Rumors have the next EQ2 expansion as “The Rise of Kunark”. That’s a small surprise; I was expecting them to follow up “Echoes of Faydwer” with another adventure pack, not something as grand as a whole ‘nother expansion, especially one that opens the lands that really launched the original EverQuest into MMO history.
The job SOE does here is so critical to EQ2’s future… so many people from EQ1 and EQ2 are off trying Vanguard. Guilds all over EQ1 are imploding; I expect the same from EQ2 soon. Vanguard doesn’t cost anything extra for people already on the Station Access plan, so it’s never been easier to leave EQ.
SOE has to do something so mind-bogglingly original with Rise of Kunark that it defines the EQ2 experience the same was Ruins of Kunark did for EQ1. That was the expansion that made the game a raiding game, that set players apart, and gave real goals and enough of them to keep people always working. Epic weapon quests, a whole new race, dragons and enough lore to choke a historian, Trak and VS and KC and OS and HS and LoIO and Chardok…
Bloglines: The Internet is Made for Porn
Day 1: Bloglines releases the Bloglines Image Wall, a dynamic collage of images taken from the blogs they index as they index them. Day 2: Teachers, librarians and parents of young children discover the content of a large portion of the images Bloglines finds on the blogs they index…
There be further foul denizens cluttering the shores and deeps of Norrath, and it’s my intention to carry on in the grand tradition of halflings everywhere and watch them die.