I played EQ for thousands of hours. Thousands.
You would need to have a learning disability to think the only reason the Pantheon KS failed was because of the lack of information. People throw money blindly at promises all the time. A reskinned EQ would be a ghost town. It would be an MORPG. not an MMORPG.
Not at all. You're not getting it. Without pathing bugs, you never would have killed Dain.
The fact that you think root DOTing and snare kiting are exploits says quite a bit about the validity of your opinions regarding early era EQ.
The dungeons themselves were changed, gutted.
Trust me, I'm as far from a hipster as you can get. Too bad the manuf. experiences convo was derailed into oblivion, would've been interesting.
The problem is that the retro EQ demographic is really small and the ability to log on for challenging content with friends can be done in other games. Anyone that is wanting emergent gameplay isn't asking for group based challenging content. There is competition for old gamers from both Jacobs and Garriott. Redefining history and using false assumptions doesn't make your old experiences any more relevant today. It may give you a couple TUCOBUCKS in these forums but if you are looking for old sty;le MMOs, there's EMUs and what Jacobs and Garriott are making. If you want challenging content and don't need old school, there might even be a few more options coming in the next few years. That's all we have right now.
The funny thing is that most of the people who were good at EQ back in the day *did* move on and become good at other games. Its the guys that required 10 years to actually achieve anything in the game that romanticize it the most because it literally was this huge chasm of difficulty that they overcame. The rest of us just played the game and moved on.
Talk for yourself. Sure, people do their best to advance to whatever goal the game sets, and the last decade has a shitty track record for making the journey matter. So you are right about past games, but that doesnt mean it applies to the future. I'm looking forward to an MMO that actually does away with the endgame mentality by not having levels, a cap for them, and changing the entire way the game is played at that point.
Hope springs eternal but I'm hoping that game is EQN. Sounds like it so far.
That's sort of the point I'm trying to make. The industry didn't abandon the EQ Vet. There are plenty of options for the hard core guy who loves dungeons, challenge and emergent gameplay,but all that is ever mentioned here is WoW. Vanilla WoW, EQ and UO are all pretty much the same thing for me and I had a lot of fun in them all because I play the game in front of me, not the one that's in my head.
No Doubt, Being in one of the Uberguilds was a lot of fun because we had free tickets to all the best content in the game, and you know what ruined it? Other people. The minute the second tier guilds and the first tier Asian guilds started taking a piece of the pie it was a real eye opener on how much it sucked.
