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Originally Posted by Genjiro Let me just preface this next section and say that Scott Hartsman is one of the coolest guys I've met in the mmo industry |
QFT! Scottie > *
Anyway, great post Genjiro. Zuuljin I think that you are correct in your reasoning.
Things I liked about EQ2:
* The crafting. I enjoyed crafting, doing all the subcombines (which are now removed.) It felt like real crafting in a way, and I had a blast making furniture that I could use in my own house.
*The housing. I love player housing. I spent more time in my house decorating it than actually playing the game almost =P
* The player base mentality. The forums are great, people are helpful, accepting, and GENERALLY more mature.
*The roleplaying community. Even on Permafrost I found quite a bit of fellow roleplayers, and the amount of RP events and places on Antonia Bayle and LDL is actually immense. I enjoy that.
*The lore. I enjoy the lore because I played and loved EQ. I like running across familiar places and hearing familiar names. Its a blast.
*The mentor system. Its so nice to be able to mentor down and help lowbies and friends run through quests or dungeons.
*The dungeons. Lots of cool cool small dungeons that aren't instanced and aren't all the same. Really loved Nektropos!
What I did not care for
*My character attachment. Or lack thereof. I never felt drawn back to playing my main character. I felt like I couldn't do much to achieve new gear. I wasn't excited about getting new items for her. I had a hard time RPing her because I just didn't feel her. I can't really explain, but I'm sure you guys know what its like to have a personal attachment towards an MMO character.
*The lack of playerbase at the lower levels. Permafrost is a good server, great people, one of the busiest at release. But across the game on all the servers I've tried out..its hard to get a group at the lower levels. I dont always have a few hours to play, sometimes I want to get a group quickly and bang out some quests. Not possible very often unless you happen to stumble across something. Granted, I was never in a big guild with lots of players. I always played with people from the forums here, or from previous guilds and they usually didn't last long =x
*The fact that everyone I know IRL is playing WoW. Its so much easier and fun to play what friends are playing. This isn't necessarily a fault of EQ2, but its a reason why I stopped playing.
*The UI. Its clunky, ugly, and really makes the game feel unpolished.
Unlike most people, I don't have a problem with the art, animations, or minimum comp specs. However, my friends do. No one I know wants to play that game when they can enjoy the polished feel of WoW and enjoy it on their 3 year old PC's.
Regardless, I'll be back to try out a Fae. Even though there's something about EQ2 that bores me after awhile, there is also something that keeps pulling me back. Maybe I'll settle down to one game or another after I'm done ping ponging from WoW to EQ2 and back again =/
