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Norrathian Pizza Delivery

Posted by Zonk on from the elves-with-pepperoni dept.

Eletido writes "SOE's newest massively online role-playing game has now incorporated the ability to buy Pizza Hut pizza from the in-game command prompt. From the site: 'You're in luck - pizza is just a few key strokes away! While playing EverQuest II just type /pizza and a web browser will launch the online ordering section of pizzahut.com.' Never has gaming been made so easy." Commentary available from Grimwell.com.

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  1. Just what your fat arse needs. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    just type /pizza

    Next year they'll introduce "/exercise" and "/weight_watchers".

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    1. Re:Just what your fat arse needs. by vettemph · · Score: 5, Funny

      call me when they launch /handjob.

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  2. wow by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everquest and Pizza Hut: Because you're not fat enough.

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    1. Re:wow by macdaddy357 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Make sure you let them know they need to come to the basement door, or your mom will tell them she didn't order any, and send them away! Also, how much food is Pizza The Hutt going to waste because gamers though they were only ordering imaginary pizza for their imaginary friends in the game?

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  3. Not quite... by petrus4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...a case of "the dead being fed intravenously to the living," but an important milestone along the way. ;-)

  4. OMG! by LordPhantom · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... when are they going to have "/girlfriend"?!? Please god, make it soon!

    1. Re:OMG! by zeath · · Score: 4, Funny

      Through a bizarre experiement inspired by shock therapy, they implement the "/girlfriend" command to load up goatse.cx in the browser.

    2. Re:OMG! by glowimperial · · Score: 4, Funny

      Maybe /escort or /prostitute would be more appropriate for this situation.

    3. Re:OMG! by Allison+Geode · · Score: 4, Funny

      see, i'd be your girlfriend because you're a gamer, as I am one too, and would probably have a hard time being with someone who didn't understand my passion for electronic entertainment...

      ...But then, when i realize you're an Everquest gamer, I'd dump everything out of your apartment window and take all your money for not spending enough time with me.

      Disclaimer: not really going to dump all your stuff or steal your cash.
      Disclaimer fine print: not really going to date you, either.

    4. Re:OMG! by ultramk · · Score: 4, Informative

      They have it now.

      It's called /quit

      m-

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    5. Re:OMG! by Black+Pete · · Score: 3, Funny

      ...and would probably have a hard time being with someone who didn't understand my passion for electronic entertainment...

      Depends on what kind of electronic entertainment you mean...

      /one ticket to hell, please.

    6. Re:OMG! by tm2b · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Hey, I'm not saying that I want to use the service, but I think it'd be great for them to do it!

      "Prostitution is a mix of sex and free enterprise: which one are you against?"

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  5. But not very easy by Uber+Banker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I live in central London (one of the highest density places in the world) and am unable, to buy Pizza Hut pizza because (all the areas on the website claim to but telephone operators deny it) they fail to deliver to my area. Friends in other areas on London also experience the same problem: more areas seem undeliverable than deliverable.

    Nothing like advertising on London regional channels when you rarely deliver there for a waste of money. Everquest, well I don't care, now a Pizza Hut clan on Counterstrike, well they'd be the terrorists with bellied which ran slowely and couldn't think straight from constipation.

    1. Re:But not very easy by igrp · · Score: 2, Interesting
      I don't much about the situation in the UK (or even overseas in general), but around here online pizza ordering is pretty much useless unless you already know the place and have ordered from them in the past.

      I think I ordered my first pizza online in 1999. Not because it offered any advantage over using the POTS - this was during the bubble so the general belief was that anything that could possibly be done online, should be done online.

      Back then, they mostly used simple CGI-to-email scripts and it was a disaster because pizza places still mostly had dial-up connections and didn't check their email regularly. And even if they did, it wasn't nearly good enough (the whole point of ordering pizza is that you don't want to go out and grab food yourself -- you want food and you want it ASAP and not around noon the next day).

      Within the last few years, most local pizza places (I don't order much from the big chains any more) transitioned either to IM-based or fax-based solutions. And they usually work pretty well. They're instantenous. But there's not really any advantage over picking up the phone, and ordering the old fashioned way.

      And they don't seem to deliver to people who haven't ordered from them before. Apparently, there's a lot more online prank ordering going on compared to old-school over-the-phone prank ordering. I guess that has to do with the perceived anonymity the web offers.

      Having said all that, I still use my local mom & pop pizza place's online ordering service every once in a while (it's a standard web-to-fax gateway form). Not because I'm too lazy to pick up the phone or because it's so much more convenient. But because it's a bit of nostalgia. And it really symbolizes the whole .com era -- sorta pointless but fun crap that you just had to try out for the heck of it.

    2. Re:But not very easy by Anti_Climax · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I have found some distinct advantages to ordering pizza online.

      My previous residence was on the edge of town and the nearest pizza place was several miles away. If I called and ordered, most of the employees were convinced that I was beyond their delivery area and wouldn't let me make delivery orders. If I ordered through the website, however, the order was routed to the same place and it would be delivered without question. On top of that they have *never* messed up an order sent in through the site, even with a dozen or so orders a month.

      Taking the person on the phone out of the pizza ordering equation definitely improved the service they offered.

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  6. That's nothing... by MiceHead · · Score: 3, Funny

    An upcoming SCI-FI MMORPG from the BBC will allow you to buy "a hundred tacos for a hundred dollars," which "should provide adequate sustenance for the Dr. Who Marathon."
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  7. would be cool by rogabean · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When I first saw this... I thought to myself this was the coolest feature I've ever seen introduced in the land of Norrath (EQ1 player almost 5 years.. moved on to WoW)... but then I just saw all it does is open a web browser up in front of the game... not so cool anymore. Would have been nicer as an "in-game" window.

