Rumors Swirl on EQ2

# Apr 24 2002 at 6:32 PM Rating: Default

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Please tell me how to read the synopsis.
Where is the info you are refering to.

"New" Old Game

# Apr 24 2002 at 6:29 PM Rating: Default

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The game hasn't even come out yet, and I've already have played it for a long time...It's called "Dark Age of Camelot".
4/5th of everything on the synopsis is straight out of DAoC! I guess if you can't beat them, you steal their game.

Shame on you Sony/Verant! Altghough, shame never stopped you before, so why am I surprised?

Anxiously waiting for SW:G and LucasArts
(If I never see another Verant product, it'll be too soon)

Item Decay

# Apr 24 2002 at 6:22 PM Rating: Good

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Item Decay = BAD DAoC sucks

Twinking is fun, gives higher levels something to do...for some reason Verant has it in thier heads that twinking = bad, somehow it "shouldnt" be part of the game. After sweating through 57 levels totally untwinked it was awesome fun to watch my level 5 warrior become a god in his fungi tunic. /sigh

It proves to me once again that we are all playing a game that is being run by people who dont play (for any extended time) themselves.

Perhaps this is a fundamental flaw in this game design - the game is such a timesink to play that the designers, by virtue of 'being' desingers never have time to play, hence crappy support.

RE: Item Decay

# Apr 25 2002 at 9:34 AM Rating: Default

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I play this game for extended periods of time and although I accept twinking as part of the game I look forward to EQ2's system of curtailing it. I hope that EQ1 will remain up and active for those that love the system the way it is right now. For a lot of people though the new system sounds appealing, heck maybe I'll just switch to DAoC until EQ2 comes out.

Greed vs Friendships

# Apr 24 2002 at 6:17 PM Rating: Decent

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I for one, will NOT even consider buying EQ2. I have come to value all the online friendships I have forged over the past 3 years, and refuse to allow Verant to con me into feeding their greed! They have nerve to raise rates and not use that increase to better the original EQ. There is PLENTY that needs fixing....
Noooooo....they see the almighty dollar sign and figure we are all fools!
Not this lady...I work too hard for my money, but bottom line is, you can NOT BUY the friendships I have developed.

Shoshonie
45th lvl Druid
Ayonae Ro

EQ 2

# Apr 24 2002 at 6:14 PM Rating: Default

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If it is anything like that post than i will never play eq again. I think it is sad how verant is going to ruin a good thing. Hag

Think Pixar

# Apr 24 2002 at 6:12 PM Rating: Good

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Anyone think this might me computer animated movie of the EQ world with all the legendary folks of EQ lore?

That is what I get from the detailed graphics.

Good hunting and bountiful loot to you all!

New Information

# Apr 24 2002 at 6:01 PM Rating: Decent

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Go to www.everquestlive.com

Check out that hammerfall's rites

Connect the bold letters in his message, and the folliwing appears:

ruins of befallen

This is on the official site, mind you. So either this is a great hacker, or something that WILL be happening

Also to be noted is the following comment (I've outlined the important part in bold):

EverQuest "Gems"

Did you know that…

-Some of the most common EverQuest technical issues can be solved by using the Knowledge Base thus saving a phone call to EQ Tech Support?

<b>-The EverQuest Live site will be undergoing a massive redesign that will flesh out much of the current content and provide even more information on the story of Norrath in the near future? </b>

-It takes more than 1000 individual computers to run EverQuest across all servers?

-The moon that is visible from all over Norrath has a name too? It's called Drinal. (Luclin is a hidden moon and can only be seen from a couple locations.)

Edited, Wed Apr 24 18:58:48 2002

RE: New Information

# Apr 24 2002 at 6:06 PM Rating: Good

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And hey, look at that.... got to www.ruinsofbefallen.com

RE: New Information

# Apr 24 2002 at 6:14 PM Rating: Decent

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Woot, nice work <virtual high five>

Perhaps?

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:48 PM Rating: Good

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Hmm... Item degradability (I'm guessing armour will be included as well as weapons), more realistic banking, possible communities, slower character development, anti-twinking item restrictions, called shots. Is it possible, however remote, that Verant might actually be doing what I 'think' ol' Brad had intended in the first place? Putting more emphasis on the RPG than the MM. Those who prefer simple mindless hack and slash can continue playing EQ1 or even come to EQ2 and give my little Dwarven Armoursmith a LOT of business when armour pieces start crumbling from combat.

"Bah! Back ag'n?! If'n not fer yer deep pockets mak'n mine deeper, I'd suggest a li'l more caution. But just ye keep wacking an' bringin' me yer money. Thankee."

