Brad McQuaid HAS SPOKEN ABOUT Epics Being MQ'd (no troll)
 

so i did some serious nerding a few weeks ago about epic MQs not being classic. i said fuck it and emailed brad about it lul. he responded with this.

http://i.imgur.com/AykNDlt.jpg

the MAN has spoken. remove MQ from epics for the love of BRAD and Classic EQ!

edit: wow that email made half sense, surprised he responded. i kinda did it on the fly so sorry if i sound retarded.

lol man i just read your email, i bet you probably didn't care what you typed because you probably didnt expect him to respond, haha, but he did...goes to show you that you never know, on that note it would have cool if he gave you a definite yes or no type answer, lol

ya i regret not spending more than 1 min typing it. i honestly didnt think he would read it. im dum.

If I were him I would have just said, "pity reply".

i actually agree with u

Dude I would print that shit out and hang it on the wall. (srs)

If you ever see him in RL make sure to get it signed.

lol'd

It will never be changed here, because the developers and coders of the original game couldn't get it removed, and chose to leave it in the game. There was never a poll asking the player base if [SOE should spend money, time, and resources to remove MQ] MQ was an issue. I would venture that like most here, 99% of the original EQ player base would have had no idea a level 1 Rogue was capable of wielding an epic, or any other class could just pay platinum for someone else to do all the work for their epic for them by doing one or two final turn-ins rather than the actual length of the quest.

Paying for loot rights for tagging along on a raid to get your pieces to do the turn ins yourself, sure. But who are we kidding? Something like this won't get changed to better the economy, remove a good portion of the scams, or make the server more classic; so we're all just playing forumquest when it comes to multiquesting.

It's bullshit, and it was never abused like it is here, just like swarm kiting and a load of other one-off "classic" mechanics that the majority of people choose to use and abuse day in and day out here. Bards swarm kiting an entire zone to PL people in some of the most popular leveling zones, happened every day on every server. Totally would have been accepted by GMs as acceptable behavior after more than two people in separate areas of a zone would have petitioned about someone literally pulling every mob for themselves. That is about as far from the Everquest "Play Nice" policy I have ever heard.

That's the problem with "here" though. People's shortcuts catch on, and before you know it everyone is at it. I'd ban MQ'ing tomorrow if I could... but to ban it would be "not classic" :/