Feldon It looks like those EverQuest2.com Freeblood vampire screen shots we saw weren’t ready for prime time. SmokeJumper on the EQ2 Forums:
The screenshots that were released were not intended to be public-facing. Those have been taken down from the EQ2Players site and will be replaced with real shots soon.
Those screenshots were not approved. Real ones are coming later today that will hopefully reassure you that they’re cool.
He even went this far when asked why such awful screen shots saw the light of day:
I cannot disagree. Those shots should never have been published.
If you’re feeling that the lore is a bit thin on connecting Vampires to the rest of Norrath, SmokeJumper has some clarification on that:
Whether it was a good move or not, we left a lot of the lore to be discovered inside the game after the Freeblood debut. There’s more than what’s revealed here, and to be honest, I think the best bits are not yet unveiled.
Additionally, the screenshots that were released were not intended to be public-facing. Those have been taken down from the EQ2Players site and will be replaced with real shots soon.