From EQ2 Wire:
Bonus XP Weekend!
All forms of experience (Achievement, Adventure, and Tradeskill) will receive a 30% bonus from Friday Feb 12th @ 3pm PST (6pm EST) until Monday Feb 15th @ 11:59pm PST (Feb 16 @ 2:59pm EST) when the servers will be brought down to patch the Sentinel’s Fate expansion as well as Game Update 55.
Retail Boxes
Some players have reported seeing Sentinel’s Fate regular and Collector’s Edition boxes in retail stores. We’re glad to see this as it will make it easier for some players to buy the game early if they are not able to get to a retail store on the 16thl. Frankly, the release date doesn’t really matter on an MMORPG. Until the servers themselves are patched, you cannot play the new content.
Kiara has
encouraged players to NOT enter Sentinel’s Fate product keys into the system (
Station.com) until February 16th. The system may get confused by a prematurely entered key. O.o
