Can we have some service please?Follow

When you let go all your staff who is left to be doing the updates?

Not to mention the person that used to do the daily updates is no longer an admin here :(

... especially when the last news story is horribly dated, mentioning a deadline date long past.

Please allow me to clarify.

I am a premium Zam customer who expected to have access to an updated Zam authored EQ1 website. I want the service that I am paying for please.


Edited, Jun 14th 2015 6:49pm by weemage

same here ...

So, is the eq site for Zam now dead?

Well I found out some information and it does not look good at all for EverQuest: http://eq2wire.com/2015/06/09/the-future-of-zam-network-2/

Ironically, this is one of the most active forums Zam.com has left. Even the WoW forum is mainly dead (ten days since their last post).

Sadly, ZAM's EQ is fading away. I'll miss it very much.

My concern at this point is if the information gets turned off overnight as has happened with some other great EQ sites. There is a ton of info here that is under specific items or quests that isn't always as clear or detailed in some of the newer wiki versions of things. There's also the legacy of the massive playerbase from the early years that was contributing here like mad.

I prefer what allakhazam's has been (mature, helpful, familiar) with information that stays posted in an organized way. Posting on the official boards means watching your thread and hoping you get an answer fast enough. Asking in game... varies greatly (best be in a solid guild).

I suggest any of the regular posters that have done years of work on wiki things, and various lists make sure they have good backups. We may need to all meet again soon somewhere else.

*posting late to this as I have been moving houses and without computer access most of the last 2 months. Missing the Prog server launch is a drag, dropping in to see Zam dropping good staff from the only part of their empire I care about is sad.

Yeah, my concern too. Frankly, I make posts here as part of a personal memo system so I will be able to find info on some obscure quest, mob or item months later when I need to go back to it. Anything I write down on paper, there's a good chance I'll never find the paper again. Plus I figure if it's useful info for me it's probably useful for some other players so it's win-win. If they ever fold this site the content will probably remain available on the Wayback site (if I understand how it works) but nothing will get added and, yes, we'll need to find a new posting site to keep up with new content and postings. No idea where, though. Beyond EQ's own forums, I know of no active EQ sites. A couple of class sites are fairly active but generally the focus is entirely on the relevant class. EQResource and Magelo are great sites but, again, not sure their forums would serve the purpose, although they might be worth considering, should the need arise. EQR allows comments for their content pages but right now they're not used much at all.

Old-timer that I am, I'm always reminded how active were the forums of one of my old guilds, Shards of Time on Saryrn. I could start a new thread and within hours there'd be dozens of responses, most of them of quality. Most of the guild members regularly visited the site. In fact, I think we made it a requirement to visit every so often or you lost DKP. The idea was that a good guild member kept up with the info posted on the site, particularly strategies and tactics and background for raids and encounters. I don't see anything like this with current guilds, not even serious raiding guilds. And I'm always astonished by large guilds that don't even bother with a website, particularly when it's so easy and cheap to set up a canned website today.

Howdy, Rayder! I wonder how many old-time SoT members are still playing. Most of the ones I remember have retired. Good to see some "alumni" are still kicking around EQ. You're right, those forums were very active and very useful.