EQ consolidates eighteen more servers

[El Gallo]

Looks like this consolidation thing is for real. http://eqlive.station.sony.com/community/dev_view.jsp?id=64038


/pours a 40 for Terris Thule's passing.

[WayAbvPar]

Quellious survived! Yay!

I have no idea why I care.

[Brolan]

Sad to see Tarew Marr go, it was one of the biggest population servers in the old days. 

Sadder yet to think about how much of my life I spent on thet server.

[Paelos]

Quellious survived! Yay!

I have no idea why I care.

I don't know why that was so funny to me, but it was.

[Jealous Deva]

I think it's strange that they're eliminating servers that have been around since launch.  I mean innoruk?  Karana?  Brell?.  I remember playing on Karana 5 years ago.

[Keelhaul]

Probably because they don't care Jealous, bet that surprised you...lucky you where sitting down. I still Play on Brell and they're merging us with a bunch of retards, yes...an eq player calling someone else a retard.

Keelhaul

[Merusk]

That's sad that they're merging Brell. It had one of the best communities around.  I played there a bit as a member of Deus Ex Machina because I knew some of the guys IRL and it was a good time.  Tribunal's sticking around tho..  my reaction was similar to Way's, so I can relate, Way.

So the end times really are nigh for EQ. Wonder which will close doors first, EQ or UO. (My money's on EQ, despite the mass hatred of EA.)

[Strazos]

Whee, Drinal lives, but Karana dies....

Yeah, I don't know why I care, either. At least I know my toon should still be there, unique name and all.

[El Gallo]

So the end times really are nigh for EQ. Wonder which will close doors first, EQ or UO. (My money's on EQ, despite the mass hatred of EA.)

Even after this, EQ should be running 35-40 servers or so by my rough count, and it is still probably still the #2 US-based MMO after WoW population-wise, maybe 3rd after EQ2.  Plus, they are still pumping out expansions and have the whole station pass thing going.  I would not be suprised if EQ was around for many more years.  They have a long way to fall before they sink to the levels of AC, DAoC, SB, AO and the rest, which still seem to be chugging along.

[HaemishM]

Yeah, this is not at all the death knell for EQ. But for some reason, I am sad to see the Karana name go. Especially to be merged into Bertoxx, which if I remember correctly, was a festering cesspool of stupidity.

Hmmm, Karana should fit right in then.

[Hoax]

I can't believe they are taking down Innoruk and E'ci as names or that those servers need to be merged.

However many years ago E'ci was BY far the largest server by a good margin...

[SuperPopTart]

I've been waiting six @#!$#@$@#$E@#$@ years for a Karana-be-gone merger and now that the shit that is the Karana server will be melded into another server, I can possibly resume playing on it.


Die, Karana, Die Die Die Die Die in a cess pool of spit. Die.

And I hope all of the high end guilds lose their guild tags and have to wait for GM assistance.

[Furiously]

Not that I would support this, but it has been suggested that people take their complimentary character transfer and go to Fironia Vie. Then sell all your no longer no-drop equipement.

[Alkiera]

I can't believe they are taking down Innoruk and E'ci as names or that those servers need to be merged.

However many years ago E'ci was BY far the largest server by a good margin...

This set of server mergers was to marge one very-low population server with a high population server, as apparently people on the low-pop servers were having a hard time finding enough people to do stuff, group, raids, whatever.

According to my friend who still plays EQ1, Bristlebane, which was merged with a low-pop server a few weeks ago, is back to occasionally zone-crashing during peak hours again.  Huzzah, or something.

Alkiera

[SuperPopTart]

I've actually been on FV and it's eh. There is limited Role Playing, however..that being said I think I'll move to Starpyre. I'd take the Samoans over the French any day.

[Rasix]

Woo, The Nameless survives!   Who will be the next American Idol?

[Hoax]

OH! OH! OH!

We should so have a pot for what is the last EQ server standing!  It'd be like a lottery that would take so long to payoff that f13 could prob keep all the cash.

[SuperPopTart]

Woo, The Nameless survives!   Who will be the next American Idol?

Stormhammer wins it. She's a pay-extra-to-play so she isn't going anywhere.

[HRose]

So you are whining or cheering over a *server name*?

I can understand when I read that on the FoH forums where they act like they were stabbed to death in RL but it's *silly*.

It's a *name*. They are consolidating the players in order that who still plays can keep doing that. The only difference is that when you log you'll have to click on a different name. Is that a big problem?

[SuperPopTart]

So you are whining or cheering over a *server name*?

I can understand when I read that on the FoH forums where they act like they were stabbed to death in RL but it's *silly*.

It's a *name*. They are consolidating the players in order that who still plays can keep doing that. The only difference is that when you log you'll have to click on a different name. Is that a big problem?

You don't get it. It's like a legacy. People who have been playing for a long time aren't used to having to play with other NEW, possibly more experienced players. So it's not just clicking on a name but that name represents like..years of play and familiarity.

And they are consolidating the servers because the population of Everquest has gone down on some of the servers due to WoW/EQ2 and other assorted games.

Karana, for example, feels dead lately.

