14 Days

[thugcruncher]

The Plane of Time
2003-05-09 18:50:26 - Furor Planedefiler
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You have 14 Days. If after that time the Plane is not properly tuned, I am deleting my characters, and cancelling all of my accounts. The rest of my guild will follow suit, as will several other guilds and people that play Everquest.

To be brief, I did not work my ass off, jumping through your idiotic hoops with my friends and guildmates, so I could go to a zone where only groups of 18 could enjoy the content. EVEN if past these initial moronic events I can finally get my entire guild in to raid with me, FUCK YOU GUYS. Seriously, FUCK YOU.

I cannot believe this... right now I'm just so pissed off. I am sitting here in the Plane of Time, and 3/4 of my guild is just sitting around while a group of 18 is repeatedly trying to beat one of the mini ring encounters. Don't you people have ANY FUCKING DECENCY? SMEDLEY WHY DON'T YOU STOP COUNTING YOUR MONEY AND START ISSUING ORDERS?

The tragic irony of creating the ultimate cockblock encounter in the form of the Rathe which requires 80 people to defeat and then to limit encounters in the Plane of Time to 18.

14 Days.... after that this site will change from the most popular EQ fan site on the internet to the most popular World of Warcraft fan site on the internet. I'm done playing ball with you useless fuckers... it's my turn.


http://www.ausgamers.com/gameres/3949/images/695/Alex_Afrasiabi.jpg

[Farzo]

Furor the original madman of EQ.

He did well for himself though going to Bliz as a content adviser. See paying games 20/7 can work out for you.....only 1:20,000,000 odds but.







p.s. I read somewhere that anther guild had further progression then FoH but didnt have the PR or popularity? dis true?

[mitic]

Tigole worked for blizzard too rite?

[Potus]

I loved when he acted like he was being exploited and abused by Sony/Verant for testing their content for them. He was clearly their employee and he got poached by Blizzard later on.

Like 99% of what Verant did was geared toward his guild. If you count up how many people played EQ at the time (roughly 400.000-500,000 people), him and his 40 buddies having the run of the show was hilarious.

[Super Hater]

nerd history, on the next level. literally...

[Potus]

Also he got banned initially for exploiting the fuck out of EQ, which is hilarious considering just how hard it was to get banned on live.

I believe Tigole did, too? Or was it Thott? I can't keep them straight. Looking forward to THE DUKE'S MMO in 2017.

[mitic]

Interesting, tigole was working on Titan too

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Kaplan_(game_designer)

[mitic]

Wow, it looks like WoW was build from former eq players

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pardo

[Sear]

There are a massive amount of former/current EQ players who work in the industry (Blizzard, Riot, EA, etc). Hell, playing EQ is how I got involved.

I didn't like Furor back when I played live because he came across as such an obnoxious entitled blowhard + he used to bitch incessantly about Monks until Verant finally gave in and nerfed the class. (God forbid they be decent at tanking yard trash over his precious fucking Warrior class).

But with online personas, I try to reserve judgment and separate it somewhat from what you get in real life. Some of the biggest and most toxic trolls I've encountered have been comically soft-spoken and normal IRL. So I don't know. I'm definitely more of an asshole here.

On the flip side of that coin, there are people who have egos the size of Russia and march around like they're GI Joe because they worked on one big title once or got to the top of the ladder in some competitive video game.

[Gnomegrown]

lol @ Threaten mmo companies, they instant ban

[Kergan]

Furor never worked for Sony. I knew the guy fairly well in beta, he actually got banned a couple times, including on his rogue in the beta.

The person who was the highest up that got hired from playing the game in beta was Jalen i.e. Jeff Butler who ended up running EQ Live for a long time before he founded Sigil with Brad. Dude owned a comic book store and played EQ beta a ton, next thing I know he was working for them. Furor not so much though, guy was always a super hothead and not afraid to use his platform to rip on SOE.

And Furor ended up as like the lead quest designer over at Blizzard, not just some lacky adviser guy so he did well for himself.

These guys get paid jack shit until they hit the associate producer level (and get royalties) though, no matter what the job. I was looking into a network engineering position at a gaming company at one point and they wanted to pay me almost 25k under market, just for the honor of working there. I told 'em no thanks.

[Tradesonred]

Thats it buster, no more military aid

[Tradesonred]

These guys get paid jack shit until they hit the associate producer level (and get royalties) though, no matter what the job. I was looking into a network engineering position at a gaming company at one point and they wanted to pay me almost 25k under market, just for the honor of working there. I told 'em no thanks.

