I certainly plan on using it to communicate updates. The message for the next scheduled update's already in the queue, actually -- it will turn on two weeks before the update. I was going to use it to announce a hardware problem this morning, but Ops fixed it before I was finished typing.

There are four groups of people who often have things they want to tell the EQ player base: Ops (network status page), CS (Broadcasts and MotD), Community (Patcher and forums), and Development (Forums). With the news page we can all post our updates to one place that we know every player can access.



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