EverQuest NextFollow

Has anyone heard anything recently regarding EverQuest Next? Also what is everyone's biggest desire/want for this game?

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Pretty much as Hexeez said it.

If they are smart (hmm) they will mirror both EQ1 and EQ2 servers onto the new game and in a meaningful way translate the existing characters into the new game. They would also offer some "pure" servers with no veterans already there (aka finally I can get the name Jonwin...just kidding...)

If the game doesn't do AA, zones, lore, classes etc. in a way that makes sense to EQ1 then EQnext likely fails. EQ2 is more of the WoW style (class trees, etc.) and it's the poor sister --so don't be swayed by much of it.

There is no point trying to be WoWish. Other games have followed and failed. If EQnext is EQ1 without zoning and other clunky things that mmorpg have left behind since 2001, but retains the core EQness... it has a chance to at least be as big as EQ is (and maybe was).

Mercs that heal.

Oh no wait, that is what I want from EQ1.

Hello, i have played EQ ever since then kunark expansion came out. This was the first time i bought the game i remember the iksar on the box next to firiona vie. I am looking forward to everything about EQnext i really am excited no other game has ever got me as excited as i am about EQnext except maybe EQ2 when that was about to be released. Howevere EQ reigns supreme until this day as the No 1 MMO on the market. It is the oldest and the most sucessful. I just hope sony that you do not give in to the chase a dollar do anything for the money attitude that online gaming has turned into since the creation of the abomination WoW. I have along with many others been happy to play and pay for eq for the last 10 years of my life, and the reason is because it is challenging i have fun adventuring, finding places. fearing being alone in the world incase i get jumped by a pack of green cons =p. I am very excited about EQnext i want to spend the next 10-15 years however long it last playing my character in EQnext. Please dont give in to forum trolls crying for easy loot and 30 minute gaming sessions where you can do something worth while. If you only have 30 minutes you should not be logging into a MMO. Please dont make every class able to solo and please do not allow people who do not deserve epic loot be able to get it just because foolish people come on forums and want it. I understand there are people who want an easy life in mmo's and want to be able to solo. But i ask you this. What is the meaning of such trolling? This comes straight out of the darkest corners of Grobb's worst offenders! MMO is to play with others surly the clue is in the abbriviated name people flash about so much. MMO. I dont want to come accross as crass but a lot of the players of you pillar game, EverQuest. Are in my opinion older more mature and more intellegent, we dont want to be handed something on a nerf plate. We want a game we can get stuck into, put our hearts into and get nice reward with nice results and a nice community appriciating someone with a rare item because wow! thats rare! Not because it has an orange outline. Again the intellengence factor comes into play. We dont want to be giving dumbed down quest fed drivel of leveling we want fear to go out into the world thats what brought eq players together the fear of how hard the world was. I fear this post is getting to long for a lot of people to stomach so i will leave it at this. Remember how many peoples ideas you took into account when you made everquest the origional.
0 people. You made the best game ever made . You changed MMO feel you did this by yourselfs by making an amazing game people will play for years to come still thats has outlasted any other MMO and will outlast any other MMO. Eq will outlast eq2 and wow easily. It has done this because the game is hard and you always have something to look forward to achieve. Its not on a plate bonus exp this and bonus exp that. Its hell levels hard grind leveling learning your class well as you level. IF you guys do the right and you dont make EQNEXT based around one big payday when it is released trying to please everyone for 2 short years. You could create the only game ever to surpass EQ1. This is a Godzilla of gaming Sony this is EQNEXT. This is Norrath.
Create her with respect. She is a tough land full of treacherous dangers and forgotton dungeons. She is not a land of easy leveling and easy loot. Again create her with respect. She is after all what has brought you all this way do not throw it back in her face.
Thank you for taking on board my opinions.
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Skkoris Bloodscale (master of shadows)

Edited, Jan 16th 2012 7:45am by skkoris

Edited, Jan 16th 2012 7:56am by skkoris

I hope EQNext is at least as likely as Starcraft 2. That game was considered "legendary" in terms of its eventual appearance and sure enough "eventually" Blizzard came out with it.

Amazingly, the first release only had campaign games for 1 of the 3 races. Meaning it wasn't really complete. Let's pray EQNext doesn't come up initially with only 1/3 of the races and classes. LOL I think I'd rather wait even longer and get a complete game.

