Everquest Legends

Tuco said:

Regardless of how it shook out, THJ wasn't some underground secret that Secrets ratted out. Secrets might've been involved in pushing for action against THJ, but that's uhh, more of a snake move than a rat move?

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It's hard for a company to be aware of something if no one in the company cares enough about the game to look at what the emu community is doing. Furthermore, it sounds like DBG pays bottom dollar for work, so no one was paid enough to care to tell the suits, even if some of the peons knew about it. An email to customer service, on the other hand, could easily get run up the flagpole since a report like that would be more "part of their job" to address.

Tuco said:

I don't know how trustworthy it is but

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Regardless of how it shook out, THJ wasn't some underground secret that Secrets ratted out. Secrets might've been involved in pushing for action against THJ, but that's uhh, more of a snake move than a rat move?

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Think he was probably just arguing the years part of the statement, not the thousands of players.

i don’t hate it. i’m still playing. finished my gear, banestrikes, faction achievements (except 1 seems unrealistic to me), working on hunters now, thinking about buying a shotgun and some bullets after that

you know, to shoot them at my head, if you know what i mean

nah, not that bad. i like everquest and for now, this is still everquest. im just noticing that items from the patch notes are not actually making it into the game, and i dont fully understand why no one seems to really mind. maybe they are fixing things no one cares about in the first place, i guess

Long time lurker that hasn't posted in decades here... This game pissed me off enough to post again. I tried so hard to like it, but they completely missed what made THJ successful. It wasn't really the multi-classing. It was the power fantasy.

Secrets and Co put a ton of effort into making balanced gameplay, when the entire point is for characters to be unbalanced. I played for close to a month, but it felt more like multi classing in P99 than playing THJ. It's not difficult. It just feel sluggish, and no one is getting a dopamine hit from looting shit with +3 strength.

That said, they did definitely have a dilemma on their hands. THJ's approach was not a valid long term plan. After PoP there wasn't really anywhere to go, and I suspect player count would have started to drop substantially. No one would have wanted to play GoD.

The better approach would have been to release the expansions through PoP once a month to buy themselves time to come up with custom content. Instead they have been fucking around adding +2 agi to drops in unrest.

Yeah I mean any plan other than this going GoD->OOW etc probably would have worked. Starting up seasons might have been the play. I just know most TLPs lose a ton of population as soon as PoP becomes stale.

Custom content unlocking level 70 might be cool also as glasses start to get some pretty cool abilities/spells in that range. It's just a bummer having to play GoD comes along with them.

Edit: reminded me of another massive failing of EQL... They added very very few of the fun out of era AAs. That is a huge reason it felt more like p99 than THJ to me.

headspace said:

Yeah I mean any plan other than this going GoD->OOW etc probably would have worked. Starting up seasons might have been the play. I just know most TLPs lose a ton of population as soon as PoP becomes stale.

Custom content unlocking level 70 might be cool also as glasses start to get some pretty cool abilities/spells in that range. It's just a bummer having to play GoD comes along with them.

Edit: reminded me of another massive failing of EQL... They added very very few of the fun out of era AAs. That is a huge reason it felt more like p99 than THJ to me.

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I'm pretty sure they were going to go Seasons eventually with some twists thrown in like ARPG's do. They had the entire game set up as a loot pinata. People would have played that for sure.