Sounds like Shadowbane. Should be fun, but the system specs are apalling! But them, maybe ill have money by the time it comes out.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134335724_hacker31m.html

At this link it CONFIRMS Everquest2. This story from August 31,2001. Of course, it only BREIFLY mentions it. On this note...Everquest2...something to look forward to, and love/hate it. We will all love EQ1. But to Buy EQ2....man...what of us who have worked hard and desperate on our characters only to lose that in EQ2....it's not fair...not at all...but think about it....Why would they say they are releasing EQ2....oh so soon after releasing Luclin and Planes of Power...something shibby is going down.....(Yea I said shibby..=p) HOWEVER....look at this in the bright side...what if all it is...is a BIG upgrade to our allready existing game...what if its like another Update....EQ2...to revamp all that is and all we know...=p.....Verant will listen if you take the fight to them...THEY WILL LISTEN...I hope...

Xatrariz Soulreaver
Shadow Knight of the 40th Grave
Ayonae Ro

I doubt they'll take down the standard EverQuest servers to begin with... so if you want to keep playing the original EQ when EQ2 comes out you'll probably have that option.

The port of your current characters to EQ2 would be a worthless idea for a bad gamer and sore jackass of a person. The new advancement system will make it so the current classes don't even exist, so how do you propose that they make your current EQ pixie exist in the new world?

EQ2... not EverQuest: The Next $30 Expansion

That means it's a DIFFERENT GAME. Do you want to port your EverQuest characters to Dark Age of Camelot? No. Why? Because you accept the fact that it's a different game and don't whine up a storm.

Also, the game isn't coming out until October 2003, and this date will probably be pushed back... If you can continue to play the original EverQuest for that bloody long when you've already been playing since 1999, you need a freaking life anyway and I hope you DO quit EverQuest.

As for those who think leveling will be too fast, you're dumbasses. There are 100 levels. They say 30 minutes for the first 6 levels... it took 30 minutes for the first 3 levels in the original EQ. So you level twice as fast, yes, but if you have any grasp of basic mathematics you could figure out that 100/50 = 2. Thus leveling 2x faster would really be like dinging halfway through a level in the current game.

You people **** me off more and more as I read all of the comments on this page. IT IS A DIFFERENT GAME. IT IS NOT EVERQUEST, IT IS EVERQUEST 2. Good lord... "I've worked too hard in EQ to have my world come crashing down on me." Well if there are more lazy SOBs like you running around then the EQ world will still be populated.

Will your current computers be able to handle EQ2? In most cases, no. But the game is a year and a half away at minimum. Quit EverQuest for two months, get a freakin' job, and buy new components for your computer. Again, you don't have to play the game. Verant does not command you to play EverQuest 2 or even talk about it. Think for yourself. If you can't play the game on your machine, get a new one or don't play. A Geforce 3 in a year and a half will probably be under $100.

For the idiot who mentioned Verant being nervous about Horizons... do your research. Artifact Entertainment is a company virtually in ruins. They have 50% of the staff that they had even 3 months ago. They lost their CEO (read: fired) who created the entire vision for the game. The entire game design spec sheet has changed. The game will suck monkey banana. I know many people who are on or were on the development team. It is now a bunch of amateurs trying to put together a piece of crap while declaring it the best game of all time.

Quit whining. Get the game if you want to. Shut the heck up if you don't. EverQuest 2 is not an expansion nor a replacement for EverQuest, it is its own game. Hold on to your blankey or teddy bear that is EverQuest if you must. Move on to a new game if you're brave.

I always thought it silly that a monster would stop chasing you because you zone. New zone pics look amazing, and anyone saying the game will be worse is out of their mind. VI has had 3+ years of people to be beta testers for this game. Any complaints and/or problems that aren't resolved will be in EQ2.

Final thought: if you don't wanna play, don't pay.

It seems like the major complaints about EQ2 are coming about things like mob zoning, the new bank system, an effective end to twinking, etc...I don't see this as a bad thing. Everquest was indeed an experiment--nothing on its scale had ever been done before. Had the makers known how people were going to act--twinking, for example--they would have put in some way to avoid it. Those complaints are things that make the game far to easy and frankly unrealistic. Even if one doesn't care about realism, it made the game frustrating for those new to it, and easier than it should be for those demagogues who have spent hundreds of hours playing. If the designers indeed do what the report is proposing, and balance it as i'm sure they will, i think this is going to be a very, VERY good game.

For example, on twinking: Everquest has always been notorious for being frustrating the first several levels. A few actions recently on EQ have helped aleviate some of these problems, but eq is an old, ailing system that can't be drastically changed at this point. In EQ2, as it sounds, this frustration will be eliminated, or at least much less--getting rid or the NEED for twinking. I feel sick when i see level 10 monks with fungis--i feel it takes a lot from how the game was MEANT to play. Hopefully for me, this will be eliminated.

I'm really looking forward to some of the things they're promising in EQ2. It certainly will be a different experience, and veterans of the original may be angry or unwilling to take in the changes--But then, it's a whole new game. It seems the designers are taking some of the best aspects of the present MMORPGs, (even the Diablo series, which is time-proven for success), and adding their own skillful manipulation to make it even better, so that we will have not several scattered MMORPGs with a few good factors and plenty of bad, but one all-encompassing mecha-game that will be a joy to play and a must to live. And I don't think that's a bad thing.

Casanunda Stoutswigger
40th Cleric of Brell Serilis
Dragons of Nightshade, Fennin Ro, "The Forgotten Server"

Frankly this sounds gay. And no this is meaning it in a bad way I like EQ as it is. This is so much like friggin Dark Ages of Camelot it's not even funny every little aspect of it is basically DAoC, but if you guys like the new updates best start playing DAoC. The requirments for this game are insanely high personly i don't have 500 something RAM to have for this game. I may as well go to DAoC now if all of you morons are going to start playing this and then there won't be anymore people playing EQ except me and a few others.


Hmm maybe this is a prank brought on from Allakhazam. Maybe not but oh well if it is eh?

i would definatly for maybe another expansion or maybe even have our charecters updateable into the new game but if everyone had to start i think there would be a lot of very angry people including my self, people put there lives, hard work, and LOTS of their time into the process of developing their charecters i think starting over is a bad idea !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

Whatever happened to Star Wars Galaxies. I was looking forward to that one. Has it been ditched or put on hold by verant to make way for eq2? that would suk.

keep ******** if u want to but move over while the rest of us past u up to move along with the chances!!! U guys sound like my grandpa... He doesn't like change either...lol

Looks like the Sony crew are nervous of Horizons. But if they can pull it off EQ2 may be a good game but they need to focus on EQ1. And need to get rid of the price increase which come to think of it is more then likey funding EQ2 or some other new expansion eq dosen't need.

Well I was really hopeing for a New game that allowed for buying land and all BUT not haveing to start all over again with me characters. I really like the characters I have now and really doen want to start all over again. I really hope that Verant looks at that a a possible way of driving away customers. If they keep it that way I know I wont but the new game Ill keep playing the old game.