saving a legendFollow

when SOE finnishes its tireless effort to run EQ1 into the proverbial ground, how about giving it a new lease on life?

rewrite EQ1, with its origonal release, with a more casual gamer playstyle. get rid of the camping, rare spawns/drops, massive downtime. rewrite the origonal quests. loose the death experience penalty. revamp the level of difficulty on encounters to make it a mostly solo game and by solo i dont mean multi boxing.

a WoW playstyle with EQ1s world.

no body did casters better. no one. no one has a larger more intersting world. no one has a more diverse selection for characters. the just for fun things like levitate, an invis that was usefull at one time, snares that changed the way you could fight, fears that lasted more than a few seconds, crowd controll, feign death and the list just goes on and on.

EQ1 has the largest, most diverse fantastic world ever created. sitting mostly empty because gamers are finnished with time intensive game play. it is a waste. it is also a potentialy huge money maker just waiting for someone to recognize its potential.

EQ1 launched our imaginations with its fantastic world. WoW handed us the playstyle we want.

doesnt take a rocket scientist, just a little venture capitol. do it or do the gaming world a favor and sell EQ1 to blizzard. they could use a few extra hundred million bucks a month.

Don't worry about him, shadow's posts are almost always extremely opinionated crap that he tries to claim as fact.

A lot of the people still playing EQ1 do so because they don't want the WoW or WoW-clone playstyle. I would be all for a visual redo of EQ1, I absolutely love the game.... but as for changing it to be more WoW-like? Kind of defeats the point of it even existing.

You, sir, are the textbook definition of a forum Troll. I shall not bite.

i Think they would call that guy...i dont know ....maybe.... a JACKHOLE

Get yourself a Mac Mini and play on the Ak Anon server. It hasn't been patched since PoP was released. That's about as close as you're going to get to the old days.

please don't encourage SoE to morph eq into the Britney Spears of online games....

I know I know....that chick has tons of sales, but come on, that has to be the lowest common denominator....maybe I am just Idealistic, or I like to think I have good taste....but just because some hot chick can dress sexxy and sing catchy melodies that the sheep all go flocking to, doesn't mean that to do anything else that results in a smaller client base is failure.......



Edited, Oct 21st 2008 2:03pm by ernov

EQ is already way too easy compared to what it once was. why make it even easier? :(. go play wow if you like that game so much. I for one am for returning EQ to the difficulty it once was. exp loss for deaths back to what it used to be. skills and spells more class specific. i am starting to feel like eq is going to merge all the character types into one.

Anyone else notice that whenever Shadowrelm posts a "doom and gloom" post about EQ, that he doesn't respond to his own thread?

I mean he's trying to bring rainclouds over our parade, but when the rays start shining through (posts with a positive argument), he's nowhere to be found afterward.

LOL, anyway... I just thought that was funny.

I guess, if anything it makes us appreciate the game we have.

I don't want to play WoW.

That rez is next to useless anyway. Can't be used during combat, and most people would rather take a Call of the Wild from me to get back to the group and then get a 96% rez in the guild lobby later.