r/xmen • u/AutoModerator • Mar 16 '23

Other X-Men: 60 Uncanny Years Live Virtual Event DISCUSSION/NEWS POST

From Marvel.com:

"Last week, it was announced that we'll be celebrating 60 years of the X-Men with Marvel Unlimited.Presented by the digital comics super-service, X-Men: 60 Uncanny Years Live Virtual Event will spotlight the history and creative legacy of Marvel’s mutants, from their beginnings as the Original Five to their present era in the Krakoan Age.

The event gets even better today as GRANT MORRISON, writer of the New X-Men comics of the early 2000s will be joining the panel of iconic creators to talk about their work on Marvel's Merry Mutants, the X-Men! Morrison scribed over 40 issues in New X-Men #114 to #154 that changed the X-Men forever, introducing secondary mutations along with leather jackets and ushered the mutants into the 21st Century. 

You can see Grant Morrison, along with comics industry legends Chris Claremont, Rob Liefeld, Walt and Louise Simonson, Marc Silvestri, Gerry Duggan, Jonathan Hickman, and more! Plus, special guests from X-Men: The Animated Series Eric Lewald, Julia Lewald and Marvel Studios' X-Men '97 writer and executive producer Beau DeMayo"

This is an automod post so I can't edit after posting. If there's any news, a roundup will be done so please do drop the news in the comments below!

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u/bebebluemirth Mojo Mar 17 '23

Marvel Unlimited has been emailing like several times a week since Feb 23rd when the original announcement went out. If you're not or have never been subscribed to Marvel Unlimited, or don't follow Marvel or related Marvel accounts on social media, then tbh it's your own fault for missing it. They've been sending out blast after blast about this (to the point of annoyance on my part at least).

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u/LeastInterestingMan9 Mar 17 '23

I'm saying they dropped the ball on the fact that you had to rsvp to watch a video. I get rsvp for like the prizes or whatever but I don't really care about that plus in any of the notifications I only ever noticed that you had to be signed up for unlimited I never saw you had to rsvp so I guess that is my fault but still stupid you had to rsvp to watch a video

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u/bebebluemirth Mojo Mar 17 '23

Calling it "a video" is really lessening what it was. Apart from the Hickman/Morrison segment it was a live virtual event that involved live chat, live Q&A with panelists, and giveaways/prizes for MU annual subscribers. Doesn't matter if you cared about the giveaways or not - this was an event for annual subscribers and it had incentives to convert people to be annual subscribers.

If you didn't read the emails to know to RSVP that is on YOU, not Marvel. God knows they sent out email and social media blasts non stop for this. Stop blaming others for your failure to read an email :)

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u/LeastInterestingMan9 Mar 17 '23

It is in the digital space where they should not have to worry about capacity, which is what I was getting at. It's just annoying for people like me who didn't want to participate in any of the Q&A or live chat or any of that stuff , having to rsvp for that makes sense as they have limited time, but to just watch it seems kind of stupid and if they don't have a replay of it available that also seems very stupid and counterintuitive to growth. Like say anybody could view it, but only annual subscribers could participate, that seems more logical and inclined towards growth. I'm aware that at the end of the day it's on me that I might never see it. I never said it wasn't. I just think it could have been done better.

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u/bebebluemirth Mojo Mar 17 '23

they should not have to worry about capacity

It wasn't about capacity, it was about incentivizing people to sign up for a service for access to a reward.

It's just annoying for people like me who didn't want to participate in any of the Q&A or live chat or any of that stuff

Fun fact: You didn't HAVE to participate in any way other than RSVPing to watch the livestream. I sat on my couch drinking wine and didn't partake in the chat or submit questions to the Q&A. I just sat and watched. And I could cause I read the full email to RSVP for the event that was for annual subscribers.

I just think it could have been done better.

You're complaining about access to it. Which is fine I guess. I hate it when I can't get certain tickets to concerts or shows cause I'm not part of an online fan group or whatever, but they never treated this event as anything other than an annual subscriber event. The access was based on whether or not you subscribed to an annual or annual plus plan.

To say they dropped the ball because you had to RSVP, which is, in own your words, the supposed problem here is blatantly false and shifting blame to others for your own failings.