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100% agreed. While the servers were out this weekend, I got to try the EQ2 beta a little more. (Note that despite being in the WoW beta for 6 months and the EQ2 for less than 1, I'm still prefering to play WoW.) My opinion of it hasn't really changed much. Same constrictive UI, environment, overall game structure and the same bland classes and abilities, washed-out graphics, and monotony of killing creatures, and...

Well, there are a few nice things I could say about it. But there aren't many. Even going simply from EQ1 to EQ2, I don't feel it's a huge improvement. They added, um...a quest system, "better" graphics, a clean transportation system, and a buff system that prevents PLing. In exchange, the combat is clunkier, the items and inventory structure is more tedious, there are tiers of every spell (of which there are a whole slew that can only be obtained from PC crafting,) and just in general I feel like I'm carrying a bigger boulder on my back as I play.

The only hope for EQ2 really is that it nails the endgame and WoW doesn't. Otherwise, it's only going to be for Sony diehards and people who like to "adventure" and roam more than you actually *do* things. If your Bartle test results were that you were an achiever or killer, don't even think about EQ2. Explorers might like EQ2, and it may have a *slight* edge with socializers. Click here if you don't know what the Bartle test is.

World of Warcraft is THE most user-friendly game I've ever played. I was amazed at how the game went out of its way to teach me certain skills and practices. This was my first MMORPG, and I hit level 30 in 10 days. Wow. (WoW, rather.)

Blizzard has done a heck of a job so far, but quite a few things are incomplete.

1) Not all zones are implemented. Much of the high-level content is not yet implemented. In the same vein, quite a few are going to be updated. The Horde areas are lacking a bunch of quests.
2) The Warlock and Paladin classes are getting major overhauls. Additionally, both those classes (and the Hunter) lack talents.
3) PvP. If you read the article on the WoW beta site, they talk about some major PvP developments and ideas that they're developing. There hasn't even been a glimmer of such things in-game.

I would say the game is about 85% complete. They just added a whole new round of closed Beta testers. If open beta comes out before the middle of October, I will be stupefied.

Hey 85% is about doubled what a SOE product would be at release :P

Everyday, even though i know i wont get into the new phase of beta, i check my email, just incase they felt like adding me. When this game hits release (or even the open bete depending on how long it will be) i will have no life, i will test EVERYTHING i can, but still being my good ol hunter.
Thx

Hmm SWG, horrible class balance, horrible way to get jedi, no missions worth doing, Battlefields didnt work, The rebal theme park never worked for me, plus having wounds and battle fatigue was kind of redundant :) Thats why i hated it when i played, I do have to say some of this has been fixed but its still not a very good game. The combat revamp would have helped alot but noo they had to put it off to fix jedi and the expansion. Darn SOE :P

Hey Tka's had their moment in the sun, when everyone and there dog was one. Then they nerfed them, Also bh's were and i think are still the main pvp thing all you had to do was spam eyeshot and you couldnt lose.

WOW arimer you must be seriously mistaken maybe you should go to the Bounty Hunter boards and see how good they are I for one can tell you they sucked. Yea i would love to see how good eyeshot would be if you didn't have TKM. TKM is the best class in the game besides Jedi. We could barely kill Jedis with a Pre Nerfed Scatter Pistol which cost around 2-5mil.

Ewwww, Star Wars Galaxies...*shudders*

I tried out the free 14 day trail for the game and I was so glad I did. It helped me realize that the game was more buggy then a New York City ghetto. It doesn't help that the gameplay just sucks so badly either...



Edited, Fri Sep 24 22:40:51 2004 by Redmoonxl

WTF does this mean?

The bounty hunters were overpowered at one point due to eyeshot but it got nerfed, CH was the best class when swg first came out . The thing i never liked about bounty hunters is they think they should be able to instanly kill everyone just because they were a bounty hunter. So from now on remember anytime i say anything about SWG its from before october of last year or from about 10 days in febuary of this year :P

AHHHHHHHH, how do they expect us to live under these conditions, not know when it will come, not knowing. . .ANYTHING, i think we should all sit here quietly and give blizzard the silent treatment, maybe THEN they will get it done faster, yeah that'l teach em :)(:)(:)(:)(:)(:)(:

LOL i can wait as long as it takes blizzard, I dont want anothr SWG on my hands. Though i got 3 really neat looking coasters out of it.

Azurac, that was a cool test - the Bartle test! O.O!

I fell into AKS. (3% People are AKS)

Achiever - 80% ( Yes, I admit, I like to be a high level! )
Killer - 53% ( Only when someone ticks me off.. ;) )
Socializer - 33% ( Roleplaying can be fun! )
Explorer - 33% ( This comes into play when I don't know what else to do. :P )

I wonder what everyone else gets?

I could make an educated guess that Gihja gets a "Killer - 100%" due to his overwhelming urge to go onto the PvP servers and kill everyone. :P

I'd say Redmoon is an Socializer - with his little "*Sits by a fireplace with pipe in mouth*" scenarios, then Timmy comes in, I can see him doing that in-game.

That's all I can really think of... anyways, I wonder what everyone else gets, so take the Bartle Test!