???"Welome to the SOFTWARE indutstry"???
I know this is a really old thread but....

I played Played eq beta...last day..everything was still broken...take player and system errors out of the equation....Quests were broken...servers were cheap and placed under far to heavy a load, UUNET went down alot(UUNET not thier problem)collision detection was completely screwed up (instead fo fixing the falling out of the graphics the just gave you a message that you fell 10bagillion feet and died) ..the list goes on and on... AT Release almost ALL the bugs were STILL there...I wasted alot of time filling out bug reports, as did everyone else of was playing open beta huh...
Sony cut Sony Interactive off...I mean from more money..they HAD to release the game AS IS knowing it was not ready..they sold a crappy product to beat others to the jump...Mythic and other small companies had to be pushed out...They did not care that people randomly fell through the graphics or would lose bodies in lava or that the game dynamics or map bugs could be easily exploited, all they cared about was the bottom line...very little was done about game problems but instead they spent thier money making more buggy crap that they knew they could sell....other programs and games have problems yes..but nothing before and very few PAY titles after can compare at failure in function...EQ did so well because they were the only thing out there..ashron's call and later DAOC came along (they ran quite well) but just could not put out the advertising cash or the ability to quickly clone the efforts of smaller companies that began to do well..time after time I would see features in other games of EQ's genre come out then go back and talk to friend about the game I have been playing for a few months and then discover everything good about my new game JUST come out in the latest expansion of EQ...Take a Look at Anarchy Online's Quest System, Check it out for yourself..then Go on an LDON quest OMG they even ripped off Interface ideas (wonder if code was similar, maybe they ripped that off too). Marketing Drives Sony(Sony Interactive, 989, SOE)It does not matter to them if they are producing a quality product...Please dont compliment them for a "Job Well Done" when all they did well was convince everyone that EQ was the best thing out there...its goes right along with how they have continued to promote Nvidia(cause they bought their other kickback company 3DFX that put out crap too)..Almost every game I play has some technical issue that I have to look up a fix to..ATI will have ONE or TWO biggies..Nvidia will have a LLLLOOOOONNNNNGGGGG LIST of issues fixed on this patch, broke again after this, issue solved with this driver update and that same driver update had dozens of NEW issues for the same version of the same game....yet people has had all this corporate BS(propaganda)heaped on them they believe it ...Look I am just angry so I will not GO ON..BUT let me stop digressing and get to the point..If you just love the Game as I did ( I went back several times) then play it...dont compliment them for doing a good job of programming it its not really a good job at all,when they did not even try, or for the development of game concepts or Content when alot of the new stuff is straight RIP OFF of lesser know work...Play EQ or Now EQ2 in spite of its shortcoming dont make excuses for them
I'M OUT

I didn't like it when they added Luclin much less now they are adding yet another expansion. The game is getting way too big. There are tons and tons of zones that no one uses. There is just way too much equipment. The only reason they make these expansions is because they know people will buy them. That is smart buisness. In a game with grouping requirements making more and more zones is just going to thin the populations out. It is hard enough to get a group 50-54 to begin with.

I got only one question about this new expansion. Will ALL the zones be like Temple of Veeshan, or will they be a little more like DL, just with hight lev mops? If it's like DL I'm all over it, if it's not, well maybe I'll wait then. My highest guy is 51, and has been 51 for almoust a month now. I'm not in a bug time guild, so I'm not raiding Keal, or Naggy, or anything really. I have a LOT of alt's I play, but none are as fun as my main. And I get so dishartened because of the fact I am haveing such a hard time even finding a group. I know that it will take time to lev, Don't have a problem with that, just wish I didn't have to set in Kanors for 3 hours trying to find a group. Or I go to Sol B or Lower Guk and somebody is telling me I'm too low because I would get exp from the mops there killing and I'm lev 60 trying to twink my monk with a FBSS. Kinda to sum up, if there are any zones that can honestly be called a pick up zone I'll order it now, if they all require at least two groups and you have to take them with you then I just won't buy it. I can understand that VI has to keep the lev 60 interested, but I really think they need to think about the 50+ who are not in a big time guild who get to 50, because in all honesty ANY ONE can get to 50 if they have the time to put into it, and then find them selfs begging to get into a guild that can do anything, and hearing that you need to be 55 with 100+ on all your resists. I know a lot of people who stop playing at 51 just because there is no where they can go to get exp. I really injoy this game, I just wish VI would think about the ton's of people who fall into my bracket. Maybe they do, and they just want to keep getting to 60 something special. But for christ sake with all the new AA stuff people can be hunting for exp all the time, but there are few places that you can go and find a group, then the game turns into a chore of trying to set up a time with your guild, hoping that they all show up, and praying that when you get to where your going that it's not camped by 4 lev 60 in a major guild trying to twink on of there alts. Ok that's enough out of me I'm going to bed.

