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Not to be outdone by Target, Best Buy is now offering a $5 off promotion for Sony Online Entertainment’s 1500SC/30 day game cards. And unlike the Target offer, these Best Buy cards are available at the $10 purchase price either in stores or on Best Buy’s website. This deal is available today (July 2nd) through July 5th. From EverQuest2.com: Save $5 when you buy a $15 SOE Game Card at Best Buy stores from July 2-July 5!
Year: 2014
Tomorrow, July 2nd, SOE’s accounting, commerce, and forum and game logins will be offline for approximately 2 hours. We’re going to assume this is part of the ProSieben migration back to SOE. From the SOE forums: Attention players: we will perform maintenance beginning at 6:00 AM PDT* on Wednesday, July 2, 2014. We expect this maintenance to take approximately two hours. This will impact the following SOE services: • Account management • Commerce functions, including purchases • Game, web and forum logins (between 6:30 and 7:00 AM) The complete service window could last as long as four hours and...
From the EQ2 Forums: All US EverQuest 2 Servers will come down on July 1st, 2014 at 7:00 AM Pacific Time for an update. The expected downtime is approximately two hours. EU servers will come down beginning at 9:00 PM PT (6:00 AM CET July 2nd, 2014) for the same update. Downtime is anticipated to be approximately two hours. WEEKLY FEATURE The city status merchants now have many new items for sale, including special house guests, as well as many upgraded adventuring items. Consumables purchased from the status merchant are now stackable items. Status merchants no longer require players to...
Just in time for the last day of early bird SOE Live 2014 registration, the Official Schedule (minus Player Panels) has been posted! Realize that the schedule is subject to change. You may recall that the Events team moved heaven and earth last year to make sure that EQ, EQN/EQNL, and EQ2 had as few conflicts as possible with each other and panel panels. So as of June 30, 2014, here are your tracks… Selected “Everyone” Stuff Thu @ 7:00-9:00pm – Welcome Reception and Keynote Fri @ 8:00-11:30pm – Zombie Prom Party Sat @ 10:00am – Geek Out with SOE...
From Colette “Dexella” Murphy on the EQ2 Forums: Today is Monday, June 30, 2014. That means we’re only 45 Days away from this year’s SOE Live! Have you bought your passes yet? If you haven’t, here are the top 5 reasons you want to buy your pass TODAY. #5 – It’s a good deal! Right now, the Premium Pass to SOE Live is $149 for the entire weekend. That’s $149 for the banquet, the party, the costume contest, the tournaments, the live quests, and all the interesting panels! But it’s only $149 TODAY. Prices increase on July 1, 2014. #4 – You can get...
Ever wondered why SOE patches their games at 7:00am Pacific time? Planetside 2 producer David Carey took to the Planetside 2 reddit to answer this question. Keep in mind that his comments relate to Planetside 2, which patches its US and EU servers simultaneously. As we all know, EverQuest II either patches its EU servers simultaneously with US servers or on an ~18 hour delay, depending on whether the update includes new zones, crucial exploit fixes, or sometimes just the direction of the wind, etc. I’ve seen this asked several times, and I’m not sure if we’ve ever given an...
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: Coming this Tuesday, updated items on Status merchants. Mystery crates and lots more! #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) June 29, 2014
If you feel that the amount of Adorning and Reforging necessary every time you receive a new piece of gear has reached levels of insanity, well you’re not alone. Having freedom of choice and customization of stats is great, but there is a limit and we’ve probably reached it. Adornment Dislodgers are pricey and players who need 3 of the same type of adornment must run adv solo, group, or raid zones ad nauseum until the one they want drops and they win a Need roll. In the Destiny of Velious expansion, once a character looted a War Rune...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Antechamber of the Automaton [Challenge Duo] Lockout timer has been reduced to 3 hours. Furnace of Ages [Challenge Duo] Lockout timer has been reduced to 3 hours. Abyssal Aqueduct [Challenge Duo] Lockout timer has been reduced to 3 hours TRADESKILLS Corrected the primary component requirement for recipes contained within [eq2u]Secrets of the Doomwing, Volume I[/eq2u] [eq2u]Secrets of the Doomwing, Volume II[/eq2u] [eq2u]Secrets of the Doomwing, Volume III[/eq2u] [eq2u]Secrets of the Doomwing, Volume IV[/eq2u] ITEMS Decrepit Symbol of Ages Past is now correctly flagged as Mastercrafted Fabled. The minimum level for many...
