San Diego Fan Faire
April 6 - 7, 2001
Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina

Once again, we expect this event to sell out, so don't delay your registration! Registration deadline is March 28th.

It is aimed to help newbies decide the best character for them, giving all of the pros and cons for each major decision. Hopefully this will help people not make those deadly mistakes like giving wizards 25 extra stength when you start out and saving people time, by helping them make informed decisions :)

UbiSoft (which distributes EverQuest in Europe and Asia) will soon release a deluxe edition of EverQuest. The new version will include the original EverQuest, The Ruins of Kunark expansion, The Scars of Velious expansion, a poster, a world map of Norrath, an Iksar miniature, and a strategy guide. This guide was written by our team and its purpose is to help the newbie through the first ten levels. EverQuest DeLuxe will be available in Europe on March 1st, and a similar version will ship in North America later on this year.

Q: What makes "EverQuest" so compelling?
A: "EverQuest" has three primary areas of focus: character development, community building and an immersive world. Players build up their characters over time, acquiring experience, knowledge and possessions. And because of the social and interdependent nature of the game, players also develop relationships with other people. Both of these aspects create an ownership that compels players to keep playing over the long term, all the while exploring and experiencing a very immersive 3-D world.

She says her fiance stays logged into the fantasy role-playing game for as many as 20 hours a day, leaving her and her daughter alone at the dinner table and everywhere else. He was in the delivery room for the girl's birth. But he brought along a laptop computer so he could help a less-experienced player kill something called "Dorn."

"My fiance and I have no relationship," Erickson says. "I speak, he grunts. I ask him to do something, I do it myself. I want to go back to work, but I do not trust him alone with our daughter, simply because when I am here she will be crying and he will not do anything about it."

Now, I personally know of someone (whom I still call "friend") who didn't show up for work for a week. When my other friends found him, he was sitting in his apartment with a week's worth of food garbage scattered about the floor, and the stench of his unwashed body filling the rooms. Yes, he was playing EverQuest.

But is EQ to blame here, or is it yet again the outlet for those few of us who get so massively obsessed with any sort of escape that we tend to forget that which holds us in the real world? In the 70s and 80s, it was D&D (did anyone see Tom Hanks in Mazes and Monsters?), in the 90s it was Magic: The Gathering. Will the scapegoat of the new decade be MMORPGs?

You can judge for yourself if the Trib is the shadow of the new sensationalism.

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Clearly the EverQuest team realized sometime ago that the breastplate was over powered as the openly admitted to ‘adjusting’ high-level monsters in game to compensate for the breastplate.

On Fennin Ro, a level 60 cleric cried.

Heh, would have paid to see that. Anyway, you can check out the rest of the article here, and comment on it here.

Today we have several items from Skyshrine, a coup

The Keepers of Oak, Hero Assistance Night!

We will buff, heal, sow and assist, for free. This is our way of partially paying back to the community of the Rathe Server for the fun and excitement of the past 2 years, and to celebrate the future.

Where: Many zones, the Rathe Server

When: Friday January 26th, from 10pm to midnight EST

Thanks,
Brennos Oakkeep
Guild Leader, Keepers of Oak (Rathe)

I'm amazed...generous players in a game well known for its selfish fan base? Wow.

*QA Openings*

Our Quality Assurance department is looking for some AVID EQ gamers to join us as testers at the San Diego branch. If you would like more information please visit www.verant.com or mail your resume to resume@station.sony.com with QA Openings as the Subject.

Applicants should include their time playing EverQuest, and their number of characters and their respective classes and levels as part of their resume.

I would add to that: Applicants must include specific RL skill levels in Alcoholic Beverage/Carbo-Loading, Habitual Lack of Concentration on Anything not Game Related, and the Desire to Acquire Massive Amounts of Power For No Good Reason.