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Good point, which is why I never played it.

Are you fucking retarded? Do you know what the word analogy means? I'll try and explain it to you, and I'll use small words so you can attempt to follow along. The analogy I'm making applies to MMO's because The billionaire in this example are games like WoW and every other modern MMO that has...

You're a fucking idiot, and your analogy sucks. Here's a much more accurate analogy: one person is a billionaire and can buy a new ferrari once a week for the rest of his life if he so chooses. The other person works hard, saves up his money, and eventually is able to save up enough money to buy...

MMO's will be good again when someone in the industry realizes that there needs to again be some kind of risk vs. reward built into the game itself. Take two people: give one of them anything they ask for whenever they ask for it and make the other person work hard for it. Which one do you think...

Bullshit. Has absolutely nothing to do with age. D2 was/is better than D3 in every way possible. That is a fact.

You shouldn't be in a coma, you should be dead.

How much do they pay you to white knight for a game that you don't even play?

So SWTOR is super successful and profitable, yet only a few hundred thousand people play it (compared to the millions who began playing it at release) and even fewer spend money on it. got it.

Truth.

Yet you and no one else here actually plays the fucking game. If the game is so god damn great, WHY AREN'T YOU PLAYING IT???

wow! holy shit! a whopping 500,000 players playing a game with the biggest IP in the world, coming from one of the biggest video game companies in the world! success!

Yeah, because Star Wars doesn't have any brand identity.

No, it's a sign of "holy fuck our game sucks and no one is going to be playing it if we don't go FTP." WoW still has a monthly sub and has been out for 10 years, and the star wars IP is a thousand times bigger than WoW's. Hell, even EQ charged a monthly sub for 13 years. I don't care how much...

The fact that star wars is now FTP is proof of its failure. If it was truly a success, they'd still be charging a monthly sub like they did at launch. Trying to sell a steak for $50 but then realizing no one wants your shitty steak so you give away the steak for free but charge $5 for the potato...

Thoroughly disappointed in this game. Was hoping for something closer to Half life or Bioshock, but a little more MMO'esque. Instead, it's just really bland and does nothing really new or exciting. Looks pretty though.

You can spew this bullshit all you want, it won't make it true. EQ had meaningful rare loot (not done in today's MMO's), contested content (not done in today's MMO's), a very steep, punishing leveling curve (name me a modern MMO that you can't hit max level in under a week?), class...

There is absolutely room for improvement. Never once ever did I say EQ was perfect, but it was significantly superior to anything that has come out since, and a lot of what made it great is everything that is missing from modern MMO's. You can make improvements, but there's also no need to throw...

First of all, WoW came out in 2004, 5 years after EQ launched, not 2 years. Second of all, time is the only thing that is meaningful in MMO's. No MMO is hard. Playing scratch golf is hard. Killing mobs in a video game is easy, whether it's DIKU or DDR, it's not rocket science. The time invested...

Exactly. My entire point is that levels aren't the problem, shitty leveling experiences are the problem. The reason why EQ worked was because it took so long to level, you actually stayed in areas longer (meaningful content), met more people, cared about the loot (you didn't re-gear every half...

So 15+ years later and with all the advancements in technology and the fact that they're going to spend a thousand times the amount of money that they spent to make the original EQ, you're telling me that they're doing 5 tiers instead of 50 levels because it's more convenient? Ummm, okay.

But it's still going to be like that. If you're tier 1, you'll get your ass kicked in a tier 5 area. You're still going to have to "level up" in order to survive in the tougher areas. It's just a lamer version of what the original EQ did. If you're a tier 5 warrior, you're not going to invite a...

There is no point. People just hear the word "levels" and get sand in their vaginas. It's just the new corporate buzz word to fool the dim witted; like when they started calling retards differently abled.

The grind is still going to be there regardless. Unless it's possible to enter the toughest dungeon in the game the very second you log in to play, leveling, in some form or another, exists.

Except that leveling still exists in EQN, it's just disguised differently. You still have to raise your skills (levels) in order to open up other abilities. It's the same car, it just has another paint job.

Lol! Thanks, Abe!

Everything about EQ, from day 1 on. Starting as a high elf in Felwithe and finally having the balls to follow the path to Kelethin, to orc hill, to crushbone, to my first trip on the boat to Freeport, to the huge ass trek the whole way to Qeynos to farm for a GBS, to befallen, to the oasis, to...

That's not at all what I'm looking for. What I'm looking for is a game that is in the spirit of the original EQ; with death penalties, meaningful loot, non instanced dungeons, and no hard factions.

Why? Because it would be the first MMO since vanilla WoW that didn't fucking suck, that's why.

Exactly. The E.U. is the juvenile, Twilight faggotry of the Star Wars universe.

Is the Pantheon office by any chance located in Westboro, Kansas?

No one could possibly consciously be this stupid.

At some point, someone who has an IQ over 20 will realize that the original, unaltered, cinema trilogy re-released will make hundreds of millions of dollars (if not billions) and make it happen.

This is the best news I've heard this year.

I disagree. I highly doubt people who like The Hobbit movies know how to read in the first place.

The only thing the "purists" wanted was a Hobbit movie(s) that didn't suck. What makes "The Hobbit" great is it's just a simple story. It was perfect the way it was. The best analogy I can think of is Peter Jackson basically had "True Detective" and made it into "Paul Blart."

All he had to do is give "The Hobbit" the same love and passion that he gave when he made the LOTR, which he obviously didn't. Fuck people who are trying to make excuses for him. And no, he didn't rape my childhood or any other dumb shit, he just lowered his standards when he made these movies...

You obviously don't know shit about depression. RIP Robin Williams. "Aladdin" and "Good Will Hunting" were my two favorites of his.

The new map makes sense. If you're going to put Jesus into your MMO, you damn well better have lots of water for him to walk on!

I loved the very brief time I spent in VG. Can't believe it was 7 years ago that I played this game. That is really unfathomable.

you couldn't be more wrong. His publishers stopped him from completely rewriting "The Hobbit" as he tried to tie it into the LOTR storyline. He made some changes to the original novel, but the true retcon that he wanted to write was prevented by the publisher at the time, with good reason.