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Erronius
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Well to be honest, when I left EQ2 a lot of the talk in generalWASabout how EQ2 wasn't WOW...you already have ingrained WOW hatred that is waist deep (often from people that haven't even played WOW), and all that a bunch of WOW exiles showing up would do is give those homers someone to take their vitriol out on instead of repeating anti-WOW talking points ad nauseum.
I can't wait to watch a bunch of EQ1 diehards trying to giving ex-WOW players a fuckton of shit, when many of those WOW players have been searching for a decent game for years now. How many MMOs have we seen in the last handful of years hit release, an inrush of WOW players comes in, then they get run out of town on a rail by the diehard fanbois? I've seen it in EQ2 where people would bitch about having lower pop than WOW but then attack anyone who even mentions that they had played WOW...I saw it in AOC as well. There is nothing quite like hearing a game's population whine and cry about needing more players, the studio institutes a limited time free-play event to draw new players in (similar to AO "Froobs"), then immediately the same asshats that whined about their server being low pop go out of their way to shit all over the influx of ex-WOW players (many of whom then leave and those fanbois then go back to bitching about having a low pop again).
I don't remember that from EQ1 myself, but it is funny how I see "32767" and choke on my coffee. I'm not a programmer and I've only ran into this in my PLC coursework (for example integer files ranging from ?32,768 to +32,767 from 16 bit I'm assuming) but I wonder why it defaulted to 100hp (wouldn't it have been hilarious to see HP overflow and wrap around to -32,768?)
That shouldn't be asking too much; many of us have talked about similar games for a long time now but I'm not going to get my hopes up about seeing anything like that in the near future. I'd love to see a game without raiding as we know it, more negative reinforcement instead of"push button, receive bacon"design, fully player crafted economy and less predication on dropped loot (though dropped clicky or unique items would be fun, along with crafting mats), player created society on a level past EVE, removal of character levels, etc etc etc.
This is why I mention operant conditioning and negative reinforcement. The way I think traditional raid mobs/bosses should work (dragons, giants, deities, etc) is that instead of killing them repeatedly every week for loot, they should be nigh unstoppable and rare, and used specifically to destroy the things that players create. So [Mistwalkers] puts in the time to build a keep, it's all snazzy looking...but eventually some "raid boss" spawns and heads off to attack items of interest that are relevant to a creature of it's scale. Such as heading towards towns, cities, redoubts, keeps, etc and smashing players and NPCs on their way there kind of like a Fansy train of sand giants running over people (choo-choo motherfuckers!). Picture Smaug waking up and rapetraining Dale for example, only let's imagine something like Lord Vyemm leaving his lair and deciding it wants to attack the keep that Mistwalkers built and pretty much be an asshole until it's ran off (or, if possible, killed). Sure it might actually drop loot if killed, but youREALLYwant to run it off or kill it so that you don't have months and months of hard work ruined in an afternoon (like a Minecraft creeper on steroids). Especially if you have enemies in the game (let's imagine some group of Euro faggots) that when/if they find out that your keep is getting assailed by a dragon decide that it would be a good time to make a push at your defenses...
My email just says "Welcome to the beta" then "Hello username, (blank email)". We're off to a good start!
Http://www.EverQuestNextBeta.com
this is bullshit right?
saw it on reddit, said it was a beta key giveaway.
this is bullshit right?
saw it on reddit, said it was a beta key giveaway.
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Looks like bullshit to me.
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Do they plan to have AA's again ? I would definitely play EQN, assuming their aren't world spawn timers. No one enjoyed waiting 48 hours for a fucking Fungi tunic or Cloak of Flames... or getting Avatar of War almost down, just to have a rival guild swoop in and take it out. Looking bad those were good times, but I just don't have the time in my life to dedicate to camping/ etc.
I'm liking this from the beta application page: We are passionate about building a gameplay experience that surpasses your expectations.Beta testing is an integral part of makingEverQuest Next a thrilling, hardcore MMORPG experience.
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Yeah, I almost didn't sign up for this reason. lol But, whatever. I don't see them doing that to us.
I would say, Yes to this Everquest as well as everquest 2 basically invented the AA system that many other MMO's now have and either call it the same thing or something else.
Its easier to design and code if they have it in for launch.
Vanguard had a AA system semi coded years ago to add it to Vanguard but the issue was since it wasn't done from the start of Vanguard that it would fuck up end game balance for raids,bosses etc as well as the entire POTA chain, so if they used it and broke all that shit they would either have to redo almost all raids and bosses or add new raids,bosses with there small team its just not feasible.
This is why it is not in Vanguard now.
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I went to the second link, and I got the blank one.
"Welcome to the Beta"
Glad to be of service. Now, if you would be so kind as to hand over the client download link, and a copy of the NDA...
"Welcome to the Beta"
Glad to be of service. Now, if you would be so kind as to hand over the client download link, and a copy of the NDA...
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My birthday fell on launch day, so my uncle picked me up a copy as a gift. Make a DE SK, immediately fell in the water, drowned, respawned outside with nothing and said fuck this and went to bed.