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[Reguiy]

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

You know,

I would LOVE to jump straight into PoP after, say, a year of Velious. Those fights would be incredible with out all the Luclin gear.

[liveitup1216]

Originally Posted by t0lkien [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thanks for the link! Man, why oh why are these guys who became "names" in the early days of the industry such wankers? Seriously, it's endemic within the games industry. What is it about games that attracts these guys.

No problem! Once Verant got folded back into Sony and they moved people around I'm sure thats what caused the schism of game design for EQ. So in a way wording it as Sony ruined Verant's game isn't that far off. It became an issue of too many hands on deck and them trying to capitalize on the success/work of those few designers truly put their lives into the game.

It was an instance where giving them more money, time, and manpower hurt the game way more than it helped.

[porigromus]

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

I never agreed with this. Not everyone wants to play Day Trade Online for hours to get decent prices for gear they buy/sell. The lack of Bazaar also makes mudflation a lot worse for starting players. It can be really hard to find anyone selling lower/medium priced gear, because its not worth the time to sit around actively trying to sell.

It is the way they did it, should have been completed like the auction house in WoW, LOTRO, or some other game that did it correctly.

[Meiva]

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

I never agreed with this. Not everyone wants to play Day Trade Online for hours to get decent prices for gear they buy/sell. The lack of Bazaar also makes mudflation a lot worse for starting players. It can be really hard to find anyone selling lower/medium priced gear, because its not worth the time to sit around actively trying to sell.

Well. Your char must be logged in, and that account tied-up by your Bazaar mule. That meant a $15 a month mule account for some.

Global chat may be a simple solution to a world that expands too large. WTS/WTT channel. This would mean the death to EC tunnel, but the transactions are still community driven. You are organizing to meet at a certain location, possibly purchasing a port.

[Rhambuk]

would love to see pop on this server with no luclin. Would be a real challenge after some of the cakewalk raids weve had here, not bashing the devs or anything just with the numbers and information we have nothing is a challenge.

But I would love to see ssra put in, maybe somewhere in kunark where they used to be.

[Gadwen]

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

I never agreed with this. Not everyone wants to play Day Trade Online for hours to get decent prices for gear they buy/sell. The lack of Bazaar also makes mudflation a lot worse for starting players. It can be really hard to find anyone selling lower/medium priced gear, because its not worth the time to sit around actively trying to sell.

I actually liked the bazaar. The novelty of EC trading wore off a long time ago for me on this server lol. The bazaar allowed newer players to make money off of, and also acquire cheap items that would have otherwise just been sold to vendors. Words, runes, tradeskill components etc. as well as lower end gear.

It also created a more competitive sales environment for higher end gear, sellers couldn't just sell items for top dollar all the time when there were 50 other people in the bazaar selling the same thing. It was a more realistic representation of the actual supply of items on the server.

Sitting in EC for 5 hours and paying top dollar for the items you want really doesn't excite me.

[Pringles]

I loved the game up through PoP, after that.... meh.

[Rhambuk]

The only good thing after pop was the berserker class, just wish they implemented earlier.

The worst part was bazaar berserkers could easily outdps raid rogues, so messed up.

[myriverse]

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

cats on the moon makes me cry ;_;

Racist!

[Vexenu]

People need to stop hating on the EC tunnel. It's core to the classic EQ experience.

EQ is an item-driven game and a community-driven game. The EC tunnel combines both aspects and therefore acts as the central hub of the server.

If you don't like sitting around and auctioning your items, sell them to a trader for below market rate. Or create a WTS thread on the forum and keep it bumped. It's not difficult. No one is forcing you to sit in the tunnel for 5 hours a day.

Item buying and selling in a real-time market is simply one of the major aspects of the game that sets classic EQ apart from every other MMO. Without it, the game world feels much more sterile. A classic server without an EC tunnel market is not classic at all.