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That is very true but in game currency is pretty obsolete is most modern mmos. Seems like it would be cheaper to just buy the instant level 100 boost then to spend money on tokens so you can buy heirlooms for faster leveling.

Would be nice if shaman had the same play style as classic EQ. I hated how WoW gutted most of the unique play style of shaman and gave lots of it's tools to the warlock class. A shaman who does damage with DoTs, drains and converts HP into mana is more in line with original lore that I remember...

What is the point of even having levels after that change? Better off to just make everything skill point and gear based other then getting a +2 to all stats every plus raising my skill point cap time I fill up a "progress" bar. I liked the idea from FFXI that you could use a item to delevel...

Gold is so easy to accumulate nowa days in wow that it's kinda even pointless to even RMT it heh. I ran a few heroics then did all my daily LFRs and ended up with like 4k gold.

Really liking the idea of having gear scale for all players in PvP. Wow PvP was almost as bad as starting out in CoD at level one and getting owned with the starter weapon / no perks. Having an upper hand in pvp because of gear is and was pretty pointless. Nude pvping FTW!NAKED AND NOT AFRAID...

Most balloon up within the first few months then reach nax before the owner banks on the server. Rebirth has been around the longest but is still way behind most servers that reach nax in 6 months then vanish. Kronos seems to be doing very well though i'm sure the ship will sail very soon.

They also have the lowest pop out of any of the vanilla servers, the original owner went mia about a year ago and took a lot of money with him (server was down for 6 months). Also the server has been up for about 4 years with 6 months of down time but they just progressed to the war effort (they...

That's always the reason they shut down. The point was we don't have a vanilla server that has been popular for over a year to even see how the server is doing that far down the road. Classic EQ servers do well after a year because the leveling game is still relevant even after then 2nd...

They would be better off doing progression servers like diablo seasons. The server will be up to nax within 4-5 months and most won't stick around when it's cleared. Most wow vanilla servers shutdown within a year anyway, so we don't even know how most will do after a year a has pasted. The p99...

Thing is the dikumud style fits in line with the D&D gameplay that every RPG has based itself on (RNG math based gameplay with items that add or remove a percentage to something). At this point every type of spin off to get D&D into a real time 3D world has been done with blizzard mastering the...

Seems like no one focuses on building a world anymore, it's all about finding the new holy grail of game mechanics. Almost every new mmo overworld seems like it was built for a ARPG with how streamlined everything is, just a static treadmill until max level. At least when mmo overworlds were the...

It's like asking for your money back from what you donated to church because you found out god isn't real. Your the one who fell for it and donated to the cause.

You know I always thought that if my parents were protestant then maybe I would believe in god today. The religion is very laid back and hey the priest can get damn married, who woulda thought.

I was pissed that only the older people got to drink the wine at church haha.

Most of us would be embarrassed to try an pass off stock assets as our own creation. I don't know how that team can even get past doing that myself.

At least he says that he is "one" of the creators of EQ and not the one and only creator.

Maybe if they cut the assets up and just used it as a template it would be fine. Maybe changing a face, color or designing different armor would fine. None of that takes much time and is hell of a lot quicker then starting from scratch but still makes it seem creative. How the hell can you sell...

It's just a insult to real devs (if any "real" devs are even left) in the game industry. It's using stock garage band loops to make a song and then call it my own creation.

Well they seem to have cut cost by quite a lot by using stock assets and not hiring talent for original art work.

Idk why they are even releasing videos with stock assets. It's like me recording my music first with a bunch of loops I found on the internet and say "If you like the music i'll learn it all and play it myself".

Do I go off thread? My point was even Brads best effort in the game industry was just a rip from another already established game. You can say blizzard did the same but at least they had the original idea of making a MMO more casual and at a faster pace with not much resting.

Did you ever even play a diku based mud?

It further proves the point that Brad really hasn't done much original work since EQ. And questions if he ever had any original ideas at all.

Also look into this,Google Groups Soe even admitted to useing diku source code in everquest. I believe even smed made a comment on this on the eq website in 99 but I can't seem to find it at the moment.

As per wiki, Bad McQuaid was an avid player of Sojourn. Seeing the commercial potential of virtual worlds in the course of his MUD career, he went on to create EverQuest.[4] With Kris' permission, used it as the model for the city of Freeport in EverQuest

Yea just take a look into the game sojourn (how brad got his start on the online rpg world). You will be shocked how it's pretty much EQ in command prompt.

Vanguard had awesome ideas but they didn't quite work out when they got programmed into the game engine. Awesome ideas but can't do it yourself so you need to hire other people who might not fully get the ideas or they just don't work at all when programmed into the engine. He had good ideas but...

I'd like to know how good he even was in Sojourn to even think he had the awesome ideas to make great RPG games (since EQ is pretty much a straight rip of sojourn). I suppose he wasn't even at the level of uber guild leader since he couldn't even lead a team for VG. And WTH did smed even see in...

I'd pretty much sure hes like hiring a uber guild leader to help you with ideas on making an mmo. He knows the game mechanics and how they should work but doesn't know how to program them into a game engine, write lore, do artwork or manage a team.

We still have no proof that hes even done any actual work other then just being an ideas guy (as in porting other game ideas into his own). I'd assume even for his early work on warwizard he was still a ideas guy and Steve did the programming with Miles doing the art work. What other work could...

I know if i lived in san diego and got to ride dirt bikes in the dunes all day I would be pretty damn happy. Plus he gets credited with being the sole creator of EQ by most people.

You forgot the god bless everything quote at the bottom.

I want to know if he ever even did any kind of coding of any sort in his career. Like how much did he even put into warwizard or was he just the idea guy then also. And wth did smed even see in warwizard 2 to even hire the team for EQ. The only kool idea in the game that I saw was being able to...

Why the hell does Brad get credited with being the "creator of everquest"? I'm pretty sure all he did was throw off ideas from his favorite MUDs right down to the names of races and game mechanics.

At this point wth can even Brad do for us other then attempt to give us a mmo with forced grouping / non instanced dungeons. How much did he even put into classic EQ and why is he the only person who is remembered from the og dev team. When you read into the history of when classic EQ was being...

What I don't understand is how people say we live in a culture of death. When the quality of life was so much worse 100+ years ago. In biblical times you would be god damn stoned to death for cheating on your wife.

You can send one my way if you have another.

You could of invested some time into avoiding this completely by getting a OT hammer or teleport pots.