Next Everquest installment: Everquest "Next".

[Xitix]

It's funny in a meta way. Complaints about shoveling lots of low quality games/content to get money from gamers expressed by lots of low quality repetitive posts.

[Nilden]

This could turn it around for...

[jayrebb]

Originally Posted by Quince

Why don't you leave that to the people out there who actually make a living making games and get back to your cheeto stained zoobas and 20% body fat.


UnchainedAcolyte
Just ignore him like everyone else and don't refer or quote him and he will go away.

More QQ. Unchained actually had a few points. They should rename this title Everquest: Failure and it should take place on a moon with aliens, tons of long black reinforced claws, and bazookas and shit. Oh someone already did that in EQ1. Next!!

go sub a few more accounts to vanguard.

[Cathan]

Originally Posted by The Edge

72 man raids didn't become common until PoP. The Velious era raids were done with 24-50 people depending on how good the guild was. I remember doing AoW with 30 back in '01 when the guild above us was wiping to it with 50. 72 is too many imo. The GoD raids that limited it to 54 I believe, were more ideal.

I still play EQ and have since 99.

Part of the problem with calling everything from 24 to 72 character groups all "raids" is that they are very different. 24 man raids requires everyone to be on their toes, 54 to 72 does NOT. EQ has tried to compensate for that with shit like raider_17 you must click x now or the raid wipes but it still sucks.

I think anything over 36 is ridiculous for the usual raid, I would rather do 10 to 25 the way WoW does it just so each person is actually important for what their class can do, not just expecting them to pay attention enough to perform some trick like take off your boots or the raid gets dt'ed.

On the other side I really think MMO's should incorporate a few encounters that are biweekly or monthly spawns in the common world everyone can access that require 100 to 300 players working together for a truly epic fight. That was how I always envisioned dragon raids were supposed to be, something that an entire server had to work together to beat in some remote and difficult to get to location. That kind of stuff builds community and loot could just be 1 item for everyone or some ability boost for everyone, titles, whatever... Maybe there's an extra slot after you win the epic raid.

Say there's 10 guilds on a server and the top 7 have beaten all of the current expansion and those 7 are working together to down the big epic raid encounter. Those 7 guilds may be motivated to help the other 3 guilds finish the expansion to help win the epic encounters, promotes community... All kinds of possibilities with this kind of thing.

Just seems like there isn't enough "wow" factor in games anymore at beating things. Oh we beat the latest expansion... /yawn. Where's my loots?

[Locithon]

On a side note, what happened to that Evercracked documentary? Is it available online yet or what.

[Tearofsoul]

Originally Posted by Locithon

On a side note, what happened to that Evercracked documentary? Is it available online yet or what.

I wanna know that as well

[Kidriot69]

Lets see how bad they fuck this up, and emulate a WoW clone like almost all the current MMOs...

[Iadien]

Originally Posted by Locithon

On a side note, what happened to that Evercracked documentary? Is it available online yet or what.

Pretty sure there's no actual release date. At FanFaire it was mentioned that Evercracked would be available later in the year.

[Rayne]

Originally Posted by Kidriot69

Lets see how bad they fuck this up, and emulate a WoW clone like almost all the current MMOs...

Its a definite possibility. But one I find unlikely. Because WoW is little more than a clone itself of all that came before it, only more highly polished and without a lot of the bullshit many grew to hate. Its a possibility, mainly because SOE is more a division of a bigger business than anything else. So the potential for a quick money grab is high.

But if they're in it for another long haul, then the potential for something more is equally high. Only time will tell. But one thing is for sure, you'll know which it really is long before its ever even beta'd. If SOE is smart, thier swerve as long and wide as they can from WoW, and from thier own EverQuest for that matter, and go with something completely different, but laced with EQs familiarity.

A WoW clone will net them little. An updated version of original EQ will net them even less. They need something somewhat fresh and new. And it needs to be easily accessible to the masses, without necessity of extensive upgrade.

[Wolfen]

Call me crazy insane, but I would enjoy an EQ game that played like WoW.

[Pennilenko]

Originally Posted by Wolfen

Call me crazy insane, but I would enjoy an EQ game that played like WoW.

Wolfen, you are so crazy insane.

[NativityInBlack]

Originally Posted by Rayne

A WoW clone will net them little. An updated version of original EQ will net them even less. They need something somewhat fresh and new. And it needs to be easily accessible to the masses, without necessity of extensive upgrade.

And above all, a freaking fucking brand new from zero artistic direction, engine, animators and combat. Played like WoW? Would be win you're not insane at all.

[Lenas]

Originally Posted by Wolfen

Call me crazy insane, but I would enjoy an EQ game that played like WoW.

Playing EQ on the free servers, you have no idea how many I would kill to have a third person camera that worked like WoW's.

[Jaded]

Probably as many as I would kill to have a decent first person camera in ANY modern MMO.

[Bongk]

Originally Posted by Lenas

Playing EQ on the free servers, you have no idea how many I would kill to have a third person camera that worked like WoW's.

They have that in live now.