I already did my part to debunk the idea that an MMO the size of EverQuest would go from planning to release inside 3 years, but in a tweet that we missed last week — Linda “Brasse” Carlson mirrored my comments:
@khayotix Highly unlikely that EQN will launch in 2013. Smed said we’d have “something,” but that could be one of a million facets.
— Brasse (@Brasse) February 7, 2013
As some of you have no doubt noticed, EQ2U has had some performance issues lately. Usually these outages have been short-lived but last night, EQ2 data updates stopped around 8:15pm last night and only sporadically worked today.
According to a recent tweet from John Smedley, PlanetSide 2 will soon be launching its own twice-delayed API service which will enable player-driven PS2 sites just as the EQ2 Data Feeds have enabled EQ2U and other sites. Hopefully they’re just working out the kinks and things will work themselves out over the next few days.
Just in the last hour we’ve seen data coming in again and starting to catch up. We wish the best of luck to the PlanetSide 2 folks and data team as they launch the second of what will hopefully be a companywide initiative to offer data to the public for all of SOE’s games.
Meanwhile we’ve started looking at some new data which we’re very excited about. Updates as we have it.