Only 4 characters ? This is an outrage !Follow

I have eight

but yeah you're right it is sucky, it won't hit home for a while but at some point people will start feeling the squeeze, what bets on the offereing a few more slots for a small monatery fee?

Thanks for looking out for everyone EvilGnomes, too bad your plan did'nt work 100%. When first reading your post my first thought was "WTF, Sony caved into his demands" Then I thought to call my roomates to cut and paste your e-mail. Thankfully I continued reading. Evil you still thinking of leaving for WoW?

And yes the 4 char slots per acounts really blows, guess it's a good thing I have the all access pass. It is a shame to get 8 slots you have to pay 25 bucks a month.

If you don't like what you get from your money, GO ELSEWHERE!

While I agree 4 total (rather than per server) is too little I can't understand why you're so outraged.

They said 4 right from the start. It's not like you bought it and then they cut out some.

Welcome to capitalism; What was free is now paid for. Personally I don't have a problem with limited slots, it forces choices. And as Legends proved (sorta) some at least will pay for "value added". Where does Sony get off? , why, my friend, it's thier company.

Hey Kouranx - thanks! I'm serious, you "got" my humor - and so few people on these boards do (it can get depressing sometimes).

And yeah, WoW is looking pretty good - flame me if you must you arch-loyal minions of Sony - but the other gnome of EvilGnomes is checking into whether or not we can get a refund on some of the time we pre-bought. If not, as soon as I get some extra cash, I'm gonna check it out. Hey, Diablo II was kinda cool, so maybe I'll like WoW (same company if I'm not mistaken). I can tell you this much, from what I've read on Alla's WoW site it looks like a whole hell of a lot more creativity was put into WoW's combat and magic system. That their version of a Beastlord, the Hunter, has to go out and tame his or her own pets sounds very cool (he's got to keep them happy, too, or they don't perform well - imo that's awesome!). See? That's just one tiny, simple example of the kind of creative stuff I'd have loved to have seen in EQ2 - and people yell at me to stop beechin' about EQ2 and to stop comparing it to old EQ because it's a NEW GAME ... gah, nothing "new" about it except talking npc's (which became annoying in three days and is now seriously getting on my nerves) and spiffy graphics (which make me think "Video killed the radio star" - we're now going for technical splendor and no soul, no creativity - just like the music biz did in the 80's... wheeee).

To you good folks who say stuff like "what do you need more than 4 slots for?" and "why don't you quit EQ2 then and find another game?", I am forced to tell you that when I read your posts I hear John Cleese's voice yelling, "You tiny-minded wipers of other peoples' bottoms!" This is not a flame. I'm not insulting you in any way, shape or form. It's an hallucination or something - or some bizarre unconscious reaction perhaps - I have absolutely no control over it - it embarrasses me tremendously - and I'm deeply, deeply sorry for it. Really. I know no matter what this voice tells me that your mothers were not hamsters and your fathers did not smell of elderberry! Now please, I beg you, go away, or my hallucinations shall insult you a second time!

( <----- pinin' for the fjords)

You know, this reminds me. Last week I let valet parkers park my car, and when I came back, they'd painted it purple and had superglued chrome outlines of Fabio and Walter Cronkite on the hood and trunk. I started to complain, but the head valet parking guy asked me to read all the fine print on my receipt.

And I'll be damned, but it said, "If you park here we are not only allowed to paint your car purple and superglue chrome outlines of Fabio and/or Walter Cronkite on said car's trunk and/or hood, you also are required to thank us sincerely for doing so or else pay us $100,000 (US) in fines. And if you complain about this we can come take your firstborn child."



Well, folks, when you bought EQ2, you basically bought into the same sort of contract. And like the above poster (and others) have said, you not only have to thank them for ******** you over with only 4 character slots, you can't complain about it either.

Or when you attempt to trap badger dens or harvest any resource, you will only get those dumb "no value" items that the Oakmyst bears sometimes drop! And the little boy who says "have you ever SEEN a gnoll?" - his voice whill haunt your dreams ALL NIGHT LONG.

Life is hard, and then you die. You can't fight City Hall, and you sure as heck can't complain about SoE or anything they do. You must accept and love it all, soldier! Toughen up! This isn't a free country where you can expect people to reasonable, after all! This is Norrath!

Well, no need to exaggerate I'ld say. Perhaps 4 is indeed not much, although I only use 2 at the moment and most likely will not make any others (not enough time, and I like to concentrate on one character at a time) any time soon.

I can understand people who want create an abundant number of characters, and considering the craft system this might even be a very smart move too, but why would you need to create as many characters as in EQ I? And how many people actually created more than 4 characters and kept playing them all?

Btw Evilgnome, I do hope that after you switch to WoW (for reasons I don't understand, EQ II is a very good game so far) you keep posting on this board too, lol, hilarious being insulted by you!

I don't really see it as "******** you over". I know you don't like SoE but look at the other MMOs around. Some have more, some have less. SWG - another SoE product - had 1 per server if I recall.


Sure you have a right to be annoyed if you car got sprayed purple. That is not a comparable situation. Spraying cars purple is not a normal part of valet parking whereas surely anyone buying an MMO would wonder how many characters they could have?

I do agree that the Station Pass thing is an obnoxious way to hand out extra slots and they should never have done it. And I say that as someone who benefits from it.

Yes of course it is.

I play the Firiona Vie Server (amongst others) in EQ and that only allows a single character per account. This was done "for roleplay reasons" although how it had anything at all to do with roleplay totally escapes me. However what it did prove to SoE was that faced with such a restriction people would purchase multiple accounts in order to have more than one character.

The example of FV is probably what led to the restriction in SWG.

If anything they have backed off from that extreme limitation in EQ2. However when different models were being offered to the financial guys I'm sure that this was taken into consideration.

One other thought is that it is very much easier to start off restricted and open up than it is to start off allowing more and then have to cut back. They have it within their power to expand the number of slots as they just proved with the stupid Station Pass manoevre. Perhaps once the game has settled down a bit they will see that more slots could be given. More likely they will be raking it in from all the people buying another 4 slots at $14 a month.

Hey EvilGnomes you are two posters in the same right? clearing that up, not positive.
Anyway from what I heard it's not the same team behind Diablo 2 that made WoW, but damn do I have alot of friends keep telling me I should play it. I'm having alot of fun in EQ2 though, but I do hear the combat in WoW is alot more intersting. However I've talked to alot of people who are already at the end game content. Part of the fun for me was the journey getting there, and if it is'nt long then I don't know if it would keep me busy for a long time. Guess I won't know till I try it.

I have 2 EQ accounts active currently. On day of release, I had already prebought 2 EQII collectors editions. I was very happy to see that I could link the accounts, and did so.

By linking the accounts I saved money over paying for the 4 seperate account (now 2 accounts with access to both games). Included in that I was glad to see was the additonal 4 character slots.

It is possible this was done to encourage EQ players to try (and stay with) EQII.

Just my 2 coppers.....

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