Feldon It looks like any kind of big news affecting EverQuest II: Age of Discovery might have to wait until tomorrow Thursday.
Here’s SmokeJumper‘s announcement of the Eight Year Veteran Rewards (which we covered on Saturday) and a free Lucan D’Lere Statue:
Huzzah and yippee-ki-ay! We’re seven!
The EverQuest franchise is near and dear to our hearts here at SOE and we really appreciate all of you that have also grown to love Norrath over the years.
As a small token of our appreciation, and to tie in with the “Freeport Reborn” game update coming up soon, there is a zero cost item in the marketplace for you. It’s a statue of Lucan D’Lere suitable for your guild hall or home (and it’s a twin for the Antonia one coming out next summer when we do the Qeynos revamp). For a limited time, we’re giving it away free of charge, so get it while the gettin’s good!
Additionally, the new “eight-year” veteran reward is now available also, so those of you that have been with us the longest will start earning those rewards as you hit your own eight-year mark. *
The new eight-year veteran reward contains the following items:
- “Veteran Revival” : A spell that allows you to rez yourself or a friend once per day.
- You choice of an elemental hover disc mount (flyable if you are 85 or above, ground mount otherwise).
- “Vision of the Thulosian” : A green particle effect on your eyes, like the Thulosians have in the Moors of Ykesha.
- Six XP potions (+110% xp, 1-hour duration (go alts go!)
- A new title: “The Veteran”
So, Happy Birthday everyone! We’ll keep working hard on the game, and you…well…you just relax and enjoy, please.
(There’s lots of announcements coming your way soon that have nothing to do with our birthday. Stay tuned!)
— SJ.
* Even though we’re seven, it’s possible to hit the eight-year vet mark if you got the bonus time we offered in a previous collector’s edition from years past. That’s why it’s possible to have an eight-year veteran reward on a seven-year old game.
A corresponding news item has been added to EverQuest2.com.
SOE keeps changing the Norrath that we have “grown to love…over the years” that it is becoming unrecognizable.
Yah, happy birthday. Now please give us some information SoE.
SmokeJumper instead of Yippy Yapping, why dont you tell us how much your “super uber crazy” optional expansion is?
I just PM’d Smokejumper in response to the statue, because he clearly states it works in guild halls, but it doesn’t. =(
I’m glad Smokejumper can inform us about mundane things like new items in the Marketplace, but doesn’t inform us about critical things regarding Age of Discovery – like you know…how much will it cost? When will it launch? More details about the content – will it all truly be optional?
If this is the same Lucan/antonia statue we already have from being launch day subscribers, I’ll pass. Already have several. lol
It is not the same statue. It is hierloom. Can be bought in bulk. Only works in houses currently. And at this point I doubt legal has let smokejumper say anything right now on AoD. And no, I don’t trust smokeblower.
SmokeyStover has a habit of saying things and later having to walk them back when they turn out not to be so, known where I live as ‘talking out your @$$’.
Yay professionalism! 🙄
We really ought to start a petition to fire Smokejumper.
Everytime I start a thread on the main EQ2 forums, where I respectfully call out Smokejumper and the other developers it’s deleted within 10 minutes.
I hear ya, Necro. I’ve had every pretty much every thread that I’ve ever posted that showed proof of Smokejumper’s incompetence deleted very quickly after it was created.
SOE doesn’t want people spreading information that the people running their company don’t know crap I guess. LOL 🙂
i dont know they are suposed to be having a webcam at 4:30 pacific one has to wonder what they are going to say in it.
Rofly I need glasses it says thursday, oh well I guess no more news today.
Waaaaait a sec, the revival thing can be cast while dead? I didn’t remember reading that before. That makes it a fair bit more useful. Too bad nobody gets vet rewards on Extended. (By which I really mean: Good thing nobody gets vet rewards on Extended, so we clerics can keep the self-revives to ourselves. :P)
So this dumb ass (SJ) said last Thursday that we would have new info Today, and we get nothing? Why does this guy continue to talk out of his ass.
Wow tough crowd there today. Think people should realise that running and growing an MMO with a subscriber base of 7 years is an inconceivable challenge. EQ and EQ2 have seen countless MMOs come and go but they are still here and apparently making money, so they have to be doing something right.
At least SJ is enthusiastic and excited about the game, just like we are. So cut the man some slack as he is doing his best within the boundaries set for him.
The question is – WHEN are we getting these Rewards? The Statue is there, but nothing else yet.
Do you qualify for 8 year veteran reward? If so, /claim !
SJ ended up doing take-backsies on the statue being guild hall placeable in a different thread. http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=0&topic_id=508966#5654300
I call BS on his reply because we all know there’s SC items that are guild hall placeable. But whatever.
So this excuses the rolling disaster that is Velious, the Itemization Script of Doom, poor player base communication, and saying things without checking to see if there was any basis in reality? (And that’s the short list, I’m sure more can be added!)
Don’t give me the ‘it’s so haaaaaaaard!’ argument. He’s paid to do a job and do it well. If he’s failing, he should be penalized accordingly. If he’s just not up to the task, it’s time for him to move on, period.
The bottom line is someone needs to step up to responsibility. As the guy in charge, he is ultimately responsible for the quality of his product, regardless of who was assigned to do the actual work.
One mistake, I can understand. Two, even. But this year has been nothing but a series of errors upon errors upon errors with barely any communication to the people who are supporting their salaries.
Wait. It actually sounds like our US Government. Is that who they’re taking their cues from?
I miss Brenlo.
Oh, and I missed using this quote earlier regarding the ‘inconceivable challenge’:
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it does.”
Occupy Norrath?
Word is some Freeport citizens tried that, Necro.
In other news, this year’s Nights of the Dead decorations there seemed…fresh.
Just sayin’.
(I also seem to remember a similar incident in SWG ending…amusingly badly.)
I will not flame you nor defend you, I will simply state again, This is His Job, His “teams project” legal department and PR departments do not have anything to do with in game errors ‘Like the statue’. But yes there is limitations; Obviously MR Jumper hasnt learn not to speak out of his other end and keep digging himself into the bigger hole with us, the real players of this game, the ones that although mad about changes, bugs and everything else still continue to pay since we like the characters , ppl and friendships we’ve made. I call for a Day of no Login in support of (No Cash For Crap) whos with me!
Haha Necromancer! Yes, we should just all log in and stand there. For days.