Is swish too cool that he can't handle blue competition

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Originally Posted by Swish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you tried red you might see that it is a true fusion of EverQuest and pvp.

You aren't reading what I'm saying. EQ's mechanics, even its game engine, are poorly optimized for PvP. PvP in EQ was an afterthought added in by the developers. What does "true fusion" even mean? The EQ devs just enabled player killing in EQ. That's it. There's no additional gameplay mechanics implemented besides looting currency from people you kill. There are no objectives or additional content. You can kill people while they camp an item or you can participate on one side of a fight involving two masses of players mashing their number keys and/or jiggling their mouselook in order to avoid spell interruptions.

Originally Posted by Swish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Or a hardcore mode of EQ, if you like.

Again, you're just talking past me. If you don't like to camp loot then what are you doing playing EQ?

PvP in EQ is just another auxiliary component of the main draw of the game: getting loot. That's why it's a dungeon crawler. There are no objectives to accomplish in PvP, and quite frankly, EQ's combat system is not conducive to particularly deep PvP anyways. If you think otherwise then you clearly don't have experience with games that do PvP much better than EQ ever did.

Which loops back to my main point: if you play EQ primarily for the PvP then you're essentially watching a pornography for the plot. I'm sure PvP can add some fun to the dungeon-crawling aspect, but if you don't like what is essentially the core of the game itself, then I don't understand why you're playing in the first place. Again, if you just want PvP, there are a myriad of games available that do it much better than EQ. EQ PvP is just regular EQ with player-killing enabled.