Sell now baby cakes!So won a fungi staff this morning. As a cleric not a huge use for it. Should I sell it now while prices are decently high? 3-4 krono or will they stay near that price for awhile.
And to be fair, that 'shit box emu' has better anticheat programmers than Daybreak does. Should've hired myself or EQMule, they only had 3 opportunities to get either of us working for them!
(Knowing what I do now, I doubt I would've enjoyed working for SOE given that they laid of the person they chose instead of me after he relocated from Seattle 1 year after being hired.)
FWIW, they paid for me to relocate so I can't complain (and I'm still down here in San Diego with no intentions of leaving). Also, it was more like a year and a half before the big axe swing; you're a far stronger programmer than I am so your chances of surviving might've been higher, then again the other programmer who got laid off was responsible for the graphical improvements in Altar of Malice so who really knows how good your odds are when 50 percent of the company is getting laid off.Endymion, who got laid off not too long after.
EQ2Wire » EQ2 Developer Layoffs: FYreflyte, Xelgad, Lyndro, Endymion, Gnobrin, Jeff Bard, Afista
FWIW, they paid for me to relocate so I can't complain (and I'm still down here in San Diego with no intentions of leaving). Also, it was more like a year and a half before the big axe swing; you're a far stronger programmer than I am so your chances of surviving might've been higher, then again the other programmer who got laid off was responsible for the graphical improvements in Altar of Malice so who really knows how good your odds are when 50 percent of the company is getting laid off.
Sorry for the late response and thread interruption, haven't caught up on the forums in a while.
No, Nandy (Zoltaroth) did the anti-spam code; he was the lead on EQ2 when I started there but eventually moved over to Next/Landmark. Shortly after the layoffs in 2015 he left to go work at Amazon Fresh.Glad to see you landed on your feet at least, and good to see you around.
They laid off the guy that did Altar of Malice graphical improvements? That's nuts... he also did their anti-spam code, didn't he?
What's sad but funny is that, back during opening day on that Wednesday in May, I:
1) took off work that Thursday and Friday
2) had a Monday holiday
3) played like a psycho with minimal sleep at launch
4) had a pretty fun grind group and was maybe the 7th-ish cle to 50 on server
5) got to raid with Faceless; was feeling the old magic seeping in
...then I returned to work Tuesday and lost my job after 9 years. Was devastated; couldn't muster the mental happiness to login to play a game when my real life future was a mess and I was crying almost daily.
I really, really wanted to go ham on this server. I didn't post anything on FE guild board or discord about what I was going through because, honestly, I was one person in a guild of 150 at the time. Not missed, expendable, and that's fine. I know my time to rejoin/reapp has come and gone, and frankly, I don't think at 39 I have the... I don't know how to describe it. It's not drive, or stamina, or lack of a life... it's something I think that's missing now when I managed okay back 15 years ago. The desire is there, I'm just old I guess. ...and that's okay. Would have been a really cool thing to do Kunark rush upon release (I got first copy of EQ when Kunark was already out for a few months, so...).
To Zaide and company; was veeeery brief but it was memorable. Sorry I couldn't hang with the best !~
What's sad but funny is that, back during opening day on that Wednesday in May, I:
1) took off work that Thursday and Friday
2) had a Monday holiday
3) played like a psycho with minimal sleep at launch
4) had a pretty fun grind group and was maybe the 7th-ish cle to 50 on server
5) got to raid with Faceless; was feeling the old magic seeping in
...then I returned to work Tuesday and lost my job after 9 years. Was devastated; couldn't muster the mental happiness to login to play a game when my real life future was a mess and I was crying almost daily.
I really, really wanted to go ham on this server. I didn't post anything on FE guild board or discord about what I was going through because, honestly, I was one person in a guild of 150 at the time. Not missed, expendable, and that's fine. I know my time to rejoin/reapp has come and gone, and frankly, I don't think at 39 I have the... I don't know how to describe it. It's not drive, or stamina, or lack of a life... it's something I think that's missing now when I managed okay back 15 years ago. The desire is there, I'm just old I guess. ...and that's okay. Would have been a really cool thing to do Kunark rush upon release (I got first copy of EQ when Kunark was already out for a few months, so...).
To Zaide and company; was veeeery brief but it was memorable. Sorry I couldn't hang with the best !~
What's sad but funny is that, back during opening day on that Wednesday in May, I:
1) took off work that Thursday and Friday
2) had a Monday holiday
3) played like a psycho with minimal sleep at launch
4) had a pretty fun grind group and was maybe the 7th-ish cle to 50 on server
5) got to raid with Faceless; was feeling the old magic seeping in
...then I returned to work Tuesday and lost my job after 9 years. Was devastated; couldn't muster the mental happiness to login to play a game when my real life future was a mess and I was crying almost daily.
I really, really wanted to go ham on this server. I didn't post anything on FE guild board or discord about what I was going through because, honestly, I was one person in a guild of 150 at the time. Not missed, expendable, and that's fine. I know my time to rejoin/reapp has come and gone, and frankly, I don't think at 39 I have the... I don't know how to describe it. It's not drive, or stamina, or lack of a life... it's something I think that's missing now when I managed okay back 15 years ago. The desire is there, I'm just old I guess. ...and that's okay. Would have been a really cool thing to do Kunark rush upon release (I got first copy of EQ when Kunark was already out for a few months, so...).
To Zaide and company; was veeeery brief but it was memorable. Sorry I couldn't hang with the best !~
Seek Help.
Mmmhmm... and why exactly? To want to play a game I really loved but now find playing 8 hours daily a bit too "draining" ? Okay.