Ok, so there can only be 8000 people on Legends. Each paying $40.00 a month. That's 4 times what us regular people are paying a month. That being said, They could lose 24,000 people on regular servers and still break even in the profit margin.
It's definately a win-win situation for them.

I for one am very interested to see where this leads. Although I cant justify the costs at this time, I think the added content on these servers will be a bonus to all eventually.

Perhaps down the road they will bring some of the events over to regular servers, or at least make GM run events more common. Also, the web based features are neat in my opinion as a roleplayer, maybe an adaptation or a program developed for regular server guilds to use on there websites is in order? In general, i believe it could serve to boost GM awareness in all servers, but I guess time will tell.

Happy gaming )

Abdielle Silvanost
Paladin of the 42nd crusade
Druzzil Ro

Ok, so I pay $40.00 a month instead of $30.00 every three months... Ok. But I get a steady flow of dynamic events similar to those held during the holidays and at other times on the normal servers, and access to special items that only exist on this server. Ok, that’s cool. But now what have I given up...?

I have to say probably EVERYTHING that is the current game of EverQuest. Let me move back to this past Halloween... Events were running that changed several zones into undead-ridden nightmares. It was a lot of fun and all kinds of items were dropping left and right. Here's the "but"... EK was one of the zones converted to undead. During the event there averaged over 60 people in EK... and this is on Test Server! Normally you can expect to find about five people in EK. Even the most popular zones rarely have much more than 20 people in them. So over 60 was a huge number.

Since the dynamic quests are the main allure to the new Legends Server, and chances are that they just cannot run dynamic events in EVERY zone, precedence stands to dictate that most players are going to congregate in the zones offering dynamic content. If this happens, the rest of the world is going to be basically empty.

I don't know about anyone else, but I cannot count the times that a passing stranger has made all the difference for me in a tight situation. Be it a save in a fight, a sow for a corpse run, an invis for travel, or any of the hundreds of other ways I've been helped out. So what happens when you want to work on your epic quest, but the majority of the population is involved in some dynamic quest? Will there be anyone in the zones you must travel through in case you need them?

So when you sign up for this new server, are you really getting new game play options in addition to the existing ones, or is it really just a replacement way of playing the game...?

Doesn't this seem a bit too much like what Verant promised when the game first came out? They used stuff like this to attract people to the game then when they can actually provide the extra GM help and new quests they jack up the price $30? If they were to set up servers and set 8,000 user limits on them without charging more even without the new quests and more GM's I'd gladly switch to a new server like this, but I'm not gonna pay more money for what VI promised players to start with.

We all play to have fun on EQ. If you have the extra time and money then Legends is most likely a good thing for you. I on the other hand only play in small amounts of time each week since I place a higher value on Family life then EQ life. Or as some of you would say RL get in the way. If I was rich and didn't have to work and had someone to take care of the everyday things in life I would indeed sign on for Legends. But I am a normal working "JOE" and EQ is for enjoymentgoing to the movies.....LOL

Garellron Crimsonhand
Level 45 Wizard
Playing almost for 2 years now.
And yes this is my Main.

Funny thing is, when Verant switches characters from server to server everything gets dropped. (so I was told) So the "uber" (definately making up for something there) characters will be naked & oh boy, I'd hate to be the GM on that server. Petitions for everything that they should have read in the fine print.
Pay more for EQ? Oh man, they must think that we are nuts.
Seems the people cannot break free from the bonds of the elite. I can't wait to make high level, so start ******** the economy by under pricing everything. LOL they can't stop me now!!

Enjoy, it's a game people. Why don't you play this hard in real life?

Here are my thoughts on the Legends server:

* It's a solid business move; it will likely be fun for the SOE employees who will have a new project and probably more lattitude to run quests and mess with the world - it will be like making the "test" server live. That's cool.

* However it only exacerbates the problem with EQ being INCREDIBLY boring for higher-level characters unless they're uber power gaming lusers who have nothing better to do than play politics and camp and do big raids with other power gaming lusers. So the legends server will be a big smelly pile of s*** that will attract all the uber-gaming flies - which is cool except that we'll be constantly reminded of how much greener that grass is when in reality it isn't.

