[Opinion] EQ Next - Game Changers/Breakers

[tops419]

Sorry for all the WoW references on my part. I just really enjoyed the vanilla era of the game as I did the EQ -Kunark/Velious era. I think they were easily the two best "modern" MMORPG's ever made. I think because of the dramatic changes wow has experienced over the past 10 years, many folks have become a bit sour to even the mention of it (Remeber, im talking about wow 10 years ago)... in reality vanilla WoW was, with the exception of death penalties (maybe negated by costly repairs?), very much on par with the difficulty of EQ. Especially considering many end-game items were much more difficult and time-consuming to get than anything I can think of in EQ.

[Rhuma7]

Originally Posted by tops419 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sorry for all the WoW references on my part. I just really enjoyed the vanilla era of the game as I did the EQ -Kunark/Velious era. I think they were easily the two best "modern" MMORPG's ever made. I think because of the dramatic changes wow has experienced over the past 10 years, many folks have become a bit sour to even the mention of it (Remeber, im talking about wow 10 years ago)... in reality vanilla WoW was, with the exception of death penalties (maybe negated by costly repairs?), very much on par with the difficulty of EQ. Especially considering many end-game items were much more difficult and time-consuming to get than anything I can think of in EQ.

Maybe as a casual it was "hard" and "time consuming" to get gear in vanilla WoW.

but to say it was... much more than EQ? This man is a troll.

They had instanced zones with no competition for end-game raid content best in slot gear lol that shit was like getting your food stamps on the 1st of the month, just apply and bam, steak dinner.

[tops419]

Originally Posted by Rhuma7 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Maybe as a casual it was "hard" and "time consuming" to get gear in vanilla WoW.

but to say it was... much more than EQ? This man is a troll.

They had instanced zones with no competition for end-game raid content best in slot gear lol that shit was like getting your food stamps on the 1st of the month, just apply and bam, steak dinner.

I completely understand what you mean. EQ was much much more difficult from level [1-endgame). At endgame, I thought they were similar in difficulty as far as filling your role within a raid ( I never raided in original EQ, I only raided Kunark and so on, so i cannot speak for that era) and achieving the legendary items. I simply do not equate waiting with a challenge. For example: A challenge is taking down trak with 18 people. Waiting for him to spawn is not a challenge. Getting FTE is not a challenge.

[Nune]

dat corpse run

[Nune]

And to everybody taking a diaper-filler shit over instances, get real. EQ2 had instances, and I played on Nagafen from day 1 (Blue for a long time before then also). Never, at any hour of any day, was there a lack of PvP. And as far as items are concerned, this is one of the main reasons I often question if people ACTUALLY played on live.. nothing was EVVVER open. Ever. Never once did I find a LGuk, HS, KC, etc camp open. Guild politics played a big role in handing camps over and such, but the point being is that on a modern MMO, especially EQN which has been followed for years, there would just be too many people camping everything endlessly

[Rooj]

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

EQ2 had instances

And what a winner of a game it was.

[Nune]

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

And what a winner of a game it was.

I loved EQ2 up to the end of DoF. PvP was also fun. But whatever, it's cool to hate everything and I'm acting all square and whatnot.

[t0lkien]

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

I loved EQ2 up to the end of DoF. PvP was also fun. But whatever, it's cool to hate everything and I'm acting all square and whatnot.

Horses for courses. It's cool you liked it. I dumped it after a week as a total turd of a game that utterly disappointed after years of rhetoric on the forums. EQ2 is a good example of most things I despise in an MMO, and over designing things that were imagined as needing to be re-designed. I agree EQN is probably going to be similar, and I'm as equally uninterested in it.

There are two camps on this issue, and we're not going to agree. You guys have a plethora of instanced psuedo-MMOs to choose from. Go to town. The rest of us - probably the minority - will be in other worlds.

[Nune]

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

Horses for courses. It's cool you liked it. I dumped it after a week as a total turd of a game that utterly disappointed after years of rhetoric on the forums. EQ2 is a good example of most things I despise in an MMO, and over designing things that were imagined as needing to be re-designed. I agree EQN is probably going to be similar, and I'm as equally uninterested in it.

There are two camps on this issue, and we're not going to agree. You guys have a plethora of instanced psuedo-MMOs to choose from. Go to town. The rest of us - probably the minority - will be in other worlds.

Well, when you constantly subject the world to your own standards, you'll find yourself in the minority on anything. It'd be cool to have it zone like EQ1 did, it's just a dated concept. And calm down lol. fuckin Fred Flinstone up here bitchin because they dont make cars with open floors anymore

[Rooj]

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

You guys have a plethora of instanced psuedo-MMOs to choose from.

Thisssssssssssssssssssss.