Friday, November 19, 2004

Ever Quest Raids Southern Armada The End

19/11/04 The end.
Wow.
Both literally and figuratively.
Southern Armada is moving to the World of Warcraft.


The Glory of SA will now shine in Multiple games. We have membership in Everquest2, Everquest1 and World of Warcraft. SA will survive multiple games I think, simply because we are all older players and into it for the fun as opposed to the PhatLewtz or the being L33t.
There are still some staying to continue on in EQ. There are some going to EQ2 but the bulk
of us are moving to WoW.


It all came down to a post on the guild Message Board by the Great Bear Our leader Kezlar. He essentially said what everyone was thinking. He had had enough, it wasn't fun anymore and the on going lack of people showing up to raids was telling him that was true for a lot of other people.


That basically opened the floodgates and we all simply poured out.
GOD broke EQ for a lot of us. POP was superb, a lot of fun, GOD was awful and sucked all of the fun out of the game. Its nice that SOE apologized and flew lots of people to see them so they could say sorry. But after that nothing changed, there was a big burst of publicity and then SOE went back to its usual dead silence.


I would have been angry once, but not anymore. They have just lied, broken promises, nerfed, failed to communicate, insulted the player base and generally acted like they don't have a clue once too many times. Even those in a coma can awake from their sleep and say enough.


Thanks for 5+ years of EQ. Its been a blast and I will leave this web-log up for some time to come yet.


There are many very good people still staying in EQ1 and I believe they will rebuild and continue on very successfully.


Ulaa has gone to sleep.


She sits dreaming on the shores of the Plane of Tranquility looking out over the entrance to the Elemental Plane of Fire. She is in Lich form, gently bobbing up and down, with her faithful pet standing at her shoulder.


There she will sit until one day, maybe, I may venture back into EQ.
I want to continue doing these gaming blogs however.
Its been a hell of a run. Its been nearly 6 years.

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