I bet my left nut EQ is online within 2 days.

Yeah yeah yeah "find something else to do" i have heard this about 1 million x's so far. keep telling sony players to "find something else to do" with there time . and my guess is they are a Gamer and a Gamer will keep Gameing. have they closed there accounts? will they ever come back to play sony games?
i played everquest tell the severs wint down , thin i looked for something else .Everquest has been complaning about bleeding players, merging severs to have enough ppl to run raids ect. If they ever come back up this is going to have a big effect.
My 2cents

I wish for an instance mission with anonymous hackers mobs and the big boss named "A$$hat Hacker". They should take plenty of time to kill so we get the pleasure of beating them down but good...oh ya and they should drop phat lewtz!

The Everquest End User License Agreement is a contract, and contract law cannot supercede federal and state codes. For instance, if I wrote in my contract that I had the right to kill and eat another human being or enslave the population of California, it does not mean I really could. Sony call tell us that they can bill us and not offer the Everquest service for months, but there is no way they could get a court to enforce that provision. Also, there is a high likelihood Sony would be found to be committing fraud against its customers.

Contract law just governs relationships in situations where people are primarily carrying out financial transactions or where state and federal codes do not regulate the behavior involved. Even if Sony managed to fail to offer people some sort of compensation for the network downtime, very few people would still be willing to pay for a Sony game or product afterwards. I have level 85 or 85+ plus characters of about every class, and I was part of the endgame for a couple of years. My wizard has around 5k AA's and is getting to where he has decent gear again.

Also, I go back and experience different parts of the game that I missed when I get a chance. I have a character that has every trade skill available in the game maxed out and a fully evolved trophy. My skills may not be the best ever, but I have a general idea of the capabilities of each class and can play them effectively. I could never play Everquest again and would be more than satisfied with what I was able to accomplish in the game.

However, it is beyond silly to try and make the argument that there is no need for Sony to do anything to compensate the player base for what has happened. There is nothing I need in the game, but I also realise that Sony cannot allow the largest computer gaffe in history to pass without at least trying to do something to atone to the player base. Sony has been known to be less-than-attentive to its customers, and in that case, people have to let them know that they cannot take us for granted.

I would not like Sony to ruin the game by giving players items that cause the careful balance to be upset, but it would be nice to get a mask that has illusions for three or four different races on it. That would go a long way towards making many people happy and do absolutely nothing to unbalance the game. Another thing Sony could do is make three or four different masks and hand them out at intervals to make more of an impact and satisfy more people. That way they could give a reward every week or two for a while and look like they were doing more as time went on. I still really enjoy Everquest when I am not working on one of my fiction books or busy with something important in real life, and I would hate to see it go away just because Sony does not want to hand out a few harmless items to make the customer base happy.

Let's all take a guess how they will word it tomorrow when they say servers will not be coming up.

"SOE services will remain offline today. We continue to work diligently to bring things back as quickly as possible and appreciate your continued patience."


And what things are they bringing back no worries on bringing back their billing it's working fine.

So my guess for tomorrow is SOE services will remain offline today. We will continue to say we are working hard to get them back up without giving you any real info on when that may happen. Thanks for your continued patience as if we are giving you a choice in the matter. And who ever draws the short straw will come update you on FB in another 24 hours or so.

"Thank you for your continued patience and support"

SMURF SMURF SMURF how I hate that line, LIKE WE HAVE A @#%^ING CHOISE SMURF SOE I HOPE YOU GO BANKRUPT USELESS CRAPTARDS

This is un @#%^ing acceptable, the worst thing is taking the weekend off, or at least don't bother to give any update AT ALL.

Edited, May 9th 2011 4:46pm by Fleven

I personally would like to see a Double EXP day for every two days the system is down.... Why not, for us daily players missing out on the exp, it seems only fair..... Just saying.

no update yet?

I think it's important to take into account that those of us that play the games are not the only 'customers' of Sony. Consider the companies and people (that work for those companies) that actually make the games we play. These companies and people are being affected by this outage to a MUCH larger degree in my opinion. Take CAPCOM for example. CAPCOM's Corporate Officer and Senior VP Christian Svensson has this to say:

"...as an executive responsible for running a business, the resulting outage obviously costing us hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in revenue that were planned for within our budget..."

Source

I can't help but think that Sony is doing everything it can to get it services back online, and would be quite surprised if it takes them until the end of the month to get things going again.

But please, for goodness sake, come up with something else to do until your game is back. You can do it!


Edited, May 9th 2011 3:20pm by AvySavvy

Edited, May 9th 2011 3:23pm by AvySavvy

i think they should offer a discount for the next expansion which they will have to push-out to draw players back,i dislike the lack of info sony gives us but i will never leave EQ ive tried but it wont let me:)

Still down! Like I have said before I have played EQ since 1999. I have Played Guild Wars for over 5 years. Now for FUN, I am looking at Lord of the Rings. I Want my EQ. I still think it is the best game out there. despite the half hour to log in, the 5 min to zone and there 9 hour patches. Still love the game and not going anywhere. But, I agree with some others, there are other good games out there to play and most are free play. Hope you find one.. SOE could be down a long time.

tick tock tick tock...

How about a damn update, you Sony peabrains?! Get your $hit together already. I'm a paying customer of 11 years and I'm JUST getting to the point where it's almost too long and I'm losing interest. What you REALLY need to worry about is people like me who are about to stop posting here at all. It's because we don't care anymore... mainly because YOU don't care. That's when you've really dropped the ball.

At this point, you're running out of time.