Another failed event

Tonight was supposed to be the night of the MW2 Home event thing to celebrate their outrageous DLC.

Well, it seems yet another "event" has failed before it even had a chance to begin.
According to Locust_Star:

Hey everyone,

Unfortunately, Infinity Ward will not be able to host tonight's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 event, as previously announced (they will reschedule for a later date though, so no worries!) We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you, and we promise to do everything we can to make sure tonight's event is a fun time for all. To that end, our team will be standing in as hosts, and will be launching into multiplayer sessions of the new Modern Warfare 2 maps (Bailout, Salvage, Storm, Crash, and Overgrown). Event starts at 4:00pm PT sharp in the Gamer's Lounge. We really hope to see you all there!

But I was wondering, exactly Who from Infinity Ward would even come to host this "event"?
Here's a list of IW employees (strikethrough = no longer with IW):

Directed by	Jason West	Respawn
Engineering Leads	Richard Baker
	Robert Field
	Francesco Gigliotti	Respawn
	Earl Hammon, Jr
Engineering	Chad Barb
	Alessandro Bartolucci
	Simon Cournoyer
	Jon Davis
	Joel Gompert
	John Haggerty
	Chris Lambert	Respawn
	Jon Shiring	Respawn
	Jiesang Song
	Rayme C. Vinson	Respawn
	Andrew Wang
Design Leads	Todd Alderman	Respawn
	Steve Fukuda
	Mackey McCandlish	Respawn
	Zied Rieke	Respawn
Design and Scripting	Roger Abrahamsson
	Mohammad Alavi	Respawn
	Keith "Ned" Bell
	Mike Denny
	Christopher Dionne
	Preston Glenn	Respawn
	Chad Grenier	Respawn
	Jordan Hirsh
	Jake Keating
	Julian Luo
	Jason McCord	Respawn
	Brent McLeod	Respawn
	Jon Porter
	Alexander Roycewicz
	Paul Sandler
	Nathan Silvers
	Sean Slayback	Respawn
	Geoffrey Smith
	Charlie Wiederhold	Respawn
Art Director	Richard Kriegler
Technical Art Director	Michael A. Boon
Art Leads	Christopher Cherubini	Respawn
	Joel Emslie
	Robert Gaines
Art	Brad Allen	Respawn
	Peter Chen
	William Cho
	Derric Eady
	Steven Giesler
	Jeff Heath
	David Johnson
	Ryan M. Lastimosa	Respawn
	Oscar Lopez
	Tim McGrath
	Taehoon Oh
	Sami Onur
	Velinda Pelayo
	Serozh Sarkisyan
	Richard N. Smith
	Theerapol Srisuphan
	Todd Sue
Animation Leads	Mark Grigsby	Respawn
	Paul Messerly	Respawn
Animation	Bruce Ferriz	Big Red Button Entertainment
	Chance Glasco
	Zach Volker
	Lei Yang
Motion Capture Integration	Mario Perez
Technical Animation Lead	Eric Pierce
Technical Animation	Neel Kar
	Cheng Lor
Audio Lead	Mark Ganus
Audio	Chrissy Arya
	Stephen Miller
Written By	Jesse Stern
Additional Writing	Steve Fukuda
Story By	Todd Alderman	Respawn
	Steve Fukuda
	Mackey McCandlish	Respawn
	Zied Rieke	Respawn
	Jesse Stern
	Jason West	Respawn
Writer's Assistant	Aaron Tracy
CEO/CFO	Vince Zampella	Respawn
Producer	Mark A. Rubin
Associate Producers	Pete Blumel
	John Wasilczyk
Office Manager	Janice Lohr Turner
Human Resource Generalist	Kristin Cotterell	Respawn
Executive Assistant	Carly Gillis
	Cathie Ichigie
Reception	Lisa Stone
Creative Strategist	Robert Bowling
PR Director, Owned Properties (ATVI)	Mike Mantarro
Director Of Marketing (ATVI)	Byron Beede
President/COO	Jason West	Respawn
IT Manager	Bryan Kuhn
Systems Administrator	Drew McCoy
Information System Analyst	Chris Lai
Unix System Architect	Robert A. Dye
Concept Art	Richard Kriegler
	Brad Allen	Respawn
	Joel Emslie
	Richard N. Smith
	Neel Kar
Battlechatter Dialogue	Sean Slayback	Respawn
Additional Menu Scripting	Julian Luo
	Brent McLeod	Respawn
Quality Assurance Manager	Mike Seal	Meteor Games LLC
Quality Assurance Floor Leads	Ed Harmer
	Justin Harris
Quality Assurance	Mary Benitez
	Chelsy Berry
	Candice Capen
	Terran Casey
	Michael Penrod
	Anthony Rubin
	Georgeina Schaller
	Chris Shepherd
	John Theodore
	Daniel Wapner

Yeeaaa...

The Lack of Creativity. . .

From the forums:

So... This AvsP 'event' is the 5th or so dance off on NA Home. I think a dance off every now and then is fine, but the majority of ALL our events have been dance offs. Not to mention all these events are only being held in Central Plaza, when Home has a variety of spaces to choose from. Even if home was prohibited to only use core spaces of Home for events... we have the gamers lounge, the mall, the bowling alley, numberous theaters, etc.. We even have the presentation podium, that can make its return during events or something.

