EverQuest II Letter to the Community

Sony’s official EverQuest II website has been updated with a new “letter to the community” penned by SOE president John Smedley. In it, Smedley addresses current and upcoming changes to EverQuest, EverQuest II, and Star Wars Galaxies. Check it out:

The EQII team is still hard at work on the existing game, and I think that all of the new content the team has added since launch is pretty amazing. In the past few weeks alone, we’ve added several new high level raids, an in-game mail system, Mentoring (something we’re really excited about), two additional character slots for all subscribers , and we just added the new merchant system, which will allow players to sell items in game without having to leave their computer running. That’s on top of the usual game additions — dozens of new quests, spells, items, tradeskill recipes, etc. You can expect us to keep up this pace for a long time to come. Another part of the EQII team is hard at work on our first Expansion Pack, coming out later this year. We’ve taken a lot of your recent ideas and feedback into account, and we’re working on some innovative ways characters can move and interact with the environment. Also, we’re taking the first step towards introducing PvP competition with the introduction of a new type of combat!