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EverQuest II: Producer's Letter [EverQuest II]
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Executive Producer Dave"Smokejumper"Georgeson has released his latest Producer's Letter which centers around the Age of Discovery expansion, Game Update 62: Freeport Reborn and the Free-to-Play transition. Also mentioned is the relaunch of the EverQuest2.com website, a Welcome Pack of goodies and more. Keep reading after the jump for the full letter! Hello again, Norrathians! It gives me great pleasure to raise the curtain on a new chapter in our game’s history. Today, we stop requiring any sort of payment. There are no upfront download costs and memberships are no longer required. Everything is voluntary now. If we’re doing a good job of entertaining you, then you can help support the game you love with purchases or memberships, spending as much or as little as you choose to spend as you play. We have a fired-up dev team. We believe that EQII is the best MMORPG in existence and we intend to keep making it better so that everyone else has to admit it. What we ...
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Downtime Updates for Age of Discovery Launch [EverQuest II]
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Patch notes are available on our Game Update 62 page! UPDATE 9:48am PST (Dec 7) : Servers are being reported as back up! Go play! PREVIOUS UPDATES: In the comments section is also a very long quoted explanation of the overnight downtime that was posted by SOE's CTO on the EQ2 forums. UPDATE 8:15am PST (Dec 7) : Just caught this on Twitter : "An update from the team. They are very close to completing the maintenance and doing some final testing. Things are looking very good!" UPDATE 8:37pm PST (Dec 6) : We just saw this from Dave"Smokejumper"Georgeson on Twitter : "Best laid plans of mice. We launch tomorrow at 10am [PST]. The background data scripts took WAY longer to run then anticipated. Sorry all." 7:40pm PST : Everyone get some sleep! Here's the latest update spotted on Facebook : Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and Trolls... We have just evaluated the status of the current update and have come to the conclusion that we can either unlock ...
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Known Issues for Age of Discovery [EverQuest II]
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Now that servers are back up we've encountered several issues. Here's a summary of the known issues and their current work-arounds or status: Characters are showing as"Locked"on character select. Contact Customer Service if this is happening to you. Be aware there might be an extensive wait time at the moment. Submitting a ticket or getting in queue for chat support may be the best options. Your character logs in in the last non-instanced zone they were in despite not camping out there. We're guessing this has to do with accounts being modified, for most people this should be harmless. 99% of crafted Thrown Weapons are only usable by Beastlords instead of"All Scouts". We've personally /bug reported this one, but haven't heard an ETA on it being fixed it. Prestige house portals are poofing when placed. Yup, this again. No work-around, waiting to hear anything else. SOE states that it's related to the Freeport prestige house portal changes. We'll try to keep this updated ...
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Hotfix - Thursday, December 8, 2011 [EverQuest II]
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All U.S. Servers will come down on Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 7am PST for a hotfix. The expected downtime is one hour. EU servers will have their update at 5am BST on Friday, December 9, 2011. Estimated downtime is two hours. See the patch notes below the jump. GENERAL Gold and Platinum members can once again claim veteran rewards. The preorder reward Cloak of the Truespirit should now be claimable in the /claim window. Fixed a bug where pets would not generate aggro when fighting a locked encounter. You no longer get an"Edit Button"when you enter a house where you have trustee access. Instead, you get a tutorial popup the first time you enter explaining what edit mode is and to use CTRL-E to toggle. Guild hall hireling race and gender should now be customizable and persistent. DUNGEON MAKER Fixed missing appearances on some spawners like the Frost Drolvargs when being placed in Dungeon Maker. ITEMS Circlet of Valor should be equippable ...
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SOE"Grandfathers"Older Characters [EverQuest II]
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In a post today by Dave"Smokejumper"Georgeson SOE announced that charcaters created before the Free-to-Play conversion will not need race or class unlocking. *Every* character that was created before 12/06/2011 at 12:01 am will be grandfathered in without race or class restriction. This means that regardless of your membership level, you will be able to play any character created before 12/6 without paying for race- or class-pack unlocks. Furthermore, SOE will be refunding all race and class packs purchased after 12/06/2011 at 12:01 am and before 12/08/2011 at 4:30pm by players that previously subscribed to EQII Live servers, or as a Gold or Platinum member on EQ2X. See the complete post on the official EQII forums .
