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Ashlanne has posted this over on Station.com: Beginning at 12am PST on Tuesday, January 11th, ALL SOE games, subscription and commerce services will be unavailable for maintenance. We expect this maintenance to take approximately ten hours. This might cause some forum accounts to temporarily lose permissions, due to the inability to verify account status while the maintenance is taking place. This is only temporary and normal permissions will return automatically once the maintenance is complete. We apologize for this interruption and will resume the affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed. I suspect this has something to...
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An unexpected server downtime has been reported with login and authentication servers offline. More as we have it. A tongue-in-cheek Update from Brasse: Tha Internetz are down at SOE-SD. My team would be happier about it if it did not impact their ongoing “testing” of Dungeon Overlord.! Update 1:22pm PST: Login & Authentication Servers are back online.
It looks like those plans to merge Lucan D’Lere with Crushbone weren’t quite so preliminary and subject to player input. From SmokeJumper: It’s official. We’ll be doing the merge that Rothgar describes. LDL will merge with Crushbone. Sometime in early February, preferably. (It’ll take a bit to get everything set up for it.)
Rothgar has put forth a possible server merge scenario for folks on the Lucan D’Lere server. This is not a merger that would be taken lightly, as Lucan D’Lere is a Role-play server and there is currently no server that its members could merge to that wouldn’t result in an overpopulated server. It will be interesting to read player reaction to the idea of merging with a non-RP server.
You would think that the Non-Disclosure Agreement for the EQ2 Destiny of Velious beta had already been lifted, given the Youtube videos and unintended leaks on EQ2’s own and other sites. But we can assure you it remains firmly in place. Today, we plant tongue firmly in cheek and deliver another illustration brought to us by CheesePirate.com. The Destiny of Velious NDA is likely to be lifted towards the end of January. Until then, please be aware of the legal ramifications it may have for you, not to mention losing access to EQ2 and SOE games, should you choose...
Last night, the Destiny of Velious beta forums were taken offline and then restarted from scratch under the EQ2X Forums. It has been indicated that this change was to allow EQ2X players to contribute their feedback and reports in the Beta forums. However this means all discussions and threads about the Beta will need to be restarted, as the current Forum software lacks the ability to move threads from one game to another. Users who have signed the NDA and wish to participate in the Destiny of Velious beta forums must now first navigate to the EQ2X forums and,...
EQ2 Servers are back up after an extended update.
EQ2 Live Servers are offline for an extended window for today’s hotfix. an unscheduled downtime. More as we have it. Antonia Bayle(is currently locked) Butcherblock(is currently locked) Everfrost(is currently locked) Freeport(is currently locked) Guk(is currently locked) Lucan DLere(is currently locked) Nagafen(is currently locked) Splitpaw(is currently locked) Storms(is currently locked) The Bazaar(is currently locked) Unrest(is currently locked) Valor(is currently locked) Vox(is currently locked)
A cantankerous discussion on the EQ2 Forums posted over the New Year’s holiday addresses the issue of Account Hacks and Compromised Accounts. Due to the holiday schedule, some players have experienced as long as a 2 week wait to have their accounts restored or rolled back. Update: We’ve found a far more constructive thread on the subject of the increase in Compromised EQ2 Accounts. Amnerys has posted an update on the situation as well as a word on Velious Winter Rewards for those who were not automatically granted them:
From the EQ2 Forums: Attention Fan Faire attendees! Are you in the Destiny of Velious Beta test? Do you want to be? So far, fewer than 200 Fan Faire 2010 attendees have been flagged because they either haven’t filled out a Beta application, or because they haven’t yet accepted the NDA. If you would like to participate in the EQII Destiny of Velious Beta, these are two things you need to do before we can flag you for access! If you attended Fan Faire 2010, you will be admitted into the Beta program as a thank you for attending....
