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I don't think they can or even should strive for perfectly balanced maps. There just needs to be some sort of basic logic and chance in where points of interest are placed. You don't want the most easily defensible area always also having the most valued resources. However, I do think...

That was always the best part of running into another EQ player in real life. Hearing how fucked up everyone pronounced everything as you tried to talk about the game to each other.

I guess all you guys will have to look forward to is EQBrowser, then.

No it doesn't.

Since when does F2PrequireXP, gold, and items to be purchasable?

After personally spending hundreds of dollars on League of Legends...I think F2P absolutely can work. But first, you need a fun game that people want to actually play.

Why hope the game won't be made at all? If EQNext dies, I doubt we ever see an EQ game again unless Columbus Nova sells the IP.

Sort of how I feel about it. It really seems to detract from their "CRUSH 2 WIN" paradigm to give everyone their own personal kingdom to rule over. The idea of a giant single persistent world that everyone consistently fought for, under a deep fealty system - seemed pretty appealing. They're...

Apparently he's pulling the entire team down.

You would not believe how many people on the official forums want this style inventory system...

I doubt it gets scrapped, but they are probably at a pretty pivotal decision point. In theory, Storybricks should decrease the amount of content they have to handcraft. But if it's not working right, they might just have to commit to doing things the old fashioned way. I can't imagine the...

Hell, I was talking to the UI developer about the inventory design and he talked about risk vs reward. Seems like they're trying to apply the mantra across all aspects of design.

I wouldn't consider Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms as 'instances' even though they might technically be considered that since they weren't 1 complete and seamless world. I don't see their current design being that much different than having multiple continents with separate rule sets in...

This quote should intrigue a lot of people.

They were reporting tens of millions in losses from SoE alone. A big part of that was due to developing multiple games (EQ3, EQNext, H1Z1). But yeah.

That's difficult for most MMO companies.

Man, what a good game.

The very fact that Ponytail and Butler were allowed to be problems for years, until outside intervention, proves that Smed is an issue for the company. That's also ignoring things like FreeRealms, Vanguard, etc.

Except you aren't advocating for something that hasn't been seen before.

Sometimes these are the best leaders, if they just clear the way for the people who know what they're doing rather than bogging them down or throwing up road blocks at every turn.

I'm so so sick of dying from bugs. Like, I understand dying is a part of the game. But spending 2 hours getting geared up, only to have a wolf attack you and your character locking up and being unable to attack or sprint away it just obnoxious.

One third are ass kissers. One third are ex-Shadowbane players whining about anything that isn't hardcore enough. And the last third have ridiculous expectations and constantly make the most unrealistic suggestions.

One thing that makes it interesting though is how each world will have a totally unique economy because it will vastly depend on which resources are more abundant (or not). Of course, this is assuming that while in a campaign you can't transfer resources or do a ton of traveling back to the...

Confirmation of no actual currency that is dropped/looted/rewarded? I personally love the idea of it. Really reinforces the player crafting mantra.

You likely never will since leveling is almost exclusively a solo thing nowadays.

I refuse to play that game partly because I don't find it that fun, but mostly because the prices for heroes and skins is just fucking absurd. And I say this as someone who has spent hundreds of dollars in League of Legends over the past 5 years.

They confirmed this like 2 weeks ago. There is still going to be some 'active' skill training too, we just don't know to what extent.

But they just hadso much funbuilding EverQuest Next that they thought it was worth diverting resources from actually finishing it!

Has all the time and effort put into making building tools and PlayerStudio been worth it? Or are they just a gimmick? I'll admit that I've actually been impressed by a few player creations I've seen from Landmark...but again, is the possible inclusion of the some player made creations worth...

I've never seen the button not greyed out.

Goddamn kids nowadays don't know how bad we had it. They'll be able to camp mobs while out and about. Back in my day, I had to fake sick from school for 3 days to watch for a Trakanon spawn.

Damn. I find it kind of crazy how little we've really seen of EverQuest Next in 2~ years. I supposed that's because it's development is really only as far as Landmark's.

Okay, who the hell posted this one on Reddit?

Hence why when I posted a tweet by a Senior Programmer for EQNext that production was still on, it got shot down as being 'unreliable' because he was a 'nobody' and didn't have clout with the community like our boy Ponytail.

Not to mention, buying Vanguard. A game so bad even the employees making it were shocked that someone would purchase it.

Just look at the people fawning over Georgeson and saying his outing spells doom for the game (mostly on Reddit). Seemed to me like he was basically just the guy that peddled the hype to desperate MMO junkies. Someone there even tried to claim he was the 'face' of EverQuest...despite not...

I don't think the Russian Overlords arethatcrazy. Although drug-fueled Brad McQuaid in debt to Russian mobsters backing his game does sound kind of hilarious...

Seriously, it makes no sense to buy SoE just to cancel all their games in development that have already had tens of millions poured into them. If they just wanted a game studio, it would have been much cheaper looking elsewhere.

Bill Trost. Edit: Beaten to it.