A botched launch is impossible to recover from. Look at Vanguard. The game needed probably another year in development, and the work they did was not focussed properly (instead of building the areas one at a time, finishing one and going to the next, they tried to build a bunch of them at the same time, and the result was multiple poorly done, broken zones, instead of a couple that were done well.) That game, which had tremendous potential and sold something like 250K units at the launch, never recovered.)

EQ:N will almost certainly be F2P though, so the subs running out won't be so much an issue.

I agree with earlier posters, If they want to make it a success then they need to implement as many aspects as they can from EQ. Just as said before, they need to make the game close enough in likeness to EQ Live to be able to carry over characters from the original. I don't even know if it's feasible to do that but think that if they don't then we'll just have another EQ2 on our hands. Not everyone that has invested countless hours leveling characters over the years while learning a game as vast as EQ is willing to start over. I for one won't, and know for a fact that my time spent on the game is pale in comparison to most.

The more I think on it, EQNext should be made to be a REAL challenge.

1. Nobody can talk to anybody outside their race until they level up other language skills and make that take serious time and effort.
2. All NPCs are KOS except those in your home town. And even those won't talk with you until you complete some involved quests.
3. Forget being invisible... EVERY NPC is SI.
4. No con colors... you just gotta take your best shot.
5. PvP on for all, of course, and no level limits.
6. XP is REAL slow... it takes like at least 16hours of steady gameplay to gain one level. And starting at level one.
7. Death causes loss of an entire level. No rez spells in game, not at least until like level 120.
8. Corpses rot in one hour. In OR out of game. Of course, all your gear rots with your corpse. Plus everything in your bank. (The "lore" is that the mob who killed you got your bank account keys off your corpse, ran to the nearest bank and grabbed all your banked stuff. Reasonable, right?)
9. The game will have raids, of course. But if you die in a raid, corpse rot is instant and you're insta-respawned back to level 1 and have to start over again. This ensures players take raiding SERIOUSLY. The heart's desire of every real guild leader!
10. The game should have EPIC quests, naturally. But for EVERY piece of decent armor. This makes it challenging---REALLY challenging---to fill every slot.
11. EQ has two slots for fingers, ears and wrists, right?? Have two slots for feet and hands, also. Plus TEN slots for fingers. What the hell, most of us have TEN fingers, not TWO, right??
12. Hackers will be "shot" on sight, of course. The game will have GMs stationed in every zone permanently and they have REAL god-like powers, including the abilities to see your screen remotely at will. Not only is the hacker perma-banned but everyone he's grouped with in the last 24 hours plus every member of his guild. That will force players to be very very careful with whom they group or guild. Right?
13. Random GM events, where GMs "dress up" as a level 150 villain with instant harm-touch and randomly visit a zone, even raid zones, and start remotely death-touching players. Everyone loves The Sleeper, right? Same deal but not just once per server! This kind of death doesn't de-level you, of course. You just lose one piece of armor.
14. Gear rots, of course, unless you repair it constantly. Expect to be wire-brushing that rust off your breastplate and hammering the dents out of your longsword between every other kill.
15. Money can "fall" out of your pocket, randomly, unless you buy certain "AAs" like Hole-Free Pants Pockets. Plus unless you buy the AA "EQFDIC Insurance" you face the risk of losing your bank stash in the event of embezzlement by the bank NPC.
16. What's up with carrying EIGHT backpacks? How realistic is that? In MYEQNEXT you get ONE! You can carry a second one but it encumbers you and cuts your AC, HP Regen and Mana Regen in half.

This is just for starters! ;)



Edited, Jun 6th 2012 6:42am by Sippin

Edited, Jun 6th 2012 6:53am by Sippin

Actually the idea of having to lvl another language up to talk to another race isn't a bad idea. Would prob have to be one of those things that later expansions would remove the need for. Everquest 2 had the right idea on leveling a language skill up, alot more fun than spamming text to your group.

I seem to remember vaguely that levelling a language skill used to be tough. IIRC you could not raise your skill beyond the level of the person "training" you. So if you're grouped with someone who say is 50 in Human, the most he could raise you is to 50 by chatting with you in group.

Plus there was something about having to zone after so many skillups in order to continue raising the skill, which was also a drag on levelling.

Anyone remember exactly how that worked? I go back to 1999 in EQ and I do remember it was such a pain that I had no interest in language. But I had a friend in-game who was OC about maxing out all his languages and he spent ridiculous hours working them all up and tracking down other players masochistic enough to group with him spamming and zoning over n over...

Wow, hard to imagine any players tolerating that kind of grind today.