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File this under “WTF?” The script kiddies who have been DDoSing Blizzard, League of Legends, PlayStation Network, and Sony Online Entertainment since early this morning decided to double down on their slew of felonies by tweeting a bomb threat for the American Airlines flight carrying SOE President John Smedley to San Diego. The flight was subsequently rerouted to Phoenix, AZ. The details of this “If I didn’t read it, I wouldn’t believe it” nonsense comes to us via Polygon:
Year: 2014
So because there are people in this world with nothing better to do than engage in DDoS attacks on Blizzard, League of Legends, PlayStation Network, and Sony Online Entertainment, players are having difficulty connecting to or playing these games this morning. UPDATE — Bonus XP Extended til Tuesday: Based on this mornings issues, the Members Double Experience weekend will be extended until Tuesday. Enjoy! [RadarX] — EverQuest II (@everquestii) August 24, 2014
While Double and Triple StationCash days may be a thing of the past, it looks like retailer promotions of StationCash cards will be continuing for the foreseeable future. As announced by SOE Director of eCommerce Mark Tuttle at SOE Live, we will soon see Landmark-themed StationCash cards at Walmart and GameStop, each with bonus items attached. Here are the details we’ve been able to glean: Walmart Landmark SC Card (link) 2,000 StationCash Immediate and permanent access to Landmark’s closed beta. One of five Landmark loot bundles: Earthbound Bonus Pack 3500 Dirt, 3500 Stone, 3500 Sand + 2 random Relics (from...
We recorded the EverQuest II: Altar of Malice keynote, which included about seven minutes of Q&A at the end. We also recorded the EverQuest II Q&A #1 panel and we’ve assembled it into a single video. NOTE: Audio quality improves at 8:45 as we started using an external mic at this point.
There were some technical difficulties during the first 10 minutes of the EverQuest II: Altar of Malice keynote which was livestreamed from SOE Live last week. Instead of clearly hearing the producer and designers of our game hyping their hard work, audiences at home mostly heard frustrated AV techs trying to get things working. Fortunately, we recorded the keynote in person and are now able to provide the complete event for those who missed it!
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: We’ve decided to run a members-only Double XP Weekend for Adv, TS, AA xp starting noon PDT tomorrow thru Sunday 11:59pm PDT! #eq2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) August 22, 2014 UPDATE — Due to the DDoS attack against SOE/PSN/Blizzard/LoL, the EQ2 team are extending Bonus XP until Tuesday: Based on this mornings issues, the Members Double Experience weekend will be extended until Tuesday. Enjoy! [RadarX] — EverQuest II (@everquestii) August 24, 2014
From the EQ2 Forums: WEEKLY FEATURE The Moonlight Enchantment merchants have new items available! All sorts of trees and shrubbery based on Ethernere foliage can now be purchased. Moonlight Enchantments begin on 8/20! With Kerafyrm’s defeat, Freeport and Qeynos have finally broken the Awakened siege, and Luclin – now whole – shines brightly in the skies. GENERAL YouTube integration has been removed due to incompatibilities with Google’s API updates. Options are being explored to return video functionality.
Zone previews of EverQuest II: Altar of Malice were released at SOE Live so that we get to see flythroughs of all the zones which the EQ2 designers and environment artists have been working on. We present the best possible version of each of these videos below, edited together with some music from ToV zones…
Here are the slides presented by the EverQuest II team specifically the mechanics/systems guys. Akil “Lyndro” Hooper, Kyle “Kander” Vallee, Michael “Xelgad” Ganz, Robert “Caith” Fouts, Dave “Maevianiu” Kish, and Douglas “Endymion” VanDerveer were presenting.
Now it’s time for the EverQuest II Systems panel. Akil “Lyndro” Hooper, Kyle “Kander” Vallee, Michael “Xelgad” Ganz, Robert “Caith” Fouts, Dave “Maevianiu” Kish, and Douglas “Endymion” VanDerveer are presenting. We’re liveblogging this panel as well as recording a video of this panel in 720p HD. Liveblog begins at 1:00pm PDT and ends at 2:00pm PDT on Saturday August 16th. Fix for Stealth and AE Abilities New Spell Qualities All spells go to Grandmaster Certain spells go to Ancient Battleground 6v6 Balance of Theer Deathmatch Penalty for dying Tiles to stand on and get buffs/debuffs
We’ll be posting videos of the two EverQuest II Q&A panels next week, but here are some cool highlights that we got in yesterday’s panel. We’ll update this article tomorrow when the other Q&A is under our belt. Stored Gear Sets confirmed for @everquestii expansion. Save different gear sets. MT tank, off tank, or appearance. — EQ2Wire (@EQ2Wire) August 15, 2014 Wardrobe system for appearance gear next year? “Eats the items” #eq2 — EQ2Wire (@EQ2Wire) August 15, 2014 Wardrobe system would not use space in your #eq2 inventory. It becomes like a character flag. — EQ2Wire (@EQ2Wire)...
EQ2Wire is boots on the ground in Las Vegas and we’ve been covering all things EQ2. Yesterday we reported all the Altar of Malice news. Today, we continue to record panels in HD, including this morning’s Art and Animation panel. We’ll be Liveblogging the EQ2 Mechanics this afternoon. We’re slso recording Q&A panels and will post them this coming week.
Now it’s time for the EverQuest II: Altar of Malice expansion panel with nearly the entire EQ2 team. We’re liveblogging as well as recording a video of this panel in 720p HD. This panel is also being livecast on Twitch. Liveblog began at 12:00pm PDT and ended at 1:00pm PDT on Friday August 15th. Holly “Windstalker” Longdale to the stage. Tim Heydalaar and Dave Brown to the stage. Showing PlayerStudio items.
