whats wrong with EQFollow

1) Rubbish, I play since '99 and yes Commons have changed and as far as I have seen for years now you rarely if ever see people on those zones anymore, unless those who farm silks/pelts/lightstones. So don't know why you so heated about it.
Most people have no clue where zones like Dagnor's OOT and Befallen are, let alone play there. Yes mostly older players remember those zones fondly but I for sure do not regard them with less affection now they look up to date.

The revamp of the last couple of zones is not too bad they kept more to the old design then previous attempts. If you know the commons and Ro's well you will see that little has changed in actual layout beside the look itself.

2) Don't know where you hunt or what you do but my lvl 66+ toons find more then enough to solo and hunt in groups of 2 to 6 people. Little bit of skill and immagination doesnt make it very difficult to group or solo past 55 without raiding. And note, only 1 of the 3 66+ has a couple of Time items the rest is drops from group zones. quests and tradeskilled.

then again if you spend most of your time running through Commons on a lvl 70 toon then you might not be able to find anything to hunt that gives experience.

I'm pretty sick of people moaning and moaning about all the bad things in EQ. EQ takes note of what people think, thats why zones such as Nektulos where redesigned after revamp to look more like the original version, tradeskillers get a change to voice their opinion and I know from experience that thoughts and suggestions have been implemented.
I for one am pleased I do not need to zone 3 times from freeport to Kith or from Freeport to Innothule.
EQ is not perfect but who is? You? Things could be a LOT worse!

If you so dislike it go to play Astonia or WoW or Monopoly


Maktub

" its always bad to mess with a woman in a state of PMS"

Edited, Mar 13th 2007 4:07am by Maktub

I do not agree with the people who are running around screaming 'EQ is dead'. For alot of us the game is still very enjoyable with lots of things to do, even for high lvl non raiders. I do not see it dying, nor do I see myself quitting... I will be here paying for multiple accounts until they pull the plug's.
I can agree that it is a fine line to walk when revamping old world zones.. some are needed and make the game better, while there are other zones that shouldn't be revamped and doing so will only **** peeps off.
People quit EQ for a ton of different reasons, that cannot be avoided. What is wrong with EQ is the lack of funding/effort put into marketing. There should be a commercial for it and the game should be on store shelves right next to all the others! Digital download only BS is what is wrong with EQ and hurting the game... eq needs new players, don't hate the noobies!

I agree with Eagle, I'm enjoying the game more and more. I have toons that raid and I have others that don't. I have so much to do when I log on, my biggest concern is figuring out what I want to do each day.

Oh man, I agree. Making atypical groups is one of the more fun challenges. An all kiter group, all pet group, using me as bait/healer in a caster group. We've pulled off some really interesting feats. It's hard to be bored with this game.

Idiot with 3 different aliases? All of these posters save one and the OP have a more established posting record than you. You are the only idiot I see here. I don't say that because I like eq and you saying that makes me insecure, I say that because you are an idiot and most of your posts get rated off these forums. Move to another forum you parasite. I'll be with EQ till they shut down the last server, and your posts won't change that either way.

To be honest,but if you are not in a Big Guild or can Box, this gamer offers NOTHING for a casual gamer. If you start this game today you are f....d.
In the last Years Sony did everything to ***** the casuals, but Sony I tell you a Secret.... ITS the Casuals that bring the $$$$$$$. ( See World of Warcraft )
So make sure to milk the Loyal Hardcore Players with 2 or 3 more mindless expansions before you pull the plug.
Thanks.

waaah wahh I can't solo in Valdeholm! My cleric can't FD!!

Want a little cheese with that whine?


I'm so sick and tired of you people complaining about SOE and how EQ is "dead"

It is so simple. If you think the game is dead and that it sucks, THEN LEAVE IT! Stop paying for it, delete your toons and move on to WOW and stop ruining it for the rest of us that do enjoy it. And if you think EQ is full of teenagers and kids behind toons, you've obviously never played WOW.


And now you complain about a revamp on a zone that you haven't grouped or soloed in for XP in over 40 levels? And you want to quit at level 55? there's 20 more levels to grow in this game just FYI. If you based your opinion that the game is dead on that, then peace out. I look forward to not seeing you on these boards again.



