tryed Trial, wondering if i should buy?Follow

i personally would recommend it after playing other games like WoW and vanguard. from all other games ive played over the past 3 years nothing compares to EQII imo, others might disagree but i cant speak for them, only myself. i personally see more of a chance to build a fun huge mmo world from eq2 than any other game. i will agree with people who might talk of the worse parts of eq2 that atm it is in a lull, in between expansions, but as a noob toon that would be the time you could use to grow and when the new content comes out be ready to move and grow right into it. if you wanted to play a new character in an area more populated, i would say create an evil toon in the city of neriak, or a good toon in the city of kelethin. these are the 2 newer starting cities, the origional cities of qeynos and freeport, while still heavely populated with higher lvl toons, lacks many more new players , although there are some, from myself trying to play alts in these cities recently it seems that many of the people styarting toons in the old cities are trying to solo the old world noob zones.

Rocket, something was wrong with your route or something. That download was a fluke. It was massively out of whack. A normal fresh install doesn't normally even take half that long to pull down. In any case, you've now downloaded the primary files. Don't be afraid to get off the island. You won't have to redownload everything.

And to answer your original question here - yes it is worth buying the main game.
With the release of Echoes of Faydwer a lot of new players came to the game, and the introduction of Neriak has caused a lot of new characters to be created there - probably why the island was empty.

If you buy the EoF retail pack (not the digital download) you will get the main game and all expansions. This means EQ2, Desert of Flames, Kingdom of Sky and Echoes of Faydwer all for one price.

In November a new expansion is due - The Rise of Kunark and I already know a few people who have come back to the game because of this. So we are getting new players all the time, and as I said people are making new characters also.

Hi all,

i've done the step to eq2 may be 4 weeks ago and i think it was a good step.

Before i've done this i've played the trial an have done my first try's on the starter-iland. These two days i was really alone there; maybe one or two other players, but not more.

After starting with the full version i've created my first Charakter beneath neriak and i was impressed about all the other players there.

Act. my main Char has reached lvl 39 and all the time there were many charakters with a matching level to play with them.

ot: Meenwhile i've created sev. twink's an it's a real fun to explore the differnt Rasses and Classes.

After 18 month Guild Wars it seems to me that eq2 is a really big and wonderfull world to explore and it's a real good choice if i see the other mmorpg on the marked.