Feldon 
EQ2Wire has been providing extensive coverage of EverQuest Next for some 4 years now, ever since its development was hinted in the EverCracked documentary. But now the time has finally come for our coverage of the next EverQuest game to venture out on its own as a dedicated site — EQNWire.com.
There are a number of reasons for this division. While the EQ and EQ2 player communities have many things in common, they are still, at their core, quite different. I’ve seen this in the tenor of discussions on the EQ and EQ2 forums, in livecasts, and in chatrooms. There’s just something different that would not be served by a unified site. Also, with the distinct possibility that EQNext could be a dramatic departure from the standard MMOisms of the past EverQuest games, it makes total sense to make a clean break of things and let EQNWire be its own thing.
Of course we’re not alone in launching EverQuest Next sites this month. The past weeks have shown a flurry of activity as EQNext fan and press sites have come out of the woodwork with increasing regularity, all hoping to grab the attention of veteran EQ and EQ2 players, as well as those new to the MMO world who may have heard of EverQuest only in passing. It will be interesting to see how many sites hang in there over the long haul. Launching a site seems like the hard part, but it’s not. Keeping up the momentum to provide relevant news to your readers week in and week out despite foul moods, vacations, family issues, and so forth is far more challenging and it’s easy to run out of steam.
At one time, there was a community of sites covering EverQuest 2 but this is not true today. I’m genuinely hopeful that there continue to be a few dedidicated sites supporting the EverQuest Next community over the long term.
You forgot to mention “and the large volume of people searching Everquest Next, EQN, or EQNext” won’t really pop up much on “eq2wire.” 😛 I was actually anticipating for you to make a seperate one, you just took longer than I expected because you would have gotten a lot more traffic sooner :P.
I don’t see any feedback form so writing it here. Please, fix your site. I’t totally unusable in Opera. You got some bullshit in your JavaScript that causes opera to show blank page instead of site. Only disabling JS for site works… And the same for eqnwire.com
I am using a premium WordPress theme. I received an e-mail 2 weeks ago from another Opera user who has the same problem. I spent over 2 hours trying to diagnose the problem and cannot find it. Opera does not show any error message, diagnostic, or reason for why the site does not load.
I guess this is why Opera is giving up their own renderer and switching to Chrome’s? If you view EQ2Wire and EQNWire in Opera 15+ which uses Chrome engine, the sites load fine.
Now that you mention it, I have the same problem with the Android version of Chrome (site goes blank after being visible for a split second… some weird redirect to the mobile version of the page maybe?)
I can fix it by forcing to show the desktop version, and I don’t mind much because I find most mobile sites much less user-friendly anyway; but it’s more a workaround than a fix…
Long time reader of eq2wire! So happy to see the best reporter for eq2 news is also covering eqn!
Gratz on new(old) site!
Replying here, since I don’t have JS on that site.
I’ve checked with opera dragonfly – here is about 800 errors in css. I don’t know can they cause that issue or not, but it’s crazy amount of errors.
And yes, I use best opera version – with Presto engine.
Seems that there is some JS that launches on page load and just emptyes entire document.