No response to multiple requests for more info on this.

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:45 PM Rating: Default

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I can see now that all these comments are not true. No one knows what is going on other than the fact that eq2 will be comming out next year. I have requested where people are getting all there info like races being dropped, monsters zoning, banks being different and know one has responded so I believe that that is all BULL ****. If anyone has the knowledge to respond with a link or detailed info regarding the new changes to eq2 please do so as I am thinking this might be just another "DAWN" LOLOL

RE: No response to multiple requests for more info on this.

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:55 PM Rating: Decent

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Its all in the June issue of PC Gamer. Since its not supposed to be public yet, there is no link. The information comes from people who are subscribers and thus get it early.

What the freak

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:44 PM Rating: Decent

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This is plain freaking BS. I am not starting all over again after 4 years(which by the time it comes out will be how long I have played EQ) I have no interest in started all over never mind all the other things that will ruin the game. VI is looking for something to do for the higher level people that are getting bore and don't want them twicking low levels them let them move to a new server once they reach a certain level. This would allow higher leveled chars to cont leveling in more challenging areas and not have to worry about them handing a god like sword to a low level char unbalancing the game. my 2 cents.

SK Docsyn High Priestess of all Seekers

short and sweet

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:41 PM Rating: Default

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WoW this is really an eye opener been gone for couple of days, ill make this short and sweat, OK. Its really simple DONT MESS UP A GOOD THING VERANT!!!!!!

Solusek server
Guild Leader
chat name mizzon - silkil
Hands of Truth

Come on people

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:36 PM Rating: Decent

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I see people complaining about system specs the release date is salted for Oct 2003 P3-733 and 512 ram and a GeForce3 card is going to be so out of date then it is pathetic. I expect by the time of release it will require at least a P4-1.5 gig and a 128 meg video card and probably 1 gig of ram. That is just my thought on this.

Sounds Great and All...

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:34 PM Rating: Decent

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EQ2 sounds great and all but I sure hope they don't neglect our beloved everquest in favor of EQ2! I will freely admit that I am as addicted to EQ as they come... and I don't want to loose the game and everything I've put into it. I could play Everquest till I die w/o Verant changing a thing, as long as they don't take steps backwards. I have really mixed feelings about EQ2 but my biggest reservation is the prospect of loosing my character, friends, guild, ETC; I have gotten attached to them all. If VI were to allow accounts to be moved (kinda like they did with ledgends) it would be great, there wouldn't be anything to loose really, other than item decay and zoning monsters (two thoughts that appaul me). I don't find this likely however, if they eleminate certain races/classes and make other changes, not everything would be convertable.

Everquest is the most successful MMORPG in history, why **** with something so wonderful? If they want to add an EQ2 as a separate game, more power to 'em, but I sure hope everquest comes out of this unscathed.

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# Apr 24 2002 at 5:32 PM Rating: Default

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Man alot of people are upset about this. I personaly have been playing almost 2 years and still have alot to do. Things I haven't done and seen. Now think of those poor souls that just bought the game.

EQ2 sounds like fun. I dont know if i will or will not play it.
But for those of you that are in the same boat as me I say look into other games such as Adellion , Shadowbane , Horizon (if still in the works),and lol Dawn. ( those who know will get the humor in that)

Any how alot of games are coming out around or near that time. I have plenty of games to dust off to decide if i want to play or not.

Hope this thing pans out soon... cant wait till mre hype comes out.

druidports

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:31 PM Rating: Default

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maybe they will becoming out with druid ports on luclin

EQ2 part 2?

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:26 PM Rating: Decent

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Well does not look like it will be a revamp at all but a new game. As for me I have been playing from back in Beta 2 3 and 4 then day 1 of retail and day 1 of every expansion pack. My avatars cannot be converted to the new EQ2 well then as i have often said I will be in game when the message World Coming Down for the LAST time is broadcast. Verant will pull the plug on EQ and I will be there and it will be the last time I play a Verant on line game. New EQ2 my **** the biggest problem with it will be that the same staff that dreams of the crap that we all hate in EQ will be there with new ways to make us suffer through more BS in EQ2. I will look for a new company to put out a game or find a new hobby.

Edited, Wed Apr 24 18:21:57 2002

Cash, Money

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:25 PM Rating: Good

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Anyone notice that they are raising the price of eq1 when they are already REALLY cash crammed. Maybe its so they can fund the development of eq2 and not ***** up like when eq1 was first released, or luclin. Well, lets hope so.

rangers rock

Missing the point

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:22 PM Rating: Decent

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I think everyone is missing the point here. EQ2 is a huge announcement, and good news for EQ players!!!

