The Growth of EQFollow

As I understand it, EQ2 is growing slower than WoW. In fact, I have some personal experience to back it up. I spen 38 minutes waiting to play in queue of 500 players on my server. Great. So the question, then, is what will become of EQ2?

The answer is simple. It will hold out, just like EQ. Let's face it, there's a hell of a lot more patching on EQ2 than WoW. Because of more bugs? I don't think so. The content seems to be changed more to balance things more often. I'm cheered by that.

My second question is this: Why complain?

Well, I would complain that with many people not playing EQ2 and a great number LEAVING EQ2, it leaves a smaller cross section of players, and of those players I'd say only about 20-30% are truly skilled. But other than that I have to say I sort of like being some of the first level 30s in the game. Sure, in WoW, someone stayed up 2 weeks straight and had a level 60 when I hit level 10. thottbot.com has the game fully quested out, upward and downward. I like being some of the first gamers in, trying new stuff, being the best at something for a while. If that means slower growth (and no 500 person waiting queues) then by God I'll take it.

-[sk] JayBe

There i think is more chance of burn out in WoW because all i seem to get is how much easier it is to do anything.

EQ's longevity was the inability to really finish the game, there was always something else to achive or another zone to raid.

If WoW is so easy and you move through content so fast i can see the endgame being over pretty fast aswell, then people will leave for the next game, all the while the slowly growing EQ2 with it's depth of content and longer lifespan before Endgame will continue to grow.

I understand peoples gripes about the game, i have a few myself, but overall EQ2 is a good game, in spite of the developers attempts to vanilla'ise it.

My 15 Shammy has 115 quests completed and hopefully more and more will be added on a regular basis, thats alot of things to get through and a good number of them where good fun and added spice to the kill mob XX

I like the fact it takes me a day to gain a level, i like the fact i can't get to the end game in a month. I don't want to be Uber by day 10, i want it to be an achivement to get to level 50.

Are there things i would change? of course there are, but there where more in EQ1.

What does grip my sh*t is WoW players coming on to my board and telling me how crap the game i am playing is compaired to thiers.

I have no interest in WoW, i don't go to thier boards and tell them how crap aspects of thier game is complaired to EQ2, i play because i want to play not because i am a docile sheep unable to decide for myself.