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You weren't around for Luclin, were you?

Yes it was a fun filled day wasn't it?

Eh it could be worse I suppose.

hehe luclin sucked, and pop.. omg, if 1 day down time is all we have to endure, soe have surpassed themselves.

So far I think SOE has done a great job. I give SOE 5 dimes a day to have access to the best online game available. Now I give considerable more money to Pepsi Co., McDonalds, and lets not forget Chevron (who is my largest reciever of my hard earned money). Lets look at how yesterday went. The EQ team had to come to work early. Then they had to bust their asses uploading and configuring one of the largest expansions (not it size but scope), plan on working overtime (my guess it was close to a 20 hour day for most) until the major issues were ironed out, all while a bunch of cry babies whined on every damn board on the net. I dont think for one minite Sony is going to bend over backwards to get my 5 dimes, but it is perfectly clear that they feel EQ is still a vibrant and a profitable buisness to put as much effort, hard work, and reinvestment as has been apparent just from the log in screen. Please, if you employer (if your unemployed please disreguard and get a job) asked you to preform in a very competitive job field, with short staff in ungrateful conditions, I can bet they werent happy either.

Velator, lvl 2 Drakken Ranjer

I haven't seen a shareholders statement on a very small segment of Sony but I know for fact that the software industry, specifically the gaming sector, is very lean and high pressure. 95% of the time i get to log in and play is error free. I can tell you that 1 out of 6 orders I place at Micky D's is hosed up and this company is making far more money than the little division of Sony. If you havent bought the expansion grats, that is the only way you can make a statement that SOE will understand. I am inconvieneced twice a year and find that the rest of the time I spend in game is very enjoyable.

Not to mention that one of the expansions biggest selling points, the bazaar, wasn't ready for a LIFETIME. A lot of people couldn't even look at the entrance of Shar Vahl because of the lag it induced and the moorwars quest was broken for a year at least (if it ever really was fixed).

Well said. Could have been much worse, and the short glance I got at the content was impressive. Implementing that much software can't be easy, and it doesn't seem to have gone too badly at all (so far).

To the OP; think of Everquest as a 56 Ford Fairlane. It's a classic, lots of people like it, and lots of people like to restore them. However, no matter how many new parts you put into it, it's still a 56 Ford Fairlane and some of those new parts might not get along with the old ones right away. It's a work in progress...

I've spent $60 so far (2 accounts) and have just made it to the character creation screen since it was late by the time downloads and time-outs were over. I am not complaining. I expected as much. Actually, I expect more delays/patches. (Also another 2xp weekend soon hehe...)

I set my trader this AM (80 peeps in Bazaar only) and left for the day. I'll try to raise a Drakkin tonight.

I thought it was very nice so far. It is very cool to see what all my skills can be maxxed to, compared to what they are. I dinged 71 first night (I had about 2 hours play time, and got 2 AA's at 20%, I was almost to 71 before I started, didn't get the whole level, and one orange into 72nd level). The experience is incredible and my skills are going up super fast. In half an hour tonight my dodge went up something like 10 points mostly fighting light blue, and a few dark blue, small group.

The Pallys cleanse so much against the undead my screen was spammed, the pallys owned the undead in Direwind.

It is so fun just to skill up again, even swimming raised to 266, and so on.

My big complaint is too much running around (not a fan of long time-wasting runs except for the first time maybe), with things that see invisible all over, it was like running to all the Karanas in the old days.

Nice to talk to you all again, been avoiding Alla's lately because my Ad-aware pops constantly making it annoying to use the site. Even with Firefox, drives me crazy.