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If it's a shiney new dragon, sure. But "Powerful".. "Dragon".. "Obsessed with revenge".. Going to conquer other worlds? This doesn't sound like someone we all know?

No, not Lord Nagafen!

In a chat session organised by one of the mags (maybe Gamespy) something like this was suggested. I think it was Absor, went to some lengths to impress on us that it was "happy families" every day.

The thought "methinks he doth protest too much" did cross my mind at the time.

i would be careful saying things like that

i have also had very few problems ever with eq ( other than with shadowrest recently) but in the past here and on other boards it seems you are only able to complain about things

it is perfectly ok to ***** about things but if you have a good experience and voice it you must be a fanboy or a kiss *** you cant just be generally happy with the product

Erh, have you checked my profile? You couldn't get any less Time equipped than me!

Again, all your "complaints" are about game play design, nothing to do with it actually working or not.

They are definitely 55+ zones, but hey, more than three quarters of the game population are 55 plus!

There is plenty for single groups and (I hate to say it) soloers to do. In fact like Cobalt Scar, Umbral Plains and PoN, you are likely to have to fight your way through the crowds of Necros and Druids.

You must have just chosen a bad day to visit I think.

Ever since Kunark there has been content not available to so called "casual players" Veeshan's Peak, Howling Stones, NToV, Sleepers, hell even Velks/Sirens/Dragon Nec was not viable for "casual" players. Same for most of Umbral Plains, Ssraa, Vex Thal when Luclin came out.

Tehom I understand what you are saying, but everything you mention there is a game designer issue. The expansion it self works and actually had few programming problems.

The game design issues are a different matter, no doubt you are correct about the encounter design, and I whole heartedly agree with you about the distinct lack of imagination being applied to the NPC model design, as I've said before I think that even with PoP there was a lot that was quite poor.

But I think its a matter of players letting the EQ Live team know that they have lost the plot with character design, and they need to put a bit more thought into encounter design as well.

Does make you wonder just how well the encounters are tested during the design process, maybe some one forgot to turn off "god" mode .

btw, with some of you ******** about SOE... but did anybody else notice shorter loading times when starting EQ? (dunno, if thats covered in another thread, but hey...) seems to me helluva lot faster for about 2 weeks now or so....                                  
 
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You just forget that before GoD, it was a looot better, after the introduction of DX 9, it has gone down the drain + Mega bugged.

The per-order page quotes a July release date.

I'll probably pre-order and will digi-download.

I'm with Iluien on this, Few complaints about bugs, but not enough for it to overshadow the enjoyment of the new expansions.

The problem with folks buying plat is that there is more money in the system than is actually made.

How long do you think it would normal character to make 500K of platinum in game?

Now, take that time and throw it out the window because someone hacked the game and found the code for platinum. Now with that, they sell to some SMUCK (on Ebay or wherever)that can't play the game and earn their keep (these are perhaps the rich little weenies/weenettes who's mommies and daddies gave them everything in life and didn't make them earn it). These same folks with loads of plat in the bank, start buying stuff no matter what the price. Therefore there is less and less in the bazaar, so the price goes up. Doesn't matter to them, they buy it again anyway, they have plat to burn. So prices go up further and further. So you can see how the extra plat in the game ruins the economy. Folks that play the game in a normal (they don't buy plat) mode will never or mostly never, earn the plat to buy these things. But, then again, some folks who must have these items so they can be like the Joneses in turn, go buy plat so that they can get the items. The cycle begins again. That's why if your looking for a Blade of Carnage, it cost close to 500K. Items that 2 years ago cost 10K (and that was alot of plat) cost close to 100K now.

I'm sure other folks have different opinions on the why or wherefores for the economy ingame. This is just mine.

Hmm I'm ranting again. My Apologies.

