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Are any of you considering playing WOW when it comes out? The hubby and I am. I didn't want to play another all-consuming game for a while after I became disinterested in EQ, but WOW looks kinda neat. Besides, I'm too lazy and broke to go out now that I'm pregnant and I've never liked the winter anyway, haha. So, is anyone else going to get sucked in?
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“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
I am currently in WoW beta and I have pretty much burned myself out on it. It's a good game with good graphics and good game play but it seems to be missing that sense of the epic that EQ use to give me. I plan on playing EQ2 with some friends despite the whispers of poor reviews by beta players but if it sucks so bad I can't stand it I may well come back to WoW.
I'll try it. Not in Beta so I know nothing about it, but what the hell.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
I need to look into it yet.
Excited about EQ2 though so I may not ever get to looking into it.
Hehe I can never decide.
Oh, and Nexa I met your Hubby in MM one day awhile ago hehe
Excited about EQ2 though so I may not ever get to looking into it.
Hehe I can never decide.
Oh, and Nexa I met your Hubby in MM one day awhile ago hehe
What I've seen and read about WoW just doesn't seem to do it for me. I've been following the info on EQ2 though, and I'm thinking about trying it.
I don't really look forward to or plan on getting games, so I don't know much at all about WoW, EQ2, etc. When they do come out, though, I'll probably hear about em and make a decision then. As it is, I've almost completely given up EQ in lieu of my girlfriend; I just realized that I'm still paying for one active account but haven't logged on in over two months.
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
I got so sick of how EQ was set up and the level of customer service that I just can't bring myself to go back to that company. I'm sure it will be good to start out, like EQ was, but I just don't think they have the commitment to customer service that Blizzard seems to. Maybe I'm delusional and they'll all suck, but we'll see.
My husband played the beta a bit (for wow) and liked it and I've had my eye on it since it was first announced. I check out the updates and whatnot every now and then and I just like what I read for my own style of gameplay. I like fighting and such, but I go on huge kicks of just wanting to do quests or just wanting to do tradeskills. I really like the way it seems they are designing both of these (I haven't played myself...don't you dare fix that).
I admit that the graphics are a *little* cartoony for my tastes, but I'm sure I'll get over it. I like the scenery and cities alot, it's just the characters are a bit final fantasy-ish.
He mentioned that he ran into you Aegis :) He's not playing EQ anymore either since school started and isn't going to be since he wants to play wow (I said one or the other, hehe). Are you still playing?
Anyway, if anyone else does decide to play, I'll probably be on there sometime just before Christmas, assuming the release date hasn't changed. I'll likely be a gnome, which won't surprise anyone who ever saw me in game (Thundra, you reading this?). :D
Nexa
My husband played the beta a bit (for wow) and liked it and I've had my eye on it since it was first announced. I check out the updates and whatnot every now and then and I just like what I read for my own style of gameplay. I like fighting and such, but I go on huge kicks of just wanting to do quests or just wanting to do tradeskills. I really like the way it seems they are designing both of these (I haven't played myself...don't you dare fix that).
I admit that the graphics are a *little* cartoony for my tastes, but I'm sure I'll get over it. I like the scenery and cities alot, it's just the characters are a bit final fantasy-ish.
He mentioned that he ran into you Aegis :) He's not playing EQ anymore either since school started and isn't going to be since he wants to play wow (I said one or the other, hehe). Are you still playing?
Anyway, if anyone else does decide to play, I'll probably be on there sometime just before Christmas, assuming the release date hasn't changed. I'll likely be a gnome, which won't surprise anyone who ever saw me in game (Thundra, you reading this?). :D
Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
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I like fighting and such, but I go on huge kicks of just wanting to do quests or just wanting to do tradeskills. I really like the way it seems they are designing both of these (I haven't played myself...don't you dare fix that).
I hope you do like quests because that is just about all you do. Trade skills are not really that involving and consist of running around looking for the proper materials and then spending 20 seconds combining them.
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Are you still playing?
Ya, damn games like a drug to me. I'm sure if you ask most that have been playing since 99' they'd say the same.
I quit for a couple months from time to time but always end up going back.
I'm excited about EQ2 but in the same token I'm a little nervous. What if it sucks and they decide to end EQ anyway???
/shakes violently
Told ya, I'm an addict!
Edited, Fri Oct 15 14:47:30 2004 by AegisfangBattlehammer
Edited, Fri Oct 15 14:47:46 2004 by AegisfangBattlehammer
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I hope you do like quests because that is just about all you do.
And I do! I especially like anything I can do all by my lonesome, so if there are alot of quests like that, I'll be pleased as punch (is punch really pleased, who the hell made that up?).
