000 is reached or the server might crash or at the very least the Ettenmoors population cap will have to be strictly enforced.

[Sapience]

Quick update! $2,345 as of this morning. Just $155 away from seeing a LOTRO Producer don a dwarf beard with me for a community update. Almost half way to the crazy $5,000 Ettenmoors goal and from the looks of things, Bandywine Freeps are more than willing to kill me at least once per dollar donated. Maybe twice.

Also, through your efforts and those of all who have joined or contributed to Team Turbine, we are currently the #5 Team in terms of dollars raised to date. That means you've out raised teams like Infinity Ward, G4TV, Sledgehammer Games, Trion Worlds and even our parent division, Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment (We're in a little rivalry with those guys and the winner gets bagging rights for a year).

In case you're wondering, Reddit is currently the #1 team with over $25,000 raised so far. The #4 team is just $700 ahead of us and 3rd place has raised just over $10,000 to date. At #5 we've raised $7,200. I think we can hit the top 3 before this is all over.

[Zelxyb]

What dollar amount is required to find out what the horseshoe does?

[Eartholloth]

What dollar amount is required to find out what the horseshoe does?

ROFL... good luck...

[Sapience]

What dollar amount is required to find out what the horseshoe does?

When I get into the office on Monday, I will ask the developer in question. I will do my best to convince him that this is the perfect opportunity to reveal the secret.

Out of Curiosity, what do you guys think the number should be? We've already got $2500, $3000, and $5000 goals.

[CmdrMagic]

When I get into the office on Monday, I will ask the developer in question. I will do my best to convince him that this is the perfect opportunity to reveal the secret.

Out of Curiosity, what do you guys think the number should be? We've already got $2500, $3000, and $5000 goals.

$4000.

$3k - $5k needs another goal in between

[Evenprimes]

Oh I knew what I was getting into. If it means $50 to help kids, I'll sufffer through an hour of the worst video game anyone cares to throw at me.

Ooh, so hypothetically I could write a cheesy text-based adventure and make you play that?

[Sapience]

Ooh, so hypothetically I could write a cheesy text-based adventure and make you play that?

If it meets the conditions that its for a system i own (none are modded) and I can get it before Oct. 20. Hypothetically, yes.

And $4k it is! I'll let the Dev know.

[Schinderhannes]

Nice! This answer is definitely worth some dollars. I hope he agrees to this...

[Crell_1]

When I get into the office on Monday, I will ask the developer in question. I will do my best to convince him that this is the perfect opportunity to reveal the secret.

Out of Curiosity, what do you guys think the number should be? We've already got $2500, $3000, and $5000 goals.

$2501, or at the very worse $3500. The horseshoe has been a topic of discussion for 2 years now, and if my memory serves Turbine has said they'd tell us exactly what it did someday. I think with the arrival of Rohan we're quite due.

For $4000, $4500: Some ideas:
How about a sneak peak into the workings of the upcoming instance cluster?
How about a series of Horse-lotteries containing multiple class-warsteeds?
How about we see that most passionate community award show up as a housing item for EVERYONE!

$5500-Producer or Developer live-streams as a member of the 'Free Peoples' in the ettenmoors for the battle against Greenie-Reaver-Sapience on the 20th. (On a non +Admin client, auto-level permitted but you should be geared to match an existing level cap character owned by the +Turbine's Free player) (I'd suggest just giving a free rename, except that I know the system operates on character ID.)

[Harmat]

How much to name your reaver?

[Erlessa]

This is awesome, I can surely have some cookie allowance on my bank account to be directed to a better use. :3

[xandervix_tog]

Added my measly $5 (every little helps!) - keep it up Sapience, this is an awesome event

Fingers crossed for finding out about the horseshoe...

[Deusdictum]

Have not donated yet. If this becomes one of the prizes, I will donate.