allakazam slippingFollow

I'd say "Give it a little time" When the FFXI boards were released, they were, shall we say "unrefined". Since then, they have become a great resource for that game. I have the feeling that Allah's will be up to date soon.

Check out the lineage II class section for alla... it's still "under development."

I pay for this site. If clanwhitestorm can do it for free, clearly I'm paying too much.

Hey, if they want me to do the leg work, then I submit:
http://clanwhitestorm.com/eq2info/index.htm

Copy and paste it here.

I don't think this sites lack of information would be so disappointing if I didn't pay for it. That and that eq1 was the only game I've seen them do well.

Spells and abilities for eq1 weren't player submitted. There were parsed by lucy for the site.

Mmmmm, I wasn't suggesting that nobody should pay for this site ~_~
The membership fees from those who do sign up are used in things like maintenence, etc. Having the site up and running isnt free, the money has to come from somewhere.

I for one think the "extras" are well worth the extremely low membership fees. I have no doubt that Alla's will have TONS of great info in the not too distant future. Just look at how well the FFXI section took off. I remember for a short while after its release, there was almost no info to be found, and look at it now. I believe just about all of it was player submitted as well. It all depends on how popular the game is, and how dedicated the players of that game are to the community, both in-game and out.

Just my 2 cents.

I'm sorry, but I didn't "flip" anything around.

•I said you don't HAVE to pay for the site.
•I said I think the "extras" are worth the low membership fees, I didn't say that you HAD to pay for them.

I am not "all giddy with eq2 excitement" and as a result "Defending it by rating your posts low like children"

If you would notice, I do not have "scholar" status, meaning that I am unable to rate posts.

Up until today I hadn't planned on playing this game at all. I simply chose to do so today to stay with some friends from other mmorpgs who decided to migrate here, that and the hope that this game would be able to bring back that special something that I found in EQ1, but seemed to be somehow lacking in other mmorpgs that I've played since leaving it. But in no way am I "giddy with eq2 excitement".

To you it may seem like you were cheated by this site's lack of information the day of the games release. Thats fine, perhaps you should have put off subscribing till later when there was more info available.
To everyone else that has read this thread and rated you down for your words, perhaps all they see is someone disgruntled by their choice to pay for membership, and is thus blindly flaming.

I'm done, out, peace.

I don't pay? Excuse me? Notice the avatar under my name. (Just in case you don't get it yet, I DO pay, and have been doing so for over 2 years now).

And no, I didn't "flip it around".
I DIDN'T say people should pay for membership. I said I THINK that the "extras" are worth the low cost that I PAY FOR.

You keep reading things into what I say that just aren't there.

I must have misread that you didn't pay, either way, the rest is true.

Clearly, I must be wrong. Paying for this site was obviously a mistake. My second mistake was thinking that the folks on the forums would also want useful information. If you don't speak up, nobody will hear you. You've spoken and you've said "mediocrity is good."

I have no more to say on this.

[edit to fix typo on "mediocrity"]

Edited, Tue Nov 9 07:06:14 2004 by Boneflail

First, my copy of eq2 won't arrive until later today.

However, spell and ability information for eq1 was as good as it was because of lucy, not because of the players. If you spent as much time as I did on that part of allakhazam, you'd know that for the most part the player driven info was horrid for those spells, but the lucy info was very, very good and the whole reason to pay.

If they don't have lucy for eq2, I will not pay for this site.

Seriously, did you read my post on Lineage 2. Go to that portion of the site right now, before going further and click on "classes." That game has been out since this spring.

This is about the death of passion in the staff of allakhazam. If they were passionate, they would have had this site in shape before release like sites that are free. Period.

Hate to point this out, but all this wonderful info on clan whitestorm is A)incomplete, and B)inaccurate. The combat arts wernt finnish and the spells have been revamped to where the info is no longer correct, nor has it been updated. I have scoured web sites and have yet to find 1 that is correct at this point. I would rather the web site be accurate, then handing out incorrect info at a fast pace. Just give it a little time and Allakazam will be up and running, they have always been prety good with stuff.

Also, all of us who do pay for the premium have access get that access for all the games that this site covers, not just EQ2. It would be decent of you to give them a fair chance before jump on thier case, EQ2 hasn't even hit the store shelves yet and you are complaining that there isn't any areas set up for preme users.



Edited, Tue Nov 9 09:35:05 2004 by Demothisis

LOL. We realize that people now expect us to have massive databases upon game release. With some games like WoW and FFXI, where there has been plenty of time to collect info ahead of time, we have actually come close to succeding at that. EQ2 is a different story. The game has changed so much in beta, that it's only been the past few weeks that we could even consider gathering accurate information. Heck, most of the spell tables were just released by SOE last week. We want to be complete, but even more so we want to be right, so it's very much a work in progress. Also, with the limited time we had to get this done, we made a decision to initially concentrate on quests, items and mobs -- especially quests as we felt that was what people would need first. Hopefully, over the next few weeks, we will get a mass of good submissions and be able to fill out the rest of the site.

As for an EQ2 Lucy, we are working on it. They kept changing their file structure on us, so there was little reason to put much effort into it until they stabilized the game. However, there's no guarantee we will ever get something like that. If they want to keep us out, they can. For now, I'm just counting on doing this the old fashioned way with the players submitting everything.

While I think you are doing an amazing job of getting stuff out as quickly as you can I did notice one thing that really bugged me. There are 0 quests listed for IoR. This is huge IMO since most people will not spend much time there and there are a number of quests that you have to go look for. These should have been up and ready to go day 1. Otherwise keep up the good work. Oh and change the colors around a bit this brownish pink coloring is a bit hard on the eyes.

Well that is new as of a very short while ago. I know when I checked this morning I did a search of all Quests on IoR and it returned nothing. Though I will keep with the point that so far 3 of the 4 that are listed are part of the basic walk through and pretty much everyone will do them. The 4th is a good one. I liked that quest and the reward was nice. Though the things that need to be up are the harder ones to find like the shark hunting quest or the ghost pirate. Just about every person I talked to during beta never even knew about these quests.

I'll keep checking over the course of the day I'm hoping to find some quests listed that I did not find during beta. I know I did 17 quests on IoR during beta but I heard there were 20 would like to know which 3 I missed.

At anyrate keep up the good work and keep the updates coming.