Reimagining EQ and what Sony should have done

[maskedmelon]

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

I would argue that the crafting system in EQ2 was one of the best in any MMO I've ever played.

I would have I agree with this. VSoH offered a more meaningful implementation, but EQ2's was by more entertaining by far.

[webrunner5]

I could never get into playing EQ2. Just did not work for me. Not sure how really successful it was in the long run for Sony?? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Paleman]

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

I would argue that the crafting system in EQ2 was one of the best in any MMO I've ever played.

lol the eq2 crafting system is now a glorified version of fucking whack a mole.

[Cilraaz]

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

lol the eq2 crafting system is now a glorified version of fucking whack a mole.

Whack-a-mole that produced different results depending on how well you whacked the mole versus:

• Set quantity to 50
• Hit go
• AFK for a while

[Xer0]

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

Whack-a-mole that produced different results depending on how well you whacked the mole versus:

• Set quantity to 50
• Hit go
• AFK for a while

dunno if you're referring to wow, but really what's so bad about that? I mean, yes when you have several hundred of something to "process" it's extremely tedious, but I dont see how it's laughable.. in eq you put 4 different items into a container and hit combine and boom your thread cloth and metal bits are by the magic of a button press, formed into a wearable piece of armor, all wow did is take a lot of the annoying repetition out of the formula and I don't think that's a bad thing.

[Crawdad]

Smedley did nothing wrong.

[Nirgon]

Send me back in time to save Brad and prevent WoW from ever happening

[Xer0]

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

Send me back in time to save Brad and prevent WoW from ever happening

I love all the hate WoW gets. People love to overlook the fact that it proceeded to define the genre despite the fact that it's apparently the most awful game to have ever existed. These two facts could not possibly coexist.

Don't get me wrong, it went downhill over the years, but it was always a pretty fun MMO. It may not have the challenge of classic EQ or even vanilla wow, but face it: Instanced dungeons and raids are tits (unless you find fighting about batphones and poopsocks fun, and spending hours discussing timeframes and rotations on bosses that people have had down formula for well over a decade.. you are probably in agreement with me; even if you don't know it), world pvp is way fun especially compared to the snorefest going on over at red 99

The population is insane, especially since about 80% (bad estimation, no real math or calculation involved, don't quote me)of their 12 million subscribes have returned witht he drop of WoD (was up to 10mil last I saw)since they merged open world zones for the collective battlegroups you never see an open world with no one in it. It's far from perfect, a lot of the systems in place make it a pain in the dick to level WITH somebody, but it's also FAR from the sperglord of an MMO you guys make it out to be.

Plus it has the added benefit of being based off of what is quite possibly the coolest Fantasy RTS Universe that ever was created [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Swish]

It was fun until daily quests and everything turning extra trivial to cater for the kids who got mad at having to "try" at something.

[Xer0]

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

It was fun until daily quests and everything turning extra trivial to cater for the kids who got mad at having to "try" at something.

They've addressed that a bit in the newest patch/expansion IMO. Its still not vanilla tier challenging, but you should have seen on the day the warlords pre-patched dropped, people died so so so much during dungeon runs. They made proper use of cooldowns/interrupts etcetc crucial to survival, and after 2 years of Pandarian EZ Moad no on knew how to handle it. So good.|

I agree that the idea of daily quests kind of made me nauseous at first; however it's more of a way to earn steady gold than anything, by no means a necessity.

And with draenor the daily quests actually change up a bit so it feels like you're actually doing things! amazing!