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Trade skills are not really that involving and consist of running around looking for the proper materials and then spending 20 seconds combining them.
I liked doing the kind of tradeskills in eq where you ran around and found things. I didn't like the tradeskills where what you needed to find you had to be level 60 because it was a rock underneath a dragon. I also didn't like how expensive tradeskills were in EQ with no payout in the end. It sounds for the most part like this has been corrected in WOW and I like that items you make are branded with your name. I think that's pretty cool, but mostly because I'm vain. I would also rather spend 20 seconds combining them than hours and hours doing boring combines like in EQ (they think I got tendonitis from work, HA!).
So, clearly, it sounds as if it will cater to a slightly different audience and I'm sure the EQ population who is planning on moving on for EQ 2 and WOW will likely be split between those who want straight up fighting (especially grouping?) and those who are more interested in other aspects of the game. Does that sound right? I admittedly know less about EQ2 than I do about wow.
Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
I dunno might try out WoW my only concern is for a game like that with an established name and so much hype can lead to disaster even for a well designed game.
Case in point FFXI. Very nice game, looks great, great story, solid well running MMO. Not the best char creation and massive need to grouping hurt but not to bad.
But you have every eleventeen year old that played a FF game coming in and it creates a horrible gaming community.
That is kind of my fear for WoW.
Case in point FFXI. Very nice game, looks great, great story, solid well running MMO. Not the best char creation and massive need to grouping hurt but not to bad.
But you have every eleventeen year old that played a FF game coming in and it creates a horrible gaming community.
That is kind of my fear for WoW.
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Nexa, have you checked out Dark Ages of Camelot? EQ2 is modeled after this game. I love Daoc and I cant imagine changing to anything else.
decided to edit before I get flamed.
EQ2 is going to have pvp,rvr kind of areas.. daoc has had this for years. The crafting is not as tedius as eq. Player crafted armor is most definantly worth the time and effort. Only thing I hate and cant wait for WOW to come out for is we had in influx of kids come back from final fantasy. I cant wait for WOW to take them away. Mostly the guilds are alot more fun but its not a necessity like EQ,you dont need a guild to participate in the master levels or for your epic. You dont have the moon with all of its player merchants. In DAOC you can buy a merchant in houseing to add to your home. People can come in and buy your wares that way. A hell of a lot less lag.
Edited, Fri Oct 15 15:08:21 2004 by Cherrabwyn
decided to edit before I get flamed.
EQ2 is going to have pvp,rvr kind of areas.. daoc has had this for years. The crafting is not as tedius as eq. Player crafted armor is most definantly worth the time and effort. Only thing I hate and cant wait for WOW to come out for is we had in influx of kids come back from final fantasy. I cant wait for WOW to take them away. Mostly the guilds are alot more fun but its not a necessity like EQ,you dont need a guild to participate in the master levels or for your epic. You dont have the moon with all of its player merchants. In DAOC you can buy a merchant in houseing to add to your home. People can come in and buy your wares that way. A hell of a lot less lag.
Edited, Fri Oct 15 15:08:21 2004 by Cherrabwyn
You and seven other people 
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
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Nexa, have you checked out Dark Ages of Camelot? EQ2 is modeled after this game. I love Daoc and I cant imagine changing to anything else
DAoC was fun two years ago but the graphics are dumpy now come on.
That is about to change. We have Catacombs coming out.
http://catacombs.darkageofcamelot.com/features/players.php
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http://catacombs.darkageofcamelot.com/features/players.php
Edited, Fri Oct 15 15:11:33 2004 by Cherrabwyn
bhodisattva - I don't think the risk of having a bunch of kids on there is any greater with wow than with most games. Most everyone I know who plays warcraft 3 (realizing I don't know many children so I don't exactly have a legitimate sample size here) are adults and several of them will be playing wow so I'm looking forward to playing with some friends there.
Katie - I did play briefly and though I can't honestly recall what it was that I didn't like about it, there was something that fairly quickly left me disenchanted by it. It seems like it's one of those "you either love it or you hate it" games with little room for anyone in the middle though, so it must have a pretty solid group on there by now of people who really love it.
Whatever I do will be interupted or delayed by Myst IV, whenever that comes out.
Nexa (who should really be working)
Katie - I did play briefly and though I can't honestly recall what it was that I didn't like about it, there was something that fairly quickly left me disenchanted by it. It seems like it's one of those "you either love it or you hate it" games with little room for anyone in the middle though, so it must have a pretty solid group on there by now of people who really love it.
Whatever I do will be interupted or delayed by Myst IV, whenever that comes out.
