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Be heard this week with EQII and PotBS IRC chats
Stratics is going to play host to some more "House of Commons" IRC chats later in the week, for both EverQuest II and Pirates of the Burning Sea, giving fans a chance to pose some questions to the teams behind these two games. On Wednesday the 18th at 5PM PDT/8PM EDT, the PotBS chat will take place, and will feature producer Joe Ludwig, lead game designer Kevin Maginn, lead world designer Cory Herndon, community relations director Troy Hewitt and community specialist Tom Atkinson-Edwards. Full details on how to join in on this chat can be found here.The EQII chat will take place a day later, on Thursday the 19th at the same time slot of 5PM PDT/8PM EDT. Representing the game in the chat will be Josh Kriegshauser and Greg Spence from EQII Engineering; Kyle Vallee, designer of "Runneye: The Gathering"; Nathan McCall, designer of the Void Storm quest series; and Tiffany Spence and Aaron Bisnett from the community relations team. You can find out how to join this chat at this page, and don't forget that we here at Massively will be speaking to the EQII team this week as well, so you can also drop any questions you might have in today's Daily Grind for us to bring to them.
Game Update 42 not out today
A lot of EverQuest II players had believed that the enormous Game Update 42 was scheduled to be released today, February 5th -- but then no one could really trace back to why they had this date in mind. This thread managed to dig up that the origin was most likely from a French community staff member that had said GU42 was planned for January 29th at first, but was to be pushed back to February 5th.The long and short of it is, no, it will not be released today. Community Relations Representative Aaron "Gnobrin" Bisnett locked the above thread, and started a new one in the Community News section of the forums, stating that prior specific dates given for GU42's release were incorrect and that "this update is planned to be released soon, but not today". Later in the thread, Craig "Grimwell" Dalrymple confirmed that a French Rep had done the damage, and the offending post has been removed to prevent confusion (answering the question of why no one could find it before). Gnobrin has promised to update the Community News thread with a real date when he can get his hands on it.
