There will be a hotfix on Thursday to take care of a “rather urgent issue.” The US servers will patch at the usual time of 6am PST and Runnyeye and Splitpaw will patch at 9pm PST (5am GMT Friday March 5). Downtime is expected to last an hour to an hour and a half.
After this EQII should be returning to the normal Tuesday morning hotfixes. Here’s our handy Time Zone Convertor to help you plan.
Source: Official Forums
SOE has announced the dates and location for SOE Fan Faire 2010! This annual event allows players and developers from all SOE games to mingle and discuss all matters MMO.
Fan Faire will be August 5 – 8, 2010 at Bally’s Las Vegas. See the official Fan Faire website for details!
We love our fantasy here at ZAM.com. Stepping into a world that’s not our own is the true purpose of MMOs, isn’t it? So it should come as no surprise to learn that our ever entertaining host of The BFF Report, Mike B. aka Fony, had a hankering to descend into the depths of Hell and explore the fantastical world located within the recently released, action game, Dante’s Inferno.
A word of warning… this video (and the corresponding video game) are not for the faint of heart, and the review features censored (but still graphic) images of blood, gore, and adult situations. But if you want to check out the latest in fantasy action gaming, make sure you check out Episode 19 of The BFF Report.
Y’all are cordially invited to the next exciting EQII ZAM Developers Chat! Members of the EverQuest II Developer and Community Teams will be there, bring your questions! If you’d like to submit questions in advance, send e-mail to [email protected] (subject Dev Chat).
New to Allakhazam IRC? Instructions here! Or use EQ2Wire’s EQII ZAM Chat portal.
Here is a handy Time Zone Converter, already set to Pacific time, to help you plan!
The Internet is always changing and each day sites hit the World Wide Web with new features, designs, and options for users. Although we had a fondness for our previous look, the ZAM staff knew that we could do things better… make our site bigger, better, faster, and stronger. The results are in front of you.
In addition to the new, non-drab colors and enhanced feature story box, we made a number of improvements that should help you navigate around our entire network. Whether you want to take a trip around the content features on ZAM.com or check out the headlines before heading to Wowhead or MMOUI, everything is accessible by an easy mouse click.
There are lots of subtle changes throughout the site, but below you’ll find a few things that are new to ZAM.com and might be of interest to you, our users. Once you’ve read through the changes and had some time to check out the site, we’d like to hear your constructive feedback on what you like or don’t like about the new look, and you can do this by simply logging in and leaving a comment below this article.
Menu and Submenu System
To help facilitate our readers and their navigation preferences, we’ve built a two bar menu system that allows users to click through to specific pages that they’re looking for without a major hassle or having to deal with obnoxious dropdowns.
With a simple click on a top menu category, you’ll be given a list of specific pages within that section. Click again, and you’ll be taken to the section’s overall page where you can do a more general browse for whatever you’re looking for.
Condensed News Feed
News is important, especially that of the breaking kind. However, in our previous iteration the news section dominated our layout, forcing people to scroll through walls of text to find what they were looking for. Now we present a condensed blurb of news posts for you to quickly see the news of the day at a glance.
On top of that, we’ve added game specific tabs on what we consider the hottest games on or coming to market, so you can easily find out what’s the newest piece of content for Star Wars: The Old Republic or Final Fantasy XIV.
Video Page
Unlike our old system, we’ve now made it easy to search through all of our ZAM hosted videos and our most recent episodes of The BFF Report. Here you can find content from our major event trips, including E3, CES, and GDC, along with the latest trailers and videos from upcoming and released MMOs. We’re constantly updating this page, so if you see a video from one of your favorite games and would like to see it uploaded, make sure you let us know!
There you have it folks! ZAM.com is fresh and new, but we’re always looking to make more improvements. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, please let us know by leaving a response below!
Today’s downtime gave us a couple of small fixes:
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While we haven’t seen the usual announcement, the monthly mini event Moonlight Enchantments (often called “The Grottos”) should be starting tonight! The event usually turns on at 12:01am PST on the 20th and rusn until 11:59pm PST on the 21st. These times apply directly with no time conversion to all servers.
If you need to hand finding these mysterious mushroom rings or want a peek at the rewards, see our Moonlight Enchantments Mini Live Event page!
There will be a brief update tomorrow morning at the usual times. Notes are below!
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Source: Official Forums. The time changed since original publication
There will be a brief update later today.
The US servers are planned to be back up by 5:30pm PST; Runnyeye and Splitpaw will be patching at the usual time of 9pm PST (5am Feb 19th GMT).
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Source: Official Forums
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