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.

On a larger scale, 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.

On fippy there were no kronos and the rmt market was outrageous. I got daily offers during kunark to buy my bcg for real money. I couldnt buy other items I wanted like the ring from vp trash for plat - usd only. It was toxic and shitty. When I played on phinny, with kronos, it actually felt like less rmt pressure because it was more common but less impactful and plat was used regularly since that converted into krono and life was much more grand.

All these people talking about kronos as if they are behind rmt are retarded failures with no or shit jobs and no concept of BASIC economics. People rmt because the demand is there, not because the market or currency is there. The farmers will obtain whatever supply is desired to meet the demand. Get rid of krono and make everything nodrop? You've done NOTHING to change the demand from whales. So now only organized rmters with sophisticated setups will sell (and for more) and retards like half the posters here are cut off from the process so they cant compete.

Eql is looking more and more like a lot of people want to be rmters and are lobbying for rules that will make it so only them (professional rmters) will be viable and the competition will be cut out.

reavor said:

Releasing any game, or any product for that matter, is about making money. The idea for exploring EQ world for casuals 20 years after the game is good, and the THJ sounds like they tried to use someone elses work without owning it.

But hey, you do you, anti-capitalist, have fun living in the woods in a shelter. After all, trying to make money on a license you own is apparently bad.

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The fuck you talking about?

Anti-capitalist? Paying a box price plus a subscription fee then saying that them adding a basic feature into the micro transaction shop is retarded and greedy is anti-capitalist?

Are you a fucking retarded 3rd worlder? Did your fucking water have to much fucking lead in it or something? Calling something fucking greedy when it is greedy isn't fucking anti-capitalist you fucking moron.

If you go out and they fucking charged you for napkins do you go "Well you know that's capitalism" Yeah it's fucking capitalism but it's fucking greed.

Like what the fuck did you even fucking read? Can you fucking read? They're charging a box price and subscription fee on top of selling a basic feature that shouldn't cost a fucking dime you sub Somalian IQ motherfucker. It is greed not anti-capitalism. Fucking moron.