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From EverQuest2.com: Beginning this Friday, you’ll get an instant rebate on almost anything** in the EverQuest II Marketplace! When you buy an item, 50% of the cost of the item will be immediately refunded to you! This weekend is a perfect time to stock up on any Marketplace items you’ve had your eye on! So whether it’s a leaper mount or an appearance armor crate, what are you waiting for? With a rebate this large, you can get both! The sale begins Friday, September 28th at 12:01 pm (noon) PDT and runs through Sunday, September 30th at 11:59 pm...
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Fr0m Linda “Brasse” Carlson’s twitter: Finalizing #SOElive player panels today! With 16 submissions and 8 slots, trying to work some magic to fit as many as we can!
Cyliena of EQ2 ZAM followed last Thursday’s LiveCast and was able to grab a screenshot of the in-game item which SOE Live ticket holders will receive (regardless of attendance). EverQuest II: Dashenti Lasheris, Fighter type Vampire Mercenary, NOTE: During the Livecast, the merc was indicated to be a healer, but since that time, this information was updated to a fighter merc.
From EverQuest2.com: With just over a month until SOE Live, we know you are dying for more details! Host Linda “Brasse” Carlson (Director, Global Community Relations) will chat with Jen Belfield (Director, Marketing Services) and Lauren Zeiger (Senior Strategic Partnerships & Events Manager) to share many of the exciting events that will take place at SOE Live this year. They will tell you about the recent updates to the schedule, share info on the HUGE tournaments, and so much more! If you have any questions about SOE LIVE, please post them here, and we’ll do our best to answer...
The second revised of the SOE Live Schedule has been posted. We’re still looking forward to the remainder of the Player Panels (marked as PP) to be added in, but if you are wanting to start planning out your days, here’s a good starting point. Thursday @ 7:00pm — SOE Live 2012 KickOff Reception and Keynote Address!
From the EQ2 Forums: Sleeper’s Tomb, Chapter 1 Begins! Norrathian’s will find Jorlak, an aged Dracurion chronomage, outside of the Sleeper’s Tomb in Velious’ Eastern Wastes. He will launch a quest that gives adventurers access to world-changing events in Norrath’s history, including the rituals of the heralded warders who kept the great prismatic dragon, Kerafyrm, asleep for many ages. Start Your Chains of Eternity Adventure! Level 92 players should be on the lookout for a message from Erus Dal’viv, the Swordbearer. He has a mission for adventurers that will help the Duality’s research into the Age’s End Prophecy… a...
Looks like SOE is really pushing Gaming Tournaments this year. SONY ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES SOE LIVE GAMING TOURNAMENT LINE-UP WITH PRIZES TOTALING MORE THAN $30,000 Attendees Invited to Compete for Bragging Rights and Thousands in Prize Money in First Ever Gaming Tournaments for PlanetSide® 2 and DC Universe™ Online; Fan Favorites EverQuest® and EverQuest® II Return for Single and Team Challenges SOE Live attendees have the opportunity to participate in countless events including a variety of gaming competitions, tournaments, and live quests for a chance to win thousands of dollars in prize money. In addition to the renowned costume...
Fr0m the EQ2 Forums: Howdy Norrathians! The team is chomping at the bit to get to SOE Live in Las Vegas in October! We have a pretty big EQII Dev group going who want to take a couple of days out of their busy, expansion-making lives to meet and spend quality time with players IRL. This is my first time as the producer of EQII at a fan event, but I have attended three fun-filled fan faires as an EQ designer (that I remember…) and one as a player way back in 2002. I’ve always had a great time...
From the EQ2 Forums: The prelude to EverQuest II: Chains of Eternity, Sleeper’s Tomb, will be released next Tuesday. To prepare for this epic saga, we’re offering a 10% discount on experience potions in the Marketplace! The sale includes Extended Potion of the Advanced, Superior Potion of the Advanced, Greater Potion of the Advanced, Minor Potion of the Advanced, and Potion of Vitality. Stock up now and be ready for next week’s exciting event! Note: Only the Station Cash price of the item will be discounted. The Goblin Gold price remains the same.
