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From the EQ2 Forums: Check out the latest video featuring the Producers from EverQuest, EverQuest II, and Landmark talking about what happened during May and what’s coming up over summer! Here are the bullet points for EQ2: The EQ2 team are looking forward to this year’s expansion which will increase the level cap to 100. In June, we want you to Gear Up and Level Up your characters. All Access gets 25% Bonus XP, 25% off Heroic Characters (insta-level 85), four times the amount of Etyma currency from Tears of Veeshan missions, and 15% off the Tears of Veeshan...
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If, like me, you are on the fence about whether you want to leave Las Vegas on Sunday mid-day, or stick it out til Monday morning, a recent update to the SOE Live Schedule may be helpful. Although the exact details of the panels have not been given, a rough outline is now available: 10:00am-12:00pm — Developer Brunch 12:00pm-1:00pm — Landmark Dev Panel 1:00pm-2:00pm — EverQuest II Dev Panel (probably EQ2 Q&A #2) 2:00pm-3:00pm — EverQuest Next Dev panel Choose, but choose wisely!
Tomorrow brings the second official episode of EverQuest II Insider (EQ2Insider), an EverQuest II webcast hosted by SOE Community Manager, Margaret “Luperza” Krohn. This monthly webcast takes place on the first Wednesday of every month. From the EQ2 Forums: This month on EverQuest II Insider episode 2: Cast: Margaret Krohn, Jason Woerner, Holy Longdale, Akil Hooper, Kyle Vallee, and Nathan McCall! News, Announcements and What’s New? May’s Contest Winners & Update on June’s Contest Dev Picks: Submit your house here for a chance to be spotlighted! Dev Showcases: Showing off the new NPCs for decorators, Deathtoll updates and new NPC reveal for the expansion! SOE Live Dev Team Rapid Q&A: Holly Longdale and Akil...
Posted by Margaret “Luperza” Krohn on the EQ2 Forums: Last month on the first episode of EverQuest II Insider, the EverQuest II Development Team announced that we are working on a new expansion, and we’ll be increasing the level cap to ONE HUNDRED! To help everyone prepare, on Tuesday, June 3rd at 9:00 AM PDT, we are launching the much awaited “Gear Up, Level Up” promotion that was announced in Holly Longdale’s May/June Producer’s Letter. What does this entail?
From the EQ2 Forums: GEAR UP, LEVEL UP (June promotional program from June 3 to July 8) All Access members will receive the following bonuses and discounts: Double-Double Etyma in Tears of Veeshan (4x the rewards)! 25% XP Bonus Tears of Veeshan Expansion discount (15%) 25% Off Heroic Characters Free players receive the following bonuses: Double Etyma in Tears of Veeshan (2x the rewards)! Also eligible for a Tears of Veeshan expansion discount (15%). WEEKLY FEATURE Loyalty items have been added into the Marketplace to make searching and purchasing them more convenient. These items are still for sale on...
From the EQ2 Forums: WEEKLY FEATURE The first round of Battlegrounds matchmaker fixes is live! Teams will now be more fair numbers wise. No more 24 reds against 3 blues! NOTE: teams could be a little off if not everyone picked to be on your team accepts the match. However, backfills will go to the lowest team first so as more people queue to fill in the backfills it will work to even up the teams. The getting dropped into Champion’s Respite instead of going straight to your match from your home server is still not fixed. If you...
It’s hard to believe this will be EQ2Wire’s seventh Fan Faire nee SOE Live. And it’s hard to believe that this will be our third year presenting a player panel on EQ2U and Data Feeds (Census) in general. Talking to players before and after the panel, and presenting what we’ve been working on, is certainly the highlight of the event for me. If you will be at SOE Live and have ever had your own idea for what kind of player panel, put your name in the hat and you might just get to do your own panel! From...
