Rift Stuff, EQ security breach, gaming...
May. 4th, 2011 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kathygnomeSo I'm still loving Rift. I got my guardian cleric on Faeblight up to 22nd. I think I like Defiant side better, but I love my little Dwarfling Kathy, she looks like my characters are supposed to look like, even if she's not a proper gnome. However, I definitely think the community on Faeblight is more interesting and friendly. So I'm more or less playing both.
The second world event is starting today. It's a prequel thing that will last for a week until the new patch comes out, which will have a single server random dungeon tool and a new set of 10 person raid rifts and a couple of other things. This to me is pure Hartsman, regular and routine upgrades and additions. I remember figuring out if you worked out EQ2s development schedule and extrapolated it to WoW's income and population, you would have a new patch every couple of days and a new expansion every month.
That's the EQ2 of the past, back when Hartsman ran it. The current one?
Oh yeah, there is no current EQ2 because all the SOE got hacked and they got hacked good. In fact, things are so bad that the company simply took them all offline. I can't imagine what that's going to do for long term retention. The "routine" of gaming is one of the biggest things that retains people. You go down for an extended period of time and you're just going to lose them as they find a new shiny. And there's some new shinies out.
The second world event is starting today. It's a prequel thing that will last for a week until the new patch comes out, which will have a single server random dungeon tool and a new set of 10 person raid rifts and a couple of other things. This to me is pure Hartsman, regular and routine upgrades and additions. I remember figuring out if you worked out EQ2s development schedule and extrapolated it to WoW's income and population, you would have a new patch every couple of days and a new expansion every month.
That's the EQ2 of the past, back when Hartsman ran it. The current one?
Oh yeah, there is no current EQ2 because all the SOE got hacked and they got hacked good. In fact, things are so bad that the company simply took them all offline. I can't imagine what that's going to do for long term retention. The "routine" of gaming is one of the biggest things that retains people. You go down for an extended period of time and you're just going to lose them as they find a new shiny. And there's some new shinies out.
