SOE wants your stories! Whether you play EQ, EQII, or EQOA, SOE wants your anecdotes from in and out of game! They'd like your EQ related art, too!
We would love to see it all! Your anecdotes about particularly funny or memorable moments in game, your stories about how you or a friend met their spouse in game or at Fan Faire, your fan art, your fan fiction. You name it, we want to see it! Please share with us via email at: Brenlo@soe.sony.com ! See EQII Players for more information.
Kiara posteth :
Voice chat will be down for maintenance on Monday 10/20/08, starting at 7AM Pacific. The maintenance should last 2 hours.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
EverQuest II team.
That's 3:00pm London time for EU players.
Spotted on the Network Status page:
Downtime scheduled - Downtime scheduled 10/17/2008 5:00 AM London Time / 10/16/2008 9:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time
This is a notification that UK worlds will be updated at 5:00 AM London Time on the 10/17/2008. The estimated downtime will be 2 hours.
- SOE Operations team
SOE has released this cool TSO video to celebrate pre-orders opening for this highly anticipated EQII expansion. Take a look!
Hot off EQII Players, we have dates for the annual NoTD celebration. The fesitivites will commence (barring unforseen issues) Wednesday, October 22, 2008 and run until Monday, November 3, 2008!
Allakhazam has been working tirelessly to bring you writeups for this year's events. You might also like the awesome NoTD crafting preview at EQII Traders Corner.
For more information see EQII Players!
Kiara posteth :
Due to some technical difficulties (gnomes in the works) the automated EQII character transfer service is currently offline. However, Customer Service will be able to process transfers manually. Please submit an email support ticket here: http://support.station.sony.com .
Make sure to select EQII and Character Transfer Request.
Thank you and we apologize for any inconvenience.
Darn gnomes! If you need a character transfer, remember to do it manually for now!
SOE has posted a preview of the zones Lower Guk and Guk Stronghold in the upcoming The Shadow Odyssey expansion, which is expected to be released on Nov. 18.
The preview is full of EverQuest lore and descriptions, including the awakening of Warlord Ykesha by adventuring trolls in Guk Stronghold and the clan of undead trolls and frogloks that fight under his command in Lower Guk.
For the full post, check EQ2 Players or keep reading below.
The Official SOE Podcast #47 is live and has an interview with Free Realms' newest designer Julie Burness, who is also a former Vanguard community representative. To download it, visit the official Podcast page . For more information, check out this post on EQ2 Players.
We also feature an interview with members of our Usability Lab team. And don't miss out on the Top 10 list created by our listeners. Make sure you tune in to the very end for Inside SOE, a mini-interview with the Free Realms Brand Manager.
So listen in! You can get your Podcast goodness two different ways: head over to the Podcast’s official site , and click on your preferred bandwidth, or if you have iTunes installed, select iTunes Store, type SOE into the search box and click Subscribe! Your feedback is always welcome either on the Station forums or via email .
Tuesday I was pleased to be invited to a Press Tour of EverQuest II Game Update 49, "Raising the Banner" (now on Test servers). With several other members of the press/fan site set, I followed Christine "Kiara" Renzetti, EQII Community Manager, on a whirlwind tour of some of the goodies in store for EQII players.
Our first stop was at a dig site in Sinking Sands. Here we met some D.I.R.T.Y. Excavators, largely of the gnomish caste. Apparently there are strange things to be found 'neath the shifting sands! Allakhazam is pleased to have people scouring Test for information on this intreguing event leading us to The Shadow Odyssey ; we've found nine new quests so far. (Warning: That link is a spoiler!)
Next we discussed the introduction of multi-core support for animations, which many people noticed in the Test server patch notes . This support has been in high demand by the players, and Testers are putting it though its paces .