Edited, Fri May 7 09:08:28 2004 by LordBracus

That sucks... Ok. Let me clarify. It probabably does not suck for caster classes who's epics for the most part are still useful. But since I can virtually guarantee you that epic v2.0 will be a completely replacement for all the melee epics, we once again get screwed...

So not only do we have epics that have been only marginally useful for quite some time while those casters have all had epics that are mostly useful, when we finish epicv2, those casters will now have 2 useful items, while we'll have another melee weapon that will be out of date in a few expansions... yay!...

OK, now that really is bad management and quite stupid if it was deliberate. (ie They pushed it out to meet delivery dates knowing that it was not complete).

Someone needs erh, some retraining

Is it the same in the US? You're not allowed to discipline staff any more, you have to "re-train" them.

Not sure if iam going to get it. EQ2 is doo out very soon and hay given SOE current record. I look for them too S#@% can EQ and ***** everybody just for the hell of it. Hay Come on 2GHZ cpu and 1GB of ram 128MB Video card to play EQ2 AHH Come on!
That means it is going to be the most graphically intense game on the planet. I DON"T THINK SO! Pull your head out your *** Verant. I know its off the subject a little but @#$%! stupid crack dealer got me hook and I just fell like Am getting used by them=(. I fell like as buggy as the last expansion was, you would have thought they would be working on the fixes for it. OOO no, not verant thats too much like right. I know dam well they going too have some lam *** excuse too kill EQ.
Duh we just don't have the resources too support EQ & EQ2. So we diced to just go with EQ2 and ***** you little people who bought all or expansion of EQ. We like too thank you for all loyal support of EQ and not too mention your money. Wate who #@$% Am I kinding SOE don't thank nobody, just give us your money lol. THATS OK VERANT I WORK FOR THE US POST OFFICE! Please stop ******** with my emotions!

Good research, shadowrings. In my experience of waiting for titles to be released, whatever EB says as a release date is usually golden. Sometimes EB will even move a date to the right before the game developer even announces a delay (for example, Halo 2). Whatever information EB gets, seems credible.

It is odd that Sony and the "other guys" are saying July, but EB says that they were told September for OOW. It's not good game selling practice to keep such a distant pre-order date when your competition has it much earlier. It seems to me that even though it is just a pre-sell date and by no means firm, human nature will always lean towards the sooner date if you are going to pre-buy.

Interesting.... looking at EB now shows that EQ2 has a release date of September 6th vice the September 14th date on Friday. Contrary to what I thought on Friday, EQ2 has slid to the left one week. OOW still holds at September 6th.

Took a pulse...

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/editorial/reviews/reviews.asp?pf_id=243400

Granted - this is just 18 people - or it was when i looked at it, but most seemed tired of the successive expansions and the direction that all of them have taken. That direction being focused primarily on players that are over 60 and raid for high level items. Truth be told, as i run through the Oasis on the way to an adventure, I feel like a guy driving to work through an inner-city ghetto. Years ago it had the feel of a place alive with the spirit of community and challenge and all that came there were in a state of growth and development. Now there is nothing but the run down and abandoned shops. The new Mall has moved in and the old one no longer serves. Why not bulldoze the Oasis, Northern Ro, South Karana, all of the tourists have gone home - never to return.
No the programmers at EQ KILLED (notice the emphasis) the soul of the game much in the way a DM Kills his game by giving whiney players a Monty HaUL rather than a challenging RPG. I suppose that many my find the archaic... well ... archaic, but I have been a Gamer since 1975 and I find that after people play for so long they look back and say things like, "Remember those 2 orcs that nearly killed us when we were level 1?". The challenge is gone, the dead rise like a child that bruised its knee and no more can the simple purchaser of the pristine game find someone to play with.
We dont see n00bs like we used to... and even then ... not for long. After finding that to see another soul u have to buy 3 to 5 expansions they drop out BEFORE their investment is too large.
I (U may find this hard to believe) love this game, but i see its end coming. I suppose I can go out of doors and ride a bike ... If i still remember how... *smiles