When you build something, it has a foundation. In gaming, the foundation is the game's engine. EQ was NEVER intended to carry on this long or have this many upgrades. Frankly, I am surprised Luclin is playing as well as it is. EQ has a limited foundation - period. That is why we see so many bugs. That is why the servers are laggy during peak times. EQ will be able to run forever on a limited staff. They are making EQ2 without sacrificing personnel on the original EQ. I have seen a massive increase in GM and Guide presence on my server (Quellious) and I have seen Verant FINALLY fix the Bard proccing problem! All this since Luclin has launched. I would say they have been working hard.

I can definitely see EQ2 being a massive hit. For everyone complaining about your "lost time". Wake up !!!!! How many other games do you have sitting in your cd rack on your desk? Or crammed in your desk drawer? Do you still whine about your lost time on those games? EQ is entertainment. I think alot of people are more addicted to EQ than they care to admit. But that is another issue altogether.

The big PLUS to EQ2 is that they are planning ahead this time around. Verant has the deepest pockets of all the MMORPG's makers atm. I believe the ability to change things in game will be much more efficient. As well as upgrading the world with features the players want. I think they will spend close attention to what we, as consumers, want to see in the game.

I am really glad they upped the system specs to what they are. That means eye candy for me!

By the way, you probably won't see EQ2 until Fall 2003. So PoP will be well-explored by that time.

Keep playing, stop flaming and best of luck to everyone.

RE: Missing the point

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:51 PM Rating: Default

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I didn't play the dusty CD's on the rack everyday for the last 10 months Almost entire weekends spent living dying breathing EQ. Those games you spend about 30-40 hours on then you beat them. I have yet to BEAT EQ, hell I have barely scratched the surface of this massive game. Maybe the original intent was not to run this long, but as long as there are tens of housands of people willing to play this game it would be wrong to pull the plug on it. When and if they pull the plug on EQ. will be the last time I play an everquest game.

payment??

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:20 PM Rating: Default

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Will we have to pay to hold both an EQ account and an EQ2 account?? Its bad enough theyre raising the current EQ price, but if we had to pay even more to have EQ2 as well, that would just plain suck. I really hope they dont find the need to do that, because it will drastically lower the number of players on the original EQ, who drop those acounts to pick up this awesome game.

RE: payment??

# Apr 24 2002 at 8:28 PM Rating: Decent

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The number of players who drop the original for this pice of **** will be small, only those who are new or never got into it to begin with are going to give up something so great for something so utterly WEAK!

New Coke

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:20 PM Rating: Good

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Lol, lets hope it isnt like new coke. The teaser is to through, but new coke was too I geuss. Lets hope EQ2 will be great. Dont expect it to come out for awhile, though it does say 2k3 in PCGamer.

rangers rock

hardware specs mean nothing to verant

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:20 PM Rating: Default

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My system
p4 2 ghz
1 gb ram ( I have not had to disable any of my memory to make everquets work as they suggested)
gfoce4 ti
21 inch monitor
t1 network interface.
Intel true motherboard
36 gb scsi drives on raid 5

If I go to luclin there are areas that are really laggy.
This has nothing to do with hardware. The programers are hacking old code and trying to make it work with the new graphics engine. They need to redo the code hence EQ2 might be good!

respond or im thinking its not real

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:17 PM Rating: Default

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Anonymous

Many people have asked where all of you are getting this info. Please provide details as to where the eq2 info is regarding all these things that have been mentioned. I cannot find anywhere another post regarding eq2 much less all these new ideas that are suppose to be already created and hashed out. Give me the site so I can make my own judgment and then come back here and talk. Many have asked for this info in this thread already but none have responded. Hence maybe this is all bull @#%^.

characters?

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:13 PM Rating: Default

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If we buy EQ2 can we still use are old characters? And for those of us take twink are own characters can we still be able to keep our stuff?

hehe

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:10 PM Rating: Decent

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anyone remember New Coke?

where is this info?

# Apr 24 2002 at 5:02 PM Rating: Default

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Anonymous

Many people have asked where all of you are getting this info. Please provide details as to where the eq2 info is regarding all these things that have been mentioned. I cannot find anywhere another post regarding eq2 much less all these new ideas that are suppose to be already created and hashed out. Give me the site so I can make my own judgment and then come back here and talk. Many have asked for this info in this thread already but none have responded. Hence maybe this is all bull ****.