Changes

Since that early panel discussion the team has backed off of strictly defining Quests vs. Adventures. vs. Events. They seem to be using the names a bit more elastically now, as evidenced by [[Jay Wilson]]'s reply to a question in a December 2008 [http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?pager.offset=2&cId=3172030&p=1 interview with 1up.com].

::'''Jay Wilson:'''"...there are a lot of different kinds of scenarios; you'd run into people who would need to be escorted or a caravan that's been stranded. And if you stick around and protect [the caravan] for a few minutes from [an attack] that would occur, you'd get a reward. Most of these are fairly optional, where the player can decide whether he wants to do them or not, but we try to reward them well and make them pretty fun. The biggest goal we have with these is that we want to change what the player is doing. Whenever you can basically take the core game and make the player play it in a slightly different way, it makes the game a lot more interesting and keeps it from being tedious. You go from "I'm killing monsters aimlessly" to "I'm now killing monsters to protect this thing." That's easily a more interesting scenario, because it's different than what you were doing, and that's our main goal with that.