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Aye, there was a lot less revealed than I was expecting given their previous promises. Game is still a loooong way from release.

Lol, I hope the EQ devs see that comment. That would be awesome.

Lol, pretty big jump from 24 hour quicky mart to your scenario. One doesn't necessarily lead to the other. It makes sense to have a merchant who is open at all hours but only has very common items that perhaps cost more. Like a 24 hour quicky mart. Merchants are about profit. That is a...

In the QandA they mentioned shop keepers not open at night, but perhaps shady types would be. I'm in your camp on this. Give me a 24 hour quicky mart. They addressed that in the QandA too. They said they have a solution for it and that we would be happy. We'll see.

I don't see it as uproar. Just very healthy interest and discussion, which is good. SoE want's people talking about the game. Most of us are excited to see what they come up with. We have concerns but until beta happens it is still just speculation.

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Sounds like Rift unfortunately. Good on paper, cookie cutter in reality.

I think most people would welcome improved ai. It has been discussed before many times in this thread. And many are fine with getting rid of the trinity. But saying it and actually pulling it off are two different things. GW2 didn't do a very good job of eliminating the trinity. It was a good...

Vanilla WoW was very good actually, it may not have had as much challenge in the early game as I would have liked but it was still fun. And there were plenty of dangerous spots in the open world if you looked for them. But even it has changed. Which is the point. It really isn't that hard to...

So I take it you love WoW and all of it's clones so much that you want a never want anything else ever. You love face rolling, it's your way of life.

EQ is nothing like it was back during the classic days up to Velious or even Luclin. Everything has changed too much to get that feeling again. The progression servers are closer but even they don't have many of the basic mechanics that old style EQ had. And besides, been there done that. And...

You are talking specififally dungeons. Which you don't reach until level 15 or so in Rift. I forget what that was in WoW. That's usually after a day or two of playing. Unless you are grinding it out in a long session and skipping the open world content just to level. Until you get to dungeons...

Lol, you can make challenging content without forcing people to play months of faceroll beforehand. Just tune the mobs a bit tougher for one thing.

Use to be a Route 666 in Arizona. The devil's highway.

Much of the challenge in heroics is just getting there. You have to wade through weeks of boring content that has no challenge, to level up and gear up enough to do heroics. There should be challenging content from day one. Making me play the retard version of the game for months before...

The individual boss mob fights are more technical in modern mmos but in every other sense dungeon crawls are much simpler now. You move from separate mob group to mob group without care about roamers or splitting up packs to large to take on en masse. Dungeon crawls in EQ took much more skill...

It was much harder to dungeon crawl with a bad group in EQ than in any other mmo. Sure a good group usually didn't have any issues because they had the skill to know how to keep things from going pear shaped. But bad groups ended up looking at the loading screen very fast and running back to...

Yeah, that is the part I was hoping for most. Doesn't look like it though. It's too bad, EvE is the only modern mmo out at the moment that has any real sense of danger.

I liked camping rare spawns and rare drops but it could get ridiculous at times. There must be a better way to do it that can some how get that sense of accomplishment without forcing people so camp static mobs ad nauseam. And unfortunately, camping mobs doesn't work well anymore because of...

Lol. We were an FFA server that had to fight the Asians, Aussies and all the rest. The GM's gave up trying to police us because we griefed each other non stop with trains and the like. And temporary bans didnt stop us. We just made sure to recruit people who were good at what they did. We missed...

I agree, but they won't tune it that way. Mmo devs are pussies. Just look at what happened to GW2 and they are a much more talented lot than SoE.

Another point. When I played EQ I was already deep into my career and engaged to be married. I still managed to play in an endgame raiding guild with required attendance. It didn't hurt my career, my marriage or my time out at the bars with my friends. Just because you are incapable of managing...

Lol, all the casual games are failing already. And it's because they are too easy and made for the casual pussy. A sense of challenge is what humans crave. Not faceroll boredom. Good games sell because they are challenging and made well. If EQ was remade and they did a good job of it then of...

SoE will never make a real sequel to EQ. It was almost an accident that EQ was made the way it was. Nobody realized what it would become or there would have been more oversight. A lot of the systems we enjoyed about EQ would never have made it in the game if SoE's management had realized how big...

It looks like a good game so far. Hard to tell until we actually get our hands on it though. But it will definitely be different than the standard crap that has been coming out for the last few years. Hopefully they pull it off. As for it being Everquest, that's up to the player to decide. I...

Yep. I applaud SoE for having the balls to do something new with the tech, but I have serious doubts that they will ever make any gameplay where choice actually matters. Too afraid of losing the casual chimps. The lack of consequence in mmos is part of the reason they all suck now.

Paladin epic ftw.

I think getting rid of the trinity is a good idea. It's not realistic. Just give players the tools to fight and give the AI enough rudimentary ai so that they make some basic target decisions that make sense. And make the content hard enough that the players can't just faceroll it. The players...

The main problem with GW2's pve is that it is just too easy. The mobs are tuned for mindless button mashing, skill is not required to accomplish anything in their PvE game. Even the dungeons are pretty much faceroll. They can get more challenging if you rise up the tiers but being forced to run...

The original character art for VG was very good. It was some of my favorite character art I've ever seen in a mmo. Aion is the only thing that topped it in my opinion. The zone art is also very good. The engine and all of that needed a ton of work but that wasn't the fault of the artists.

EQ has more a more realistic art style and has very few polygons. It does just fine. PS2 has a realistic style and looks great. It also has hundreds of players in the same area at a time. A more realistic style doesn't require more polygons, but it does require better artists to make it work...

SoE changed the character art for VG 9 months or so after the game was released. The artists they used were not very good. In fact they did such a bad job of it that I left the game. The original Vanguard character art was very good, and would still look good to this day. It is the quality of...

Well they have to make money somehow. And selling bag space isn't P2W. It's also one of the very few things that I am actually willing to pay for. If EQNext is anything like the item bloated abominations EQ and EQNext are then they'll be making bank off of me. But item bloat also kills my...

If the feedback was all negative then I would hope they listened. But from what I've seen most of the feedback on EQNext is positive or at least hopeful. They should just stick to the path they have defined and make sure they do a good job of it.

All the extra space that Station Cash can buy...

He doesn't know. He's just spouting idiotic blather. Good games sell, hardcore or casual. When hardcore games fail it is because they are not made well, not because they are hardcore.

The reason EQ2's art looks bad now is because it always sucked. The artists responsible for EQ2's character art were not very good. There are plenty of examples of stylistic cartoon art that sucks also. It is the quality of the artists that matters, not the style of the art. Keith Parkinson's...

Heh good point. But the WoWtards I was talking about are the minority who defend the game no matter what crap it shoots down the glory hole. Most people who play WoW just do so because the rest of the herd is there. I don't consider them to be WoWtards, just average people. WoWtards defend the...

I prefer the fatties. Really excited and looking forward to EQNext. But it fails EQ1. Someday, someone will recreate the EQ1 experience and the WoWtards will never understand when it is so extremely successful. EQ1 / Darksouls is the game the genre really needs.

Still catching up to the days events. Depends on what you are talking about Draegan. EQNext is NOTHING like GW2 in terms of gameplay. Almost every facet is different. Apples and Oranges when talking about the actual experience of playing. But if you mean Hype vs Reality then that is just a...