Mark my words: large groups will move to Legends thinking it will be much better when it won't. There will always be someone more twinked than you, someone who ninja-loots the quest item faster than you, and a guild bigger than yours. I can only imagine how unbearable it's going to be for the GMs on that server - it's guaranteed to attract every uber-whiner within a 300000 mile radius.

Fun.

* I really do like the new features they're implementing for the server that relate to tracking char history, guild features, item inventory and all that - you can expect those features to probably be made available to players on other servers in the future when Legends doesn't pay off like SOE imagined, or they need some new bells and whistles to drop on the main player population a year from now.

Yes, most of those web-based features and technology are ideas that SOE "assimillated" from others who did it long ago.

Here's something that people should be afraid of relating to these new features. If SOE controls the guild messageboard, they know what everybody thinks. And in keeping with their policy, if you say something on your new guild messageboard they don't like, guess what? Yep, no more account. This is bad news.

Stands by for flames.....for every one of ya's that says he can't afford the Legends Server..that will be one less I will have to deal with on it. One of the biggest problems that has ocurred with Everquest is this. They did not raise the monthly fee compared to inflation. This has led to more and more pimple faced knotheads getting on and whining that the game ain't like there playstation 2 where they can hack it with a game genie. If I can get something close to the days when peeps said what the hell is an FBSS. GREAT!!! I will pay the 40 bucks. Why....cuz I can

I for one will not be paying $40 a month for this service. The webpage things are really not interesting, I can have my characters profile here on Allakhazam, and I can make a guild webpage using geocities or the like for free. As for the the dynamic quests, it is my belief that this should be standard on all servers in my opinion, and if that is not financially possible, increasing the monthly charge another $5-10 would be reasonable. When I started playing EverQuest I thought it was something dynamic and exciting, but it's just a fanasty version of Online Wolfenstien or the like, just a lot of senseless killing and looting, and thin on plot or the namesake "quests". I believe Verant can manage to bring these services to the common player who doesn't have the funds or the desire to blow $40 a month on what we should already have, if they can manage thier funds better and they're people better. I know from experience that if you have the desire you can create great things in business from nothing.

What will be really funny is when all of these people spend all of this extra cash every month and then find out they are getting the same level of service and the same ****** game, with just a little spit and polish applied to it. Good luck to any of you suckers who fall for this scam.

Again, someone is missing the point. I would have no problems with this if your "Caddy vs. Geo" analogy were accurate. Let's extend your analogy and see if you can understand where some of us are coming from. Let's say your Geo and your neighbor's Caddy are made by the same manufacturer, and let's say that in order for them to run each and every day, said manufacturer has to perform some work on the Caddy once a day and the Geo once a week. Ok, fair so far. Caddy gets more attention since it costs more. Problem is, what happens when the manufacturer decides it doesn't make enough money from the Geo owners or it simply doesn't have the manpower to provide the level of service required for both cars? What happens is that workers get diverted from the Geos to the Caddys so that the Caddys still get worked on once per day while the Geos get bumped back to once every couple of weeks or once a month... Still happy with your neighbor's smoothly running Caddy while your Geo is backfiring and pouring out smoke? Didn't think so. And if you don't think this kind of thing happens and WILL happen, take a look at the airline industry and how the "regular class" passenger service has continued to go down the toilet while first-class remains relatively untouched. That's just one example, there are many more...

By the way, if they CAN keep up a level of service for both tiers, more power to them! Great! I'd love to see people who want more stuff get it. I just don't want to see service for the rest of us erode as it inevitably will.

Yea this makes total sense. Verant wont fix alot of the current problems with EQ in the bugs and customer service areas, but instead they have the resources to offer another service for MORE money from the customer. Please, Verant is just trying to ***** us over for more $$$. Let us all complain to Verant about their current service and support as i have done so we will ALL benefit. If we subscribe to things like this, we are just adding to the ability of Verant to lesson the customer service we are already entitled to by paying every month a substantial amount of money. If they want to make a service that doesnt take from my current EQ support, then i could care less. But i believe that their current resources arent going into the right areas and this added service will even lesson MY and EVERYONE elses current support on EQ.