Fan Faire Returns to the Las Vegas Hilton, August 14 – 17, 2008!

If you've never been to an SOE Fan Faire before, you've been missing out! Fan Faire is a great place for SOE gamers to mix and mingle with each other and meet some of the faces behind their favorite SOE games. Here's just a taste of some of the great stuff we're planning:

• In-game tournaments
• Live, game-themed tournaments and quests
• A costume contest
• Lots of social activities, including a Kickoff Reception, a Grand Banquet and a VIP Party with live entertainment
• Sneak peaks at SOE titles currently in development
• The 2nd Annual Community Address from SOE President John Smedley
• Developer forums and roundtables
  
  

 And that's just the beginning! No matter which SOE game you like to play, Fan Faire will be a blast! Even if you're not an SOE gamer, we encourage you to join us and bring your friends!

Passes will go on sale later this Spring, but you can book your hotel stay now! The Las Vegas Hilton is currently accepting reservations at the discounted Fan Faire rate of just $139 per night. Just call (800) 635-7711 and tell them you're with Sony Online Entertainment, booking code SSOE8 or click here to make online reservations. Space is limited – so get your room soon, in case they sell out!

Hope to see you in Las Vegas!

Watch for passes to go on sale and other Fan Faire announcements on the Fan Faire site.

The Las Vegas Hilton is currently accepting reservations at the discounted Fan Faire rate of just $139 per night. 

Virrago wrote:

The Las Vegas Hilton is currently accepting reservations at the discounted Fan Faire rate of just $139 per night. 

Isn't that the standard rate? o.O

Funnily enough, I've just checked their website again just now (their normal one and the link above) and you can't book over that weekened now normally, which is funny as I have a reservation on a classic room for $79.95 a night because I reserved yesterday*

So basically if you're wanting to go to the event, you need to book using the above website link provided by Virrago or you can call them, you can't get the rooms standardly now (so much so that they've made the prices daft at $795.95 a night and all Saturday is now magically sold instantly)

*gotcha! It's only ever been $139 a night

Oh yes, did I mention that if you share rooms the prices get stupidly cheap...?

USD 209.00 a night for 4 people sharing...

Watch for passes to go on sale and other Fan Faire announcements on the Fan Faire site.

Watch for passes to go on sale and other Fan Faire announcements on the Fan Faire site.

hmm either I need to find more people to go with me or I need to share a room...

Watch for passes to go on sale and other Fan Faire announcements on the Fan Faire site.

Oh what the hell?


Pity they didn't get a shot of EQ girl...

hehehe. Still thinking of that EQ girl who kept giving you those EQ beads eh? lulz

Ey Rarebito,  we should kidnap Virrago and do this once again  vvvvvv Points down vvvvv. right-on??

Watch for passes to go on sale and other Fan Faire announcements on the Fan Faire site.

Gonna wait for a few till they let registration take place before booking fights...its gonna be fun.

 If anyone wants to share to reduce costs, get in touch.

Nice screeny of MXO in the photo gallery (to get it to work, you gotta remove -test from the URL)

http://events.station.sony.com/fanf...sVegas07/26.jpg

I'm wondering what MXO's "events" will be this year... not Matrix watching again? Doubt a tournament... hmm. :0

Dont book till they comfirm the registration bit. Just incase they change their mind.

Havocide wrote:

Dont book till they comfirm the registration bit. Just incase they change their mind.

In case who changes their mind?

SOE.

Mind sets back to one that was due to be held in Europe. People had booked their tickets and flights, then SOE ddecided not to have the fanfaire or something, alot of people couldnt refund tickets and such for flights.

*sigh* Still no love for teh MxO

Virrago wrote:

Havocide wrote:

Dont book till they comfirm the registration bit. Just incase they change their mind.

In case who changes their mind?

SOE.

Mind sets back to one that was due to be held in Europe. People had booked their tickets and flights, then SOE ddecided not to have the fanfaire or something, alot of people couldnt refund tickets and such for flights.

ShiXinFeng wrote:

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hmmm, it has MXO listed.

Virrago wrote:

ShiXinFeng wrote:

*sigh* Still no love for teh MxO " />

hmmm, it has MXO listed.

