WoW Players Review EQII

From the Warcraft whorums, WoW Players Flee to EQII. My take from reading a few of those mini-reviews, there’s some strong opinions on EQII. I never gave EQII much of a chance, other than a brief run around the island trial for a few days, so I won’t instigate a WoW vs. EQII argument (just yet), but I will say this much: that trial blew hard. Two words: rogue sneak. Whoever did the animation for rogue sneak is having a good laugh right now. (Think: waddling around as if one was wearing a loaded diaper.) Is there an improved sneak where rogues won’t waddle? I have no idea, but five levels of that was five too many for me. (As with all Warcraft forum links, the thread will expire and disappear into the Internet Trash Bin. READ IT NOW.)

A Visit to SOE

Because I’m so skilled at finding strange and unusual internet stuff, I ran into this Flickr photo set recently of Cory Doctorow’s (Boing Boing) visit to Sony Online Entertainment in March 2005. At first, I was wondering if anyone can walk into SOE and start handling these original sketches for Star Wars Galaxies and Ultima Online (wtf!), then I did a little profile digging and all became clear. Interesting: The original EverQuest servers, now retired, and the buttass ugly furniture in the SOE reception area.

History of Azeroth

Warcraft guild progression by server: History of Azeroth. Currently, there’s over 450 guilds reporting their progress through the endgame content — some servers have zero guilds participating, some have upwards of 19 and 20 guilds reporting. I’d say you could spy on your rival guilds with this, but I know that you already know very well where everyone on your server is because EVERY guild has a guy that just HAS to announce in guild chat when other guilds kill ThisMob or ThatMob as if we need a fooking raid ticker in chat. Meh.