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Old 03-11-2010, 10:46 AM
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btw I think they gave everyone 3 free days to play for their 11th anniversary today.
If anything says anything about SOE's current practices is that they gave away their 3 free days in the middle of the workweek, and one of those days was a patching day.
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Old 03-11-2010, 11:30 AM
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Saying eqlive is worst than wow might be a little harsh. I stopped playing eq after I was in the beta of the latest expansion and its not as bad as everyone is saying. Don't get me wrong, the game isnt what it used to be but there are some changes I like. I don't think no more corpse runs is that bad, most of you probably have some good memories of retrieving your corpse out of a hard dungeon but corpse runs weren't fun and didn't make the game more challenging, its just a time sink. Mercs are needed for the game sadly, there isn't a big enough population to always find pick up groups(i never had that problem though). They won't replace a group and you definitely wont replace a human healer/tank with one since they are extremely stupid. I do hate that they took out most traveling, but again its just a time sink anyways and doesn't add a challenge to the game. I hate station cash and refuse to support it(haven't even spent the free points that they gave everyone yet). They MOSTLY sell stuff that doesn't affect gameplay, but it is one of the worst things that happened to eq. btw I think they gave everyone 3 free days to play for their 11th anniversary today.
I absolutely agree with you in the fact that so much of the game is time sink related as opposed to adding a challenge. And let's face it, when the max level is 85 and there are others running around with 4k AA's, you don't really need any other time sink.
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Old 03-11-2010, 11:37 AM
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Saying eqlive is worst than wow might be a little harsh. I stopped playing eq after I was in the beta of the latest expansion and its not as bad as everyone is saying. Don't get me wrong, the game isnt what it used to be but there are some changes I like. I don't think no more corpse runs is that bad, most of you probably have some good memories of retrieving your corpse out of a hard dungeon but corpse runs weren't fun and didn't make the game more challenging, its just a time sink. Mercs are needed for the game sadly, there isn't a big enough population to always find pick up groups(i never had that problem though). They won't replace a group and you definitely wont replace a human healer/tank with one since they are extremely stupid. I do hate that they took out most traveling, but again its just a time sink anyways and doesn't add a challenge to the game. I hate station cash and refuse to support it(haven't even spent the free points that they gave everyone yet). They MOSTLY sell stuff that doesn't affect gameplay, but it is one of the worst things that happened to eq. btw I think they gave everyone 3 free days to play for their 11th anniversary today.
You say it's not as bad as they make it out to be, yet you do not refute a single claim. If what these guys have said is true, eq not only has turned it's back on it's soul, but has gone down the road of those idiotic Korean free-to-play cash-shop games, while they also charge a subscription. Sounds like a great deal for Sony.

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Old 03-11-2010, 11:44 AM
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I absolutely agree with you in the fact that so much of the game is time sink related as opposed to adding a challenge. And let's face it, when the max level is 85 and there are others running around with 4k AA's, you don't really need any other time sink.
Reducing travel time from anywhere to anywhere down to 5 minutes (zoning included) really ruins the size of the game. Call it a timesink if you want (travelling) but I think that without it you lose that sense of scale and it really takes away from the immersion factor.
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Old 03-11-2010, 12:28 PM
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I agree that taking out the travel time in game ruined the feel. I used to love the boats in game. Yeah, it sucked if you missed it but it was great to see shouts of "Boat!" and then see the stampede of people running to catch it. There was always one guy running (hopping) along the dock just as the boat pulled away.. It was funny to see and funny when it was me (although not AS funny)... [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
I even enjoyed the times I had to travel from Qeynos to Freeport. It was a mini adventure. Sometimes people would shout that they were forming a group to make the trip in order to increase safety.
EQ had a great balance and it was a sad day indeed when the boats went away and even worse when PoK showed up.. I didn't care for the nexus when it showed up but at least there was still some travel one had to make.

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Old 03-11-2010, 01:19 PM
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I agree that taking out the travel time in game ruined the feel. I used to love the boats in game. Yeah, it sucked if you missed it but it was great to see shouts of "Boat!" and then see the stampede of people running to catch it. There was always one guy running (hopping) along the dock just as the boat pulled away.. It was funny to see and funny when it was me (although not AS funny)... [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
I even enjoyed the times I had to travel from Qeynos to Freeport. It was a mini adventure. Sometimes people would shout that they were forming a group to make the trip in order to increase safety.
EQ had a great balance and it was a sad day indeed when the boats went away and even worse when PoK showed up.. I didn't care for the nexus when it showed up but at least there was still some travel one had to make.

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Yeah, I agree. Nexus was no where near as bad. It's not like you could go from point A to point B in 5 minutes. Unless you were going from Karnors to Felwithe you still had to huff it a long way.
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Old 03-11-2010, 03:14 PM
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it was a sad day indeed when the boats went away
ADMINS GIVE US OUR BOATS BACK! :P
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Old 03-11-2010, 03:22 PM
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Why are boats broken?
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Old 03-11-2010, 03:38 PM
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Why are boats broken?
To emulate EQLive.
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Old 03-11-2010, 05:57 PM
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To emulate EQLive.
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