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Urgh, I hate legalities. Can't SOE just ask WBIE for permission to use a set few images in any way they like? A one-time grant, so they don't have to spend months going to and fro. The current arrangement is costly for both sides, and doesn't do the players any good either.

Virrago wrote:

Havocide wrote:

Dont book till they comfirm the registration bit. Just incase they change their mind.

In case who changes their mind?

SOE.

Mind sets back to one that was due to be held in Europe. People had booked their tickets and flights, then SOE ddecided not to have the fanfaire or something, alot of people couldnt refund tickets and such for flights.

Yeah, wasn't a fan faire. It was a seperate event. Said that a few times >_>

Last year the flight prices for us were up in the £660's. I'm fairly tempted to book a flight right now, to be honest. I don't see them falling much further as they were up around £660 fairly recently around these dates.

Urgh, I hate legalities. Can't SOE just ask WBIE for permission to use a set few images in any way they like? A one-time grant, so they don't have to spend months going to and fro. The current arrangement is costly for both sides, and doesn't do the players any good either.

Procurator wrote:

Urgh, I hate legalities. Can't SOE just ask WBIE for permission to use a set few images in any way they like? A one-time grant, so they don't have to spend months going to and fro. The current arrangement is costly for both sides, and doesn't do the players any good either.

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im not sure thats entirely true shadow,

welll to be more clear shadow said that soe can do as they wish with the logo, but unless im reading that wrong it still belongs to wb so anything that included it has to be ran past them first before they can use it.

welll to be more clear shadow said that soe can do as they wish with the logo, but unless im reading that wrong it still belongs to wb so anything that included it has to be ran past them first before they can use it.

I was Kinda shortening it down, as law is boring

I'm not saying that SOE can do what they want with it as such, more that they can more or less (to which there are exceptions) have various MxO art on their sites. As I don't know exact specifics on all the details (obviously) I'm more speculating than anything else, yet you'll find that anytime SOE does some sort of "major" (using a general term like this NEVER happens in law) public advertising release (be that for events like this, the email publications and normally on the SOE sites) MxO has to take more of a back seat as for prominent advertising (like your lovely poster) WB have to be asked for permission.

That kinda runs on from the fact that the MxO logo is only a carry-on from the main Matrix logo, so naturally WB would do a "*CENSORED* are you putting that there without asking us?!" sort of thing if SOE did anything else. What's more of a random area is character screens and video and such, which I can't be bothered going into, as that's been done elsewhere.

Put simply, law is a *CENSORED*. For a public event like Fanfaire, SOE can use the MxO logo, as it's going to be a game at the event, yet I think if say they tried to sell the event on the fact that MxO was going to be the main game at the event, they'd have more issues...

law is never fun.

never.

ever.

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After I heard that Las Vegas was reusing dirty needles in thier hospitals , I totally got turned off from the idea of ever going to Las Vegas. Hopefully, next year it will be someplace better with no real life DOT's goin on.

If you plan on going to a clinic that shoves cameras on tubes up your bum then by all means don't come.

It was at an Endoscopy clinic, and it was at clinics owned by 3 doctors and ONLY their clinics.

Las Vegas has some of the best hopitals and clinics in the world and the fact that 3 doctors are idiots doesnt change the fact.

Lezel wrote:

After I heard that Las Vegas was reusing dirty needles in thier hospitals , I totally got turned off from the idea of ever going to Las Vegas. Hopefully, next year it will be someplace better with no real life DOT's goin on.

If you plan on going to a clinic that shoves cameras on tubes up your bum then by all means don't come.

I heard on CNN it was more than one place, man. No, I can't say I've got any intentions on going anywhere like that or the city in which it started. However, before I found all that out...I had plans on going.

I heard on CNN it was more than one place, man. No, I can't say I've got any intentions on going anywhere like that or the city in which it started. However, before I found all that out...I had plans on going.

Lezel wrote:

I heard on CNN it was more than one place, man. No, I can't say I've got any intentions on going anywhere like that or the city in which it started. However, before I found all that out...I had plans on going.

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mantra777 wrote:

Lezel wrote:

I heard on CNN it was more than one place, man. No, I can't say I've got any intentions on going anywhere like that or the city in which it started. However, before I found all that out...I had plans on going.

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I think you guys are missing the point..but like I said before all that weirdness I had plans on going. It would be fun and if it were anywhere else I probably would. " />