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Those who write on Freeport walls, roll their… I’m in a little bit of a funk regarding EQ2 at the moment. Not the game — no, the game is great. It’s me. And it’s other people. These sorts of games are social games, and if the social isn’t working, the game isn’t working. The guild … Read more
Shut Up, We’re Talking! #12 is up. I had the pleasure of being part of it, along with Grimwell (SOE EQ2 Community Manager) and Tom-Tom from Gamer’s Mind. Thanks, Darren, for being such an awesome host! Darren really knows how to keep the discussion going and moving to interesting places. I was positive I’d have … Read more
Syncaine over at Hardcore Casual thinks EQ2 is “flat, boring and lifeless”, and as examples, puts up some rather poor EQ2 screenshots (which he got from the official site so you’d expect better, though I suspect he got at least one of them from a player-submitted shot). Sure enough, in comparison, EQ2 suffers. Well, comparing … Read more
Went in, started, worked through and finished the Shard of Fear last night with an almost all-guild group. My son, who’s been to SoF many times but never finished, vowed never to again go with a pick-up group. Just for fun, I ran Fraps in SoF and took the occasional short clip; here’s about a … Read more
Very quick note on Live Update 39, will do more tonight… Hallowe’en quests aren’t in, those are scheduled for the 26th. The next quest in the Kunark line went live, it requires you to kill a few followers of Venril Sathir in Feerrott (there was a line for one of them) and eventually scare them … Read more