Someone's gotta say it. This is another example to SOE getting lazy about customer service.
Until this zone appeared, GMs needed to take action to resolve complaints about players leaving corpses to rot. Their response was to either roll back the character to get the items or give you a new set of generic armor if they could not restore what you had.
I agree that this is a good thing to have in the game. Why did it take so long to happen? Because until recently SOE put at least a small effort into customer service. This allows them to justify putting an even smaller effort into customer service.
Consider the /rewind command they were planning to implement (remember the patch message?) and that they changed to an automatic rollback that causes you to jump back. That is another example of a change put into the game to reduce the amount of customer service needed. Before, if you got stuck, you either ported yourself out or a Guide/GM summoned you out. They probably won't see too many of those complaints anymore. Less of a need for customer service.
If you think that these things are going to help us in the long run, think again. This is just their way of rationalizing the reduction of GM staff so they can profit even more from this game. Think you can't find a GM these days, this is just one more reason for them to disappear even longer.
Enjoy the game. Hope and pray you don't ever need a GM.
/rant off
Graveyard Zone Added Today
April 7, 2004
The Graveyard zone, Shadowrest, is now live!
We have introduced the new graveyard zone, Shadowrest, to the live servers. The zone will allow adventurers whose corpses have decayed, after 7 days, to retrieve it. They will merely have to greet the appropriate NPC in one of the following zones to activate their transport to Shadowrest;
East Commonlands
The Plane of Knowledge
Toxxulia Forest
Qeynos Hills
The Feerrott
Butcherblock Mountains
The Field of Bone
Shadeweavers Thicket
Misty Thicket
If you do not have an expired corpse, you will not be able to travel to Shadowrest. If you have multiple expired corpses, you will need to make multiple visits to the zone. We hope you enjoy this new addition to EverQuest!