From EQ2 Buildmaster Bunji on the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION The Fabled Deathtoll Fabled Deathtoll’s minimum lockout timer has been reduced to 18 hours. [eq2u]Secrets of the Doomwing, Volume IV[/eq2u] no longer has a chance to drop from Yitzik the Hurler and Fitzpitzle. Temple of Veeshan: Dreadscale’s Maw Adds in the Telkorenar encounter should now despawn when he is defeated. ITEMS Corrected an issue with Primordial Vengence and Voracity that prevented the effects from stacking. Many one-handed weapons have been made usable by more classes. PVP Bruiser Wild Beating should now correctly trigger Vicious Combination in PvP combat....
SOE Community Management lead Linda “Brasse” Carlson posted on Twitter last night to advise players that SOE Live platinum registrations are nearly full: By the way, there are now less than 100 premium passes left for #SOELive. DON’T MISS OUT!!! https://t.co/AqKGlVYJU8 — Brasse (@Brasse) June 23, 2014 Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics Since SOE publishes an opt-in list of SOE Live Attendees, and since data crunching is sorta our thing, we took a look at the numbers to see what game people are most interested in visiting SOE Live for this year. First up, the Primary Game choices. Out...
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: We’ll be bouncing the servers tomorrow to reduce the lockout timer on Deathtoll from 5 days to 18 hours. Shouldn’t affect anyone.:( #eq2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) June 24, 2014
We’ve got an update from Ashlanne on the SOE forums: All US Targets are involved in this promotion. We would like you to please send us the exact location for [any] Target that did not have the cards or told you they didn’t have the cards. A street address is necessary to look it up in our database. You can post in the linked thread above, or post a comment here and I’ll repost it in the thread for you.
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Bunji on the Official Forums posted this week’s patch notes: WEEKLY FEATURE The Fabled Deathtoll A level 95 update of the original Deathtoll raid zone. Unliving horrors await all who enter, and only the most powerful adventurers will survive to face Tarinax the Destroyer himself! HOUSE ACTORS House actors now use double quotes instead of single quotes for their greeting messages. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Tears of Veeshan: Shattered Dreams Spirits will appear for those that require them from slain goblins in High Keep and High Keep: The Pickclaw Depths (both heroic and advanced solo), regardless of the group...
Not everyone reads the EQ2 Forums, but those who do have likely had their fill of disruptive, attention-seeking posters who derail one discussion after another. Further, such posters cherish the knowledge that they can push the buttons of other players and goad them into confrontation, and then laugh when well-intentioned players trying to confront this behavior are banned for their trouble. Some would say to just use the Ignore feature, and that works for the individual, but as someone who has administrated forums for 12 years, I can tell you that such posters can be very effective at poisoning even...
EQ2 has a history of challenging contested heroic zones, and Contested High Keep is no exception. My guild has had some success there and we intend to go back for more. There are some choke points where things are tougher than they should be. First up, certain mobs are immune to specific damage types, requiring the player to equip an item that transforms their damage to spells or melee as appropriate. However these items do not work for Rangers which first and foremost use ranged weapons, so a special arrow type ought to be made available that converts its...
House Actors (placeable customizable NPCs for your house) were introduced yesterday, but now we have a trailer video highlighting this new feature. From the EQ2 Forums: You can now decorate your Norrathian homes with animated characters! Dress and animate your House Actors however you want! Add one or an army to your homes!
