This Saturday, a whole bunch of basic EverQuest gamers plan on flooding one of many game’s servers in protest of the shortage of a classic PvP server. The 21-year-old MMO nonetheless has a pretty thriving community, together with a number of servers operating older variations, however the game at the moment has only one official PvP server and it’s on fashionable EverQuest. This means anybody who needs a basic PvP expertise wants to make use of personal community-run servers. But these gamers have had sufficient, they need their previous PvP again, and so they’re rising up as ogres to get the builders’ consideration. I spoke to one of many ringleaders forward of the protest.
“We have tried pleading with the developers over the years on the forums, to no avail. Finally, we have decided enough is enough and we have decided to organise,” says Byron “Dulu” Carter, one of many protest’s ringleaders.
This organising will take the type of a whole bunch of gamers descending onto EverQuest’s Zek server this Saturday, to trigger a fuss and see if they will get builders Darkpaw Games to take discover. They’ll be doing this all whereas taking part in as ogres – and regardless of that being only a fairly humorous race to play, there’s really a bit extra that means behind it.
“In the lore of EverQuest, ogres are the kids of the struggle god Rallos Zek. The authentic PvP server was named Rallos Zek, and we’re type of the kids of the PvP server, so it’s becoming for us to indicate up as ogres.
“Right now we’ve got a few hundred players getting involved, so imagine 400 big fat ogres running around the starting zone, making some noise, and having some fun. We’ll get some videos and some screenshots and we’ll show them that we are a community to be taken seriously.”
“If you’ve never played an MMO before, if you’ve never played EverQuest, or if you’re just a fan of the genre, this is a great event if you want to come check it out and just have some fun,” he mentioned.
“You don’t have to be an ogre – if you want to show up as an elf as a pretty little elf, you can. Nobody’s gonna judge you! [laughs].”
The PvP protest is occurring in EverQuest’s Zek server Saturday the 29th at 8pm EST (or Sunday the first at 1am for us within the UK), and if you wish to become involved, regulate EverQuest’s subreddit for extra particulars.
