Poll: The Buried Sea FeaturesFollow

I think it's sad SoE really doesnt care about EQ anymore this expansion and the last one have only been availible by digital download, how do you draw in new players and try to keep the game alive when you wont even market your expansions so they will see them? It looks like SoE is just trying to make as much $ out of this as possible with the least amount of effort and then within the next few years get rid of it. It's sad to see one of the best MMO's ever made in such a state.

Unless they release an expansion which gives out something universally useful (like the extra bank slots), I won't be getting this one. I have barely scratched the surface of TSS, so I'll be a while.

Expansion sounds really cool. Im in =)

I won't be buying this ill-conceived piece of cr@p...None of it interests me in the slightest.

Voted "None of the above" like so many people. Although I will eventually purchase it so I have "every expansion" it looks like I'll be exploring it as much as I explored LoY...Not very much. Some things looks interesting but thats about it. Nothing ground breaking is being introduced with new concepts or original idea's.
And I just had a discussion with guildies about how EQ2 is still boxing expansions on store shelves but original EQ isn't. Even WoW is boxing there expansion on store shelves. Why isn't EQ doing the same? It was supposed to compete with EQ2 and WoW, but I guess Sony doesn't want to compete with itself and its failure at a sequel(EQ2). If they would concentrate on EQ and give it the resources it had, they wouldn't even need EQ2 unless its a copyright/written agreement they made with Verant before it was sold to the them.
I'm also inclined to believe that its not the developers fault but someone on the upper rings of management who are dictating these decisions(I could be wrong about this.) as the exodus of developers leaving EQ is staggering. Like rats fleeing from a sinking ship. Some of the people leaving deaply care/cared about EQ and wanted it to thrive after the EQ2/WoW split. All things must come to an end and I have a feeling that someone in the upper part of management wants that to come a little to pre-maturely so they can concentrate resources($$$) on EQ2 and any other half-baked idea they can think of.

I be playing until the mast is completely under the water just like in Pirates of the Carribean's opening scene with Jonny Depth(sp?).

-Savage Lord Grimwar of Prexus

p.s. Mabye thats why they have the ship theme. The developers who care are telling us to get off the sinking ship in a subtle way?

The only thing that would make me buy this expansion would be a new spell or spells to my Paladin pacify line. Other than that, I will pass.

To be fair, SOE has been putting out recent expansions largely based on player requests: "Let's have an Asian themed expansion" (DoN), "Let's have a dungeon/underground themed expansion" (DoDH), "Fill in (this) area of the old game map" (DoN/PoR/TSS), etc.

If they're doing 'high seas', it's almost certainly because folks have asked for 'high seas'.

Rashere, is that you?

trust me dude, legoland has ship to ship combat.



Edited, Nov 8th 2009 12:48pm by Bethgin

Maybe SOE is counting on the hoardes of people who will buy this because their guild requires it. I am sure everyone in my guild will buy it for that reason alone. When i read about this expansion however, there was absolutely nothing to enthrall me! Believe me i am easily "conned" out of my money too. I would happily pay $30 for a single extra bank slot or even better, shared bank slot.
I would pay $30 for epic 3.0. in content. I would pay $30 for an extra 5 levels even. But the only reason I will buy this is because my guild will require it.

That is quite sad I think. So I voted none.

@the poster above who only just got TSS two weeks ago, and only to get/upgrade TSS armor:

TSS works fine for me for solo/duoing purposes - pity you bought it for the end game content, which is crap, according to people who are at that level ;-)

This BS expansion seems like another LoY: Very little actual content, a few 'ok handy' features (e.g. guild banner) and another $30 thrown at the Kraken that is SOE.

I loved what they did for the casual and semi-casual players with TSS. I only wish they'd reuse old zones rather than introduce new ones that will be crowded for exactly one week, until everyone and their neighbor has figured out how to maximise (xp+loot)/hour and so end up camping the same four spots.

Do anyone even remember the Qeynos Badge of Honor? If you don't know this quest, look it up, it's arguably the best quest in the game and has been there forever. Yes, it's semi-broken, but it is doable, fun and (deep breath) it has a STORYLINE! And yes, you can get better gear these days, but what made EQ great was the sense of accomplishment, not the maximising of aa yield per hour played. (Can you tell I met a level 72 yesterday who could find Qeynos?)

Edited, Jan 24th 2007 10:37am by Whitman