Sony Online Entertainment has a rocky history with third parties. Whether the responsibilities weren’t well-defined, the contracts were not clear, or these companies grossly oversold their capabilities, we’ve seen example after example of relationships with external companies which have not paid off for SOE or for their customers. LiveGamer — SOE contracted with this company to allow EQ2 players to buy and sell in-game items, currency, and characters. Controversially, the change was forced onto existing non-LG servers. Also, contacting LG customer service was always a gamble. The program was not successful and the partnership was dissolved to pave the...
Normally we don’t post EQNext or Landmark news here, but a lot of EQ2 players are likely looking forward to EQNext. From the EverQuest Next forums: If you registered for Beta for Landmark, we already have your information and will include you in the pool for EverQuest Next. One Beta application puts you in the pool for both games. As it says on our Beta Registration: “By signing up, you will be put into a pool of beta applicants for each respective program. For Landmark, when we are ready to allow more people into the Closed Beta phase, if you are...
After over two years of drama, with SOE customers feeling cut off, marginalized, and second class just for living in Europe, the grand experiment of German media conglomerate ProSiebenSat.1 managing SOE customers in the EU region is finally over! When it was announced that Sony Pictures had licensed their entertainment library to PSG to try to be the Netflix of Europe, the writing was on the wall that SOE gamers might be along for the ride. While I do think Sony Online Entertainment eventually made some heroic efforts to try to make this deal work — after a few scathing...
From the EQ2 Forums: We’ve got a promotion that’s right on Target! Head over to your local Target from June 15th to June 28th and receive 20% off your purchase of an SOE Pre-Paid Game Card! This news was posted at 4:36pm PDT today. Commentary These cards work out to 1500SC for $12 or 125SC per dollar. If you can still find the 1500+500SC cards at Walmart, those work out to 133SC per dollar. However we have confirmed with several sources that the Walmart 1500+500SC cards can no longer be reordered from SOE and they will not be getting...
From Bunji on the official forums: WEEKLY FEATURE HOUSE ACTORS House actors are mannequins that can be customized to have a player race appearance. Once the appearance has been selected, the actor can be set to play an action in your home or guildhall! House Actors are created via a carpenter recipe that can be purchased from the loyalty merchant. This recipe requires a unique component that may be obtained from top tier harvest nodes. Editor’s Note: Check out Niami Denmother’s excellent write up on House Actors. GENERAL Fixed a bug where getting 100% rent reduction on your house...
Luperza announced yesterday they were pushing back the original date of the next EQ2 Insider from June 18th to July 9th. The thread is still open to ask your questions – but she requests that you keep them short and to the point. This month on EverQuest II Insider Q&A: Cast: Margaret Krohn, Kyle Vallee, Michael Ganz, and Nathan McCall! Q&A: We’re going to be answering your questions LIVE! Ask about anything! if you can’t make it, feel free to leave us a question right here in this thread or on Twitter, Facebook, and or Google Plus by Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 at 10:00 PM PDT. Where: http://www.twitch.tv/ everquest2...
From the EverQuest II twitter account: Three NEW countries added to #playerstudio tax registration testing! DK, NO & SE now join FR, DE, UK, CA & US! http://t.co/bwvlA3ffaQ — EverQuest II (@everquestii) June 10, 2014
Not content with bringing a monthly Webcast to EverQuest II, EQ2 Community Manager Margaret “Luperza” Krohn is going above and beyond and giving us a second mid-month pure Q&A session to get to the questions that didn’t fit in last week’s program, and any other questions people have! From the EQ2 Forums: This month on EverQuest IIInsider Q&A: Cast: Margaret Krohn, Kyle Vallee, Michael Ganz, and Nathan McCall! Q&A: We’re going to be answering your questions LIVE! Ask about anything! if you can’t make it, feel free to leave us a question in the discussion thread or on Twitter, Facebook, and or Google Plus by Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 at 10:00...