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Going with the all hype /cashgrab angle. Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the game had little to no alpha/beta testing and just launched as is, being SOE. The games current iteration has been in work for less than a year, and it's a no brainer that the art/level asset are being...

nah pretty sure it would have been a financial failure in that scenario. What I find more interesting than trying to imagine this comparison is to actually look at the MMO space over time. EQ and most every other game at the time grew overall (with minor peaks and valleys around expansions)...

Really going to be hilarious when EQ Next launches as a facebook app rendering the 360+ pages of debate here moot. Didn't expect that, did you? But nah for real, it'll be an Eve clone with more PVE focus. As in, there will actually be PVE beyond just tedious shit (mining, mission running)...

There is absolutely zero instancing in Eve. Not in the manner that most people think of instancing. I think you meant zones? yeah Eve has zones similiar to EQ1. The Eve server is a ridiculously large room full of computers to support the single shard world, and sure individual zones can...

The President of SOE Feel free to browse his tweets about EQN in which all of them indicate that you're in for a rude awakening. The game will be more like Eve (or UO if you are unfamiliar with Eve) than Everquest. Eve has more subscribers than Everquest ever did. It's also the only game that...

Depends if you like action combat or hotbar combat. I hate, hate, hate hotbar combat. By hotbar combat I mean everything from DDR whackamole EQ2 style to CD/animation time "rotation of the same 3-5 button presses" WoW style combat. I especially hate UI minigame combat that's been built on top...

meh, I completely disagree with you say is an obvious implication. Doesn't fit from what has been revealed thus far: The game is supposed to be the biggest sandbox ever. Sandbox is only meaningful with open world pvp. Developers agree completely with that statement. I believe the person who...

Yeah tons of hate for this game for all the wrong reasons. There's tons of shit wrong about this game, the p2w zen store advertisements being the tip of the iceberg. But for all it's faults the game is fun to play and it has the best combat system if you're interested in group based...

Uh not seeing how that's an indication that PVP won't be open? Was a simple question, non-consensual pvp or no? and the answer was "we're not saying, but it'll be fine". If anything, that's indicative that PVP will be open world. If it wasn't, the answer would have been a much more straight...

You mean one of the other 4 things thay is actually known about the game? Developers cannot churn out pve content faster than players can consume it so don't even expect eqn to try? That that will not be the focus of eqn and if thats what you are looking for there are a plethora of games out...

Can i lick your tears when eqn is revealed as an open world pvp sandbox game as that is one of the like 4 things that has already been confirmed about the game? Seriously.

God I can't wait until the 2nd to hear the lamentation and gnashing of teeth from this thread. My expectations are based on; What little information they've actually released and not on EQ1 nostalgia wish lists and dream scenarios, so they're quite the opposite of yours. lets do a little...

Find it funny all the people defending EQ's fault's-as-"features" two main arguments; a) EQ style non-instanced dungeons will totally work just so long as they create eleventy billion dungeons so there's enough for everyone without using instances and b) PVE pure servers, PVP destroys games...

So basically there's several topics going at once which are somewhat blurred: Topic 1: the "I want slow paced, downtime driven, auto-attack based combat because: creates community/social interaction/simpler gameplay and i'm old/dont like console style gaming/DDR/etc". This is fine actually...

GWF is the simplest class in game and even it has 5 abilities that you swap around. It's also the only class that has such simplistic decisions such as +dps.Mind you any gwf with a clue will be using atleast one utility ability if not 2. All other classes are using situational encounters as...

Um yeah everything you just said about neverwinter is flat out wrong. By "might have changed" do you mean after level 10 when you start getting utility/situational abilities to replace your default dps encounters then yes, it totally changes. Also what is a champion? I think you are...

Neverwinter has both of these, the "avoid red" AOEs from mobs which is mostly just an afk check for ranged classes and slow wind up animations for the melee. The slow wind up attacks are far more dangerous, they basically 1-shot you so you must pay attention to what you are fighting and dodge...

Yeah way too many abilities, too much like whack-a-mole. Don't really see how that's "reaction" based unless you're expected to stare at your UI and watch for things to light up. Any game that expects you to hit the "0" key isn't really designed to need dodge. Neverwinter has auto-attack...

so basically you're describing neverwinter combat. well the "auto-attack" is hold down left mouse button, not exactly auto, but yeah. Holding down right mouse button is a seperate auto-attack/utility ability that's situationally useful. I love bringing it up cus people hate on the game but...

