Only of interest to those whom it doesn't need to be explained in detail...
... but I've only just realised that my EverQuest 2 subscription includes a bonus five free booster packs for the electronic collectable card game, Legends of Norrath every month. Now last summer I learned to play LoN and I reckon it's a good game as the genre goes, and I'd play it if I had more time (barely got time to play the actual MMO at the moment). More importantly, the booster packs contain the occaisional 'loot' card, which doesn't work in the card game but can be redeemed for fluff items (like pretty clothes with no stats, and stuff to put in your house) in EQ2 itself. Being a great fan of fluff, I opened my accumulated pile of free boosters last night in the hope of finding a nice painting or something.
And - I found a free five roomed house.
Basically, I've won the EQ2 lottery. A five room mansion in Freeport (you can choose one in Qeynos instead if you want), best house in the game, which - at launch - was utterly unobtainable, except in one's dreams. These days, the financial cost of such a house is trivial enough (inflation) and the status cost can be defrayed by stuffing it full of status-reduction furniture, but it was still unobtainable to me, because I don't belong to a level 30 guild and the chances of Mr Viala and me getting our two-person guild up to that level any time soon were remote.
Now I have the house I always dreamed of when I first started to play six years ago, entirely free. No rent, no status upkeep. You access it via a door in the basement of the Magic Academy in North Freeport, and you have the rather cool address (which appears on the broker) of 'Magical Housing, North Freeport'.
And - I found a free five roomed house.
Basically, I've won the EQ2 lottery. A five room mansion in Freeport (you can choose one in Qeynos instead if you want), best house in the game, which - at launch - was utterly unobtainable, except in one's dreams. These days, the financial cost of such a house is trivial enough (inflation) and the status cost can be defrayed by stuffing it full of status-reduction furniture, but it was still unobtainable to me, because I don't belong to a level 30 guild and the chances of Mr Viala and me getting our two-person guild up to that level any time soon were remote.
Now I have the house I always dreamed of when I first started to play six years ago, entirely free. No rent, no status upkeep. You access it via a door in the basement of the Magic Academy in North Freeport, and you have the rather cool address (which appears on the broker) of 'Magical Housing, North Freeport'.