EverQuest 2 has announced a “Summer Kickoff” event! First up, all players will see 30% off Appearance items and Mounts on the Marketplace. Now here’s where we split off into the Free-to-Play and All Access groups. All players will receive Double Bonus XP on Monday, May 26th All Access subscribers enjoy Double Bonus XP the entire weekend (May 23-May 26). From the EQ2 Forums: To celebrate the start of summer, we’re having double experience and sale action! All players will have double experience on Monday, May 26th, 2014 at 12:00 AM PDT to 11:59 PM PDT. All players will also have 30% off on...
A growing number of players have reported “Socket error-unreachable (11004)” errors when running the EverQuest II or other SOE game launchpads, and there seems to be a common cause for many of them. As discussed in this thread, antivirus software from McAfee, Avira, and the notoriously inept Norton/Symantec (who recently admitted that their software is ineffective), as well as certain Firewall software have all caused this issue. Before you open a Support Ticket, please make sure your LAN Settings look like the screenshot below and do not have a Proxy set (jump to SOE’s official Knowledgebase article): Also ensure that any Firewall software you have installed...
For the third time in two days, the EQ2 servers are going down, this time for an emergency fix of some sort. It’s been called a hotfix, but we all know that a hotfix means no interruption of service. This is a cold fix. Here are the update notes for this afternoon (4pm PDT) fix which include an exploit fix: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Temple of Veeshan: Dreadscale’s Maw Prismatic Touch should now trigger off heals as well if not protected by a fully leveled Tear of Veeshan green adornment. Prismatic Touch now properly persists through deaths. Cer’matal the...
For the last eight hours or so, players on EU servers including Storms, Valor, and Splitpaw, have been unable to login to EQ2 as they receive this message: Login Rejected:The Clients version does not match the Servers. please rerun the patcher. The issue seems to have been caused by the game Launchpad receiving updated files (via a Manifest file) hours before the Server has been patched. This Manifest file is supposed to be updated only after the game server is ready for the updated client. This has nothing to do with ProSieben and originates with Ops/Platform at SOE HQ. We...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Temple of Veeshan: The Dreadscale’s Maw Zoning a raid force into the zone should no longer put players into their own separate instances. Izshrah’Khar: Stratum of the Protectors Shazzak now only spawns five Fragments per phase in order to address an issue that was causing certain characters to crash to character select. The Fragments’ damage has been increased to compensate for fewer Fragments. ITEMS Experience gain on the Tear of Veeshan Spiritstones [ed. note — green adornments] has been tripled.
Everything about last year’s SOE Live was bigger — the crowds, the announcements, the lines! Ok, so that last one was a bummer, but while we’re hoping the player turnout and announcements stay big, the lines have thankfully been nerfed!! Sign up for SOE Live by May 12th and not only do you get a discounted rate ($129 for the entire weekend), but your badge will be mailed out to you well in advance, so the only thing you have to wait for when you walk out onto the Mezzanine is the inspiration to choose which game developers, artists,...
From the SOE Forums: Attention players: we will be performing maintenance to upgrade our network infrastructure beginning at 1:30 AM PDT* on Thursday, May 8, 2014. The downtime for this maintenance will last approximately 5 hours. This will impact the following SOE services: All SOE games All official forums Account management Commerce functions, including purchases Thank you for your patience! Time Zone Conversions PDT: May 8 @ 1:30am to 6:30am EDT: May 8 @ 4:30am to 9:30am BST: May 8 @ 9:30 to 14:30 CET: May 8 @ 10:30 to 15:30 AEST: May 8 @ 6:30pm to 11:30pm
Editor’s Note: Update Notes from one month ago were accidentally posted today. The responsible party has received 40 lashes with a wet noodle.
Last night, EQ2 Community Manager Luperza posted: Hi everyone! Looks like most of the issues have been resolved! If you go to your SOE Account management page by going to https://www.soe.com/home > My Account >Membership Info, you should be able to see all the information needed as well as when you can claim your next 500 SC. Let me know if there’s anything that is still not working for you! This was naturally followed up by 3 pages (so far) of players still reporting issues in Europe, or on comped/lifetime subscriptions from game contests years ago, or players who used to...
