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From SmokeJumper on the EQ2 Forums: Hey folks, Lots of you know Rothgar (Greg Spence) who has been the Lead Programmer for the last few years on EQII. Well, he’s moving over to “EverQuest Next” now to help us move that game along, and Zoltaroth (Nandor Szots) is taking the reins. Zoltaroth has been a Sr. Programmer on EQII for years now also and the transition has been completely seamless, mostly because Nandy and Greg have been a team for a long time now and they both know everything there is to know about the code base. We’re looking...
Day: February 7, 2012
From EverQuest2.com: We will perform maintenance that will affect account management and commerce transactions beginning at 7:00 AM Pacific* on February 8, 2012.
After getting called to the carpet for a revised Game Update schedule that won’t see new level 90 content coming to EQ2 until April, nearly 9 months since last year’s Game Update 61, SOE has laid out a gameplan for February events. From EverQuest2.com: February Publish Plans – More to Play, Your Way! February is here already, and the team is hard at work on Game Update 63! We’ll have some “behind the scenes” videos for you in the coming weeks to give you a sneak peek at the art of some of the exciting new zones coming up,...
From EverQuest2.com: GENERAL You can now access your mail without a mailbox! You can either click the mail buff in your buff window, select mail from the EQ2 menu, or use the /start_mail command! (NOTE: You will only be able to send and receive items and coin by actually clicking on a mailbox in the world.) ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION Tallon’s Stronghold [Challenge] Players have more time to defeat Decorin Deathbringer in the Tallon Zek fight before Tallon empowers him. Vallon’s Tower [Challenge] Players have more time to defeat Kulaxis in the Vallon Zek fight before Vallon empowers him.
We’re not sure what’s going on, but the DNS servers that drive everything under station.sony.com seem to have forgotten that they’re supposed to be doing something. A post has just appeared on Twitter/Facebook which suggests maintenance tomorrow: Account management, Commerce transactions, In-game marketplaces, forums and login will be impacted on Feb 8 from 7-8:30 Pacific Time [Ashlanne] Maintenance Notice: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 forums.station.sony.com Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 7:00 AM Pacific* on February 8, 2012. This will impact the following services: UPDATE: [SOE-MOD 02] Todays issue is something different then the planned downtime for tomorrow. It...
From EverQuest2.com: By Scott Dale (Customer Service Manager) and Linda “Brasse” Carlson (Director, Global Community Relations) Every day, thousands of game accounts are stolen. Tens of thousands of credit cards are compromised. Most of you know someone who has gone through this traumatic experience. Maybe it has even happened to you. Sony Online Entertainment has joined together with a number of high-profile game companies under the umbrella of the Gamer Safety Alliance to bring you Gamer Safety Week, running from February 6th to 12th, 2012. Our goal is to raise awareness of online security concerns, and to provide some...
From EverQuest2.com: Oasis will be undergoing maintenance beginning at 12:00 AM Pacific* on February 7, 2012. We expect this downtime to last for approximately 18 hours. (Updated to extend by 6 hours, due to unexpected delays.)Chat will also be down for the Freeport server during this time. We apologize for this interruption and will bring the servers back online as soon as the maintenance is completed. Also, we have noticed some problems with forum logins which may be related.
Last week the news broke that Holly Longdale, who previously developed for the original EverQuest was returning to SOE to take the role of Senior Producer of EverQuest II. We were, of course, curious what her background and approach to game design might be. Fortunately the answer to some of those questions fell into our lap when we discovered Kwill, occasional EQ2Wire scribe, had interviewed her in 2006. The interview focuses almost entirely on the design and development of specific zones and dungeons, so it will be interesting to see what her high level outlook on the game and...