Ubisoft was bad like that, you sign a contract forbidding you to tell your co-workers how much youre getting paid. Everything you do at the computer while on the job (even on a lunchbreak) is theirs. They would pay QA minimum wage and did some psyops of giving us fruit on wednesday, everybody was like yea give us a decent wage well buy our own fucking fruits. EA and other game companies decide to set up shop in Montreal and suddenly they feel generous and give us a 1.50$ an hour wage.

They would try to force us to do overtime by trying to make us feel about "2 or 3 people carrying the whole team". Made an 80hour week on one close to gold occasion, shit was ridiculous people where falling asleep at their workdesk.

[Tradesonred]

Ubisoft was bad like that, you sign a contract forbidding you to tell your co-workers how much youre getting paid. Everything you do at the computer while on the job (even on a lunchbreak) is theirs. They would pay QA minimum wage and did some psyops of giving us fruit on wednesday, everybody was like yea give us a decent wage well buy our own fucking fruits. EA and other game companies decide to set up shop in Montreal and suddenly they feel generous and give us a 1.50$ an hour raise

They would try to force us to do overtime by trying to make us feel guilty about "2 or 3 people carrying the whole team". Made an 80hour week on one close to gold occasion, shit was ridiculous people where falling asleep at their workdesk.

(Hate that no edit shit)

[Sear]

And Furor ended up as like the lead quest designer over at Blizzard, not just some lacky adviser guy so he did well for himself.

These guys get paid jack shit until they hit the associate producer level (and get royalties) though, no matter what the job. I was looking into a network engineering position at a gaming company at one point and they wanted to pay me almost 25k under market, just for the honor of working there. I told 'em no thanks.

pretty standard tbh

Most gamers are willing to work for peanuts just to get their foot in the door. Even seniors/vets will effectively take a pay cut if the company/game is good enough.

People will sling around the term "sweatshop", but I never had a problem with it. I knew what I was getting into, and nobody forces you to work in the gaming industry instead of taking a higher-paying 9-to-5 doing whatever.

[Ames who?]

Wow, it looks like WoW was build from former eq players

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pardo

Welcome to 2004 you fucking moron.

[Tradesonred]

pretty standard tbh

Most gamers are willing to work for peanuts just to get their foot in the door. Even seniors/vets will effectively take a pay cut if the company/game is good enough.

People will sling around the term "sweatshop", but I never had a problem with it. I knew what I was getting into, and nobody forces you to work in the gaming industry instead of taking a higher-paying 9-to-5 doing whatever.

Nobodys forcing them to pay their worker shit wages either, or open up offices in Shanghai, like Ubisoft did, after getting huge tax cuts (Something like 500 million dollars) to set up shop in Quebec.

[Farzo]

.....they wanted to pay me almost 25k under market, just for the honor of working there. I told 'em no thanks.

Yah fark that shit.

Should have pulled your dick out and whipped it 'round n ' round when they asked you that.

[Pseudechis]

Early triton members on povar all duped gold to level skills. Triton were first to kill emperor on luclin.

[Instagib]

Gaming Corporations are people too

[Uuruk]

Thugcruncher. RMT master

[Doors]

Great rage post.

[Kergan]

pretty standard tbh

Most gamers are willing to work for peanuts just to get their foot in the door. Even seniors/vets will effectively take a pay cut if the company/game is good enough.

People will sling around the term "sweatshop", but I never had a problem with it. I knew what I was getting into, and nobody forces you to work in the gaming industry instead of taking a higher-paying 9-to-5 doing whatever.

Yep, there were probably 10 people willing to do the job for what they were offering.

[runlvlzero]

Ubisoft was bad like that, you sign a contract forbidding you to tell your co-workers how much youre getting paid. Everything you do at the computer while on the job (even on a lunchbreak) is theirs. They would pay QA minimum wage and did some psyops of giving us fruit on wednesday, everybody was like yea give us a decent wage well buy our own fucking fruits. EA and other game companies decide to set up shop in Montreal and suddenly they feel generous and give us a 1.50$ an hour raise

They would try to force us to do overtime by trying to make us feel guilty about "2 or 3 people carrying the whole team". Made an 80hour week on one close to gold occasion, shit was ridiculous people where falling asleep at their workdesk.

(Hate that no edit shit)

gaming companies weren't alone in this, almost all tech startups that were run on investor money was, they had to produce something by the time the investor money ran out, the guy righting checks was embezling, and everyone had to crunch to produce something because they knew they were going to run out of money way sooner then they should have

game companies are the worst though

[Kergan]

Any company that can rely on cheap labor from fanboi's will do it. Pro sports franchises don't pay shit to office employees either.