I'm not in a raiding guild. I'm a level 70 and If I'm bored, I go do quests for armor and loot, PL lowbies, shroud and group with lowbies for XP, go run around, farm pp, sit in the pok buffing, etc... and that's just scratching the surface. There's tons of things that can be done to pass the time in the game when not grouping.

Seems to me that EQ is not broken, YOU ARE.




Edited, Mar 16th 2007 10:10am by mirogil

Go do lvl 40+ Quests in Blightfire Moors and Crescent Reach.

"Everquest is NOT WoW and it is NOT FFXI. In Everquest, you actually have to work at it to reach goals. That is why we are a more mature fan base then WoW or FFXI. Because not only do we LIKE the challenges, we PREFER the challenges that make Everquest more fun."

This sounds good in theory. In practice 34/35 (if the population of EQ is around 250,000) or 40/41 (if the population of EQ is closer to 200,000) of people who play MMORPGs prefer WOW to EQ. The real problem is not that over 95 percent of people prefer WOW to EQ, its that the population of EQ seems to continue to decrease, and that it is rare to be able to get a group at most pre-60 levels.
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"And finding a group is not part of the challenge of EQ. If you have a problem with finding groups then a)you play at really off times or b)you need a personality check."

You think I need a personality check. Fine. Why do you feel compelled to insult fellow EQ players? IMHO this is a pretty intense insult that you levied at me.

Or maybe its that my personality has improved lately since my toons are now strong enough to play in GE, the first zone in which I have found enough people in it to consistently get groups.

Actually someone else explained why G'Mesa stays unpopulated. The mobs have so many more hp than the corresponding mobs from earlier expansions that getting xp there is too slow. 2 hours per AA is just way too long when you need 250+ AAs to be "average". Making EQ a challenge is one thing, but too much of a good thing drives people away to WOW.

The reason I could not get a group in G'Mesa is not because I am personality impaired, as you would suggest. It is because the population of G'Mesa was usually 4 or less, with 2 of the 4 being me (2 boxing), and with the other 2 being level 70+ indicating they were using G'Mesa purely as a transit zone to get to higher level areas.
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"And what is this fascination with worrying so much about the raiding guilds? I have never been in one, but the number of times they have ruined my night I could count on less then one hand."

The problem with the raiding guilds is that they go to places that non-raiders fight in, complain that the mobs are too trivial there, and then SONY tunes the area accordingly, making it not quite so trivial for Raiders but impossible for non-raiders. Yes Raiders always have been able to do Creator missions in 5 minutes, yes Raiders can solo the POR cloak quest mobs, yes Raiders can take on 5-8 RSS mobs simultaneously with ease. With their gear all of these areas are VERY trivial from them. YAY for them. Kinda like when I take my POR geared shammy and go to Old Sebilis to farm Nodding Blue Lilies. The mobs are cake.

My thoughts about the Raiders: Congrats that your gear is so good that Creator missions, RSS mobs, and POR quest mobs are completely trivial to you. But why do you have to complain so much to get the mobs upgraded to the point that non-raiders can not fight there effectively?
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"And to the dolt who accused me of being an alias, thank you for the good laugh."

You just said I needed a "personality check". You dish it out so you have no right to complain about having to take it.
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"Oh, and my wife's coworker just started the game 2 weeks ago, and is having the time of her life. She leveled her warrior up to level 6, deleted it when she drowned because she couldn't get out of the water , and started another one last night. We haven't twinked her at all, since we feel it is more important that she learn her skills right from the start."

Since your wife's coworker has a support group keeping her in the game, she has a good chance of sticking with EQ. Many people, after deleting the toon as your wife's coworker did, just plain leave EQ. In a very eloquent way you pinpointed exactly why the population of EQ is steadily dropping. Each person has their own "delete" time when some obstacle is the last one.
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The only thing I might personally change about EQ is to readdress the old quests, like the newbie armor quests. Every so often, I like going back and making a new bard or shammy, but I don't like to do the same quest over and over. I end up twinking it after a bit, and then it isn't anymore a new toon as it is an old toon with lousy skill levels.