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  8. Try liquid nutrition. by Eunuch · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you're really dedicated, try stuff like Ensure. It's not bad tasting, and you can have it exclusively for as long as you want. Oh, but add fiber.

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    1. Re:Try liquid nutrition. by ultramk · · Score: 4, Funny

      I don't have any mod points at the moment, but I'm still wishing there was a "+1, Horrifying" option.

      m-

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  9. So what happens by Lars+T. · · Score: 5, Funny

    when you type /good pizza ?

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    1. Re:So what happens by Emperor+Igor · · Score: 3, Funny

      You are taken to a special chat room where you are suddenly embroiled in a heated roundtable discussion on the quality of pizza.

  10. Re:/exit by One+Div+Zero · · Score: 2, Interesting

    omg n3wb..

    it's /camp desktop

    Besides, lots of people play in order to escape the life they have. They actually have too much life for their tastes at the moment.

    I once met a prostitute who just loved EQ just so she wouldn't have to think about her life. Met her in reality, though (and no, I was not a customer).

  11. /afk by One+Div+Zero · · Score: 2, Funny

    In related news, thousands of adventurers die as their clerics go AFK to pay the delivery guy.

  12. Why isnt that in-game as well? by mnmn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There should be a little hut on every island etc, where players can go in, and purchase pizza by typing their CC numbers to the lady there. Working at pizzahut would be easier that way.

    Not to mention the pizza can get cheaper on advanced stages, with the game company's help, giving much more incentive to kids to play

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    1. Re:Why isnt that in-game as well? by Emperor+Igor · · Score: 2, Funny

      +1 Pizza Skill!

    2. Re:Why isnt that in-game as well? by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      typing their CC numbers to the lady there

      It sounds fun, but I doubt that the in-game security is enough to handle valuable information like Credit Cards.

      And for added bonus, CC numbers in-game are handled by ChoicePoint, a proven leader in information extraction and loss.

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    3. Re:Why isnt that in-game as well? by _xeno_ · · Score: 3, Interesting

      EQ2 is a subscription game. They already have your credit card number. Why not set up a system to allow you to charge your preexisting credit card information for a pizza ingame?

      Obviously you'd have to set it up so that the account holder can block this feature to prevent little Jimmy from charging a million pizzas to be delivered to the Lunanites, but it could still conceivably work. Oh, and people using game cards to play would be SOL, but - oh well.

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  13. An alternative by MisterMoney · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Open the damned browser yourself and go to your favorite pizza place's site.

    Pizza Hut
    Papa John's
    Domino's

    If I didn't list your favorite, I apologize. You can probably find them by clicking HERE

  14. Weak + Lame by MBraynard · · Score: 2, Insightful
    First, this is less about adding a feature to the game than it is about getting a new revenue stream from Pizza Hut. Just as easily could have been dominoes, etc.

    Second, it's not nearly as sophisticated as it could be. It could log your street address and credit card, and has some feature to specify what you want so you enter it all into the command line. Like /pizza large .5 pepperoni 1 extra cheese dietpepsi.

    Instead, what they have now takes even more keystrokes. /pizza is six keystrokes. alt-tab to browser + favorites button for pizza hut is two keystrkes and one mouse click. Maybe one more click if you don't have a browser open already.

    1. Re:Weak + Lame by g_t_llama · · Score: 3, Funny

      ... 1 extra cheese dietpepsi.

      You know, when they started injecting cheese into the crust, we all wondered where else they were going to try to cram extra cheese. I guess now we know...

  15. If they were smart by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is my freaking idea, so if someone institutes it, its on Slashdot, and its copywrighted. Ok that settled. Have quests for in game items that translate to real life rewards. I just killed the ultimate monster, and I now I won a trip to disney world! Kill 100 orcs and get a personal pan pizza. Win coupons for the grocery store by baking. Etc etc.

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  16. Re:Retarded. by PedanticSpellingTrol · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wait, it just takes you to the pizza hut ordering page? lame. Soe should already have your name, address, and CC# on file, it should just automatically place an order for Pepperoni Thin Crust.

  17. Commandline pizza by aliens · · Score: 2, Informative

    This seemed appropriate for the discussion :
    CLI Pizza

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  18. Type /pizza by Mike+Hawk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And you can level up your pant size.

  19. Re:more... by Lehk228 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    so will /piss

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  20. Perhaps... by Nathonix · · Score: 2, Funny

    They could include a /toilet, or at least /newpairofpants. They dont happen to have a /. either do they?

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  21. Re:Information wants to be anonymous. by cannon+fodder+0109 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder if that would even work out in the first place. Can you really just feed a human being by using the corpse of the another human being, then feed the another one when he dies, etc etc, without ever feeding one with real nutrients.

    Wouldnt you lose those nutrients that were used by that person?

    No you couldn't.

    Respiration, the stepwise oxidation of glucose to make ATP, is only about 30% efficient at best. The anabolic pathways that use ATP to build and maintain body tissues are also a great deal less than 100% efficent.

    Overall 10% of energy/biomass used by an organism is retained as muscle/fat/other tissue.

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  22. two questions by PaganRitual · · Score: 3, Funny

    1. will the pizza be nerfed in the next patch? i don't want to order one now and find that when it gets here, it's got less pepperoni and more cheese than before. and i swear this new patch has made my dew less fizzy. i can't find anything in the readme about this though. WHY AREN'T THEY TELLING US THE CHANGES!?!?!

    2. does the 'get it in 15 minutes or it's free' clause count if it takes me 25 minutes to answer the door because i'm currently instancing with a group and want to make sure im not AFK when the blue item is dropped and i want to roll for it?