Only 4 characters ? This is an outrage !Follow

umm... I don't know what to say except that I am indifferent in this subject. I played FFXI before and only played 2 jobs. This time with EQ2 there are so many combinations with races and jobs I figured I'd try more character. So far, i have 3 toons with 2 at lvl 21 and 1 at lvl 5. I can't see in the close future I'll make another toon though because I won't have time to play all of them.

The main problem is I don't think I'll ever need so many character slots because first of all, I don't like playing mage archetype; second I don't think I'll try all classes. For example I've a pally so I won't try classes like warrior or brawler because they are quite similar. Also I won't play every race either. I'd just pick the one race I like for the specific archetype. That means all I need is 3 slots really.

I don't mean everyone should play it my way. No. But my point is everyone has their own play style, so if you want more slots just tell SOE. Complaining here would take you nowhere. I think this thread has gone way too far. There is no need to change other's mind. If you need more slots, then tell SOE. If you're happy with 4 slots then that's good. Telling those who are happy that 4 slots aren't enough is futile because they don't need more than that. And telling those who're unhappy that you need no more than 4 slots are useless too because they DO need mroe than 4 slots for various reasons. So maybe people should agree to disagree here.

the reason soe gave 4 slots is because there are only 4 major archtypes in the game anyway the classes and subclasses are just slight variations on the same 4 archtypes 4 slots 4 archtypes i came from eq1 and must say eq2 isnt anywhere near the same game but still it seems a good start please no blue flamers on me because i still think it was wrong to do the station pass too blatant money grubbing there yes but still at the root of this discussion the reason only 4 slots is there are really only 4 archtypes so they thought 4 would cover it i guess
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valhaen wolfheart 10 th season barb preist sonn to be shaman eq2
mordrius 9th season human mage soon to be necro
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in eq1 i played only 1 but i have found if you try to keep up 1 of each archtype and keep them even with each other provides much more variation and fun in the game so i still can see the point of people wanting more slots i just hoped i could help clarify why only 4 to begin with

just my 3 plat on the subject

So if they're just slight variations......... why have them at all ? We should just have fighters priests scouts and mages and call it a day.

The two shaman classes appear substantially different after I perused the spell lists in detail. The mystic is much more of a healer and buffer, and group player; while the defiler is a weakener and DOTter, with some healing thrown in; might be a good soloer. I'll never know for sure if I just play a single priest class - I can't even try it out because I can't make the selection until level 20 which takes a lot of time.

It's possible they have a good reason for this but I doubt that is it. The only explanation I can see is naked greed.

I will cancel my account at month-end over this issue, despite the fact that I find the gameplay quite a bit of fun. To the degree the forums represent the public's reaction to this issue, I make the depressing conclusion that nothing will change; and neither will they add additional slots via an expansion. My big issue is found wanting; too many people either are happy with four, or willing to pay extra / play on test for eight characters, or play on test with the all-access for 16. Or buy three all-access accounts for 24 like I suggested in the original post.

So I'll do what I should do in a capitalistic society and vote with my dollars, and not pay. It's all I can do. And if I come crawling back anyway, you can all laugh at me and tell me to suck it up and play a main character !


Now that is interesting. It must only apply to on-line gaming as I had about 16 characters eventually, only one of which ventured online.

It wasn't such a big deal either; your character files got stored both locally and on their servers, so if you got deleted on battlenet you could continue your character solo, or log back on at a future date using the local files.

See, Diablo2 had so many choices for character creation.

EQ2 has one choice. By design, and necessity. They simply made it far too restrictive.

The Sony board thread - wade through it if you dare.

And Moorguard's comment :

To my knowledge other than this post SOE has stayed silent on their reasons for the limit.

Edited, Wed Jan 12 17:17:12 2005 by MRRX