new eq2 data siteFollow

Great another IGE sponcered site thats all we need.

Goodbye

hard to say if it's got enough info or not... requires logging in to view any of it.

and, no, i won't visit an ige sponsored site, when i've likely got all the same info available to me here, with no ads :).

good luck to you, though.

When i log into a site and the first thing i see is "Cheaper Everquest2 plat" i refuse to use the site PERIOD.

What is IGE???
Sorry for asking this...kinda newbie..he he

i didnt intend to upset you, just to give you my impression, so that you could perhaps improve your hook. i'm a web developer, and i should have been more in depth with my comments, but my boss walked in :x.

if you gave maybe a small tour of a couple of items, or something that says... "why use us?" ... which you may, but it wasnt obvious, then you might improve the clickthrough rate. (note: i did find a "why use?" but it was under "about us.")

as far as readability... yes, that font is a bit hard to read. look and feel is nice otherwise, though.


i'm not sure where "here" is... perhaps there's a link missing :x.

as it is, i've got so many logons just on forums i *use* that i hesitate to add more, when i've no idea what the actual offering is.

in addition, perhaps i chose my words badly. let me rephrase: i've likely got all of the information that i will *use* here, and on the other sites that i already use and support. hook me, and i might add yours to my list ;).

i apologize for not noticing the google bit... as i said... i was interrupted :).

i did intend my wish for your good fortune sincerely :).

Edited, Fri Jan 7 12:20:23 2005 by runyariel

IGE is a company that sells in-game money for real world money..

honestly it's bad.. because you get "money-sellers" who will jack up the prices on items and work to control the market to make MORE game-money to sell to the sites they work for...

because the prices are so jacked up, people are tempted to pay these sites for in-game money in order to afford the things that the money-selling sites employees have jacked the prices on in the first place...

notice the vicious circle?

for example: Final Fantasy XI, which I played for a while.. has the most jacked up economy I've ever seen, things aren't cheap there anyway.. but once word got out about rare items that could only drop from one mob which was on a timer.. it was camped like there was no tomorrow...

Huu Moju the Torrent drops the "monster signa" this item is seen as a necessary item for Bards.. and is considered a VERY good idea for Beastmasters... price, last I heard before I quit FFXI was that it was going for 8 MILLION gil.. it took my white mage 3 SOLID weeks of gil-farming every night, 4 hours a night plus weekends to have the 120,000 gil I needed for the three teleport spells...

see the problem? that's some pretty nasty math isn't it?

edit: oh in FFXI you can't make money and gain XP at the same time.. which made it doubly vile.

Edited, Fri Jan 7 12:24:22 2005 by Iaini

Edited, Fri Jan 7 12:25:33 2005 by Iaini

for those that don't know, IGE is a company that exists to farm plat and ingame items in all mmorpg's for sale for cold hard cash... real cash. like dollars.

let's not debate it here, since it's a tad off topic for the thread, but to give those unfamiliar with the topic something to work with, there are people that adamantly oppose the practice, and maintain that it upsets game economy, and there are others that, just as adamantly, maintain that it does not.

if you wish to see or participate in a feeding frenzy on the subject, look at this thread.

much! i was able to scan *much* more quickly with the font change.

the only other visual critique i had was that the fonts in the sidebars are *tiny*. the middle isnt quite as bad. just one notch up across the board would help for those that might have vision problems. the "News Archives > Daily News" is fine, just the rest could use a bump.

you'll also want a copyright notice in the footer on all pages, or at the bottom of the left sidebar or something... acknowledge that sony owns soe, eq2, blah blah... ninja one if ya have to... but do it quickly, before you generate traffic, and attract their attention. something like...

... which i trimmed and adjusted slightly from the one niami has on eqtraders :).

yar you'll have a tos... but ya might consider making the copyright notice more ubiquitous so they dont have a reason to start any ickyness on ya.

Edited, Fri Jan 7 12:47:11 2005 by runyariel

repeated and bolded for emphasis... good point! i take it for granted that people realize this :).

I normaly don't like tarv much, nut I have to go with him on this. I may sound "close-minded" but when the first thing I see is 2 ads saying CHEAP EQ2 PLAT, I say, "ok bye-bye, I don't want to support you in any way." I'm sure you don't support the practice of plat-selling, but I still won't do anything for your site until I don't see that first thing. *I do stick to this EXACT wording, move it to the bottom of the page and I just think "well ain't that a *****."