Update on Jolt Print News | Mail News Ramen posted an update on Jolt taking over AC2 in Europe:
Since we first announced our partnership with Jolt, we’ve been hard at work behind the scenes with their team, ironing out details and progressing towards the switchover of our European servers to new Jolt servers.
Things are coming along well; as you read this, new servers have arrived, and Jolt’s new server farm is being configured. In the coming weeks, members of our Ops team will be flying out to the Jolt server site to assist in making sure the new home to Dawnsong, Abendgrau, and Soleilcouche is ready to go........
Click here to read the official post, or click read more.
Answers Round 4 Print News | Mail News Ramen has posted the Round 4 Answers.
Question: When ARE we getting vendors? You put it off be removing October patch, will this be part of the expantion too?
Answer: Trait and Trophy Consignment Vendors will appear in our November episode, and you’ll be seeing a walkthrough on how to use them early next week. Additional Consignment Vendors will be added in events following.
And we also announced a change to our update policy.
Please go ahead and check these out. I’ll wait.
Okay! So now you can see what we’ve been working on. This first Expansion pack is a huge deal for us. We had to replace the Microsoft billing system before we could start, because the old billing system wouldn’t support a new expansion. But we’re finally ready! And we can now bring on additional core engineering to get the kinks out of our game at an accelerated rate.........
Click on the read more link to see the FAQs, and the rest of the article!
On Thursday Oct 21st evening at 9 PM EST, Warcry will host a developer chat with Turbine regarding the recently announced expansion pack for Asheron's Call 2: Legions.
AC2 Expansion Pack Print News | Mail News Gamespot has an exclusive look at the Expansion pack for AC2 that will hit store shelves in March 2005. The name of the expansion will be "Asheron's Call 2: Legions".
Forum downtime later today Print News | Mail News Ramen sent us this heads up:
"In response to the performance issues encountered yesterday, we will be making some hardware changes to our forums today to prevent such slowdowns in the future. We will be bringing the forums down later today for a few hours to do so. I will post more specific date/time details here when I have them."
Oct 14 Turbine Billing Update Print News | Mail News Ramen sent us in the follwing update:
"Currently the first phase – new accounts only – is in the final rounds of testing. The servers are running, the game worlds have the new authentication code, and the new installers and launchers are ready to go. Our Quality Assurance and NetOps personnel are running through the last tests to ensure that brand new accounts will be able to be created and log in successfully."
October Prop Announcement Print News | Mail News Ramen posted the following:
"Just wanted to let you all know that we will not be doing a regular content update in October. Please stay tuned! We have some very exciting news to give you early next week."
Sounds exciting, head over and see the post for yourself here, then take part in the forum discussion.
September Teaser Image Print News | Mail News Thanks Ramen for sending us this teaser image for the September Episode. I apologize for the delay in posting this news.
AC2 Vault Re-launch Print News | Mail News The Vault Network and the hard working staff of Asheron's Call 2 Vault are pleased to present the newly redesigned Asheron's Call 2 Vault! With this new updated design and layout comes the latest in web technology to bring the site into the future. The Asheron's Call 2 Vault staff is poised and ready to bring even more dedication in delivering the community the latest news, game information, columns, discussions, and so much more. So, stop what you are doing and go check it out and say hi!
Billing Migration Update Print News | Mail News Ramen posted an update to the migration of the billing system:
Turbine’s new billing system and launchers are still on-schedule and will be ready soon. With that in mind, we’ve decided to begin accepting new accounts on Turbine’s billing system before we begin migrating existing accounts. This will allow us to begin using our new systems to sign up new customers without conflicting with our work on the migration of existing accounts.
October hopes to be the month in which we unleash the first Consignment Vendors in Dereth. I think we are all excited about this system and we thought we'd write up an explanation of how the system will work, since it has changed a bit since we first talked about it at the Turbine Nation event. First we'll explain the types of Consignment Vendors, how those vendors will work and finally how you'll gain access to them. In reading this you'll notice a distinct lack of hard numbers right now; those numbers are still being ironed out at the moment.
Jolt to operate the AC franchise in Europe Print News | Mail News Ramen just sent us some good news for european players:
WESTWOOD, Mass. – Aug. 30, 2004 – Turbine Entertainment Software Corp., a premier provider of online subscription entertainment, announced today that it signed a deal with Jolt Online Gaming Ltd., Europe’s largest independent online gaming network, to operate the company’s critically acclaimed Asheron’s Call® franchise games in Europe. Under the terms of the agreement, Jolt will hold the exclusive right to distribute, operate, and support Asheron’s Call and Asheron’s Call 2: Fallen Kings® online services in Europe.
Jolt expects to complete the launch of Asheron’s Call and Asheron’s Call 2: Fallen Kings® in Europe in 2005. This relationship reaffirms Turbine’s commitment to growing the franchise after acquiring the property from Microsoft earlier this year as well as expanding the company’s operations overseas.
Patch Guide is up! Print News | Mail News Were ready for the patch, be sure to check out the August Event Guide throughout the afternoon as we post patch information.
And to keep tabs on the patch with up to the minute findings be sure to visit the -- Merlouqe @ Fri 10 Sep 2004
Way to much to put in here, but here is the intro:
August will see a new batch of skill rebalancing. This will be the only skill rebalancing done this year (aside from hero-level tweaks, which will happen in September). Skill rebalancing is sort of like a type of surgery – we do it for the long-term health of the game, even though it shakes up the game, which causes a short-term stress.
