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[Topgunben]

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

Yeah EQ:Next would have probably done decently well if it had just been a reskinned EQ1 in a modern engine. They went mental with absract design concepts about npc factions organically taking over one another and all this crap, and never had a single thing to show for any of it outside of some totally canned scripted in-engine scenes they showed at SOE live or something.

Everyone has to reinvent the wheel and it almost always fails.

Maybe the player base is just as much to blame though. All the pay to win, micro transactions, easy mode, everyone gets to top level in a week - it just doesn’t breed an environment for developers to focus on quality content.

Classic EverQuest, even with the best graphics may not work today, and certainly wouldn’t garner a million sales. I’d still play the hell out of it.

Honestly the one thing I am looking forward to with AI over the next 20 years is being able to have it build me video game code for any game I want.

[Ooloo]

Yeah, it would definitely be a niche thing today. But I think a talented efficient team could pull it off and have it still be profitable even with a niche number of subs, and yeah I'd play the hell out of it too.

I played EQ2 from launch through the first expansion and I just never really felt invested in my character, even though for the time the graphics were fairly impressive. It was cause of the gameplay changes they made compared to EQ1. It was pretty fun in it's own right but after burning through 1-50 and getting my prismatic on my shaman I had no interest in continuing and went back to playing EQ1 lol.

[Topgunben]

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

Yeah, it would definitely be a niche thing today. But I think a talented efficient team could pull it off and have it still be profitable even with a niche number of subs, and yeah I'd play the hell out of it too.

I played EQ2 from launch through the first expansion and I just never really felt invested in my character, even though for the time the graphics were fairly impressive. It was cause of the gameplay changes they made compared to EQ1. It was pretty fun in it's own right but after burning through 1-50 and getting my prismatic on my shaman I had no interest in continuing and went back to playing EQ1 lol.

For some reason I couldn’t get into EQ2. Maybe it’s because I started a year late, but it seemed to me a little less social and a little more run and gun. I also don’t like how they started everyone out in 2 cities instead of having home towns per race. In the end I dropped it after about 2 months. Maybe it’s me though.