Feldon
As we intimated last month, SOE is finally putting its proprietary forum software out to pasture and moving to modern off-the-shelf forum software — XenForo — which is the creation of ex-vBulletin developers. EverQuest completed their transition to their new forums just prior to their Rain of Fear expansion and now EverQuest II has its own move-in date: November 9th. Timing is Everything But wait, you’re thinking, November 9th is smack dab in the middle of the Chains of Eternity beta! Well the EQ2 team have thought of that, and will be keeping the CoE beta forums up and...
Day: November 2, 2012
Dethdlr and I were very fortunate to make it to SOE Live this year and further, to present a panel on EQ2U, including the new Achievements feature, and talk a bit about what went into creating this site, what we plan for the future, and how SOE is going to shortly be burying us in a lot more data. 😉 The panel starts with Clif Bate, Director of Commerce Services & Web Presence, and Morgan Bonar Lead Web Developer and Web Producer, PlanetSide 2, and then at the 20 minute mark, we get to the EQ2U bits.
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: We are excited to announce we’re adding an amazing Ethernere wyvern mount to the CoE Collector’s Edition! and for SOE Live attendees who have been justifiably balking at the $50 upsell to get the Chains of Eternity: Collector’s Edition, it looks like there may be some movement on that price: Also, our Community and Marketing team has exciting announcement coming this afternoon for SOE Live folks looking to upgrade CoE… Glad to see these two changes based on player feedback. UPDATE: Chains of Eternity: Collector’s Edition is now a $20 upgrade for SOE Live...