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I would never have imagined that something I'd read on a gaming website would bring tears to my eyes

This feels like the end of an era.

I only hope the sense of community we have here can survive this.

My Premium has quite a few months to go so I have time to see how things develop before making any decision.

I don't care if this post gets nuked, but this is complete and utter bullShit. The main reason we tell everyone, who always tout their fuCking websites in here saying how bad Alla's is for EQ2, that we stick around is the fact that Alla didn't sellout. He was the last bastion of hope against these coniving bastards. I gladly gave my money to keep this site free of the atrocities. And now...the mighty have fallen.

It is a sad day indeed.



Edited, Wed May 3 20:28:56 2006 by Mearyk

One one hand I am morally disgusted by Alla's decision to join with a known platselling company, on the other hand I can understand the need to get more money to pay to make this site better. To tell you the truth Alla prolly really needed the money, I mean look at the eq2 site. ther then the community here this site is ****. There haven't been practicaly any new quests added other then the basic ones from the ezpansions. Our admin has 39 posts and hasn't done crap in here to make it better. And don't try to pull the "New quest info is our responsibility" shtick cause I have tried several times to submit info and none of them were ever updated. I might not have the best write ups better its better then the quest pages that basicaly say "We don't know **** about this quest."

So if this deal and new money means that our site will improve to where its actualy useful for information then I'm for it. i mean think about it, where do most of us go for our Quest info? Ogaming. Who owns Ogaming? The people who now own Alla, so its not gonna be a big change.

I'm not the one selling my morals out just by visiting the site, so if by Alla selling his out it means we get some quality info round here then I'm for it.

Edited, Thu May 4 00:07:05 2006 by TheDakster

Goes to show you how important the EQ2 part of this site is: we didn't even get a Zam.com sticky.

I know it's bad form to pimp sites and all that, but everyone who's upset by this and looking for a decent EQ2 site should check out www.eq2daily.com.

They do a semi-weekly podcast about EQ2, have active forums, are putting together a pretty good EQ2 Wiki (which everyone is welcome to contribute to), and have expressed that they will NOT support plat sellers, banning them from their site. Plus, they're pretty funny, and do a good podcast.In addition to all that, they have a news aggregator that collects EQ2 news from all over the place and puts it all on one page.

I have a place in my heart for allakhazam that will never go away. Back when I played EQ1, this was the site to go to, and I really appreciated all the work they put into it. But it's obvious that they really don't care much about EQ2, and focus their energies on WoW. I barely visit this site anyomre, since there's nothing for me here. Now, with them joining with the plat sellers that help ruin the game, I don't see any point in coming back. I encourage anyone that's really outraged by this to check out EQ2 sites like Eq2Daily and Aggrome.com, 2 great eq2 sites with fun, active communities that are dedicated to EQ2, and opposed to people using real life $$$ to make their in game characters better, and their egos larger.

There are some great people on these forums.Though I don't post much, I definitely read many of the posts. If Allakhazam does crumble, I hope you can all find a communtity at one of these alternate sites.

I won't leave straight away, but it does seem like a sell-out.

For some reason, my premium didn't renew and I haven't made the time to renew it myself. Going to wait a while now.

I'll give them a month to update their EQ2 information and features to at least the level that OGaming has now. If that doesn't happen I'm going to check out the sites you mentioned.

I've listened to the eq2daily podcast and it's pretty good, though they tend to stick to the company line. Remaining positive while losing some objectivity.

Does that mean that we are finally gonna get an admin for just our forumn that doesn't suck and has more then 39 posts?

Ok think I found a positive from this. Unless my eyes deceive me, the plat selling ads are gone from Ogaming.

I have budgetted in 4 people for the EQ2 site. Once the ogaming and Allakhazam communities are united I would hope that the forums get quite lively.