Everquest isn't going anywhere, i have seen a couple peoples concerns for SOE giving up on EQ, truth be told.... they wouldn't be investing in the talents of 3 online security companies if they felt this was a sinking ship. Unfortunately due to downtime and the recent release of Rift as well as several other long running successful and popular MMORPG's they will obviously lose some people in the mix. I just hope they aren't the people i enjoy spending my free time with in game. Personally i do respect a company whose willing to protect its consumers by taking the game down until such a time it is safe. I can't imagine how much money they are losing for every hour they have their servers down. In addition to that, we all know that they will reward us for our patience and loyalty. It might be something as simple as a bonus xp period or whatever, but they will try to make amends. I have even heard that they are planning to offer a free month to each and every customer affected. I don't know if anyone here could imagine what that means... Imagine your boss at your work saying "hey, we are going to not charge anything for our products for the next month" Truth is most companies even in the green wouldn't be able to survive a month with no income.
In light of everything, SOE has made a very loyal customer of me through this process and I look forward to seeing you all in game when this horrible cyber attack is resolved.
On an off note, I have been getting a lot of strange calls on my cell phone from 4 digit numbers instead of full 10 digit phone numbers. I don't know if this is related at all but i have been ignoring them as they come in and if anyone else is recieving these then they could quite possibly be suspect.
I do have one negative thing to say about the situation. I do wish that SOE was more forthcoming with updates, their canned response has been up for serveral days with no real changes. I don't know if anyone agrees with me on this but i think a daily update even a vague non-committal type would make me feel like they are progressing on this. So if anyone at SOE reads this forum..... Thank you for everything you are doing to protect us and the integrity of the world we spend so much time enjoying, but please please please give us some updates that you are there working diligently and not all out hitting the waves on the most recent swells.
Jogic Puffalumpadumpdump,
Paladin knight of Oasis
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