EQs nine year timeline

[Messianic]

Luclin wasn't the beginning of the crap - I liked it for the most part. However, it does mark the decisive turning point in the game - think of it as the apex - everything after went straight down.

[Tork]

I greatly disliked the 2.0 versions - warts, buggy shaman pet pathing and all, Paw and Hate are great zones.

[Raz]

all 2.0 versions were generally terrible, yes

[Raz]

Except 2.0 tork that is; what a fierce and mighty beast.

[Malrubius]

Still amazes me how closely together Kunark and Velious came out, considering how huge/amazing those two expansions were. 2000 was a great year for EQ.

[Striiker]

Hmm, I know we are going as far as Velious but does that include the free upgrades which came out after but before Luclin? (i.i The Hole, The Warrens and Stonebrunt)
I liked those zones so I am hopeful. (and this time, I'm not going to fall into the hole and lose EVERYTHING to a corpse rot). [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Arclanz]

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

Still amazes me how closely together Kunark and Velious came out, considering how huge/amazing those two expansions were. 2000 was a great year for EQ.

Was thinking the same. It's amazing how much content they created in just seven months (unless they had separate teams working on kunark and velious). Look at Vanguard; it took how many years and $millions to get out what they launched? Sure the mechanics and graphics were great; but Vanguard was severely lacking in content. It just seems like the SOE team working on kunark and velious were SO MUCH more productive.

For the record, once I got over the absurdity of going to the moon; I quite enjoyed Luclin. In fact I enjoyed every single expansion SOE came out with; I only wish the expansions were spaced out several years between each; and I had an army of friends to experience that content with as it was intended; not after it was deprecated by newer expansions.

[Arclanz]

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

This is based from archived patch notes.

*Apr 99 - Game goes live
*Oct 99 - Temple of Solusek Ro
*Jan 00 - Plane of Sky
*Feb 00 - City of Paineel
Apr 00 - Kerra Ridge + Splitpaw 2.0
Apr 00 - Kunark
June 00 - The Hole
Sep 00 - Epic Quests
Dec 00 - Velious
Mar 01 - The Warrens
Mar 01 - Hate + Fear 2.0
Aug 01 - Stoneburnt
Dec 01 - Everyone goes to hell aka Luclin

* - Active on P99

Didn't plane of hate open in october 99? I think the kithicor event (that left a permanent scar on norrath) was october 99.

[guineapig]

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

http://eqdev.files.wordpress.com/200..._timeline1.jpg

Had never seen this before and thought others might find it interesting.

Cheers.

This thing is was incorrect, please don't try to make sense of it or go by it. For the purposes of this server, the next year looks like this:

Temple of Solusek Ro: October 13th, 1999
Battle of Bloody Kithicor / Plane of Hate: October 31st, 1999 (estimate)
Plane of Sky: January, 2000
Kunark: March (or April), 2000
Ruins of Old Paineel (The Hole): June 22, 2000

Also, Epics come out a couple months before the release of Velious in case you are wondering.

[rioisk]

so epic quests aren't until velious?