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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I'll pass
# Sep 12 2002 at 8:19 PM Rating: Decent
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I've been using Muse's maps before I started playing. I got the game and Prima guide a bit over a year ago. The book said the maps were from the eqatlas.com site, so I went there ASAP to see how big the EQ world really was. Now I have binders for each continent.

After allowing Prima to use Muse's maps to promote their game, I figured the EQ Atlas would be better quality copies (if that can exist) of Muse's maps. After seeing the map on the eq site, I saw it wasn't really an atlas (by my definition) at all, but a book made up of the major landmarks of Norrath etc.

This would be totally useless to me as a game player.

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