Planes of Power does have 1 lower lvl zone... if they made more its not like a lvl 20 guild will raid it. IT might be a normal exp zone. If it isn't it will probably just be farmed by high lvls for the loot. A raid dosent work until u have a decent guild with alot of 50+ the mobs there cant be soloed by one person.

when i got into this game i was informesd that i would be paying for high lvls to have all the fun - and thats the chip i carried for almost 3 years now - now that i have the high lvl chacs my wife and i find that thats just work not fun anymore therefore we have went back and made many lows and funtime - fun people have returned to our lives - this company is here to make money - thats botttom line - like politicians they will take it as long as you take it - the only difference is that verant seems to be here for us (hopefully) and social security wont - please remember the little guy or gal will get the shaft - therefore game is identical to rl - when we threw the british out of america only 15 percent of the population did it - also the constitution was turned down by vote of the people - bottom line is theres still hope

I think it's great that Eq give the high levels new places to go! But if they were planning on adding that expansion to the game, why did they have to revamp Cazic-Thule? (one of my favorite hunting spots.)

/look really pissed about loss of Cazic

Hee Hee and you guys are worried about the price being like $13 a month....go look at AlaKhazam's site in the updates section now THERE is something to ***** about. Sony is merging with another comapny and word is that DAoC and EQ are merging too....for $25 a month per account, EQ will be a 4th realm in DAoC....I e-mailed them about this so you might want to as well after reading the article at Alla's

Mischiff Anmayhem
Necromancer of the 24th Season
Terris-Thule

You notice that all the people who have problems with this are under lvl 30 and the ones that dont will be going to the planes once it comes out. Just an oversight not trying to say anything anyways... I can see Fires of Heaven just going in and laggin all the new planes to hell for all u veeshan players and who knows what else the other uber guilds will do? Ne ways gl hf and kill some uber mobs!
AiRT tielora i have a pentium 1 1.0 gb hard drive 120 mhz 28,800 bps modem and 8mb ram lol i still made it to 54 and goin haha

way up where we were talkin about how the druid port thing works i agrre with them. The druids who stand around all day askin for huge wads of platinum just for a port that will take 3 min and get fm. While other nice druids who are doin nothin just hangin out and havin fun are asked and thy go sure, but when u say that if a druid says i'm busy maybe some other time u don't just say something rude u say ok and then find another one who isn't busy and ask nicely. Maybe they will and in the end they might even give u some great buffs so don't go raggin on them when they are the true children of norath.

Diger
Shadowknight 8
innoruk
just remember the last time a druid or shamie saved your but.

There is one reason I think that they made a expansion for 55+ lvls is because casual gamers are getting to lvl 60 now so there are to many uber people on each server for the few uber lvl raid zones so now they are making a expansion to make it so there is enough uber mobs to go around.

So what if the uber guilds act like brats only very few do .Most player i have met are nice .I was led around by a warrior lev 60 . he was starting a paladin I got a few nice things from him and alot of hints how to play a shaman . I could join his guild if I wanted to .But I am in one I waited till lev 49 to join one . A very small one .I have gone on a few hunts so a few druids could get the epic with his guild as a back up healer . SO mke friends and have fun I can't wait to do a few plane raids . 51 shaman

Can anybody find a Date or heard of when VI will release this? Do we have to wait till Christmas again?

Ack!

nm, Castersrealm has a date of Oct 1, 2002 on thier site. A site to pre-order too. lol A little early but, ok.

Edited, Mon Mar 25 21:43:01 2002