From the EQ2 Forums: Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve matters surrounding the launch of SOE’s new All Access Membership – read all about it at this link! The implementation of this new membership plan across SOE’s game portfolio has been one of the most complicated updates to our billing system to date. As fellow gamers, we know that this has been frustrating and we sincerely regret any inconvenience this has caused. We’re working around the clock to ensure these account issues are resolved as quickly as possible. In the meantime, to show our appreciation for...
From the EQ2 Forums: For the last several months we’ve been working hard to update the Player Studio program with a number of improvements that will simplify and expedite the overall registration process, and will allow international players from select regions and territories to participate. This work has progressed well, but it’s a complicated initiative and there are still a few outstanding components to finalize to ensure we get this 100% right. Initially, we hoped to expand Player Studio to Canada, France, Germany and the United Kingdom on or before May 1, but given the intricacy of the program and...
Looks like we can expect the Fabled Kingdom of Sky zones to be rounded out with Deathtoll some time this year. From Tuesday’s EQ2 Dev Team Ask Me Almost Anything… Q: “I have heard rumors about a fabled deathtoll, which I know you cant confirm or deny.” A: “RUMORS! You’re right. The design team is working on a fabled version of Deathtoll. :)” and for those who want to put 2 and 2 together about Deathtoll being this year… We won’t be doing a big Fabled release again this year, but at least one dungeon will be released. Further...
Looks like an undocumented change with this week’s All Access rollout is causing players with ProfitUI and DrumsUI to crash on launch. The interim solution is to remove or rename the file \EverQuest II\UI\EQ2MAP\eq2ui_mainhud_welcome.xml.
From EQ2 Build Master Bunji on the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion [Contested] Ruptured Vein will do significantly less damage. Lowered the assist radius of non-boss encounters. Undead Army will drop off raid members properly. Increments of Undead Army will lower when NPCs are charmed. Experience gained will be increased. Removed the restriction of all revive points in the zone. Tremorax the Unearthed will wait a few extra seconds before surfacing from its sinkholes. A guild achievement for defeating Exarch Lorokai the Unliving has been added. High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion [Warzone] This...
This may be down to statistical averages — no matter how perfectly SOE got all their ducks in a row, a few customers would still experience difficulty — or it may be that a few i’s went undotted and t’s uncrossed. Either way, a number of players are having various issues since yesterday’s All Access transition, including being dropped back to Silver or “Free” status, missing StationCash, and so forth. Clearly, not all has gone according to plan. This was posted at noon today by Dexella on the EQ2 Forums: We are continuing to perform work and maintenance on...
The EverQuest II Membership page has now been completely revamped with the All Access information! More specifically, there is a sale on a year of All Access membership which can be had for just $99.99 instead of the usual $119.88.
Reddit, that last bastion of 1990’s internet look-and-feel, hosted an “Ask Me Almost Anything” with the EQ2 developers and designers this morning and Cyliena of EQ2 ZAM has summarized the most interesting questions which received responses from the team. Here are a few of the more interesting responses: Q: “Any hints on the next expansion’s theme? Will the level cap finally raise to 100 with it?” A: “You may want to tune into the next EQ2 Insider livestream on http://www.twitch.tv/everquest2. 😉 It’ll be May 7th, 2014 at 2PM PDT! (We’ll have a YT vod up if you can’t watch it...
From the EQ2 Forums: Dear Members, My name is Mark Tuttle and I head up the All Access Membership team here at Sony Online Entertainment. We’ve been working around the clock to bring you SOE’s all-new game membership. Implementing this new All Access membership plan across our portfolio of games has been one of the most complicated changes to our billing system to date so we appreciate your patience while we completed these necessary updates. With that said, I am happy to inform you that we have officially launched our new All Access Membership! At SOE, we see our...