GameStop and EBGames (remember Electronics Boutique? ;)) have an exclusive Double StationCash promotion this weekend. Cards purchased from those stores can be redeemed for 3000SC or 30 days of EQ2 Subscription at SOE.com during this time. Remember, EQ2 Subscriptions and Expansions can no longer be purchased with StationCash. Also, redeeming these cards for 30 days of EQ2 subscription will not double to 60 days. However you may want to stock up to buy house items and cloaks designed by fellow players when PlayerStudio goes online. From EverQuest2.com: Get Double Station Cash when you buy an SOE Pre-Paid Card at...
We’re now just 5 weeks away from SOE Live in Las Vegas and news of different sorts are starting to trickle in. New this year are Player Panels, and the creators of EQ2Wire and EQ2U have submitted 2 panels which we hope to participate in. That’s in addition to the wall-to-wall coverage that only EQ2Wire can provide. Fan Faire Forever!
Today brought a double helping of news for players of EverQuest II, and I wanted to share a few thoughts I’ve got on each subject. EverQuest II: Chains of Eternity After a features expansion, and then a “guspansion”, Chains of Eternity puts us back on track with a content expansion. This time around, we’ll see Guild, Tradeskill, and Adventuring Level Caps all raised to 95. We’ll also see more expansion in the Prestige AAs tab with new abilities for each Subclass. Also new in the expansion will be Prestige Tradeskills for crafters wanting to specialize their trade. A truly...
If you will be at SOE Live (formerly Fan Faire) and have an interest in hosting a Player Panel, either as a Lecture or Discussion Panel, you have until September 14th to submit an application. From the EQ2 Forums: We know you come to SOE Live to hear us rabbit on about our various areas of expertise, but I bet you’d just love a chance to get up behind a microphone yourself, to offer advice, information, share your opinions and help out your fellow players. This year, we’ve set aside a room that holds up to 76 people and...
From EverQuest2.com: EverQuest™ II players are some of the most dedicated, emotionally invested players in any virtual world. For the first time, EverQuest II players have the opportunity to create parts of our world by designing new in-game items. Player Studio™ is a new program that invites (initially US-based) players to download sample geometry, learn how virtual items are constructed, and try designing items. You can try your hand at writing a creative name, item description, and rationale for how it fits into the ongoing storyline. Selected items will be offered for sale in the SOE Marketplace alongside items...
From the Dexella on the EQ2 Forums: Greetings intrepid gamers, For the many of you asking the question, yes, we will be having a double XP weekend for this upcoming holiday. We have it scheduled from 12:01 AM Saturday until 11:59 PM Monday. We hope you have a wonderful weekend! Time Zone Conversions PDT: Saturday, Sep. 1 @ 12:01am ~ Monday Sep. 3 @ 11:59pm EDT: Saturday, Sep. 1 @ 3:01am ~ Tuesday Sep. 4 @ 2:59am BST: Saturday, Sep. 1 @ 8:01 ~ Tuesday Sep. 4 @ 7:59 CET: Saturday, Sep. 1 @ 9:01 ~ Tuesday Sep. 4 @...
From the EQ2 Forums: SOE Live – Time to Gear Up SOE Live will be here in less than two months, and we are starting to round out our panels and activities! It takes place October 18-21. You should sign up NOW, before you forget and regret it! I’ll say it right now – we have some panels that are so under wraps that if I announced them, someone from PR would have me beheaded! Stay tuned for more news on those, because I will tell you about them the instant I can! Here’s what I can tell you...
