Ask a Guild Leader Ep Three
February 8th, 2010 by Ferrel
On this episode of “Ask a Guild Leader” we have a particularly hard question. This is one of those that has numerous right answers and even more wrong ones. I’ll do my best to provide some useful advice that will hopefully mitigate some of the issues our questioner is having. The question is, When you are dealing with a large mixed guild (40+ members), just how do you keep them all happy or at least help them? Our submitter, who we’ll call JS, goes into further detail. I was one of five officers in a huge guild and we had our own managerial problems on top of member problems when it came to choosing whether to raid or help a mid-level get some needed mats from an instance. Tough question JS! Let’s get to it. (……)
EverQuest 2 Sentinel’s Fate Beta Tour
February 5th, 2010 by Ferrel
This evening I had the pleasure of attending the EverQuest 2 Sentinel’s Fate beta tour hosted by Brenlo and company. I have to be honest and say this was one of the more enjoyable events I’ve attended lately even if things didn’t start off so well. Brenlo had technical difficulties from the onset but it actually made for some pretty good entertainment. Once he got everything on track we had the opportunity to see Sentinel’s Fate and have him answer questions. I do want to say thank you to Allen and his staff for hosting this and taking my questions! As always, it is greatly appreciated. (……)
Sentinel’s Fate Templar AAs
February 5th, 2010 by FerrelTo continue on my thoughts about the information coming out of the Sentinel’s Fate beta I thought I’d spend some time talking about the Templar AA abilities. I was generally pleased with the cleric upgrades so I suppose it is not too shocking to find out that I’m feeling the same way about the Templar specific abilities. They’re not earth shattering or game changing but there is something there that will make my job go a bit smoother. Lets get to it! (……)
Sentinel’s Fate Cleric AAs
February 5th, 2010 by FerrelYou may have heard that the Sentinel’s Fate NDA was lifted today. To an MMO blogger that means it is time to collect every bit of information you have and throw it up on your site as soon as possible with your thoughts half formed! Everyone is going to be doing it and we all want our share of the pie! In all seriousness I’m just really excited about what is coming up for EverQuest II. I want to talk about a few different subjects over the course of the next week … few days …hours. To start I thought I’d go to what I consider one of the more exciting topics! I’m talking of course about the new templar and cleric class AAs that will be available in less than two weeks! I’m going to avoid giving specific values since they are prone to change but I want to talk about in general what they do and whether I think they hit the mark. (……)
MMO Roads less traveled
February 5th, 2010 by Ferrel
It seems to me that MMOs very rarely stray from the genres of science fiction or fantasy. These two settings seem to be the safest to do and are frequently repeated. So much so that I am frequently surprised that the market can stand yet another sword and sorcery game. I suppose it just comes down to the hope that the next one will be superior to the last few. Unfortunately, that is not usually the case and I still maintain that SOE did it right the first time around. That isn’t the point I’m trying to make, however. My point is that there are other settings out there that would be quite suitable for MMORPGs and have yet to be utilized. (……)
The Multiverse MMO Podcast Ep6
February 1st, 2010 by Ferrel
I’m excited to announce that we just finished production on the podcast! Chris did all the editing and posted it today! Enjoy the first Multiverse where I have a new and amazing microphone (can you even tell?)!
We’re on schedule this week, and present you with Episode Six of The Multiverse podcast! We were joined by Karen from A View From the Top and Shut Up, We’re Talking podcasts, as well as the Journey’s With Jaye blog. (……)
