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Sony Online Seeking Queen of Everquest II
KingSkippus writes "Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) and Stuff Magazine is seeking a real life look-alike for Everquest II's Antonia Bayle, Queen of Qeynos. In preparation, it has launched a Web site that will go live on May 17. The winner will receive a modeling contract with SOE and a photo spread in Stuff Magazine. Perhaps pictures would make lucrative auction items as well?"
I haven't played Everquest, but I've played plenty of WoW, which is just as addictive. Basically, the feeling of accomplishment from completing a quest, gaining a level, etc., feels good. Becoming more powerful as a result of these things also feels good.
All this is magnified by the fact that there are thousands of other people in the same world as you, and your accomplishments make you "better" relative to them. At some point, you find yourself dreaming about all the great things you'll be able to do once you hit the level cap, and all the power you will have over the average player. So the desire to become ultra-powerful also drives you on.
I also rather enjoy just exploring new areas. The world in WoW is huge and beautiful. It would literally take days of play time to see everything, even if there were no enemies to slow you down.
That said, it does get really repetitive. If you snap yourself out of the spell for a bit and realize "This is just a game. My status relative to all these other players is totally irrelevant.", the game gets really boring really fast.
Firiona Vie is *NOT* Antonia Bayle.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
Here's how this went down:
Sony Boss: OK, so we need a new Everquest model. Who can we get?
Sony Lacky: No one for under $500k.
Boss: What? Why the hell so much?
Lacky: The words out on this gig. Models know they basically spend 200 days a year standing for 16 hours in two-bit comic book shops and trade show barns, being pawed at by guys who's main interaction with females are through McDonalds drive through windows.
Boss: No one will do it for less?
Lacky: Not any professional models, but there may be a solution. Run a contest, a look-a-like thing or something like that, and basically get some college student in here, flash a few thousand in her face, sign her up with one of those "special" contracts Legal keeps in that steel vault in the basement, and we're set for the next 5 years.
Boss: You really think this will work?
Lacky: It worked for Hollywood didn't it?