So basically 90% of what the EQN players want already exists in Eve, but you want Elves and shit not spaceships. But luckily smed plays the fuck out of Eve and allegedly will be making EQN an Eve clone instead of it's original intention of being a WoW clone. Or you know, you could just make the...

have entire planets worth of stuff sitting in my hangar bay in Eve Online, unlimited storage is fine with a simple search function or other way to organize it.

I used to make most of my Isk training and selling characters. It's completely legitimate in Eve to buy/sell Characters. Not sure if you meant to, but you said account. buying accounts is just dumb, don't do it. It costs 20 bucks for character transfers but every character you have should be...

all this talk about F2P/microtransaction/P2W stuff has me reminiscing about CCP's attempt to do it in Eve. They came out with a cosmetic cash shop which was whatever, but then it was leaked that they had plans to do much more ala p2w. The playerbase said "no you're not" and then burned Jita to...

Download the free trial. Play the Tutorial. Actually play the motherfucker. Most "mmo veterans" etc treat all tutorial/newbie zones/etc with contempt and either skip or rush through it. Don't. The game plays vastly different than any standard fantasy mmo. Everything from basic controls to...

I must be getting old, but can someone please explain the appeal of this game for me? It's like a weird fantasy/space hybrid kinda like SW:TOR. Combat looks like TSW but mixed kinda with WoW. Except it doesn't have TSWs amazing class-less level-less skill/advancement system nor it's really...

For all it's faults, Neverwinter has the best combat of any MMO. I can probably never go back to action bar combat or non-mouse look/ non-reticle based targeting. I'll probably have to go back to FPS once Neverwinter tanks, that and Eve, but only for the sandbox/freedom/pvp. The actual combat...

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but it's more than EQ2 and SWTOR. Honestly I don't remember much about GW's open world zones but I never saw anyone in them so i'm not sure it's less than GW. If you're defining MMOs by how many people are in open world zones and how often you group Neverwinter is more MMO than basically...

Eve Online. Single server persistent perm world with zero instancing whatsoever. If Instancing is how you delineate MMO vs non than Eve is the only real MMO ever made, Everquest and UO and everything else also had instances called servers. In it's hey day EQ had 50 different instances...

lolwut? "I could tell you everything I don't like about the game but you'd just counter it by saying 'well, then don't play it!' dur" no shit? In other news, the sky is blue. also rofl "consensus", get a clue. This game is as much an MMO as World of Warcraft is. If you'd like to move...

Who the fuck is being tricked into paying for this game? Seriously? You think Cryptic (lol) went out and tricked a bunch of venture capitalists with this MMO utopia "Vision" and released this shit instead? What do you think this is, Vanguard? You wanna blame anyone for genre going to shit...

Don't really understand the hate to be honest. Is this game for everyone? No. It's the latest in the recent trend of fast paced action-MMOs, which is what most recent MMOs have been doing, those that aren't straight up WoW clones. This one happens to be the most committed to being an...

game's still pretty fun and definitely worth the price of admission (Free). Wish they'd make epic versions of all the skirmishes to give level 60s more to do. mainly because there's achievements which I can't unlock as I skipped all the skirmishes leveling up and you can't go back.

Ran all of Gauntgrym except the 20v20 pvp phase on the public test server (as there was only 9 people total on the PTR). First time event started we were 3man vs 7man for the other faction so we "lost" the first pve phase, and could only run the T1 dungeon, second time there were 9 ppl all on...

lol my post got moved here? What did I spoil exactly? That the books are different than the TV show? Spoiler alert. they're different!

Interesting to read what you guys think of the Theon/bolton thing. In the books the reason for holding him is plainly spelled out, but in the books different sequences of events had unfolded where it's entirely logical to keep theon a prisoner in the dreadfort. It was confusing to me as a book...

Now one else is upset about the changes to Stannis/Davos storyline? Stannis is already a borderline douche in the books, too damn rigid, but he's at least logical and noble. he doesn't need any help making him more douchy especially by melding him and basically his Wife's character into one...

intentionally manipulating and setting in to motion the War of the Five Kings is probably more villainy than pushing one psycho bitch out a moon door. Also killing Joff for shits and giggles purely because he has the means to do so with "seemingly" no motivation or opportunity.

same. Though once I hit 60 with my TR initially I got kinda bored and started leveling a cleric up, but now i'm always on my rogue doing CN/T2 speed runs, exploiting the shit out of shit until they fix it all in the patch.

Yeah the tickler scenes in the show were pretty close approximations to the scenes in the books, starts with "is there any gold in the village, where is the brotherhood, which of the villagers helped the brotherhood, etc" Extremely disappointed in how they've adapted this season. a lot of...