Here are your exceptionally brief Update Notes for today, January 6, 2011: ITEMS The following adornments should now properly display what slots they can adorn: Focus: Lesser Intimidation Focus: Lesser Power Focus: Lesser Vengeance Focus: Lesser Effectiveness Focus: Lesser Resilience
We are hearing reports from the community that the Destiny of Velious EQ2 Beta is now underway. As the Beta is under strict NDA, that is the limit of what we are able to report, however as we get closer to release, we’ll post any free-and-clear information we get our mitts on. 🙂 If you have not already filled out the Destiny of Velious beta application, you may do so here. If you went to Fan Faire you should be flagged by the end of the day today (January 5, 2011). From SmokeJumper on the EQ2 Forums: The first...
Here are your blink-and-you-missed-it Update Notes for today, January 4th, 2011: GENERAL Escrow deposit log entries will now be combined properly when a player makes a deposit if the player’s name or ID changed due to a server transfer or server merge. QUESTS Freebloods can now complete the Heritage quest “The Journey is Half the Fun“.
EQ2 developers are trying to track down the exact cause of certain Freeblood characters unable to use (or see) their Inner Demon appearance. Zoltaroth requests feedback here on the EQ2 Forums: Is anyone still having this issue? We are having trouble reproducing it and would like to see a sample character if possible. If anyone is having this issue still please PM me your character name and server.
I’ve been helping Feldon out here at EQ2Wire for about eight months now. Â My first post was on April 4th 2010 so I haven’t quite been here a full year. Â In that time I’ve sifted through over seven thousand items to bring you almost 100 articles here on EQ2Wire. Â Hopefully you’ve found at least a few of them useful. Â I look forward to continuing my work in 2011 and bringing you all the latest highlights of what’s going on in the world of EQ2. Happy New Year Everybody!
Wishing you a Merry Christmas Kwanzaa Hanukkah Solstice Festivus etc. and a Happy New Year. Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
The new Freeblood race has a special “Ferocity of the Freeblood”, as well as access to housing “Freeblood Lair” and “Swarm of Bats” mount/buff. The details of how these are unlocked and what issues players will face if they change race have been addressed in different posts over the last 24 hours. Here are the highlights. Also inside, a glimpse of something we have heard rumors about before — that some new feature is coming to EQ2 housing with the release of the Destiny of Velious expansion.
Here are some news items we missed in the flurry of Server Merge and Freeblood news. They include Shaders 3 and Halas buildings, the look of the Freeblood, and Loitering NPCs in Freeport and Qeynos.
So with today’s official introduction of the Freeblood vampire race to EverQuest 2 as the first Premium race, the remaining secrets have been unveiled. Chief among them is that the Swarm of Bats premium mount/ability available exclusively to Freebloods will, when Destiny of Velious expansion launches and a quest has been completed, be usable as a full-fledged Flying Mount. From the official announcement: Characters who go on to unlock flying mounts in the Destiny of Velious expansion will also be able to use this ability to fly.
From SmokeJumper on the EQ2 Forums: Fan Faire folks will be authorized to enter the beta on Jan 5th with everyone else but are automatically authorized (after they fill out the application!)
Players on Butcherblock, Crushbone, Everfrost, Unrest, and Guk just received the following message: Greetings Norrath! The server will be coming down for a brief update at 02:30 PM PST [22:30 GMT] Wednesday December 22, 2010. Please find a safe place to log out before the server comes down. We’ll let you know when we find out the cause of this unexpected downtime. UPDATE: This update is apparently to address an issue with illusion forms and will require the servers to be offline for approximately 1 hour. Amnerys has posted an announcement.
Smokejumper posted this announcement today on Everquest2.com: The time for Closed Beta testing of “Destiny of Velious” is upon us! Applications are now open and available at the following link: https://account.station.sony.com/au…9&theme=station Go there, complete the application process, and your application will go into the queue for approval. (Hint: You’re not finished applying until you accept the NDA.) We’ll be reviewing applications starting on January 3rd, and Closed Beta will begin on January 5th. If you are approved for beta, you’ll get an email letting you know, so check your email (out-of-game only) between the 3rd and the 5th! PLEASE...
Here are your hotfix notes for December 22, 2010: GENERAL Fixed some issues which could cause raid zones to crash.
If you feel that EQ2’s expansion betas have been unnecessarily long, we have some great news for you. For everyone else, prepare for a rather abrupt beta this time around. According to SmokeJumper, the Destiny of Velious beta will start “when we come back in 2011”.