Where did EQ Live go wrong?

[ownrage]

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Compared to that very recognizable alien, frogloks are humanoid.

sow pls!

[Edrick]

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

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Compared to that very recognizable alien, frogloks are humanoid.

Where did you find this picture of me?

[Nirgon]

Yeah Froglok poorly implemented I think as a race.. shoulda had their city as a branch off of guk. I didn't like Grobb being taken back either.

[hynch]

I liked Luclin even though the over feel of the expansion didn't match EQ. I enjoyed the AA's and I don't think they went overboard with them until PoP. I think Luclin still had many of the elements of classic EQ. VT was a lot like VP and ToV, there was plenty to explore and see around the continent, and there was plenty of content for lower levels to enjoy.

PoP is where the game turned into an endless AA grindfest and high level raid fest. If you couldn't raid you grinded (ground?) AAs. If you could raid, you still grinded AAs but you also dedicated yourself to raiding. If you were low level, you spent 99% of your time in the classic zones. The PoK books really took away from the depth and immersion of the world as well. The nexus portals weren't anywhere near as bad since you still had to travel to them and then wait on them to port you.

Beginning with and forever after PoP it was obvious that Sony only cared about pumping out the next big raid encounter and gear set for everyone. Don't get me wrong, I loved raiding in EQ, but I didn't want to spend my entire time getting AAs and going to raids. I was a major alt player and once PoP hit I found I had to abandon my alts or be left behind on raids.

[SyanideGas]

Luclin was pretty crappy,with the new graphics and such..Though PoP had some really legit raids.

[Brimacombe]

Well, what I noticed from going back to live is a lot of content was tailored specifically for one time one place. When I went to live during the Underfoot expansion everyone was rusting at the top and the content for about 40 levels was geared for full groups of raid geared twinks. They never readjusted the content from when it was cap. This was a major turn-off as a returning player. I made it to cap so I could finally group, but by the time I got there the taste was so ashen that I soon after quit.
As far as where EQ went wrong, I cannot say. I was 29 at the time and the travelling bug bit me and I moved to New Orleans and RL was too interesting.

[Slippery]

Nobody would play anything but that ^. Lol.

[JoeyD]

EQ Live went wrong when they started selling druids like me out, Plains of Power totally screwed everything for my port grind.. Pointless money hungry expansions.

[Dravingar]

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

EQ Live went wrong when they started selling druids like me out, Plains of Power totally screwed everything for my port grind.. Pointless money hungry expansions.

I honestly wonder if half of the people who bitch about how PoP "ruined my druid/wizard" actually played the class as a main and not a whored out bot for cash. Porting people is fucking retarded to do full time and was not a function of my class, I liked luclin/PoP because that's when a druid came into their own and was able to do things unique and not just derpa derpa, i'm the 6th slot of the group and here to port the group out of chardok.

[Kieren]

It went bad after EQ2 & WoW came out. Most people left. 2002-2004 was great!! :-)