I can see that EQ probably would do well to merge a few more servers, and then we might have better populations. Yet, I think much of the problem, if it really IS a problem is that, as the server populations slowly dwindle, Norrath keeps expanding. I see this as being both good and bad, actually.

First, I remember when it was almost impossible to hunt most newbie areas because everything was camped. Remember the Ice Giants and even the mammoths in EF or the orcs in Crushbone? Sure you could find a group, but you hard ever found a place to hunt with that group. Then, the expansions were good things. The toons spread out and, for a bit, everything was good. I think LDoN was probably the last time, in my opinion, that an expansion was a good thing for all concerned.

Now, just because an expansion is not a good thing fo ALL, does not mean that it is a bust. It just means that some are going to like the new content more than others. It seemed, for a long period, that this was going to be the route that EQ was destined to head. That they were not so much interested in attracting new people, but in just keeping current subscribers happy. Serpent's Spine was a departure from that, and I think, many will say that it is a pretty decent expansion. It does give an alternative to the old newbie gear quests, and you can group or solo there with little problem.

I guess what I am getting at is that the game seems so lonely now, because, if you are like me, you tend to gravitate to the same old areas. My usual route at the early stages was a newbie zone til 10 or 15, OT from 12 to about 35 (with a little diversion to PC or DSP here and there), hit the HG in Rathe for plat at 35 to 45 and so on and so on...

Do you think I might be a little bored after a few dozen toons? Sure, who wouldn't be. Then you jump in a group and they take you to new places like KC or even HHP, and you find more people and all this "new" content. See, it really isn't so much the game which had gotten boring, it was me.

Any, aside from the newbie quest changes, the only other thing I would like to see is hot zone changes more often. Just shake the thing up a bit.

Why does someone coming on an eq board and reading a whole thread on eq and then proclaiming that eq is dead make me smile? Maybe I just have a well-developed sense of irony.

If EQ was dead then you wouldn't be able to log in. Big guilds have never gotten in my way and there is so much I can do it is very difficult to decide what to do next. If anyone quits the game because someone on some board says quit, well it going to be a long dull life. The people that complain about EQ are boring and the game is too challanging for them and find it easier at other easier games. With the new all expansion box set comming out, expect older players and some new one in the mix. The game is now 8 years old and the reason is that its a good product plan and simple. Not for everyone, thats for sure, but for the 4 time poster/complainers out there that can't figure it out, I sinserly doubt Sony will miss you...

Hello
The game is not dead and i for 1 love it ,now i do get a bad attitude at times and yes ,i find getting Epic help very hard ,grps are so so ,I for 1 dont mind soloing ,i find it tests my skills and makes me a better player in the long run.( but the more i solo the less im group orientated,so i lack group skills )I have soloed evey quest in Black feather up to trying kill Queen and cant get help on that,but find it to be may favorite solo zone,good AAs and CD drops.
As for telling folks leave over some dumb posts ,that is not right and do you really think they are gonna LOL i just take a break and dont play till the game calls me back (which it does GOD i LOVE this game) ,cant be gone more than 3 months max.
As for personalities its hard to see a face ,face's show emotion and i find im taking in the wrong contest in EQ most times and nobody can ses my facial expresstions.( ive a very dry morbid sense a humor)
I find some of you make alot a sense in these forums wish i knew some of ya in EQ alas id have more fun,let alone learn alot ,im nowhere near as educated in EQ as some of you are and I learn alot lurking in this forum( bad attitude and all).
I have good times and bad in EQ just as in RL ,i find some folks very helpful and i find others just plain ***** and than i find the middle of the run folks that just want to play ,dont care about high end,me LMAO it all depends on my mood that day i play sometimes its pure jelously and i want the Highend gear and other days i can care less when i meet a Highend Char that cant hold a candle next to me in PURE talent and ive met a lot.
I for 1 will play till Sony shuts the game off and than ill prolly have to get some sorta counsling for my withdrawls ill experiance in about 3 to for months.
So basically just have fun until Sony kills off the game ,i hope its years down the road and Like i myself have to learn TOO, just take the bad with the good and try make it better,that will keep the game running longer than telling folks leave or jumping on someones thread in a negative manor,negativaty just breed mores .
Just take a Break evey now and than i find it helps alot