Everquest Legends

Holy hell. All they had to do was copy and paste Aporia and Cata’s game, setup a nice expansion unlock pace (all the way to live EQ), and then count their money. They had a months long beta test that proved the model was well received and profitable.

What a bunch of clowns.

xmod2 said:

Grandpa, are you lost again?

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Done with salty losers, that’s all.

Burren said:

Could you do that 25 years ago? Did you complain about that 25 years ago?

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What the game was 25 years ago doesn't matter. This "game" is comparable to THJ. That's the server they killed with the lawsuit, "stole" the ideas, and want the userbase to now give them money. THJ was purportedly making a ton of money (possibly more than DBG was on EQ?) without all this extra bullshit while being a totally free game.

From the sounds of it, THJ had a much more generous donations for power set up, where, as mentioned before, one person could give the whole server an XP boost for 24 hours, as well as a couple other server wide buffs. The only other "pay for power" was that you could sell the currency you get from donations on the AH for plat, but you also get that currency as drops. I had way more currency than I wanted/needed just by playing the game from drops. There is a point where bag space hardly mattered, so why spend tokens on even that.

The whole ordeal with THJ is just another example of how copyright law desperately needs an major overhaul. Books being under copyright for 70 years after the author dies is the extreme example of the retardation in the system. Games are consumed at a much faster rate and 20 to 25 years seems just about right for them to go into the public domain.

Regardless of what they do here, I'm not willing to replay/relevel just so I can see the xpacs that came after LDoN, even if they copied THJ 100%. Reading this thread can be entertaining at least. On the other hand, if THJ had a box price, a monthly fee, plus a cash shop for convenience that made it feel like they were purposely designing the game to be slower, I would have never taken a chance on it either.