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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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  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.

  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.

  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. 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 _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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  11. 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...

  12. 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?