[HaemishM]

So you are whining or cheering over a *server name*?

I can understand when I read that on the FoH forums where they act like they were stabbed to death in RL but it's *silly*.

It's a *name*. They are consolidating the players in order that who still plays can keep doing that. The only difference is that when you log you'll have to click on a different name. Is that a big problem?

VIKLAS!

For someone who claims to be an expert analyst on the MMOG industry, you really are a completely clueless fucking retard. But I guess community is just another term to throw around.

They aren't just shutting down server names, which does have a connontation in people's memory, they are consolidating communities, some of which are really quite disparate and dissimilar. For example, on Karana, up until recently I believe, most of the big-name targets for the high-end catass raiding game were all on a rotation. I don't think any such rotation existed for Bertoxx. If you don't realize how much shit-flinging, politicizing and backstabbing the clash of those two entirely different cultures can product, you truly are the fucking retard we all know you to be.

[Biobanger]

Yay. E.Marr > Morell Thule (whoever the fuck that is).

[SuperPopTart]

For someone who claims to be an expert analyst on the MMOG industry, you really are a completely clueless fucking retard. But I guess community is just another term to throw around.

They aren't just shutting down server names, which does have a connontation in people's memory, they are consolidating communities, some of which are really quite disparate and dissimilar. For example, on Karana, up until recently I believe, most of the big-name targets for the high-end catass raiding game were all on a rotation. I don't think any such rotation existed for Bertoxx. If you don't realize how much shit-flinging, politicizing and backstabbing the clash of those two entirely different cultures can product, you truly are the fucking retard we all know you to be.

GASP! The language! lol Potty mouth.

What would your mum do if she heard you talking like this?

[Paelos]

I was under the impression that Haemish would curse at his own mother in a birthday card.

[HaemishM]

You know, you're probably right. Though I do TRY to maintain a rather clean vocabulary when around the maternal unit. Now my dad, on the other hand? He's the one who told me the eggplant joke at age 8.

[SuperPopTart]

lol

I always liked that Freckles on the bum song. It always makes me chortle.

[WayAbvPar]

lol

I always liked that Freckles on the bum song. It always makes me chortle.

Is that anything like the Rodeo Song?

Well it's forty below
And I don't give a fuck
Got a heater in my truck
And I'm off to the rodeo
It's an allamande left
And allamande right
C'mon you fuckin' dummy
Get your right step right
Get offstage you goddamn goof
Y'know you piss me off
You fucking jerk
Get on my nerves
Well here comes Johnny
With his pecker in his hand
He's a one-ball man
And he's off to the rodeo
It's an allamande left
And allamande right
C'mon you fuckin' dummy
Get your right step right
Get offstage you goddamn goof
Y'know you piss me off
You fucking jerk
Get on my nerves
(INSTRUMENTAL)
Well it's forty below
And I ain't got a truck
And I don't give a fuck
'Cause I'm off to the rodeo
It's an allamande left
And allamande right
C'mon you fuckin' dummy
Get your right step right
Get offstage you goddamn goof
Y'know you piss me off
You fucking jerk
Get on my nerves
Well heer comes Johnny
With his pecker in his hand
He's a one-ball man
And he's off to the rodeo
It's an allamande left
And allamande right
C'mon you fuckin' dummy
Get your right step right
Get offstage you goddamn goof
Y'know you piss me off
You fucking jerk
Get on my nerves

I remember hearing it bleeped on the Doctor Demento show as a kid. Finally heard the blue lyrics from a passel of drunken relatives whilst on a camping trip. High comedy at age 16 or so.

[SuperPopTart]

No, it's some extremely funny song that Haem's father used to/still does sing to his mum. It goes something to the tune of "She's got freckles on her BUTT, she's pretty!"

I don't know, it's probably not amusing to anyone else but me, ya just kind of have to picture it an older man that looks somewhat like George Jones singing it to a very proper woman :)

[Sky]

I used to have a 45 of the Rodeo Song. One of my favorites, my old band should have covered it.
[qute]For example, on Karana, up until recently I believe, most of the big-name targets for the high-end catass raiding game were all on a rotation. I don't think any such rotation existed for Bertoxx. If you don't realize how much shit-flinging, politicizing and backstabbing the clash of those two entirely different cultures can product, you truly are the fucking retard we all know you to be.

This is the voice of experience speaking. This is the shit that drove me (and I think Haemmy and many others) away from EQ. And why I hate that style of gameplay to this very day.

I played Tarew Marr in beta and early release, Innoruuk from Kunark onward. Sad to see them both die, though as with most others, I don't know why I'd even give a shit. Maybe it's partly sad to see the old, original servers rolled into the newer servers, and not vice versa?

[Mesozoic]

Maybe it's partly sad to see the old, original servers rolled into the newer servers, and not vice versa?

Maybe this was Hrose's point, but vice versa would be the same, except for the name you click.  Once you roll server A into B, the damage is done regardless of what the resulting monster is called.

[Hokers]

If I was still playing I would be quite upset over the loss of Brell.  It is the server I started on, and ended on, to me that particular world was EQ.

Bye Brell...