What did player moan about during EQ's live peak?

[Arteker]

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

get the fuck out. you could not do this. it was some pokemon card that never actually got implemented.

im to old for pokemon , and pulling emp to zone in ssra was prety common .

[Motec]

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

Didn't it take a decade for the original Rathe council to be defeated on eqmac? Seems like a legit cockblockery and worthy of rant and flame.

If you had played mac you would know why. Temerity are 90% useless cunts. Some very bad EQ players.

Think of Temerity as the TMO of eqmac, but even worse because also uber casual.

They also only beat the current live version, not the original. And only ever really made progress with people from P99IB in there, like Nirron. Man would of tought them more about EQ in a month than they knew over 10 years of exploits and 6boxing.

[Arteker]

i recall killing rathe council first time with 32 players was very easy , in the other hand xegony for some reason proven to be more of a issue.

[runlvlzero]

I remember reading at least one new thread each day about how bad ranger sucked at their main roll DPS and everyone saying that since they where a hybrid and multiroll they should be greatful they ranked 3rd or 4th behind monks and rogues, and int caster flavor of the day.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

There are rumors afoot of a Ranger sit-in being held in the Ocean of Lost Fucks. Zone yet to be released. Stay tuned folks!

[sabinrf24]

Oh man, I remember the PoP cock blocks well. One attempt at Coirnav and he would go back down for...was it 3 5 or 7 days?

Not kill, attempt - and this was an underwater zone with 70ish people floating around lagging, trying to AE fish pulls and tank named in the middle of it. What a shit fest that was.

[JayN]

Originally Posted by sabinrf24 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Oh man, I remember the PoP cock blocks well. One attempt at Coirnav and he would go back down for...was it 3 5 or 7 days?

Not kill, attempt - and this was an underwater zone with 70ish people floating around lagging, trying to AE fish pulls and tank named in the middle of it. What a shit fest that was.

^^^

[doeda]

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

Unplayable or game-breaking bugs aside, most of the patches designed to "fix" the game in fact made the game easier and less enjoyable for the vast majority of the players.

You have to ask yourself this question: what recent game has inspired anyone to have a digital sit-in?

Alliance, Alterac Valley being "unfair" geographically

[Weekapaug]

Just off the top of my head...

During classic warriors bitched about not having utility like the hybrid tanks. During kunark and beyond hybrid tanks bitched about not being able to tank raid content. And when the group exp penalty was realized and hybrids had a hard time getting group we bitched about that (I started an SK as my main during kunark). Hybrids in general complained about being hybrids with all of the compounding penalties on top of it. Yet, for some reason, you couldn't throw a rock without hitting a Pally or Ranger. I, personally, bitched about every ranger having some mispelled derivation of a name of one of the LOTR rangers. lol

SKs, in general, pretty much bitched that we were the redheaded stepchildren class, because we were....Always getting shafted with something at every turn and just got worse as time went on. Too many examples to list, but just to put it in perspective, when Luclin released we couldn't buy our spells from that expansion for weeks because the merchant was improperly flagged as a pathing npc or something and despite the whole world petitioning and posting on the forums, it was constantly answered with the usual "working as intended" horseshit they always spewed. Finally after a few weeks of no SKs with new spells one of the numbskulls at sony actually went and looked at it and they fixed it.

During classic wizzes bitched about mages being more desired by groups. Shamans bitched about Alchemy being broken which, also, was answered with the usual "working as intended" horseshit for literally close to a year before someone actually had a look at it and they realized it was, *gasp* broken. Barbarians bitched about shields they wore not being visible. Druids bitched about not having quest armor. Later, during kunark, they bitched about dots getting nerfed. Actually, you've never heard crying in EQ like when that happened.

As someone said, nerfs in general, got bitched about a lot.

When the necro best of the best event happened, on one server two necros twitched one another in protest of that being their job on raids. The point was made, but I think the two necros got suspended or banned for "disruption" of a GM event or something.

Bringing me to what the vast majority of us bitched about....Sony/Verant. They sucked. They made this great game, but they had the worst customer service and customer relations in general in any service, computer or gaming related or otherwise that I've ever paid for before or since. They had a basic phone company attitude with a passive aggressive "fuck you" tone to it at every turn. People talk about Brad McQuade around here like he is some kind of god and saint rolled into one....Which is evidence there are a lot fewer people around here that actually played live classic than some would have you believe. If you were there and payed attention, you hated those people. Great game, but if anything you liked about it got attention by Brad and crew, 9 times out of 10 it was about to turn to complete shit.

While I actually like Vanguard and hated to see it fail, the vindictive dick that I am, I, personally, chuckle when I think of the original verant team eating it the way they did. Karma is a bitch and he and his boys caught it good with that one. Most of them got fired in the parking lot. And I hope one of them was that fat fucking nerd Abashi, who was the gerbels of the original game. He was an asshole and, clearly, enjoyed every bit of it. To put a person like that in charge of community relations and to allow him to behave the way he did is inexuseable. He abused his position to harrass players, showed nothing but contempt for the playerbase in general and there were even examples of abuses towards the volunteer server guides. I hope he never got another job in gaming after that, because he didn't deserve a career after his behavior...Unless it was with Sigil and got canned in the parking lot with everyone else because that gives me warm fuzzies to consider. Fuck that asshole. Fuck all of them, frankly. When they were on top they chose to treat their customer base with nothing but contempt and I, personally, have no sympathy for any of them. Yes, it was that bad.

Since it comes up, I've been screwing around on live for the last week or so with a buddy.....Noticed on the forums that ole Brad McQuade was back on the EQ team for a while this past spring. And is now gone. Not sure what happened but found that interesting.

[ncapatina]

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

People used to bitch about Furor Planedefiler of the infamous Fires of Heaven, but the man put together one of the original hardcore guilds, where they often did new and fucked up content and wiped to it night after night ("You ain't dyin, you ain't tryin" he would say), and more than anything, the man put together some of the best all time rants on the FoH front page I've ever seen since.

Furor was a douche who was banned multiple times. His original character wasn't Furor at all it was a rogue who was banned for all sorts of unsavory things. It's funny to see a post looking back at him with reverence, and then see 20 posts complaining about TMO monopolizing content.

FOH not only did it on their own server (10x as bad) but they used inside developer knowledge (a lot of the EQ devs raided with them) to monopolize server-wide firsts.

I was fortunate enough to be one of the first 50 or so players invited to EQ beta due to my connections through Tanarus (SOEs online tank game before EQ) and this guy was a shitstain.

Any old school TMO people can ask the founder of their guild on FR, Edarion (if anyone still is in contact that is). Him and I go way back to the Tanarus days so he may remember Furor pre EQ fanboi fame as I do. In fact if anyone still talks to him tell him to stop by sometime and Krunch from Tanarus says hello. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I guess the moral of the story is that often times people look back on those with "power" as if they were some larger than life bucket of awesomesauce. The guy was an ass, plain and simple. He doesn't deserve the credit people give him. At least he ended up where he belongs, making shitty WoW raid content.