Will the ps3 have enough power to play eq2?Follow

Will it?

I imagine it would be powerful enough to run the game, however I doubt it will be ported to the PS3. I personalyl don't like MMORPG games on a console. I like having a keyboard to type to people on, and if I have to hook a keyboard to a game console Id just assume use my PC.

I have to agree with dirges. I played FFXI for about a year and I could normally tell who was playing on PC and who was on a Console just by there attitude.

This might be partly because the parants are willing to spend $300 on a console but are not going to fork out the $1500 it takes to get a computer that can run the new games. Thus you open up a younger age bracket to the game rather then just the rarer young ones but mostly people who can afford there own computer.

Now weather it comes out on PS3. I would not be suprised. Im sure it will be able to handle it and Sony would like to take a cut out of WoW market. If it does just watch for the splurge of new members when the PS3 comes out and make sure you have some trial bases set for your guild so you dont end up with players that are too immature.

The simple answer: without any worries.

Considering Sony owns both the PS3 and EQ, chances are high that we will see some type of EQ on PS3, especially since Xbox 360 is already sporting FFXI.

Now, to address the question of whether or not it is a good idea. IMHO, no, it is a horrible idea. However, from a business stand point, it is an excellent scheme. Why not grab more people. As stated above, most of these kids' parents won't shell out the dough for a top of the line PC, but are more than willing to pay $400-$500 on a console that will run this game.

The vast majority of console sales are for kids. Kids, by and large, are immature. For the most part, they do not know how to interact will others and their antics get rather annoying. By the same token, we have all seen first hand how annoying adults with top of the line PC's can be during gameplay.

I think you have to look at each scenario on a case-by-case basis. You are going to have kids that know how to handle themselves and there are going to be adults that are assclowns. You can't control the maturity level an MMORPG provides. You can only hope to have fun in your experience. Inevitably, there will be others that share your viewpoints and you will be able to group with them and ignore the imbuciles.

Just to point out Tutan, maturity is different then age. I have played with others that I know IRL, and they are far from mature, while some kids I have grouped with are very mature.


I will also say I wont quit if EQ2 ever does go to console, especially since they have made such an effort to prevent griefing.

Ok, I'm 40 something. I like lazying in my recliner with my console games. I play primarily FFXI as my main game because its a console game. I would play others more often if I had the ability to relax more while playing,

EQ2 can easily be adapted to the PS3, it probably would have worked for the PS2.

Amatuer players you will find everywhere. BUT the strongest grouping of them are on the free games. In Guild Wars one threatened to turn me into a GM if I did not help him. I told him to go ahead.

So I say please give us the PS3 console option.

I can tell you that if they port Eq2 to the PS3 I will quit pretty much immediatly.

One of the things I like most about EQ2 is the mature player base, sure we have assclowns and fuckups, but overall we have a MUCH more mature player base then WoW or FFXI.

FFXI I played for a long time before the PS2 release and it was a pretty good game. But after the PS2 release zones started being spammed with shouts (quite a few of them inappropriate), there was an over abundence of n00bs everywhere, and people were begging for money left and right.

I realy don't want to see our great game experiance get killed because some asshole at SoE decided they can make more money by porting it.

SoE will lose a loyal and longstanding customer if they port it to the PS2.

I would be very surprised if they didn't do a console version of EQ2. That said, EQOA was a separate game from EQ, they may go that route with a console version of EQ2 as well. They could leverage their code base and not annoy the established PC community with an influx of console newbies.

Plus, unless I'm misinformed or PS3 has something new, they can't do all the live updates and expansions on a console game, and they can't have the 2 groups playing under different rules.

I am 16 + 1/2, and I consider myself to be much more mature that many adults. I personaly dont have a problem with the PS3 EQ2 as long as it does not intermingle with my PC game (two seperate worlds.)

Will the ps3 have enough power? with out a dought but the problem is if they did port it, it would end up being the end of the game in the long run. That is what happened to ffxi.

Let me explain and you will understand why when i say this it is true. Well you see unlike a computer a console cant up grade and so once its been maxed thats it. no more can be done to the system. Well what happened with ffxi was, even thou they did have it on the comp they siad hey lets bring it to the ps2.

By doing that it made it so the game couldntup grade and everything had to look the same because anything more and the ps2 couldnt handle it. So they had to actualy keep the game downgraded just to make sure that it ran on the ps2, while if they didnt do the whole ps2 deal it would have been able to have been upgraded and there could have been more then 5 diffrent armors *sarcasim* but for the most part they had to keep the looks to everything the same so it wouldnt lag all the ps2ers up.

Now that you understand why ffxi is hurting from lack of a bunch of new looks and what not i will explain why that porting eq2 to the ps3 would be a bad idea. im sure you can figer it out already but just in case it would end up like ffxi to a degree. years down the road when the game has finaly started to be come dated in looks and on the ps3 the looks for the game are already maxed out they wont be able to do a thing for us players, because they couldnt update with out makeing the ps3 lag and that would make it so the game would be stuck at that point where everything would start to look the same. im not saying that would happen quickly but i do see eq2 staying around for as long or if not longer then eq has curently gone for.

So mabey you understand how by porting it would hindder the game only because computer evolve at an amazeing rate now a days that the ps3 will be left in the dust 2 or 3 years after its been out and they wont be able to update to the best for you because they will have to keep the looks working with eq2.

just my though on it all and what iv noticed with porting games.. hope i was clear for ya all ^^