They can't be charging too much per month for EQ2 because if you read the news at everquest2.com... Sony is going to create an SOE All Access Pass, which for the low monthly price of $21.99 per month, you can have unlimited access to the following games:
EverQuest® (both PC and Mac version when it's released)
EverQuest II® (when released)
EverQuest® Online Adventures™
PlanetSide™
Station Pass™ Games (Infantry™, Cosmic Rift™, Tanarus®)

Whoopie-**cking-doo. Now we can fork over $40+ for each game, and then pay $22 a month to play whichever we want, when we want. Not bad.
Of course, the almighty LEGENDS Subscribers will get this pass for no extra charge.
So, quit moaning about subscription costs, If you got $40-50 bucks to fork over for EQ2, you've got $22 to pay to keep your existing EQ and start EQ2 for a month.
If they start giving unfair advantages to existing EQ subscribers in EQ2, I say we go kick some a$$ over at sony.

seems like verant will be rewarding the poeple who can afford 2 accounts over the ones who cant, like most teenagers or kids at home with their parents. are we seeing a turn in the target audience to the older player? some of us cant really afford 2 subscriptions as it is now anyway.
and if EQ2 is anything more than the 12 or 13 that EQ is now, i deffinately wont shell it out unless EQ2 incorperates VR and sensory inputs as well :P heh

Apoch Olypse
The rathe

What I can't understand is this massive hoopla of old EQ players crying OUTRAGE over 1) Verant's GALL to pay attention to the formation of a game other then Everquest, and 2) They're complete indecency in disallowing charector transfers to the new game.

First point I'd like to formulate, and it's already been expressed here quite a bit. If you don't want to play, don't. You are fully in you're own rights and powers to choose not to play EQ2. You don't want to give up you're five years and multiple 60+ charectors? Alright, stick to it, just don't go buy EQ2. However, don't condemn a new game for the people who are bloody bored to tears with THEIR five years and 60+ charectors. I've played this game for over four years now, I've played on various servers, and anything that was magical or involving died right about when Velious came out.

For now, EQ is just a glorified chat engine with which I get to keep in contact with my friends, and I'm not the only one seeing the game as such. I've been waiting for EQ2 since they announced it, and will be one of Verants first subscribers I'm sure.

My second point to illustrate is that about high level charector transfers. I have two arguements to why they shouldn't even be considered for a second (and probably why Verant decided against them in the first place). First, in the realm of chornological fiction, EQ2 takes place in a Norrath LONG removed from the one our charectors happen to be growing up in. If keeping with a relaxed verrisimilitude Verant DID allow you to bring your 65 charector over, at BEST they'd be the old foggie town fool with no teeth and bad stories.

Secondly, for the droves of new players that will flock to a most aesthetically oriented game, how could it possible be constriued as fair if they're fighting off rats with that rusty morningstar while you take your high level char romping about the world claiming everything nifty for yourself. I recently started playing on Stromm, and FAR prefer it to every other server I've economically figured out and invested a year or two in. The game is just more FUN when you're starting out at the same level as everyone else, and working just as hard.

That 65 cleric still your baby? Fine, don't play EQ2 and don't gripe about it. Keep playing your uber charectors, be the ***** of the block on your servers but don't whine about the fact that you don't get special treatment when it comes to an entirely different game.

Thank you, you can all stop reading now 8).

Dewshyne
druid of Povar

Lorelaei Rhi
druid of Veeshan

Poysin Siltivani
rogue of Veeshan

Dewshyne Treewhisper
druid of Xev

Epona
Bard of Stromm

first off i think EQ2 would be great and all if i can afford it i will play it but id just split my time on EQ1 in half and be on both /shrug dont see the big arguement cant afford both then it will be hard to do but dont rag on something before you see it ive played EQ almost a year now and i own a lvl 59 shadowknight and i love her to death and dont want to see her go she got me my fiance in RL and has been a great success for me all i can say is thanks to sony i will soon have a husband that i love more then anything ever =) thank you sony and see yas

Finally, there will be less people on these overcrowded servers... hopefully, enough people will switch over to EQII so that EQI feels like it did in the old days, like a good neighborhood where people understood each other... now it's like a gigantic orgy of powergamers, traders, and non-role-players...

Let EQII be the powergamers paradise and bring back old-school EQ.

If we take a moment and think where we have come in the age of gaming then there would be no question on what direction EQ must go. The game and the masses and to make it better . We are here talking about this because someone had a vision on what this gaming should be . We spend money to see and play in this vision.Let the game grow and for the better . Many ideas and products reach a point where a major change must happen to move forward . EQ move forward and I for one will be haveing fun.good hunting all.

Looking over some of the comments here I am perplexed by them. I have read the information on EQ2 since they announced it, at first I felt betrayed and said I would not play this game. How dare SOE make an EQ2 when they said they never would? CURRENTLY however I have started looking at programming and what it takes to create the types of environments that SOE needs to change EQ. There is little to no chance that the current EQ engine would EVER be able to support the types of graphics and mechanics that the EQ2 and SWG engines can.

I will agree with some of you though. They should have simply revamped the old EQ and allowed Character transfers to the "Higher End" servers that support the new engine.

Just my 2plat

Where does sony plan on getting 400,000 more players? They should be concerned about keeping the players they have now. I am sure they have some system telling them we will come like sheep to the slaughter. After 4 years and over 340 days played countless hours camping and rading to get the equipment we have now. Sony thinks we will just jump to eq2 because it will fatten their pockets? Anyone who is thinking sony owes them any loyalty for playing and paying all this time...duh hello this is the real world they could care less. Money is all they care about and if we expect to get anything out of sony we need to act as one. Say no sony. Hell no we wont go. They need us to switch over. Fine if it is a better engine than let us bring our guilds enmasse. No penalties no bs you can come over for a quest if you pay...If you want to cry about it feel free to do so. If you want to step up send me email we can organize this. I am not some ranting kid believe me I am full grown family man who plays 4 hours after work every night instead of wasting time time on tv. gfe@comcast.net. Serious we dont have to sit and take this either fight em or ignore eq1, but do something dont be squeezed out by sony. Gorno/Gordron

WHY does this sound likethe blurb for Ultima Online?

im betting that they will add content continualy to entice players to keep thier subscription. especialy since there will be item decay .