It makes sense.

They have to keep the casual players and attract new ones ....

This game was never easy to learn to play, at least not easy to learn to play very WELL. I think we all know that the learning curve is steep enough that the time expenditure "hill" has to be made LESS steep or no one will come and join us and many others more will simply not stay. If no one new joins us and if casual players can't get ahead and quit playing out of frustration, there will no longer be any Norrath to play in at all.

Has everyone forgotten that many of us want to keep playing this thing that we've been playing for 9 years? I want to keep playing, personally. That is why I welcome any changes that will keep or add players. It keeps us running around Norrath a little longer.

lets go ahead and rename everquest to world of evercraft and be done with it.

Interesting,

I can't tell you how many guilds I have been a member of on many different servers that have now long since faded into oblivion. With a total of thirty six toons on several servers, I am in only one guild, and that guild has all ready taken a dive. The higher level players left to join another guild which quickly crumbled, a long story short, in a period of a few months some eighty peeps disappeared into the binary after life and at least four guilds faded away.

Not that I am against guilds, or for raiding, I've never seen a reason to join a "Raiding" guild. 100 peeps fighting for a hours, days, on end for a chance at maybe a few drops. Guess I'm not the conquering type, I prefer to go slow, explore the whole zone, do as many quests as I can there and then move on to the next zone.

At what ever pace I decide fits....

Which means I seldom if ever group, unless it's with RL friends or guild mates (even those from guilds long since forgotten).

I could go deep into why I don't like to group (we've all dealt with the impatient, greedy, ninja looting whiner babies), but more often than not, I find it much more relaxing to go along at my own pace, set my own goals, and accomplish them.

So, by opening up these zones that where currently "Flagged" in my book as wasted money on zones I would never see, I am looking forward to seeing many of the other soloing players in the near future there.

As for those who took the time and effort to get the flags for these zones, Congrats, but it's time these zones opened up. If they get something for accomplishing it, no love lost here, they deserve a little something.

But keep in mind,

You did accomplish a great task, and reaped the rewards of that accomplishment for many years now.

To be honest with you all...I figured some time back that when subscriptions fell, so would the flags and locks to these zones. Especially when the new zones that keep coming out are targeted to the higher level players, only naturally that they do. But, for those players who took a sabbatical, or for unknown reasons just now stumbled into EQ, they deserve a little break as well.

And let's not forget those players who choose to Solo as far as they can...

That in itself is the hidden quest in Ever Quest.

bout dang time think about this how many expansions ago was pop? if you have not conqured it by now this is the only way to go most of the mobs will be gray to us when this comes out because of the new level 85 so who is going to want to do flags with no exp. and besides that the new expansions have way better baz loot then these zones.


way to go.

I think it's good for players like myself that have started playing again after so many years, or even for those with ALT characters they went to progress with. It seems they did it for reasons such as that, to allow new players to catch up much quicker than before, same with returning players that aren't up to speed with everyone else or completely starting over. I am glad they did this.

i am lvl 76 and still cannot get into anything past sol ro tower have got all the minis but not sol ro....none of the zeks ....cannot get into any of thes so called level entry zones now just tried all of the elemental ones and it wont allow me in game...like a previous post i was out of game for 2 years so getting flagged for these zone pretty much out of the question

I will be happy to destroy all the key pieces for VT and VP cluttering up my bank. While you are at it, how about those 7 keys for Sky? Let's do away with them too.

I think that the levels are about 3 to 5 levels too low. For example, Time used to be level 65 AND flagged, but now it will be level 62? Granted, a level 62 with some of today's gear, it still might be easier than back then at level 65.

I am in favor of the change only because of the huge changes that happened to gear over the last couple of expansions. Excluding some of the "clickies", I won't even bother gearing up some of my alts with gear from these zones, and the gear on my alts isn't that great.

Well I can't say that I don't like this. I, like a lot of others, will soon see a lot of the game that I have never seen before. However, (I have been playing since '03) being a father of 5, finding the time to grind through POP flagging with my guild a few years ago was long and tideous. I only made it to elementals, guild fell apart, and here I sit. Left a bad taste in my mouth, started a different toon and have been leveling mage since........

The problem is trying to find a guild that is willing to go back and experience the old content. Everyone wants to see the new stuff, my self included, but what drew me to this game was that sense of accomplishment when I finished a quest.........can anyone say Ever-QUEST. So now that I have the time to play more, my main sits, almost to Time, and we wont even mention content past that.

What I would like to see the devs do is add incentives somehow to get people to go back to old stuff, new gear from old bosses, add augs to their loot table, and maybe an aug or something for completing key/flagging for zones, or an exp boost. I think it would have to be worthwhile though to get people to do it. If you get flagged for Time you get 5 AA's for example.

My main will be flagged for Time one day not just leveled in..........Keep the QUEST in Everquest alive. Just some thoughts if any devs read this.

Now let me into VT and VP >:P

Edited, Apr 5th 2008 8:59am by Glue

Well I cant say I am surprised by this move. In my opinion many people will be happy with this and I will certainly benefit from it with some of the more impossible keys to get.

However, ultimately I see this as a sign for the end of eq. I think eq is a very hard MMORPG and that has been its success. Over the last 2 years eq has been nerfed..dumbed down in too many ways to become more of a kiddies game.

I have been working very hard to get my flags for all of these zones. I have been questing and have bank vaults full of key quest pieces. The task ahead was simply impossible for me..but..I liked it that way!! EQ would have had me paying my 3 accounts for ever to experience all of this content, but now I can safely say, the end is insight for me and my subscriptions will soon be a thing of the past.

The question SoE needs to ask itself is, Do new players stay in a game that is so incredibly easy? vs a game that has enormous, almost unsurmountable challenges? I think SoE wil find the answer is no. Maybe I am the only one who is disappointed..but I bet they wont even lower the req level on the gear drops because they are too lazy to change so much code, so it is not as much of a nerf as it seems.

If you are happy with this nerf then I am happy for you!.

When ?


And when they unlock HS...

Will the inner doors all be unlocked too?




Edited, Apr 4th 2008 4:42pm by ToucanVZ

well, for the survivability of the game, we knew this was coming eventually.

to some of us veteran gamers, being properly /keyed was a partial dork-filter for certain zones.

Since this is the first year that PoP fables came out then it only makes sense to do this after fables. I feel that the People/guilds that are flagged for time and Solro and such should have first shot at these zones. Last thing anyone wants is a Noob Bazaar tank being told to Corner tank and him replying" Corner Tank" ??? what do ya mean??. I just so all of you know, I am NOT flagged for time/Solro/VT/ST/VP. I can only get into PoPower zones by lvl flag , brside Storms/Valor/drunder. I also think this MAY change someone selling "Zlandicars talisman" for 100k plus...

WHOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!

Makes my day complete and it will still be fun to do some of the flagging when possible.

Less gimping more killing!