Nice eye candy.

Pretty much everything else sucks ***. It would sound the death knell of EQ for me, I'd cancel all subscriptions and quit if EQ2 was my only choice.

If they have half a brain amongst them, they'll leave EQ up and running, AND growing, and hire a new team for the new product.

K, I just wanted to pop my head in and mention my thought here. As I read all the new features EQ2 is going to have, my first thought was how it seemed to parallel things I've heard about DAoC from a friend that switched to the Dark Side. I'm one to over-think everything, and so my second thought was about how really, when EQ first came out, (at least if I was on the job), the system they set up would be keeping everything rather basic, and not too complicated.

So what I'm getting at, is though it seems like they're "copying" DAoC, it just looks to me more like they're revamping their existing system of today's EQ to a more elaborate system to make characters more unique and give the players something better. Think of it as another game, wholly seperate from DAoC, EQ, AO, UO, etc... but you don't have an entirely new storyline to learn about. This new system is a lot like the one they plan on using for Star Wars Galaxies, and I know a ton of people will be jumping to that game in a heartbeat. (That's my main thought, you can quit reading now, the rest is just rambling)

Other quick thoughts: 1) I'm for and against twinking, I do think it's fun sometimes to give a lvl 1 warrior all the tradable equipment from my main and just tear shxt up, but it was rather discouraging when starting out, seeing other players running around with their Fungi Tunics to skip those pesky levels 1-15, and losing a random on some nice drop in a dungeon only to hear the winner say "now I just need 2 more for my _other_ twinks." It'd be kind of funny to have a "Twinking-Allowed Server" like the FV server for role-playing.

2) It's true that it would be rather stupid, making current players drop everything they had in EQ if they wanted to start EQ2. It would be wise of Verant to at least give current players a discount of some kind if they wanted an account on each game, say half price for the second account perhaps?

3) Last thing, a few of the posters gawked at 100 levels. They specified that you'll be leveling faster, so it'll probably take you as much time in EQ2 to get to 50, as it did in EQ1 to get to 25.

(I know you're now dumber for having read everything, but just turn your computer off and at least your head will stop hurting)

I have a really bad feeling about this, i agree to most of u ppl. Well i have spend over 2 yrs with EQ and i dont like starting all over again, VI is getting worst as we speak and hunry money *******.

I've played this game already! I must have! See there was this game, called Dark Ages of Camelot, and this one called Anarchy Online, and if i mix the two, I get this game! Must have been early demos or something released by Verant. Apperantly Mythic and Funcom are shell companies, they must be, look how close this is too those games.

Seriously. I don't know how much i'll be into this... doesn't sound like their gonna let characters transfer (doesn't even sound possible) so anyone else feeling like 1month-3years of your life was suddenly wasted?

Lets think about this. I've spent a year developing friendships and Ic plot for my characters, i've paid out the wazu for membership, expansions, etc... now it's all for jack and diddly.

Lets also be realistic. EQ2 will charge more monthly then EQ1. Or at least eventually it will (and i'm not talking inflation and you all know it). This is a buisness after all and Verant knows they can do that. On top of that Expansions, while costing the same, will likely be just as buggy when they come out and so on.

Remember the first two times a guild awoke the sleeper? Months after velious came out? Verant STILL hadn't got the script working right.

NOW HERE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART.
Human nature makes us tend to think in the short-mid term... BUT follow with me on this...

if Verant has gone so far as to decide that they are NOT going to upgrade/modify EQ 1 indefinetly like we all for the longest time thought they would (especially after Luclin, which seemed to imply keeping EQ just updating it to better hardware/etc as time went on)...

then that means at some point EQ 2 will be obsoleted...

Face it folks, if all this is true... their gonna start a cycle here.

Edited, Wed Apr 24 04:50:12 2002

those proposed game specs (buying property etc...)

no, has Lord British gone to work with SOE? coz I'd swear that thats what Ultima Online 2 was going to have before it got canned.


oh, if we're NOT allowed to move our characters over, I will most likely go postal.

EQ2 = DAOC

if you look at it .. its jes a DAOC clone. gotta love how original verant is =) would be funnier to see screenshot of a troll being a rock creature. thatd be even better ^_^

EQ2 has been confirmed... it's all over the other sites now. I wonder if this means our current characters will be able to go to it or what?? Cause I would just be sick if they can't.

I dont know about this. If I understand what I read, I will not play it. I have put too much time into several characters I like to play, that suddenly if I go to EQ2, I'll lose those PC's? I hope this is some elaborate joke and hope they fix the game currently. But alas, this is not to be. Will then (when EQ2 does come out) EQ1 still be up? Will they translate your current PC's to the new game? EQ1 is fun as it is and does need some work, but like other people have posted, I have friends and really enjoying the guild I am in. This new EQ2 will destroy that. And if it does, I'll go back to console and PC games like Wizardry or such. I will have to see what VI will come out officially. Best wishes all, Clangdin

I think that these ideas are awesome. I dont want to play the same old EQ all over again. No more twinking,some individuality to characters, better fighting system. For all of you that think these are bad ideas, just keep playing regular eq forever. I for one want to experience new things in an EQ world

Ok, I hate me for posting here, but I'm going to do it anyway...

To everyone complaining about having to upgrade their system, you've got almost two years!!! I promise you by that point you will be picking up 733MHz machines out of Middle School dumpsters!

To everyone complaining about losing all their hard work in EQ, don't play EQ2. EQ is not going to just go away. They're shrink it, smush people onto servers, and keep it running until it becomes unprofitible. I've been a gamer for almost 20 years and video games are all about money. That is a fact you just have to live with.

To everyone complaining about not moving their current characters to the new EQ, it's a totally different game! Yeah, it's going to suck starting over, but it will also be exciting because I'm starting over with something new and fresh.

To everyone complaining about not being able to twink, they have the best reason in the world for not allowing it -- wasted game space. To be completely honest, in EQ if you aren't level 46+ you are just trying to get to 46+. There is no lower level game in EQ right now. They have all these great newbie experiences that are never used by anyone. Go to Befallen or the Warrens sometime and try to get a pick up group. Or how often do you hear, "I can't wait until I'm level 25 so I can go hunt in Runnyeye". Twinking makes it to fast and to easy to get to the higher levels, so they have to much game space wasted.