A 25% to 50% experience bonus is in effect from now until Wednesday, June 30, at 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time. Here is the word from EQLive:

June 25, 2010 (10:00am) to June 30, 2010 (10:00am)

Hey Folks,

The Server Merges are complete. However, we've had some technical difficulties in the past 48 hours that has kept parts of our universal chat system down while we finished migrating all Friends lists and In-Game Emails. Within the past 24 hours we finished the integration of our chat system. We are getting a few reports that some Friends lists are not reporting correctly, so we're continuing to work on it and hope to have it resolved soon. In the interim, we've restored all of Chat so you can now communicate without any issues. We are very sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you and we appreciate your patience and cooperation during this time.

On a side note, our Customer Service team has reported an increase of tickets this week, receiving many panicky comments that an increased number of intruders or strangers have been lurking around the lands. They wanted me to let you know that you have nothing to fear and to convey that while this may have caused some confusion, these people have traveled far and wide to get where you are… but just from a parallel universe. So, all is fine! Add them to your friends list and have a good time with it!

Knowing that we've inconvenienced you during this process and to thank you for your continued support while being without your list of friends and at the same time causing panic with all the "strangers" walking amongst you, we thought we'd extend the olive branch of experience in your direction starting today.

We've tasked one of our best tinkerers to create a new experience modifying device for your benefit and would like to unveil the Gnomish Arcanus Magical Experience Of Norrath (GAME-ON for short) device today. Not realizing that our tinkerer splits his time as a prankster, we've discovered that the GAME-ON device is set to random experience. The best that we can tell right now is that it is set no higher than a 50% experience boost and no lower than 25%. It appears that the GAME-ON device is set to turn on at 10am this morning (Pacific Time) and to shut down at 10am on Wednesday (also Pacific Time). As we get more data, we will share it with you. Otherwise, please accept this as a token of our thanks for your patience and dedication to EverQuest.

Best regards!