Linda “Brasse” Carlson has announced that based on the progress of the transition of DCUO players from SOE to ProSiebenSat.1, EverQuest II would see a delay to ensure a smoother process: Hail Denizens of Norrath in the UK and EU, I just wanted to stop in here on the EQII Forums to give you an update the current status of the transition of our EU players to ProSiebenSat.1 Games. Having recently completed the transition for DC Uiniverse Online, we’ve learned a great many valuable lessons and identified a few areas where we’d like to improve the processes. We’re currently...
From EverQuest2.com: Purchase your tickets to play a new mini-game feature for a variety of prizes! When you use your Goblin Games ticket, a mysterious Gigglegibber will appear and offer you a choice of one of three mini-games: Goblin Grub, Decoration Duplication, or Statue Streak. Pick your game and play for a chance at one of many great prizes, including a new currency – Gigglegibber Gold – that can be used to purchase some items in the Marketplace as well! If you don’t succeed in your mini-game quest the first time around, fear not! The ticket will remain in...
From the EQ2 Forums: On Monday, August 20, there will be threads on the EverQuest and EverQuest II Facebook pages where you can leave your question. We will select a handful of questions, and the developers will answer them during the Tweet Chat! On Thursday, August 23, developers of EverQuest and EverQuest II, as well as Dave “Smokejumper” Georgeson, Director of Development, will be taking to Twitter to answer your questions about the game! Stay tuned for more details!
Those Goblin Game Tickets we heard about are now available on the StationCash marketplace on the Test server. It looks like the ticket is only consumed after you succeed at one of the three mini-games and receive one of the prizes. Thus far, the prizes seem to be run-of-the-mill StationCash items. From the EQ2 Test Forums: Now in the Test server marketplace, under the Goblin Games category, you can buy a Gigglegibber Glockenspiel for 100SC which will allow you to play one of three games. You recieve a prize everytime you win, selected at random from the following list:
Those Walmart 1500+500SC cards aren’t going away, but if you redeem a 1500SC/30-day Game Card from Best Buy this weekend, you’ll also get 500SC bonus. From the EQ2 Forums: Get a 500 Station Cash Bonus when you buy a $15 SOE Pre-paid Game Card at Best Buy and redeem between August 17-19th.
As Linda “Brasse” Carlson (@Brasse), Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson (@Qixter), and presumably other SOE staff are at Gamescom this week in Cologne, Germany helping kick off the reintroduction of EverQuest II and other SOE properties to European audiences, we look at the rocky transition DC Universe Online EU players are experiencing in linking their SOE accounts with ProSiebenSat.1. Multiple Accounts One of the sticking points in the ProSiebenSat.1 terms-and-conditions which have EU EQ2 players concerned is the prohibition on multiple accounts. Indeed an earlier rendition of the ProSiebenSat.1 Terms and Conditions said this: For each person / IP only one...
Yet another finger in the pie… A press release from ProSiebenSat.1’s website: ProSiebenSat.1 and TF1 begin extensive partnership for online games in France Munich, Germany, August 2, 2012. ProSiebenSat.1 is entering into a partnership of several years with France’s biggest TV station Télévision Française 1 (TF1), covering the field of online games. The media company’s games publisher ProSiebenSat.1 Games will thus provide the French games portal www.MYTF1.fr with its portfolio in stages, starting in mid-August. The portfolio includes games from the existing licensing and content agreements with Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) and 35 other partners. With more than 25...
After initially having been told: Why will this partnership not affect EverQuest 1? The original EverQuest was not included as part of the agreement between SOE and ProSiebenSat.1 Games. It appears that EverQuest, Vanguard, and 2 new games are now included in the SOE-ProSiebenSat.1 Deal. From a press release (posted at Gamasutra) at GamesCom in Germany: ProSiebenSat.1 Games expands Europe-wide exclusive cooperation with Sony Online Entertainment Munich, Germany, August 15, 2012. ProSiebenSat.1 Games and Sony Online Entertainment, LLC (SOE) are expanding their exclusive partnership with four online games for the European market. Following the successful launch of DC Universe™...