Nexa (who should really be working)
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
I am not really a regular, but here are my 2cp worth.
I will probably try both WoW and EQ2.
I wouldn't worry too much we are still at the tip of the iceberg. Aside from WoW and EQ2, there are 2 others in the works and I I have heard that Vanguard will be the one to take over eventually, evidently it has a lot of the designers from the original EQ... Anyway, check these out... I haven't really explored these sites too much myself yet, but my point is that there will be plenty of choices very soon. I like to think of all these games as generation 2.
Dark and Light
Vanguard
I will probably try both WoW and EQ2.
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I'm excited about EQ2 but in the same token I'm a little nervous. What if it sucks and they decide to end EQ anyway???
I wouldn't worry too much we are still at the tip of the iceberg. Aside from WoW and EQ2, there are 2 others in the works and I I have heard that Vanguard will be the one to take over eventually, evidently it has a lot of the designers from the original EQ... Anyway, check these out... I haven't really explored these sites too much myself yet, but my point is that there will be plenty of choices very soon. I like to think of all these games as generation 2.
Dark and Light
Vanguard
I dunno, WoW has a lot of features which I personally think I'd find annoying. The rest system has to go, the party dynamics (or lack thereof) kind of suck... plus... I don't trust Blizzard's servers. Spent too much time on battle.net when I was younger.
hmm, Vanguard looks very interesting. I guess that maybe by the time I get sick of wow, decide not to play games anymore, then want to again, I'll have something to look forward to, haha. :D
Nexa
Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
The g friend a I might make the switch over to EQ 2, but we aren't sure yet. Do I really want to buy a new graphics card and a processor just for a video game? Maybe yes, maybe no.
Bhod wrote:
Case in point FFXI. Very nice game, looks great, great story, solid well running MMO. Not the best char creation and massive need to grouping hurt but not to bad.
But you have every eleventeen year old that played a FF game coming in and it creates a horrible gaming community.
That is kind of my fear for WoW.
But you have every eleventeen year old that played a FF game coming in and it creates a horrible gaming community.
That is kind of my fear for WoW.
I don't really think it'll be as severe as in FFXI for the sole reason that FFXI also came out on console, and let's face it, most immature eleventeen year olds don't play PC MMORPGS.
As for your original question Nexa, I've only read a few things about WoW and watched one little movie, and it looks good from what I've seen so far. One of my really good buddies from FFXI is moving to WoW and wants all of us to move to it with him, so I'm really torn right now. FFXI has still got me hooked at the moment.
Yeah, Battle.net has a long history of suckage....but my personal experience with it only goes as far as Starcraft.
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
I plan on playing it.
I'll have two friends to team up with so I won't have to deal with retards so much.
I like the idea of getting a guild together with regulars from this board, as many have done with EQ as of late on that new server. Anyway, I am game to go anywhere, EQ is grinding to a halt fast, if you ask me.
MY server feels like a bit of a ghost town these days, the bazaar only has maybe 350-400 at night, it wasn't long ago that it was hard to get a spot, I think there is a 500 trader cap. Furthermore, you can sit in the bazaar these days for 10 mins and have no OOC's. echo echo echo echo
It is not the customer service that I have a problem with, most games have bad CS. My problem is with SOE producing expansion after expansion, and not bothering to fix content, quests, and such before they start on the new expansion of the day. In addition, nerfing old zones to drive people to buy the new content is underhanded and really winds me up.
The whole money grabbing attitude is turning me off in a big way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am worried the same philosophies will be applied to EQ2.
I would rather pay an extra $5 a month to cover their costs to fix an improve, instead of just expand.
MY server feels like a bit of a ghost town these days, the bazaar only has maybe 350-400 at night, it wasn't long ago that it was hard to get a spot, I think there is a 500 trader cap. Furthermore, you can sit in the bazaar these days for 10 mins and have no OOC's. echo echo echo echo
It is not the customer service that I have a problem with, most games have bad CS. My problem is with SOE producing expansion after expansion, and not bothering to fix content, quests, and such before they start on the new expansion of the day. In addition, nerfing old zones to drive people to buy the new content is underhanded and really winds me up.
The whole money grabbing attitude is turning me off in a big way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am worried the same philosophies will be applied to EQ2.
I would rather pay an extra $5 a month to cover their costs to fix an improve, instead of just expand.
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I'll be pleased as punch (is punch really pleased, who the hell made that up?)
Think it's from the old Punch & Judy cartoons, not the drink. Unless it's planter's punch, which is probably pretty pleased.
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I was invited into the server stress test, and I am looking forward to playing when it comes out. I think the aspect I look forward to the most is being able to solo for far longer than in EQ.
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