Looks like Press gets a healthy headstart on posting expansion news for EverQuest and EverQuest II this year. After their private meetings with Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson and EQ2 Producer Holly “Windstalker” Longdale on Tuesday, they’ve had time to draft their articles and now, they’re available for all to read. My issue is, people at home have more information than those at SOE Live who may not yet have read these articles. Some Press sites (notably excluding Massively and ZAM) get a full boat ride from SOE, paying for hotel and sometimes even airfare, dinners, etc.). EQ2Wire covers EverQuest II all...
And here’s the super high res logo for EverQuest II: Altar of Malice expansion. Another logo seems to have been posted on Twitter by the official EverQuestII account, and at least one player thinks the logo somehow relates to Erollisi Marr….
Holly “Windstalker” Longdale has just confirmed the new expansion for EverQuest II — Altar of Malice which comes out November 11, 2014. EverQuest II: Altar of Malice expansion #11 comes out November 11th. #soelive @everquestii pic.twitter.com/XZNcssLZfL — EQ2Wire (@EQ2Wire) August 15, 2014
EQ2Wire is providing a Liveblog of the 2014 SOE Live Welcome Reception on August 14, 2014. This reception is also being broadcast on Twitch: The #SOELive Welcome Reception and Keynote Address is STARTING NOW!!! http://t.co/LvaL2TCwsb [Hats] — EverQuest II (@everquestii) August 15, 2014
Here’s the Twitch Livestream schedule for SOE Live this year. Keep in mind that EQ2Wire will be recording all EQ2 panels, several Player panels, and even a few EQNext panels if Curse doesn’t show. All times are in Pacific Daylight Time, and all broadcasts are on SOE’s Twitch channel. Thursday, August 14: 7:00 – 9:00 PM: SOE Live Welcome Reception and Keynote featuring President John Smedley Friday, August 15: 9:00 – 10:00 AM: Landmark Keynote 10:00 – 11:00 AM: EverQuest Next Keynote 12:00 – 1:00 PM: EverQuest II Keynote 1:00 – 2:00 PM: EverQuest Keynote 2:00 – 3:00 PM: DC Universe Online Keynote 3:00 – 4:00 PM: H1Z1 Keynote 4:00 – 5:00...
If you read EQ2Wire, can’t live without EQ2U, depend on Dragon’s Armory, or participate in the EQ2 Raid Council, come hang with us at Planet Dailies on Thursday afternoon at 4:00-pm-5:30pm before the Welcome Reception. Dethdlr, Feldon, Dedith, Kander, and Gninja will be in attendance. Time moved to 5:00-6:15pm because I’m a noob! We’ve updated our SOE Live Schedule App for Android, Windows phone, etc. It’s actually quite tricky to get the app to load its new data, as we designed it to not require an internet connection once it’s loaded. I suggest deleting the SOELive Daily app from your home screen and then visit http://dev.eq2wire.com/m/ on...
We did not promote this news at the time, but there are a number of cool fixes on the Test server which should hopefully go live after SOE Live. Chief among these are significant optimization of the EQ2 client so players should get smoother framerates. Also, players had assembled a list of quest starters that, through revamps and NPC shuffling were no longer attainable. These plus many more bug fixes and a few nice convenience features are now sitting on Test. It’s almost like one of the big bug stomps we used to see. Here are just some of...
From the EQ2 Forums: WEEKLY FEATURE The Nexus Core [Challenge Duo] Having faced near-destruction at the hands of careless adventurers, The Nexus Core has assembled the ultimate automaton to defend its delicate systems. Great rewards await those strong and cunning enough to defeat him. Certain death awaits all others. Can you outwit the mechanical mind of Mechanoct? This encounter is balanced for two extremely well-geared players containing at least one tank or one healer. QUESTS Age’s End Questline Doomscale crystalweavers will no longer spin when attacked while healing their designated crystal. The crystals will no longer reset to full...
Ashlanne has posted a list of confirmed Vendors at SOE Live this year which may be of interest to attendees wanting to pick up swag for SOE or other similar genre games: Here is the list: The War of Memory Project Shirts on Site Silver Sun Systems LLC on behalf of MilitaryGamers.com Gwydhar Enterprises Sanford Brown College Larry will be at Gencon this year. Due to Planet Hollywood’s busy schedule and our busy event schedule these 2 events unfortunately fell on the same weekend. The SOE Store will also be set up with lots of stuff for purchase including...
Amnerys has posted an announcement on the EQ2 forums about exclusive items which SOE Live attendees will receive. It’s being presented in a rather peculiar way as a “$35 Loot Card” but really, it’s just a way of allowing SOE attendees to get the in-game rewards on the account they want, plus we’ll be able to buy these loot cards for friends. For in-game item for EQ2 players is a 66-slot bag with a Tears of Veeshan appearance. No word on whether we’ll get the EQ and EQ2 expansions for going to Vegas this year. According to the letter...
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale’s twitter: We're experimenting with a new Group XP potion on our marketplace starting today. Pricey, but stacks up to 250%! #eq2 pic.twitter.com/LIZYCwZm15 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) August 8, 2014
The Age’s End x2 raid zone, added this Tuesday, is intended to wrap up the long-running Age’s End storyline which dates back to the very first content in the game. However it seems that Kerafyrm will not go down quite so easily! Several threads have been posted by players reporting issues with continuing the quest from before this morning’s update: Skyshrine Tower Crystals Age’s End: Shattered Fate Age’s End x2 Even More Broke Now Players have expressed concern that their Worldwide and Server Discoveries of the quest rewards have been impacted by the quest bugging out for them (but not others)....