Feldon From the EQ2 Forums:
EverQuest II: Free-to-Play Webcast Recap
On Thursday, November 10, 2011, we had a very special webcast going over the big announcement: EverQuest II going free-to-play! This week’s webcast featured EverQuest II Executive Producer Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson and EverQuest II Associate Producer Emily “Domino” Taylor. The two were interviewed by SOE’s Director of Global Communication, Linda “Brasse” Carlson. We learned about many of the specifics associated with the free-to-play conversion and a bit about the new expansion “Age of Discovery.” At the end of the video, screenshots of the Collector’s Edition items were also shown.
After the jump, our question about the new EQ2Players and Data Feeds gets answered…
I submitted a question which appears at time index 22:00.
Feldon: I would love to know when the newly revamped EQ2Players will launch.
Brasse: So would we! Actually the interesting thing is, internally…
SmokeJumper: It was supposed to launch…
Brasse: It’s lookin’ good. That’s all I can say. I mean, can we say that?
SmokeJumper: I can say this. We’re completely overhauling the EverQuest2 site. We intend for the EQ2Players stuff to be part of that relaunch. It’s going to boil down to whether or not it’s solid enough as to whether it shows up on that day or not. Work is actively going on on it, and I know NOBODY out there believes us! It’s actively being worked on. I’ve seen it in progress. It’s a big improvement. But I’m not exactly sure what date it’s going to be launched.
Brasse: The sarcastic among them would say anything would be a big improvement, but it really is, I mean it’s… I think you’re going to be pleased and surprised.
SmokeJumper: I like the DC website quite a bit, the one that they revamped for the relaunch. Ours will be similar in content.
Brasse: I think Feldon is probably also specifically talking about the EQ2Players character data.
SmokeJumper: SmokeJumper: Oh yeah, well he knows. *chuckle* Cause he’s starting to tinker with it. Yeah the data will be really solid.
Brasse: That’ll be terrific.
So while I was tinkering, I won 1,000 StationCash (time index — 38:10).
and I know NOBODY out there believes us!
Ya think, DiNozzo? /dopeslap
Hey Feldon, yeah!! I won too!
So, once again the bazaar server gets screwed. First, they got screwed by dumping live gamer on us, a company that destroyed the economy before it even got started, by having a delayed launch of its website… Then they locked us on a dying server, and finally when the population gets so low they decide its not worth the money to keep it running, they move us to the worst of all servers (freeport) AND to add insult to injury, do not give a free character transfer token.
Freeport has a robust population with a variety of play styles and a large population. Albeit, younger high end raiding guilds due to being created in 2010 (still very talented). That being said there a ton of open, welcoming and committed “gold” members who moved to Freeport from live servers. Additional, there are those who played before came back to try free to play and enjoyed and became gold members and are committed to playing. So, we (freeport server) have those “converts” as well. Lastly, we have players who have been and hovered between “silver” and “gold” and able to level to 90 and be effective! Plus, who doesn’t love wanding their way through a dungeon. Laments: good-bye beloved wand of obliteration…for now.
So, imho, bazaar looses nothing but exchange service and get blended with a bustling large population server. Which oh btw, now become just like every other server. Capable of cross server battlegrounds and cross server dungeon finder(ETA unknown). Oh, and now that we all have one central soe forum the better, and one central eq2players website. Well, whenever all that comes. 🙂
Why are you bitching @blueberry? SOE killed Bazaar a long time ago because of the stupid exchange its about time they got rid of LG and are now merging us making us a normal server like everyone else, it took long enough. I am very happy, I am from Shadowhaven, I did not even know what exchange was when I joined that server then they merged us into Bazaar and freaking stuck there for eternity, who cares what server we get moved to at least we can now transfer(which was not an option before) if we dont like it, FINALLY!!!!.
@Blueberry
I’ve known you since Code of Qeynos. When did you get so negative?
You can buy a tx token once you get to Freeport if you’re not happy.