Over the weekend the panels were updated again. Here’s their current status:
Tomorrow I leave for Vegas (and I still need to repack–ugh!). This year will be the first time I’m on/running a player panel. It is called EQII: Hardcore Decorating, which I first talked about in late June. Here’s the skinny on the panel:
I’ll be heading out to Las Vegas from July 31 – August 5 for SOE Live, a gaming convention. This is my fifth year attending, and I decided to bring along a craft project to hand out to my friends there. I call them Geek Badges, and they’ve occupied my scarce free time over the past couple of weeks.
There isn’t anything crazy complex to these. I just shrunk down several logos for SOE games I play so that they’d fit a one-inch round cutout and was able to print ten per 4×6 photo sheet. Then I adhered them to the bottlecaps and added a jump ring to each.
I have a bunch of $1 special snap hair clips that I’m never going to use for my normal hair clip projects, so I plan on handing those out with the badges. I already hooked mine to it, and it’ll allow me to easily clip them onto my lanyard, backpack, shirt, or even hair if I’m feeling crazy. I’m also bringing along keychain rings for the guys who likely want nothing to do with a hair clip.
In all I made a bit over 100 of Geek Badges, but not all of them turned out well. It was definitely some trial and error for me at first (I discovered that encasing photo paper in dimensional paint is a BAD idea). When I pack up for Vegas on Tuesday, about 98 of these will be coming along!
SOE released a teaser “sneak peak” of their EverQuest Next Black Box stretch reward video. We couldn’t hear any audio (more on that below) and it’s just Terry Michaels fast-forwarded through an introduction. The ending promises that “the black box will open on August 6,” which many have already noted is after the unveiling SOE Live.
Roshen gave an update on the special SOE Live rate for Planet Hollywood hotel rooms disappearing:
It does NOT look like we’ll be able to add rooms to the SOE Live room block. If anything does free up to us before the event, it doesn’t look like it will be at the same prices listed in the SOE Live FAQ.
It looks like some people have good suggestions in this thread for other nearby or cheap hotels in Vegas. Before walking the Las Vegas Strip, just be aware that a Vegas ‘block’ isn’t as short as you think it is.
While that’s bad news to anyone who hasn’t booked their hotel yet, we have a feeling that it’s great news for the SOE Live attendance numbers!
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