EQlive Announces EQ Titanium + EQplayers.com

[kashmir]

Based on the size of the "beta", I'd be surprised if Vanguard wasn't pushing 10GB on release. A debug build with lots of placeholder data isn't that far off from what release will be, especially if there's a great deal of game data yet to be added.

qalar-drinal only has one nut... true story.

[Kevincheese]

That's odd... my EQ folder was 4 gig when I played and that was about 5 expansions ago.

[Lenardo]

eq2- without the expansions- is 9 gig- including the test server stuff

so ya i can see them pushing 10gig for vanguard,,,


wow is 6.78 gig-including the test server stuff


my eq folder is 3.5gig

[WillzZz]

You can fill 11gb with textures and zone information in a heartbeat if you support higher resolutions.

[Soygen]

Originally Posted by Kevincheese

That's odd... my EQ folder was 4 gig when I played and that was about 5 expansions ago.

Maybe you had a shitload of screenshots or logs. I have every expansion and it's 4.8.

[Gallenite]

Originally Posted by Lenardo

eq2- without the expansions- is 9 gig- including the test server stuff

so ya i can see them pushing 10gig for vanguard,,,


wow is 6.78 gig-including the test server stuff


my eq folder is 3.5gig

Sheesh, Len. :P

For EQ2 "the test server stuff" is a separate copy of the game, since test can be running 100% different data, down to the last file.

4.4G base
6.2G for the works + all optional VO

(You can really tell when it's a week I have a producer's letter due. I seem to find all kinds of important things to write about that aren't that...)

[kashmir]

Originally Posted by Gallenite

Sheesh, Len. :P

For EQ2 "the test server stuff" is a separate copy of the game, since test can be running 100% different data, down to the last file.

4.4G base
6.2G for the works + all optional VO

(You can really tell when it's a week I have a producer's letter due. I seem to find all kinds of important things to write about that aren't that...)

VO is the debil. VO, and those asinine text bubbles that pop up when people / NPCs say shit.

OK, so maybe VO adds some degree of immersion for some people (not me, but some people, I reckon), but text bubbles just suck.

[McCheese]

The main reason I haven't reactivated EQ in the past two years is cause I'd be missing so many expansions. There goes that...

I might pick this up with some of my Xmas money just to mess around for a while with my old character.

[Tuco]

Great.

Now they just need to add 500 AAXP to anyone who reaches level 70 or whatever the cap is.

BTW: One of the more alluring things to do in EQ for me personally, would be to start up a team of 1-5 other people, and play at regularally scheduled times, leveling up(slowly but who cares) in dungeons or other cool places.

I did this two summers ago with my dad and an EQ buddy and it was hella fun.

We mostly did the old world + kunark dungeons. We had a bard(me), necro(dad) and BST, and they were all fairly twinked(the bard mostly, with fungi + fbss + lamentationish quality weapons).

If you had 6 people total you wouldn't need to twink people out really.

It's just kind of fun to do when you don't have to worry about finding a group and can go do the dungeons, mostly in peace since places like befallen or Kedge are dead.

The biggest problem is people start to play their characters offtime =P

[Cuppycake]

I wish I could convince my fiance to play with me again from level 1...just duoing through everything and only wearing what we loot/camp for. That would bring back a lot of fun I think....but he never would =( He's already decided that EQ will never be the same and he's never going back. Oh well..he's right I"m sure. =(

[Burning_Samurai]

Do they have a patcher you can download? Don't have any of my CDs..

[Malakie Torsade]

**Reactivating old accounts for 21 days of gameplay (must take advantage of the offer before Jan 13th)

Ok... dumb this down for me because I'm not getting it. At first it sounds like they are activating all acounts for 21 days of... ahhh, nevermind.

Ok, so where can 1 download the clients? God only knows were my disks are. I'd love to be able to jump in an say hi to the "Testies" that are still playing.

Edit : Bah, Burning beat me to it.

EDIT 2 : Found it here - http://eqlive.station.sony.com/suppo...ew_patcher.jsp

[Zehn - Vhex]

If they include near end game gear and a lvl 70 character with 600 aa's as well as 30 friends to play with, might be worth it.

Otherwise, no.

[makist]

Originally Posted by Burning_Samurai

Do they have a patcher you can download? Don't have any of my CDs..

They do, its in the FAQ for EQ I am pretty sure. I remember DL'ing it

[Abalieno]

6Gb of voice overs?

And why wasn't all that compressed?