Most of these events were given rewards for participating. Kudos. However this 'event' doesnt. So not only are we particiapating in an event that is basically the same thing as most other events on NA Home, we're encouraged to buy these $$ costumes for the event with no reward granted. Hell... I cant even be with my friends at this event because my PS3 just froze up 5 times after accepting an invite to different central plazas. This is damaging my hardware shutting my system on and off like that. Please, make events worth while, The lack of creativity really has me wondering 'Why'.

Suggestions for future events:

1. Events around Home in different spaces, not just central plaza.

2. RPG style events like that of our friendly neighborhood Japan Home.

3. Events that dont consist of Free vs Paid/Paid vs Paid items by "dancing off"

4. Something BIG, like the Xi event. That event had the forums active and more users involved.

5. How about an event that requires us to obtain unlockable items from the games around home, and use them to access other parts of home, to complete another challenge. For example, you need the echochrome outfit to access theater 5, which gives directions on what to do next, etc...

Get creative Home! Dance-offs are getting played out, seriously. At least give us more dance emotes if we have to endure more 'dance-off' events than something more creative.

Couldn't have said it better. However, CydoniaX in all her worthless manhand glory disagrees:

We also thought people were tired of dance-offs, but YOU the users wanted to throw them! As long as people are having fun, where's the harm? No one has to buy anything to participate.

That said, we do encourage everyone always to "think outside the box" and throw different types of events in different spaces. And until we get an events space, Central Plaza IS our best events space! But keep throwing out your ideas, we love them!

~Cyd

Of course, she fails to acknowledge that every single suggestion made for events is either locked/linked to a suggestion topic, moved to support, or just flat out ignored. She is soon owned with the following message:

Don't buy the whole "user run" event scenario. Sure, an unpaid representative for Sony helped organize it and make posts about it, but this was an HCM/HCV deal the whole way. How many users/clubs get posters for their events splashed over CP posters? Hey Cyd, I'm going to have a free blue shirt vs free white shirt dance-off. You gonna get those posters in CP? I didn't think so.

I would like to see this event come to life ASAP!

PlayStation.Blog Meetup; How it went for most -- [UPDATE]

Written by: Kapow

"The lobby is full. The lobby is full. The lobby is full. The lobby is full. The lobby is full. The lobby is full. The lobby is full. The lobby is full." -- You get the idea.

It appears if you're not an "elite", "power user", "leet" (or whatever you want to call them), or have one on your friends list, then you needn't have bothered attempting to fight your way into Screen Room 6. I even have some "power users" (I think that's the official term for leets) on my friends list and by the time I was able to make it into the apparent room where the Special Guests were, they were gone -- along with the code to download the special belt GlassWalls was sporting in the picture that was on the PS.Blog (and also a few articles down, here).

You see, what they forgot to mention was, they would be giving out a code (a single code I believe) that had a certain amount times it could be used until it was rendered void, much like past events. Except in those events, there were multiple codes throughout a longer period of time. You know, so people would actually have a chance to get the reward.

After little while in Screen Room 6, the Official Guests moved on to the Central Plaza to hang out for the remainder of the event.

Now, the main reasons I think people are upset are:

• 1.) People thought, "Everyone who shows up to Screen Room 6 will automatically be rewarded the special belt." Which is perfectly understandable because that's the impression they gave off on the PS.Blog when they were talking about it. They didn't say, "Those lucky enough to have power users on their friends list AND jump to them before the lobby fills up AND write down the code, log off Home, go to the PS Store and download it before it expires!. . . Will receive said belt."

• 2.) They never said they would be moving on to the Central Plaza before hand. So unless you follow @SonyPlaystation on Twitter, you wouldn't have known that they moved on to the Central Plaza an hour after the event started. So those that really wanted the belt buckle and hung out for the full 2 hours in Screen Room 6, spent an extra our in there for nothing. If you didn't know about that before reading this, you might be upset now.

• So with 1 & 2, users now feel left out and cheated, which is perfectly understandable.

I, myself, tried jumping to a few friends who were able to get into the "Special" instance but was not successful until after the Special Guests had already moved on. So once I got in and learned about the code (which had already been used up within one hour, maybe less) and watched the Whole video that was playing, I left Home. Even though I knew there was a chance I could catch them in the Central Plaza. Oh, and watching the full video that was playing in Screen Room 6 will net you a free shirt with a platinum trophy on the front and "PlayStation.blog" written on the back. Which they also neglected to even mention that you can get a free shirt and how to get it. At least you folks now know, if you didn't already.

So another event bites the dust. There's got to be a better way to do these kinds of things where it'll be somewhat fair to everyone. I mean, I understand that Special Guests can't be in every single instance, but the least they could do is make item give aways available to everyone who wasted their time on said event.

Hopefully the belt will become available to download and hopefully it will remain free. Hopefully a lot of people will bitch about it (like I'm doing now) so that it'll happen. Hopefully...

So discuss this amongst yourselves in the comment section.

Fun forum topics:

• Belt Buckle with Jeans
• playstation home BELT BUCKLE
• I think I'm done with Home for a bit
• Events should be ran at all
• Nominations For New Home Space To Be Used For "Official" Events
• Home Theater (# six) help.
• Is this how every event is handled?
• Attn Playstation Home Management
• Unofficial List of Codes For PS Blog Items (Spoilers)
• the thing about redeem code giveaways

[update]

Hopefully you speak the truth, Mr. Rubenstein.

And for those of you that don't know, No, that is not our official Twitter account. Just another fan. We don't have an official Twitter account, but we appreciate his or her effort.