The Thundering Steppes! See the vast expanse of sky, plain, and ocean! Take a deep breath of that air! Catch a whiff of…. centaur manure?!? Oh, the Thundering Steppes – they hold a special place in my memory, above all the other overland zones. They were where I joined my first guild, completed my first [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Per Kytherea, this week’s review challenge will be the Thundering Steppes. For this particular challenge, I’m picking on: Willhelm from The Ancient Gaming Noob Cameron from Random Battle Our own Zobek here at Clockwork Gamer Average Joe from Average Joe Gamer In addition to the four names I’ve specifically called out, I’m looking to see [...]
Sergeant Slate says, ‘Time to die Kendricke”. In late 2000, I made the late leap to Everquest, then in the process of releasing its third expansion already – the Shadows of Luclin. I’d already been leading my online gaming guild for over 3 years at that point, and for various reasons, we’d decided to open [...]
Looks like SOE’s game servers are coming back, 45 minutes ahead of the last projection, even. Updated at 2:16pm PDT on 9/25/07 Here is our latest information on a game by game basis: EverQuest – All servers are up EverQuest II – All servers are up save for the French and German servers. Star [...]
Brilliant. Just hours after I posted “When Customers Speak, Who Listens?“, a guildmate posted the following story within our private guild forums: I had an issue since last LU that made it so no cloak at all was shown for me. After trying alot of things, I filed a petition, in case there was some [...]
White Hat Hackers?
Posted: September 25, 2007 by zobek in General Game Concepts, Interesting, The Gaming IndustryI was browsing the shelves of my local Barnes & Noble the other day when I came upon this: (Full details at bn.com, opens in a new window) Yes, your eyes aren’t fooling you. That’s the cover of a book titled “Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems”. Perhaps you’ve heard of it already, though [...]
According to SOE’s status page, the total blackout has been extended, at least for the forums & other websites…. the upside of which is you may just get back into game yet this evening! Updated at 10:36 am PDT on 9/25/07 While we had certainly hoped to complete the upgrade operations within a fourteen [...]
When Customers Speak, Who Listens?
Posted: September 25, 2007 by Kendricke in General Game Concepts, The Gaming IndustryHuman beings have neither the aural nor the psychological capacity to withstand the awesome power of God’s true voice. Were you to hear it, your mind would cave in and your heart would explode within your chest. We went through five Adams before we figured that one out. -Metatron, “Dogma“ Since the first company was [...]
Inigo Montoya: I admit it, you are better than I am. Man in Black: Then why are you smiling? Inigo Montoya: Because I know something you don’t know. Man in Black: And what is that? Inigo Montoya: I… am not left-handed. -”The Princess Bride” I’ve been close with this particular group of guys for [...]
As my astute partner, Zobek, mentioned earlier this week, SOE is having a full service blackout today. Everything from forums to game servers are completely down while SOE upgrades their authentication and account management systems. So, while the forums may be completely down today, we’ll be completely up! We’ll be posting challenge topics throughout the [...]
