Daybreak sues THJ

[Ciderpress]

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

shards would have been popular with original assets, that's how good that progression and the raid mechanics were

all EQ has is first love/nostalgia bias going for it

See I'd agree except if ultima online didn't exist. I played that at launch too and absolutely fell in love with it, and there are myriad classic UO emu servers, yet I don't play on them. I do play on p99, so I have to give the win to EQ's fundamentals.

[Ciderpress]

Hey I'd love a new server, but I still have tons of fun on green, and I think at the moment almost 700 other people do too

[Swish]

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

Hey I'd love a new server, but I still have tons of fun on green, and I think at the moment almost 700 other people do too

You're having fun? Hol up...

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[greatdane]

I never understood why THJ was so popular. Tried it when it launched, and while the triple-class gimmick was briefly entertaining, the novelty wore off within a week. Then it was just a laughably trivial server where you could solo raids and get BIS gear with ridiculous ease, and no social aspect because everything was designed around soloing.

For that server to have become so absurdly popular says a lot about the gaming mentality of large portions of the EQ community. The triple-class concept was undermined by the fact that THJ didn't have even the slightest pretense of balance, so while the idea was interesting on paper, the result was effectively the same as using cheat codes in a single-player game.

Anyone who feels like THJ is the ideal way to play EQ should admit that they're a shitty player who can't succeed in the real version of the game.

[Gozuk]

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

I never understood why THJ was so popular. Tried it when it launched, and while the triple-class gimmick was briefly entertaining, the novelty wore off within a week. Then it was just a laughably trivial server where you could solo raids and get BIS gear with ridiculous ease, and no social aspect because everything was designed around soloing.

For that server to have become so absurdly popular says a lot about the gaming mentality of large portions of the EQ community. The triple-class concept was undermined by the fact that THJ didn't have even the slightest pretense of balance, so while the idea was interesting on paper, the result was effectively the same as using cheat codes in a single-player game.

Anyone who feels like THJ is the ideal way to play EQ should admit that they're a shitty player who can't succeed in the real version of the game.

Yikes

[Bisonzabi]

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

I never understood why THJ was so popular. Tried it when it launched, and while the triple-class gimmick was briefly entertaining, the novelty wore off within a week. Then it was just a laughably trivial server where you could solo raids and get BIS gear with ridiculous ease, and no social aspect because everything was designed around soloing.

For that server to have become so absurdly popular says a lot about the gaming mentality of large portions of the EQ community. The triple-class concept was undermined by the fact that THJ didn't have even the slightest pretense of balance, so while the idea was interesting on paper, the result was effectively the same as using cheat codes in a single-player game.

Anyone who feels like THJ is the ideal way to play EQ should admit that they're a shitty player who can't succeed in the real version of the game.

Nice gatekeeping holier than thou post. You may not like TLJ, but the reality is that it was a fresh breath of air in the formula for the game and even got some younger newcomers that never once played any other EQ game before to try it out. And that's something this franchise is in dire need of, which is cross generational appeal for those in their teens and 20's. Because you can't rely on a majority 40-60+ year old fandom that is slowly dwindling down year by year to maintain any sort of revitalized relevance.
That said, it's a shame TLJ mods blew it by asking for ingame perk purchases (conspiracies aside). Hoping this doesn't have repercussions on the already paper thin tolerance of the emu community.

[shovelquest]

Cool.

[Ekco]

just thinking about the synergy between different 3-class combos was more fun than I’ve had in the last decade of playing other random emu server rule sets.

would have been amazing if it was balanced better, i'd be interested to see if that character class system shoehorned into [REDACTED] server instead of 6-12 boxing would be more enjoyable than THJ was

[Zuranthium]

It's good to have more character customization, but making everything ezmode like THJ is boring. It does show how many people use games mainly just to feel better about themselves with the fake achievements those games give, but it also shows how much the MMORPG concept has died and is not trying to be brought back. When there are no real options for immersive adventure in an everchanging game world that requires people to go on unique quests and work together, then yeah something like THJ begins to look sort of appealing in the way it provides a twist on an otherwise static game.

[shovelquest]

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

It's good to have more character customization, but making everything ezmode like THJ is boring. It does show how many people use games mainly just to feel better about themselves with the fake achievements those games give, but it also shows how much the MMORPG concept has died and is not trying to be brought back. When there are no real options for immersive adventure in an everchanging game world that requires people to go on unique quests and work together, then yeah something like THJ begins to look sort of appealing in the way it provides a twist on an otherwise static game.

You wouldn't ever be able to kill Seru.