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Hotfix - Friday, December 9, 2011 [General News]
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All U.S. servers will come down on Friday, December 9, 2011 at 7am PST for a hotfix. The expected downtime is one hour. EU servers will have their update at 5am BST on Saturday, December 10, 2011. Estimated downtime is two hours. This hotfix includes the race and class grandfathering for characters created before December 6, 2011. See the full patch notes after the jump. GENERAL Characters created before 12/6/2011 no longer have class or race pack restrictions. Characters created after that date are still subject to your current membership restrictions, if applicable. Fixed a crash that could be caused by doing a raid with a large number of mercenaries. Fixed a bug that was preventing mentoring on PvP servers. Dungeon maker items in the marketplace that contain house items will now display previews in the paperdoll window. Fixed issues with Shader 3.0 causing client crashes. TRADESKILL APPRENTICES Tradeskill Apprentices sh ...
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The City Festival Starts Tonight! [EverQuest II]
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December is on the horizon and as the new month begins the New Halas City Festival will come to Norrath! The festival is planned to start on December 1st at 12:01am PST and will run until December 7th at 11:59pm PST. The Far Seas Caravan can be found near the Cairn of the Huntress. No new items are expected this month. Visit the Far Seas caravan merchants to see all of the local specialities and other festival goods. An Aether Race will also be available in Frostfang Sea during the festival. Participate and achieve a time of 104 seconds or less to earn the Snowflake Chaser prefix title! Begin the race by speaking to the referee near the docks.
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ZAM's Returning Player Free-to-Play FAQ [EverQuest II]
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We've seen several players from the past poking around various forums asking how exactly they can get back into the game once it goes Free-to-Play. While many questions are addressed in SOE's official F2P FAQ , it simply doesn't help with every situation out there and sometimes the answers may not be clear. We took the time to compile our own FAQ that we hope will help with a clearer understanding of the many concerns out there. The answers are compiled from a mix of information from SOE's F2P FAQ, developer responses on the forums and personal knowledge of how the current F2P service (EQII Extended) works. Continue after the jump for ZAM's Returning Player Free-to-Play FAQ! ZAM's Returning Player Free-to-Play FAQ When is EverQuest II going Free-to-Play? EverQuest II is going Free-to-Play on the same day that the Age of Discovery expansion launches: December 6, 2011. [ source ] What is happening to The Bazaar and Vox? The Live Gamer service is being discont ...
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Journey to the Age of Discovery Webcast [EverQuest II]
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The recording of the"Journey to the Age of Discovery"webcast is now available on YouTube ! On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 SOE will be broadcasting an EverQuest II Journey to the Age of Discovery live on Twitch TV . Join host Linda"Brasse"Carlson (Director, Global Community Relations) as she interviews Dave"Smokejumper"Georgeson (Executive Producer), Emily"Domino"Taylor (Associate Producer), Greg"Rothgar"Spence (Lead Programmer) and Akil"Lyndro"Hooper (Lead Designer) . They'll be talking all about the upcoming Age of Discovery expansion along with some insight as to how the beta process works. Join SOE on Tuesday, November 29, 2011, at 4:00 p.m. PST , as they live stream this webcast on Twitch TV ! The webcast is expected to last about 20 minutes. Do you have Age of Discovery related questions? Ask them on the Live forums or on the Extended forums and they might be answered during the webcast!
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Downtime - November 29, 2011 [EverQuest II]
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All U.S. servers will come down for an update at 7am PST on Tuesday, November 29, 2011. The expected downtime is two hours. EU servers will have their update at 5am BST on Wednesday, November 30, 2011. Estimated downtime is two hours. There are no update notes for this downtime.
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