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Yesterday, SOE President John Smedley issued a series of tweets about EverQuest II: We are seeing some amazing growth in EQ2. 40% increase in daily logins since going f2p. 300% increase in new players. And 200% increase in Item sales. Plus we have added a lot of new subs. All during the time that some really good competition hit the market Some players have opined that a 200% increase in item sales might not be much of an indicator considering the Free-to-Play conversion coincided with an e-mail campaign encouraging tens of thousands of players who had quit to try...
Year: 2012
image courtesy Jayne of Kithicor Over the last month, a growing number of players have reported missing Quest Feathers and Quest Books. The feather and book icons are invisible, leaving only the yellow or white wisp appearing above each NPC’s name. People have reported the occurrence of the problem after updating DirectX, while others have reported temporarily alleviating the problem by /camping their characters. This issue is being discussed on the EQ2 Forums.
If you’ve run Shard of Love a few times to get the Valorous Wings, and figured that’s all there was to the story, you may be surprised to know that there is a followup quest line A Goddess Risen. The quest series takes you to different instances, and culminates in a revitalized version of the Shard of Love. This quest series runs through February 6th @ 11:59pm PST. If you are into unique Beastlord warder appearances, the emerald cave bats in the Faceless Oracle’s Demesne instance, available only during this event, might interest you. Image courtesy EQ2 ZAM
Here are your update notes for January 10, 2012 from the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed a bug where you would have to recast buffs on group members every time you zone. Fixed random lighting bugs on characters and environments. Players will now receive achievement credit for earning hall of fame status if they are offline when awards are processed. ACHIEVEMENTS Sense of Urgency: Debone Bonewing should correctly update when defeating the zone boss in under 30 minutes from zone in. DUNGEON MAKER Dungeon Maker creatures will no longer temporarily reappear when defeated while under the effect of a tier-adjusting...
First I’d like to wish a Happy New Year to all of you. No doubt many took advantage of the Double XP weekend and squeezed in the last bit of Frostfell magic. In the coming weeks, we should be hearing more from EQ2 developers and their work on the upcoming Game Update 63 coming in February. This update is expected to include new Destiny of Velious content, including dungeons, raids, and more. Here are some issues we’re tracking this week, some of which got a nod from a developer or community: Character Lighting EQ2Players Invisible Mercenary Healers Timorous Deep...
Here are your Update Notes for January 5, 2012: GENERAL Fixed an issue where the client could get stuck trying to load a character into Mok Rent. PLAYER HOUSING The City of Freeport: The Magical Academy housing portal should no longer vanish after being placed in a house. Fixed a bug where loading a layout of an invalid file could cause the house zone to crash. DUNGEON MAKER Mystic Guardian avatar for Dungeon Maker has had the zombie scare attack changed. Fixed an issue with Dungeons being put into the Housing hall of fame.
From Isulith on the EQ2 Facebook page: On Thursday, 12/29/11 we announced a Bonus Experience Weekend from December 30th – January 3rd. This was an error on our part; it was supposed to end on January 2nd. Because of our mistake, we are extending the Double XP until January 4th at 9:00 AM PST. We greatly apologize for the inconvenience and understand your frustrations. The Double XP is live again so go out there and get adventuring!
On December 21st, SmokeJumper announced a Double XP weekend from December 30th through January 2nd. On December 30th, Isulith updated this announcement to include January 3rd, extending the event to 5 days. So it was a surprise to us to login this morning and find that Double XP has ended. Perhaps the server hamsters did not receive the updated schedule. Hopefully, we can get an extra day added at some point. This is being discussed on the EQ2 Forums UPDATE: Double XP has been extended until January 4th @ 9am.
Although the much lauded Dungeon Finder was quickly abandoned by all but mid-level players thirsty for a dungeon crawl, SOE seems confident they can breathe life into this feature with the announcement of upcoming improvements. However none of the announced changes address the core problem, which we will address after the jump. From the EQ2 Forums: Come check out the all-new changes to Dungeon Finder! As of last Wednesday, we announced two new features for the Dungeon Finder system. This should help game play by giving more options for available dungeons and more incentive to use it. So go...
Last Thursday we noticed a curious tweet and Facebook post from EQ2’s Community Manager Isulith regarding the Freeport server and Free-to-Play players: Just as a friendly reminder for Facebook users on the EverQuest II FB page: please do not use the term “freeps”. If you have been playing on PvP servers for a while (especially back when there was more than one) you probably wondered how “freep” could be offensive, since it has traditionally referred to players aligned with City of Freeport faction.