EQ Live Has 66k Active Accounts (and Other Fun Facts From the Acquisition)

[BiG SiP]

those poor nerds
they were just like us... once

[Ahldagor]

Loramin, really interesting numbers to consider for a business model. Is p99 going to survive?

[douglas1999]

Not eq related but tangentially relevant; according to google, ultima online is "estimated to have" 318k players, and it still costs 13 bucks a month. How the shit this is possible I'm not sure.

Like a lot of people my mmo progression went UO -> Everquest -> Everquest 2 for about a year. Then P99.

[Baler]

a bit surprised by 66k members, Must be TLP helped that number a lot. Offical UO pales in comparison.

Everquest live is making enough money to do expansion packs still. I don't think P99 is doing anything other than helping that number to be honest. I doubt a majority of the p99 players would even pay a subscription, so it's not like there is a huge loss with us playing p99.

In regards to planet side 2, it was a core gamer, game created at the end of the core gamer era. It also had too much grind for too little reward combined with micro transactions.
I enjoyed it in it's hay day but it will never recover.

[mcoy]

Waiting for them to pick up Earth and Beyond and bring that back. The emu scene on Net-7 still has a handful of players. Hit me up for a jumpstart (rez) or wormhole (port)! Yes, Explorers (clerics) can port - woo!

-Mcoy

[Zukan]

No mention of Vanguard which is interesting. I didn't know Daybreak owned LotR Online or DND though. Or is that the new owners' stuff they already had?

[JayDee]

Funny to anyone else how EQ revamped character models a couple years in then left them as shitty as they are for decades

[Danth]

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

Funny to anyone else how EQ revamped character models a couple years in then left them as shitty as they are for decades

Probably got gunshy due to the outcry associated with the first revamp, then by the time they might've be willing to do it again there's no funding for it. The great mistake was, I think, changing the style and scale of the models the way they did instead of simply improving the polygon counts and texture quality. Didn't even look like the same game.

With respect to Vanguard, were other long-defunct titles mentioned?

Danth

[Mblake81]

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

Probably got gunshy due to the outcry associated with the first revamp, then by the time they might've be willing to do it again there's no funding for it. The great mistake was, I think, changing the style and scale of the models the way they did instead of simply improving the polygon counts and texture quality. Didn't even look like the same game.

What I thought EQ2 was going to be at first.

The original models were inspired art, dated sure. Those new models were goofy. The Trolls and Ogres lost all their charm and everyone adopted that silly spread-legged model to ride a game breaking horse.

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[Swish]

Talking of Luclin models and shittyness...Iksars lost their flowy swim animation to the standard one everyone had, no tail movement :s