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most players want a game, not a second job. most players do not want to play a video game for more than an hour or two at a time. you dont get grouping or raids with that little time invesment.
advertise the heck out of it, and you would get Vanguard. a rush of new players who, after a few weeks, all leave again for something more time friendy.
what EQ has in subscription numbers is all there is to be had for people who play 4 adn 5 hours at a time. this small group of dedicated players is split between EQ1 and EQ2 and various other games.
new players wont tollerate the increadable time sinks for very little gain EQ offers anymore. there are other games that will let them play the way they want. an hour or two at a time without aggrivation or fustraition.
thats why WoW has 8 million subscribers and EQ is in the 5 digits along with all other forced grouping games. tey would some when you advertised, but they wouldnt stay. all you have to do is look at what happened to Vanguard. they sold 200,000 accounts, the masses came, then they left. last report was mabe 20,000 people left adn still sliding.
people dont have to play a game anymore that is more like a second job than.......fun.
Excuse me for not understanding what your trying to explain. There is a time in any game where you become high enough that the only thing left exciting are things that require more than 1 person and take more than 1 hour. This is true for 90% of MMORPGs out there (Such as wow, eq, etc.). If you dont like that kind of stuff, then your right, you would go looking for another game. But thats not what im having a problem understanding. You are saying EQ takes a mass amount of time for little accomplishments, and that is because Most people are up to that point. It can happen with any game, not just EQ. When youve played a game so much that your considered "high end" and have little left to do, the only options are do the "Little Achievments" or go to another game. This happens to EVERY game eventually, because if there was a way to do everything by yourself in a game, and under an hour. Then there would be nothing left to do.
At least eq is somewhat trying, even if they are failing miserably. There trying to add stuff to do, that dosent require a crapload of time (although they do include things that take long, for thoes who seek a challenge). The point is people are only seeing what EQ is doing for the high end players. Heres proof that they still are trying:
TSS: Yea, alot of zones were high end, but they made a new starter city, and tons of quests and zones for people who want to level.
TBS: Yea, the missions are mainly geared toward level 75s. Your all forgetting the Dubloon Missions, and the zones that connect to TBS and KC that are geared towards lower levels.
The point im getting at is that if you hate the game so much as to constantly post about its failure, then leave. If you really thought the game was gay, you wouldnt be posting this Crap in the EQ forums, and you wouldnt still be buying expansions and playing the game. EQ may not be what it was before, but that happens to all MMOs eventually. Even WoW, who may have 8 million, will someday change in a way some people may not like. The point is, are you going to stand and complain to people who may still like the game, or are you going to play until it actually does die? Cause you can think what you want to think, but after this many years theres still a decent amount of people, and the expansions prove that SOE hasnt given up on EQ.
