Big_w_powah
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Everquest - Live Servers
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Borzak
Bronze Baron of the Realm
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I played on test with the server guild during House of Thule. The game was just a mess. Everyone had the same exact gear for a class. You had group gear or raid gear. Everyone who raided at the top had the same shit in almost every slot, the group people all had almost the same stuff in every slot for that class. Didn't interest me at all. No variation at all.
Kunark was a double edge sword. It had some great dungeons in game, on the other hand it proved beyond a shadow of a doubt they didn't have a full understanding of how game mechanics actually worked. Give a class some of the fastest weapons in game and no way to get off the aggro list. That worked out well.
Kunark was a double edge sword. It had some great dungeons in game, on the other hand it proved beyond a shadow of a doubt they didn't have a full understanding of how game mechanics actually worked. Give a class some of the fastest weapons in game and no way to get off the aggro list. That worked out well.
Chukzombi
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i 2boxed a cleric one time for one of our earlier emp ssra attempts. i let so many people die that i wasnt allowed to 2box a raid ever again. fine with me. 2boxing doesnt let me focus on playing my main char. then again if it wasnt for 2 boxing, our guild would never have gotten far. when we did kill emp ssra, we only had 25 actual members at the raid, a large portion of the guild had quit or "took a break" due to nonstop commander camping for keys. it was amazing how many people came back from their breaks the next day. i was so pissed, i had spent 3 weeks averaging 18 hours a day in that fucking zone along with a handful of others keying everyone up only for them to flake off and not help the others with theirs. after that i stopped being modest about asking for loot. a lot of us "core" members felt the same, so we loaded up on VT and the flakes came second. lol my shaman magelo shot up to number one that summer and stayed in the top 5 til well into PoP.
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Brikker
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I only briefly played on the Test server but didn't they change it awhile ago to Test not getting free expacs?
BilboFaggins
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I so could not give a shit about any expansion beyond Omens of War.
DBG needs to wake up and realize the game needs a reboot. The success of their TLP servers should be a wake up call to them that the average EQ gamer does not like modern EQ.
Start a new time line just after shadows of Luclin, and start making your expansions for that time line. Don't make the same fucking mistakes you made with the last gazillion expansions again.
DBG needs to wake up and realize the game needs a reboot. The success of their TLP servers should be a wake up call to them that the average EQ gamer does not like modern EQ.
Start a new time line just after shadows of Luclin, and start making your expansions for that time line. Don't make the same fucking mistakes you made with the last gazillion expansions again.
Zaide
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We played there as a full time raiding guild for three years or so. Never had any issues with servers being down. I guess by then they'd given up on testing things though so the Test server was hardly messed with outside of the monthly patching.
Chukzombi
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glad test was ok for you, i played on it after raids to get the inside track for what was coming up on patch day and it would go down a bunch of times and stay down for hours. i got invites from our old server GM, Valtron to mess around with certain shaman stuff . i pretty much ate drank and shat everquest and everything surrounding it during that time. i go overboard sometimes on things that interest me.
Reht
Molten Core Raider
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Not even 4 new zones. Plane of Heath is a reskin of windsong sanctuary (VOA zone) and the demiplanes are the same zone reskinned for the most part. At least the broken mirror had more than 7 raids so it was better then the darkened sea for raiders.
Fight
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Rain of Fear 2012 was the last "expansion" resembling anything close to a fully realized addition to the story and world... but that was also the expansion were they solidified the "cut-corners" formula. It still pales in comparison to what they were doing back in the day, with Kunark, Velious, PoP, etc.
The 3 expansions (more like game updates) that followed, are so ham-handed that if they had more than 1000 people playing their game, there would have been riots and demands that would have made Furor's 14 days notice look mild.
The 3 expansions (more like game updates) that followed, are so ham-handed that if they had more than 1000 people playing their game, there would have been riots and demands that would have made Furor's 14 days notice look mild.
Reht
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I know you are being mildly hyperbolic, but they had way more than 1,000 people playing during COTF, there are 45 raiding guilds (still listed on elitegamerslounge progression site, not counting the ones that died and dropped off between now and then) that completed that expansion, that's at least 2,500 there not counting the casuals and non-raiders.
Reht
Molten Core Raider
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Doubt it, they will continue to milk it for years to come, they need something to keep showing a profit while they work on H1Z1 and try to fix landmark.
Identikit
Redneck Pornographer
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if they are even trying to fix landmark at this point they are dumber than I thought.
Reht
Molten Core Raider
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Don't disagree, but they are putting forth a lot of effort to keep it from being a total flop, it's like they are actually incrementally trying to turn it into something more than a building game post-launch. Personally i think it's wasted effort.
Reht
Molten Core Raider
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Their CM laziness hit an all time low. When they announced they were going to stop posting sales and bonus exp weekends on the forums because they were also posting them on twitter was the final proof that they no longer really even care enough to fake trying. I didn't think it could any worse than it was with Roshen, i was wrong. This just reinforces what we already know, they're useless.Bristlebane brought down for scheduled 24 hour maintenance. The notification of maintenance came down 10 minutes after it was brought down
My guild (ring of valor) changed their raid time today to avoid Labor Day weekend, now we're fucked.