Bruce's Blog

Someone from the SOE Everquest 2 team needs to lose their access to the administrative tools.

It seems that the guild Unhallowed Triad, now on the Unrest server, was recently moved there lock, stock and barrel from the Test server. They were moved to Live despite SOE's prior assurances that no guilds would ever be moved from Test to Live. As you all probably know, you get double exp for kills on Test, so it's twice as easy to level there. As you may not know, this guild formerly had a GM account in it. That GM account helped this guild gear up on Test by killing monsters they couldn't kill on their own, so they could loot them.

They didn't learn not to pull this shit from the drama train wrecks such blatant favoritism caused back when people gave a crap about EQ1? The gear was stripped but they were still handed a very nice set of armor and their characters benefited from the unique features and events that occur in a test environment. You can't put game content in that causes competition and then show favoritism to one of the contestants by pulling this shit without causing a major PR mess.

I don't raid and don't have any plans to but this still manages to piss me off. I feel bad for the raid guilds on that server who now have to compete with a group who apparently has a pet SOE employee on speed dial.

Update: Someone found an example user profile with a particular piece of rare contested gear on a user profile that would not seem to match a character that would have legitmately attained it. That would seem to indicate not all gear was stripped. Of course a couple hours after it was covered on the forums the profile is no longer visible...