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Community Managers for EverQuest (Ry “Roshen” Schuller), EverQuest II (Margaret “Luperza” Krohn), and EverQuest Next & EQN Landmark (Colette “Dexella” Murphy) held a webcast on Twitch today to talk about the Year of EverQuest, including updates about the franchise, and with specific news about each game.
Wikia Launches EverQuest Portal
First up, Simon Cox, Director of Programming at Wikia was on the phone to announce a new feature from Wikia that ties all the EverQuest games together. Developed in partnership with SOE, the new site called EverQuest Portal is a cross-game metasite for the entire franchise. To promote this new feature, Wikia is holding a sweepstakes to give away 10 product keys to the EverQuest II: Tears of Veeshan expansion as well as Trailblazer (alpha/beta) keys to EQNext Landmark.
After the jump, read more notes from this livecast including EverQuest swag (not just at the SOE Live store!), EQ2 Livestreams, and a bullet-point News update…
EQ/EQ2/EQN/EQNL Memorabilia
Next up, Dexella talked up SOE’s partnership up with online gaming swag shop J!NX. Thus far, there’s a just a single item for sale: an EverQuest T-shirt, but hopefully this is just the beginning of an online store to sell EQ/EQ2/EQN/EQNL/PS2/DCUO/etc. branded items such as hoodies, shot glasses, notebooks, posters, pens, and other memorabilia and tchotchkes.
Omeed Dariani, EverQuest Franchise brand manager announced that we’ll see a whole line of products in the coming months. If players have ideas of items they would buy, they should send a tweet directed at Omeed. Luperza suggested a “Ask me about my Meatbeast” shirt where you pull it up and it has a meatbeast underneath.
Upcoming EverQuest II Livestreams
I’ve been remiss in posting about this, but EQ2’s new Community Manager Luperza has announced an ambitious program of social interaction and community involvement. Chief amongst these will be scheduled EQ2 Livestreams which she intends to host. Starting with player feedback right away, she has asked players to vote on a choice of 3 names for these livestreams — EQ2 Experience, EQ2 Live, and EQ2 Insider. You can vote on the name at Strawpoll. The voting has concluded and the winning name was EQ2 Insider.
EverQuest II News
- Luperza took some time to talk about some recent additions to EverQuest II as well as in the near future.
- Photos submitted by EQ2 players of their houses showcasing EQN Landmark flags.
- Channeler class now available as a Heroic (insta-85) character
- Bristlebane day
- 2 new Heritage Quests — Hero’s Bracer & Zlandicar’s Heart
- Chronoportals event — Celebrator of the Legacy title (this year only?)
- New Age of Turmoil in-game painting of the original EQ artwork (not the EQNext art)
- More paintings: Emperor’s Crushed Throne, Kaladim’s Ancient Guardian, Emerging from East Commonlands
- player event: Festival of the Blood Moon on Antonia Bayle server
- monthly events: Qeynos City Festival, Moonlight Enchantments
First EverQuest II Livestream — April 2
The first EverQuest II Livestream will be April 2nd. Akil “Lyndro” Hooper and Holly “Windstalker” Longdale will be present for this first webcast and will be talking about some things which have not yet been revealed to players.
Subscribe for updates at http://Twitch.tv/EverQuest2
The entire LandmarkLive Episode #7 – #YoE Party webcast is over one hour in length and I’ve only summarized those key points I think would be of interest to EQ2 players. If you want to stay updated on all the news affecting Norrath, go check it out!