Feldon
From EverQuest2.com: Don’t put away your wrenches just yet! Tinkerfest has been extended through Sunday, August 12th, 2012! For more information on Tinkerfest, including a list of new features for 2012, click here! But remember, time is ticking!
Day: August 7, 2012
We have received numerous reports that some players cannot connect to Group or Guild text chat or Voice chat. More as we have it…
SOEmote is now live on the EQ2 servers and we have reports that players are testing it out, especially in the Sinking Sands and other common zones. As soon as you login, EQ2 will try to see if you have a Webcam installed and if so, will bring up the SOEmote window with your face on the left and character on the right. You may need to increase the lighting in your room if you have Calibration problems. Some players may experience issues if they wear glasses or have a beard. Image from Raven-Mythic.
In the most recent episode of EQ2Talk, Dellmon and Aliscious address SOE’s notion that “We’re players too”. From SOEmote to Dungeon Maker to loot distribution and balance, the podcast asks the question — Why are so many things missed, overlooked, or left behind? Also in the podcast, EQ2U gets its moment in the sun as Ali compares it to EQ2Players. I encourage listening to the whole podcast, but if you want to focus your attention on the bit about EQ2U, that’s from 41 minutes until 46 minutes with a brief followup from 52:30-53:30. From EQ2Talk.com: If the summer sun...
UPDATE: EQ2 is back up and SOEmote has launched! rom the EQ2 Forums: Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 6:00 AM Pacific* on August 7, 2012. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 4 hours. This will impact the following services: Login for all SOE games will be affected Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces, will be unavailable Forums will be read-only Account management will be unavailable All EverQuest II US Servers will be down from 7:00 AM Pacific* for a Hotfix. The estimated downtime is one hour with an estimated two hour downtime...
Flourchild
From EverQuest2.com: SOEmote Your Way SOEmote is finally ready to go live on August 7! After showing the feature at E3 in Los Angeles earlier this year and getting a lot of interest and feedback, we opted to spend more time developing it to make it fit easily into the game experience so it felt fun, natural, and easy. You will find the SOEmote listed in the main EQII menu in game, as well as in the game Options. Some features we added are: Auto-Enable SOEmote with Webcam. To start with, we wanted the feature to be easy to...