Is this game for people who don't want to work hard?Follow

True that but I hope it gets alittle harder :)

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If you were to actually read through Bliz Q&A about the game, WoW is not designed to suck up the next year of your life leveling one toon. Bliz reps have said they expect people to play more than one character. Their game objective was always to take out as much of the "grinding" as they could.

Going by your "logic," the game will be horrible if it isn't EQ2 or FFXII. I'm still trying to figure out where these invisible "rules for an MMO" come from. If you want to spend a year getting to the level cap, good for you, keep playing FFXI. MMO's will evolve and change just like every other genre of game.

A game where I don't have to SPEND ALL MY TIME gil farming, don't have to WAIT for invites, and don't expect it to be really tough (or placidly boring) ALL THE TIME. I want to play a game that is interesting, and is interesting 55 minutes out of the hour. Not 2.




And it is insanely difficult to get *some* items, but you are forgetting that the most upper-end content is not in. To say that the game is too easy because you can get a Black Iron Medallion easily (a commonly used old-school Everquest item, I don't have an FFXI analog) is not the same as saying it's easy to get drops from Vulak, AHR, Quarm, or any other "completion" boss. The tail ends of some crafts are difficult, but really all that is missing is the tedium. You seem to have this misunderstanding that tedium is a good thing.
Capping your character is still an accomplishment, but the emphasis on this game is not that it takes so long and wears you out after so long that you would never consider doing it a second time.




Then don't play, and stop imposing rulesets on this game that Blizzard SPECIFICALLY made the game to break. They have said from the onset this is to be the MMO that takes the boring and annoying aspects out of these sorts of games. And they are slowly creeping in. So YOU and YOUR ilk are the ones that Blizzard needs to stop listening to.




Actually, it's pretty far-sighted considering that the casual players will actually continue to play rather than discontinue their account after the first year when they fall so hopelessly behind and don't care to try to catch up to powergamers, when it is by definition impossible to catch up to a powergamer unless you are one.
Casual gamers make up a majority of the player base, just not a majority of the bandwidth.

/bow Azuarc, nicely put

Well put, Azuarc, I do believe that is "pwnage" as people love to put it in Halo.

Hehehe sorry, I hardly use such words but I wanted to use a word that Viniferis might understand.

Cool i knew i seen that name Tidious from that site. Tidious did you quit Eqoa or are you going to play WoW and EQOA. Anyways glad to have you here Tidious. What faction do you plan on playing in the PvP server.

Edited, Thu Sep 2 13:16:01 2004 by Gihja

And because it's a "known" name from all the console gamers, it's alot of people's first MMORPG, so they don't know that there is better out there.

Everquest Online Adventures for the PS2. Look it up.

Does EQOA actually count as a MMORPG?

Or is it more like the other games can play online from PS2 and Xbox?

You can do multiple races in the game and you can be a "Hero Class" once you maxed your normal job. There are tons of quest to do and it's really fun compared to FFXI where when the WHM leaves there is no PT (for level 55+). My server had a hardtime with WHM so I didn't get to level much. But when I was a WHM I got PT invites left and right :P


I've owned all the Blizzard games from Warcraft series, Diablo series and Starcraft series. All big sellers and from a company who knows how to make a fun game. So I have high hopes for this game. I'm in the stress test and I can tell you it is much better graphically and inteface compared to FFXI (Granted it's designed for PS 2 so I can't bash it to much being a PC port.).

So if you haven't played it don't start stereotyping it.

 

It's just like other MMOs just with a Ps2 controller.

I had my first experience with FFXI this past weekend while I was visiting home. My console-only friend has apparently started to play, and I watched him for about two-three hours before starting my own character very briefly. I haven't even gotten to all the stuff people complain about with item farming and class-balance strife etc, and I'm already wondering...how the hell do you people stand playing that game? It's awful. It looks nice and has a couple decent features, but overall it's a steaming pile of doodoo.