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Originally Posted by Dullah
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No idea what you're talking about.
What you mean, is you can't expect an EQ1 to be WoW. EQ1 with updated combat, music and graphics would easily pull down 500k+ like Eve.
Too many options on mmos for people to keep aiming for 5 million+ players. Industry needs to specialize in niche games like EQ1 or just keep expectin your players to ditch you after 1-3 months.
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So if you "update" the combat (which is what? more spammy abilities? EQ2 wack-a-mole combos?) update the graphics (eq2 plastics or fluid cartoony models like WoW?) I play with music off in all MMOs and means dick all to the average gamer.
EQ1 gameplay is broken as fuck :\
People have changed since 1999 bro. That is why on the live progression servers you had 30+ shadowknights insta-gibbing raid content. The min-maxing in MMOs in 2013 is off the charts, you wont be able to have world-spawns on 3-7 day timers for the entire server, the people will ruin the entire idea of making another EQ1. That is why everything is instanced now. Look at this server for fucks sake, barely anyone can get a raid mob and were only dealing with maybe a couple hundred people contending for these raids.
All EQ1 is, is a MMO that is focused on meaningful item progression. I haven't had a death penalty in EQ since 1999! 96% rezzes are everywhere and anyone can get their corpse summoned for a small fee.
I think you're looking at things with rose-tinted glasses if you think everquest is the future of MMOs.
I would hate to be the lead dev on an EQ1 in 2014 when my subscription numbers are plummeting every day from people complaining and rage quitting over shit. When bossman comes down and asks what is going on and what can be done and your response is "the game is meant to be hard!" Good luck finding another job.
If you want to sit here and arm-chair dev like you know what you're talking about, be my guest but this will be the last time I comment on this subject.