Kiara tells us:

This week is another Bonus XP Weekend! From approximately 8.23.08 until 8.24.08, you'll find a bonus to Adventure as well as tradeskill experience!

Happy and safe adventuring!

Ding!

The SOE Fan Faire is a very busy time for everyone, Developers, players, fansite staff and press are all trying to cram as much as possible into two-and-a-half days of sheer, unadulterated, MMO overload.

Despite a very busy schedule I took my camcorder and got a series of mini-interviews with V.I.P.'s - Very Interesting Persons. You're invited to laugh at my truly amateur camera skills and enjoy a short video series called:

Three Questions With...

Our first victim is Tiffany "Amnerys" Spence, the EverQuest Brand Community Representative.

It is important to note that since this panel (Friday, August 15) Greg "Rothgar" Spence has posted some changes to guild halls based on player feedback. These changes can be seen here . Things which have changed since this presentation are indicated by an asterisk (*).

Attending:

Bruce "Froech" Ferguson, Jeremy "Jindrack" Gess, Greg "Rothgar" Spence, Noel "Ilucide" Walling, Bill Yeatts, Joshua "Autenil" Kriegshauser.

Froech teased that the Guild Hall panel was canceled, and we'd talk about cow tipping. A guild hall survey was distributed to the audience. The 2007 concept art and the current reality images were displayed.

Like other presentations at Fan Faire we were given a slide show presentation outlining the major points before the question and answer period.

Wow, is it almost August?  EQII Players has a preview of all the great stuff coming up in Game Update 48, "Breaking Ground".

Read all about it at EQII Players!

Wow, where do I start?

I got myself up around 8am. Bludwyng promptly texted me that he was going to breakfast, but I had work to do and passed. Around 9 Kiara and I met for danish, and we parked ourselves at a lovely wine and coffee bar in the main lobby and proceeded to inflict DPS on cheese danish and talk to several devs and gamers about Fan Faire.

I had signed up for the G.I.R.L. breakfast (I know, I just had danish, but I woke up starving!), so I headed to that while Kiara went to start her work day. As an aside, all the developers, staff and, community personel have really put the hours into this event. Sure, it's their job, but desipte lack of sleep and overload from taking mass quantities of player feedback you can really tell that they love what they do. If you're here, don't be shy. SOE people love their work and if they're too busy to talk right then they'll say so.