EverQuest 2 Expansion Delayed Giant Cluster !@#$ : Site News

Posted: December 7th, 2011, 9:57 am

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So today was going to be an amazing day for those playing everquest 2. For starters the game went totally free to play. No pay and free servers, but instead all servers are fully free to play. On top of that they where going to release the Age of Discovery Expansion which is a much anticipated expansion, but things didn't go exactly as planned.

First of all late last night Brasse posted they where having problems with the update and now you will have to wait until today for the latest update.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and Trolls...

We have just evaluated the status of the current update and have come to the conclusion that we can either unlock servers and risk broken content, or ensure that we provide the best experience possible and delay the update to tomorrow morning. We have to do it RIGHT. For all of you and for all of us.

So please, bear with us, relax overnight, and let us sortie into the new day together. Community will be in office at 7:00am PST and will immediately review status and give you all an update. We are aiming for morning and working as hard as we possibly can.

Shortly after they posted that they are doing emergency maintenance on the patch and they hope to have the game up by 10am today.

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A final update this evening... Smed would like us to share that with the Platform Team working all night to complete the maintenance, we expect to be up at 10:00am PST.

Finally the CTO of SOE posted a giant update on the entire situation. To which he stated that since they where doing a giant movement of characters and with the update they had fears some players might loose items, races, or have other unforeseen problems. And even though they did do heavy testing, some things they wouldn't know until the actual release came about.

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Now we have to just wait and see and pray that things have gone smoothly and we can all start enjoying EQ2 in the next few hours after this update is completed.

Source - EQ2 Facebook