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The word is on the street they are doing waves. Primarily Legacy accounts are getting first shot. This is to be expected as I'm sure they don't want everyone on the plant downloading their client. Supposedly there should be another wave today or maybe throughout the entire week. They are...

Whoa, you completely cut my sentence in half... I said they need to avoid adding the insta port feature of these tools. The tools are great but, when you form the group, you shouldn't be ported to x dungeon or zone. I love the tools, just not the aspect of adding travel to those tools. (I...

Slow style travel doesn't have to be an inconvenience, it just needs to be player driven. In time, it can be a source of income and means to interact with players. MMO's just need to avoid having tools and utilities such as LFG to automatically port or have objects in every town, zone, guild...

This was one MMO I really had little exposure to.... I think I was really hooked into Starcraft and Diablo at this time but I'm installing this right now and even putting it on my Macbook Pro to goof around during upcoming travel downtime. Anyway we can get names of people playing or maybe...

I agree. I know its an inconvenience for people to spend their actual time selling but I think EQ2 had the best system. I liked purchasing through the AH but I would save some bucks sometimes traveling to people's houses and purchased. I think there should be a fee system. If you sell off...

Beta keys are going out supposedly.... I haven't seen or heard of any from personal contacts but that does not mean they haven't went out. Post on their forums was locked due to NDA.

I remember upgrading to a Voodoo3 (had a Voodoo2 to play Unreal) and had the worst dial-up on the planet. I remember getting Diamond Viper Card and it was DoA and was crushed. I think I stayed with Voodoo and then Geforce line cards ever since. I remember running the Voodoo Lights screensaver...

You're probably right and I don't have the answer unfortunately. I guess I am just hoping that people that are much smarter than I am, sitting in some game design office, will have an answer for this problem.

I agree to an extent but I think it is a simple fix. You make the world what it is and put your time into developing the world itself and you move away from instancing. I also believe you remove the ability of tools, features, queues or whatever port you all over the world just because it...

I think it comes down to the value of the environment. I'll give some generalized examples that I think made the journey on EQ fun for me. I think of the value of camps and travel between towns. I think of Sand Giants for FS farming and plat with Lockjaw for a piece of gear. I think of...

Kudos to them for the FATE system. I hope its worth while as I have always liked this concept in other MMO's and would love to see it done right and generate some activity in the open world. Who would have thought that people might like to travel in an MMO and see people play?!

How's EQMac doing these days? Was thinking about getting my dose of nostalgia in and was curious how the lower levels were doing?

I was fully expecting some teaser information at FanFaire this year. Then some primarily quiet months with occasional updates. Sometime next summer or fall we will go through all the betas and then we'll get a November'ish release. I want to say on EQ's birthday, which I think is March 16th...

I guess my question is how these guys at the top (or close to the top) seem to make such major decisions without reproach. I know there are people there that had to disagree with some of these decisions. I know when I was in Software and toward the end of that tenure was just below my manager...

That's easier said than done because at some point it is a judgement call and a risk. Some of the most fun in an MMO has been the release rush (but early starts have subsided this a bit) and I used to wait until a week or so in hopes of a new server opening. However, games do not seem to make...

This... reputation proceed themselves and they are in deeper than FFXIV in regards to starting in the red. I don't mean to have sour grapes but I'm just tired of wasting my time and money.

I understand you are in an awkward position here (giving you the benefit of the doubt). However, I would need evidence in regards to both of your posts regarding SJ, Sillus, and even Jeff Butler. I assumed Jeff would be on the staff and regardless of Brad's title, he's being asked questions...

For the people wanting a more "classic" feel, what do people recommend playing currently? P99, EQMac, or just bite the bullet and pay EQLive?

Someone please tell me Smokejumper is no where near EQNext.....

Yeah.... just wasn't sure why the promotion all of sudden? I had seen bits and pieces and then all of a sudden MMORPG and a few other sites began tweeting all day and posting articles.

Not sure what is going on but there seems to be a lot of people playing at the moment. I say that because I have noticed several tweets and retweet regarding the game. Most interesting one was the MMORPG.com retweet earlier of some guy saying the game is a "keeper" ...

This is the direction I wanted to see games go... How do you enhance the MMO experience based on what was originally there. I think this is a cool idea, among others, that we have seen games talk about. I think MMO's started out with the right ideas in mind with UO, EQ, DAOC, etc. Some how...

Ok...where are the beta invites? *edit* Small hint at the bottom of the Producer's letter....http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/60207

haha.. let's try to separate the N64 version from the book. Though, I really had a good time with that game though some boards seemed like it took me 45 min to a hour to get to a boss.

The only spin-offs should be the sub-set books from the "canon" should be like Battle of the Bounty Hunters and Shadows of the Empires. They were great and deserve a look.

Yeah.. and you know Paul Barnett can take a long walk off a short pier as well. Seems like I remember him pretty much being a public nuisance as well.

Yeah.. Mark Jacobs was all I needed to know. WAR could have been a great game and his stubbornness (at least what I read from his own posts) drove it into the ground until people could not take it anymore. I think I had more fun on WAR than I did anything post-EQ.

Looking at the new blog entry this morning, I'm really starting to think these people have lost their mind. It is just their presentation and write-ups just seem (as I believe Draegan said at one point) unprofessional. It's like they are letting a High School senior write these things. It may...

Finally some information! http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g...n-of-Beta.html

The same guy that made this made a North Freeport as well (I think...) It is actually really cool. In regards to Sandbox... I agree, I want to know what Smed feels is a true sandbox because I think it has to be in context. Minecraft is a sandbox but it has different limitations because it...

Wonder if this is an EQN leak? Nope... it's actually Minecraft. Thought it was EQN for a second....

While it may not mean much to some or even to a game, I have always enjoyed in-game music. I know I have fond memories tied to EQ's music. Today FFXIV released a new video filled with in-game music in the upcoming beta. With that being said and shared.... this doesn't give us one bit of...

I can think of several things that both D1 and D2 captured that D3 has totally missed on.

I would go on to say that Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman were well known as well. Yeah, Liam Neeson was and is a pretty big deal.... Watch what you say regarding "if the lens flare is the biggest problem, you'll be ok..." The majority of The Hobbit's publicized issues were regarding the...

This is a "growing" concern of mine lately with every MMO. This seems to be the variable everyone wants to play with at this time. I'm still looking for the right method as I don't think anyone has quite got it down but there more or less extremes present. EQ2 with the 1 million buttons and...

Going all Mac will give you access to some nuances and conveniences that you will enjoy but they are entirely possible with other Operating Systems and devices. Typically people prefer the Apple interface but it is all about what you like and get use to... I worked as an Apple System Admin...

I don't think I have met a single person (trekkie and non-trekkie) that didn't enjoy Star Trek (at least from a movie perspective). I'm not one to use RT as a source but it holds a 95% critics and more importantly a 91% from the public. If nothing else the general opinion is positive...

You wouldn't think so but I don't know how many games people have just fell out of love with quickly because of the animation. You would think they would have figured out that this is one of the first things people look at when videos are released.

Nah... I loved Cloverfield. Oh well... who knows when this will ever come into fruition.

I'll take anyone who would please bring PvP to D3. I have always played Diablo for the PvP and it just doesn't seem the same without it..