Don't confuse the new Atlas Book with EQ Atlas

Just copying over what I posted on the update page so you can comment: Muse sent me this note to post for you: "SOE recently began promoting their new book, the Everquest Atlas, and some of you have expressed to me some confusion regarding this. Despite the similarity between the name of this product and their use of "EQ Atlas" to advertise it on the Everquest Live site, the product is not related in any way to my site, EQ Atlas (www.eqatlas.com). While we both offer maps and descriptions, the specific content is quite different. I hope that this announcement will clear up any confusion." I'll go a bit further. /rant on. It seems pretty rotten of them to be using the good will he built up over the past three years to sell their book in a way that would clearly confuse players into thinking Muse is involved with it. Muse is a friend, so I may be prejudiced on this one, and yeah it is Sony's game, but I can easily think of a dozen names they could have picked that would have been just as good and wouldn't have suggested a connection with his site. The only logical conclusion to draw is that they are hoping people will go "Cool. EQ Atlas has a book" and buy it based upon that. Shameful, really. Moreover, having looked at the example pdf file SOE lists and compared it to the information on Muse's site, I'm not sure why anyone would buy that book when EQ Atlas offers far superior maps and information for free, and has been serving the community for years. Yeah they're pretty, but who wants a map without locs and camp information? /rant off.

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RE: Where's the value???
# Aug 22 2002 at 1:03 AM Rating: Good
I'm sorry but he does have a soapbox to stand on, the name is close enough that it encures a thought that it might be from Muse himself, they took that in consideration when making this book and have surely taken advantage of it. They're probably thinking that the confusion alone will make people buy the book thinking it was published by Muse.

I'm sorry, but the soap is there and firmly planted in the ground, not by us but by Verant Inc., if they didn't want these comments, posts and feedback they should have hired better monkies to think of names for their products, because the ones they have are surely slacking o the job!
RE: Where's the value???
# Aug 22 2002 at 12:29 PM Rating: Default
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You know what they say about opinions... "Everybody has one." Sure, SOE's book may be a waste of paper, but it's kind of ridiculous to flame them because they used the name "EverQuest Atlas."

Get a clue: SOE OWNS ANY and ALL reference to the word "EverQuest." It's their game. Only their good will allows the continuation of sites like EQAtlas.com. If they thought for a second that site's like Allakhazam's or Muse's hurt their game, then the sites would not exist.
RE: Where's the value???
# Aug 22 2002 at 5:16 AM Rating: Default
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Lets see it's an atlas for Everquest what should it be called hhmmm Zork's Atlas no, Zelda's atlas no, how about Sony's Atlas no that wouldn't work either since you wouldn't know what game it was for how about Everquest Atlas yeah that makes sense to me. Hey folks Atlas is a book of maps and their game is called Everquest. I sure hope that someone doesn't have a web site out there titled EQ2 sony may have to change the name of that game to satisfy you also. That being said I personally wouldn't buy the book I like Muse's site and will continue to use it if needed. Great job Muse your work is apreciated.

Edited, Thu Aug 22 06:07:39 2002
RE: Where's the value???
# Aug 23 2002 at 2:58 PM Rating: Decent
Yes I can see that... but they could have called it Sony's Atlas to Everquest, or Altas of Everquest, or even fancy stupid useless pictures of Everquest, but the point is they didn't. They chose to use the hype already surrounding Eqatlas.com. Whether they own everything or not shouldn't matter, cause they apperantley do not own morals!
RE: Where's the value???
# Aug 27 2002 at 3:14 PM Rating: Good
Bah, if they had realised that it was a confliction with EQAtlas, they would have renamed it something else. Lets face it, although Muse has done a lot of work to get his Maps, 90% of them are out of date and totally useless except for zone location info, which most people know by now anyway. I cant remember the last time I looked at a map of any kind. :o)

Apart from all that, the idea of this game is a ROLEPLAY game, you are supposed to find your OWN info on mobs/drops/locations/blah/blah. DOH! :o)


RE: Where's the value???
# Aug 27 2002 at 3:20 PM Rating: Default
Yeag, /agree 100%. God knows what all these noobs will do when EQ2 comes out and there are NO maps anywhere! ROFL

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