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SOE Affected by San Diego Blackout [EverQuest II]
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UPDATE: Around 9:30pm PDT John Smedley, President, Sony Online Entertainment, sent out these tweets : @j_smedley : Outage update - we have restored most games. Our AT&T facility in San Diego looks like it lost pwr for a split sec switching to gen. @j_smedley : We have got most things back up. We are working on EQ and some SWG servers. Sorry for the delay in service. All of San Diego is out UPDATE : As of 12:30am EDT, EverQuest servers are back up and running. UPDATE : As of 9:15pm EDT login servers appear to be back online. Some servers are confirmed as up but are assumed to be either EU or east coast based. Power is still out at SOE and it may not be until tomorrow for all services to be restored. A blackout in San Diego this afternoon has brought down Sony Online Entertainment and many of its services. Currently login servers and forums are confirmed as down, though players already logged in seem unaffected. Zoning while in-game may disconnect you. Lin ...
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SOE's Back to School Bonanza! [General News]
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Between September 2 - 5 you can purchase Station Cash in-game, via your Station Account, or redeem an SOE pre-paid game card and receive double Station Cash! Be on the lookout for special sale items or activities in participating games throughout the Back to School Bonanza! Free Realms: 50% off new school items Clone Wars Adventures: Special sale price on a giant fort construction kit EverQuest: Double Experience and a sale on a fun Ruler Ornamentation EverQuest II: Double Experience Pox Nora: 25% off boxes like Ancient Awakenings and Drums of War This offer is valid 12:01 PM PDT, 9/2/11 through 11:59 PM PDT, 9/5/11, and excludes SMS payments. See http://www.soe.com/backtoschool/ for details.
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Players Find Themselves Stuck in Guild Halls [EverQuest II]
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Over the weekend players have had some bad luck with guild halls, which appear to be randomly shutting themselves down and making characters camped inside of them inaccessible. The dev team has brought halls back up several times but this is only a temporary fix. It will hopefully be addressed in the next hotfix, slated for Tuesday, August 30th. In the meantime, if you have any characters stuck in a guild hall, submit a petition under the stuck player category . This can be done via the /petition command in-game or through the SOE support web site (click"View my service history"on the right). The GMs have been moving players out all weekend with an amazing response rate. After your characters are moved out of guild hall do not attempt to re-enter it until a fix is in .
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Downtime - August 30, 2011 [EverQuest II]
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All U.S. servers will come down for a hotfix at 7am PDT on Tuesday, August 30, 2011. The expected downtime is one hour. EU servers will have their hotfix at 5am BST on Wednesday, August 31, 2011. Estimated downtime is 2 hours. The full patch notes are available after the jump. GENERAL Fixed an issue with Guild Halls. Fixed an issue causing the streaming client to use old assets. Fixed an issue which could cause the streaming client to crash on startup. Fixed a disconnect bug where some characters would get dropped to character select upon login. Players will now be prompted for a one-time, free item unattuning: If you answer yes, all items will be immediately unattuned. Any equipped items will be popped into overflow. If you answer no, items will not be unattuned and you will not be asked again. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Elements of War Steam Vents should now give you more time to move before being blasted. Foun ...
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The City Festival Starts Tonight! [EverQuest II]
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Tomorrow is the beginning of September, bringing us the Neriak City Festival ! The festival should start on September 1st at 12:01am PDT and run until September 7th at 11:59pm PDT. You can find the Far Seas Caravan in Darklight Wood outside of Neriak. The festival's newest wares were introduced early due to all city festivals being activated in May. You can pick up three newer Neriak themed house items: Blue Marble Pedestal Table , Winged Blue Streetlamp and Winged Purple Streetlamp . Visit the Far Seas caravan merchants to see all of the local specialties and other festival goods. The Far Seas Trading Company has caught wind of the popularity of the Aether Races and have arranged for each city festival to have one of its own! The newest addition will kick off this month in Neriak and be available throughout the event. Continue after the jump to see a video of the new aether race course.
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Downtime - September 1, 2011 [EverQuest II]
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All U.S. servers will come down for a hotfix at 7am PDT on Thursday, September 1, 2011. The expected downtime is one hour. EU servers will have their hotfix at 5am BST on Friday, September 2, 2011. Estimated downtime is 2 hours. Dave"Smokejumper"Georgeson posted some additional information on itemization changes coming with this patch: Additionally, we've been combing all /bug and /feedback reports made since Tuesday's update to comb out other issues and many of those are being fixed tomorrow also. In the continuing raid vs heroic discussion, here is new info: a) We agree with many of you that the bandwidth of item progression is too compressed between the heroic PoW options and the intended normal and challenge modes of the raid. Therefore, we're not going to release the"normal"mode of the PoW raid and instead release only the challenge mode. The logical progression of content within PoW then becomes normal mode Heroic, challenge mode ...
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Double XP and Station Cash Weekend [EverQuest II]
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As part of the Back to School Bonanza players will enjoy double experience and double Station Cash all weekend. Both events begin at 12:01am PDT on Friday, September 2nd and will run through 11:59pm PDT on Monday, September 5th. The double experience will effect Adventuring, Tradeskilling and Alternate Advancement experience. The double Station Cash is for all types of Station Cash purchases excluding SMS transactions.
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Bonus Station Cash Bargains [General News]
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If you're lucky enough to be near a Walmart you can get a sweet deal during SOE's Back to School Bonanza this weekend. Pick up the 1500 Station Cash/30-day Game Card pictured here. Be sure to get the one with the special Walmart Bonus of 500 Station Cash. When you redeem it for Station Cash (not game time) the bonus doubles along with the base amount, giving you a whopping 4000SC for $15! The Back to School Bonanza runs through 11:59 PM PDT, 9/5/11, and excludes SMS payments. See http://www.soe.com/backtoschool/ for details.
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Inactive Players Welcomed Back This Weekend [EverQuest II]
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Yesterday evening the EverQuest II team announced on their web site that"players who have quit the game between November 5, 2010 and August 2, 2011 can come back for free!"This free play time will last through the evening of Monday, September 5, 2011. During the reactivation period players can enjoy the current double experience event ! Returning players will also get to enjoy the following rewards: Vulrich Mount to keep FOREVER! (Note: Cannot leap until level 30, one per account ) Includes all content up to Sentinel's Fate A complimentary XP potion to level even faster Up to 3,000 in Station Cash bonuses! Earn 500 SC when you resubscribe for one month, earn 1,000 when you choose a multi-month subscription, earn 1,000 SC when you buy the Destiny of Velious Expansion Pack, and earn 2,000 SC when you buy the Destiny of Velious: Digital Collector's Edition Need to re-download the client? Just choose the regular (Live) or the F2P (Extended) server client! NOTE : Som ...
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GU61 Downtime - August 25, 2011 [EverQuest II]
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All servers will come down at 7am PDT (3pm BST/4pm CET) for the War of Zek ( Game Update 61 ) patch. The servers will be down for at least 3 hours. Here is some important information on what to expect from this update: All Alternate Advancement points (AAs) will be reset. All equipment, food and drink, ammunition, etc, will be unequipped and placed into overflow. Adornments will be removed from worn equipment (excluding worn appearance slot items). These will be placed into your overflow. All item unlocks will be preserved. (Extended Only) Any attuned equipment in your inventory, bank or house vault will become unattuned. Stats on your equipment may be altered due to the reitemization. Ensure that you are camped out somewhere safe before the update. The full patch notes are now available on our Game Update 61 page. For more information on this update be sure to check out our GU61 previews ! During the downtime you are welcome to join us in the #EQ2 channel of ZAM's I ...
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