Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)
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fanaskin
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All these years, people have been asking and wanting EQ re-made in a modern engine with modern graphics. The various EQ owners and studios have laughed it off, saying "you think you want it, but you really don't."
Then you have branching studios that go on to things like EQ2, Vanguard, Green Monster Games, Visionary Realms, etc. You have failed projects like EQ3, EQ Next, EQ Super Secret never announced. All them them trying to recapture the EQ1 magic and all of them failing or falling short.
Reluctantly the EQ owners, put development time into TLPs... and what do you know, they are massive successes. They keep bringing people back time, after time, after time. They milk people for a few months, get them to buy EXP pots, bags, and keep the game afloat. Fast forward to today, 21 years later and there is still good demand for EQ, but with the massive headaches of old technology and trying to make ancient code actually function.
What if they could just go back 10 years, and actually put development time and resources into EQ Remastered? Same game, new tech, no bullshit server issues or zombie code that rises to cause performance issues and queues? Find out what your customers want, bite the bullet and give it to them in the best way you can.
These band-aid fixes, half measures, repeatedly poor experience for your customers are a testament to bad and greedy business decisions.
Then you have branching studios that go on to things like EQ2, Vanguard, Green Monster Games, Visionary Realms, etc. You have failed projects like EQ3, EQ Next, EQ Super Secret never announced. All them them trying to recapture the EQ1 magic and all of them failing or falling short.
Reluctantly the EQ owners, put development time into TLPs... and what do you know, they are massive successes. They keep bringing people back time, after time, after time. They milk people for a few months, get them to buy EXP pots, bags, and keep the game afloat. Fast forward to today, 21 years later and there is still good demand for EQ, but with the massive headaches of old technology and trying to make ancient code actually function.
What if they could just go back 10 years, and actually put development time and resources into EQ Remastered? Same game, new tech, no bullshit server issues or zombie code that rises to cause performance issues and queues? Find out what your customers want, bite the bullet and give it to them in the best way you can.
These band-aid fixes, half measures, repeatedly poor experience for your customers are a testament to bad and greedy business decisions.
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Sterling
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They actually switched server farms somewhat recently. They don't say it, but presumably it was to save money so It's pretty safe to assume they went the other way.
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4000 people piling into a server isn't really evidence that EQ1 remastered would be successful.
I do think me and a few other solid devs + artists could remake an impressive EQ1 in unreal and be compatible with p99 servers though. I'd rather make robots.
I would take an api, for quality of life changes. Fuck pretty graphics, I just want to stop having to parse my logs.
Sterling
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Tuco
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Yeah, and if you need proof they are cool you can just ask their 5 friends, all of which are boxes.
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i dont see how hardware is a problem, its most likely configuration of the environment. it costs like $10k or less for a blade that would be like 128gb of ram and 24 i7's... they are probably trying to split zones across containers/servers and/or do some dumb fancy shit like autoscaling across nodes and its probably failing hardcore.
i mean peq runs the db, world, and all zones on 1 container in a VM and there's never been lag with 1500 people
i mean peq runs the db, world, and all zones on 1 container in a VM and there's never been lag with 1500 people
Our healer crashed, says there a 3 hour queue. Oh well, I hit 36 on bard, don't know why I never rolled one back in the day, fun as hell.
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Tuco
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That's my feeling too. This is a configuration / code issue that can't easily be solved by hardware.
RobXIII
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Maybe if you camp to character screen, but, erm, if you say...accidentally forget you put yourself in Q and go to sleep, you'll see yourself at char select 12 hours later lol
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