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Densetsu painfully thought these words up:
I find it funny how everyone in this thread that don't even play EQ are all like, "OMG Verant was the r0x0rz and SoE suxx0rz."Especially since SoE is what made the game good in the first place. Remember The Vision? Yeah, that was Verant.
"The Vision" is what kept the game in check. It's because of "the Vision" that people kept coming back for more instead of quiting in droves, as has been happening since Sony took over. You cannot look at EQ and say that the game hasn't been on a steady decline since SoE took over and released Luclin. The day they took over and started catering to everyone that was able to form the words, "Me too! Me too!" was the day the game died.
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Sentow, Maybe thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
I hope I'm not the only one who remembers when the EQ community constantly ranted and raved about how the vision was suffocating the game and that Brad McQuaid needed to be strung up from a tree and hit with a baseball bat until candy fell out of him.
No, that was the very vocal minority. At it's height, EQ had something like ten million subscribers. Maybe a little more. I don't feel like digging up the exact number.
A few hundred people ranting and raving about how the vision was suffocating the game and that Brad McQuaid needed to be strung up from a tree and hit with a baseball bat until candy fell out of him is not the EQ community.
If you ask me (and you did ask me; remember?), people are comparing their feelings now with their doe-eyed newbie days and feeling cheated.
EDIT: I could go for a nice, juicy tangentrine right about now. Sentow, Maybe fucked around with this message on 08-19-2004 at 12:20 AM.
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Sentow, Maybe had this to say about Robocop:
Whether it was in game or out of game, it's only been in the last few months that I have ever heard someone positive things about El Vision. If you ask me (and yes you did ask me; remember?), people are comparing their feelings now with their doe-eyed newbie days and feeling cheated.
I was hardly a newbie when Kunark and Velious came around, the golden age of EQ and the height of the Vision.
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Sentow, Maybe's account was hax0red to write:
When new content is released, it briefly sparks the awe that people felt the first time they loaded the game.
Now you're just reaching.
And besides, nobody I know was in awe of Luclin, PoP, Ykesha, or Gates of Discord. The only decent thing Sony ever put out under the EverQuest banner was Lost Dungeons of Norrath. However, instanced dungeons were needed three years ago. By the time they were put in, the average server population had dropped enough and there were enough hunting areas at all levels that there was no need for them anymore.
Though I do give Sony credit about Omens of War. For once they realized how broke and useless an expansion was before they released it.
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Now you're just reaching.
No.
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And besides, nobody I know was in awe of Luclin, PoP, Ykesha, or Gates of Discord.
Well, that's 50 or 100 out of those 10,000,000 subscribers you mentioned. Are you the vocal minority?
New content makes people get back in the game; it's curiosity, wishful thinking, and wanderlust (in a fashion). Then a few months later many people say, "Meh," and quit again, leaving only the entrenched veterans with too many friends and too much progress to easily walk away.
Ya, PoP had the raiding content which I adored at the end of my EQ career, however Velius had that too and the high-end Velious encounters were really just more fun. It would have been really cool to have been in a raid guild doing the Kunark and Velious stuff before Luclin, but oh well.
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Dr. Gee said:
It would have been really cool to have been in a raid guild doing the Kunark and Velious stuff before Luclin, but oh well.
Not always!
So there we were; thirty of the best equipped people on the server. Less than a week since Kunark had come out. Levels ranging from 51 up to 53 and I think one or two 54s(one of our Druids was neck in neck with that dude from FoH the entire "race" to 60). We buff ourselves up as well as you could back then. And our main tank, the best equipped Warrior on the server and probably dead even(there wasn't a lot of room for advancement in equipment back then) with Furor and other top Warriors, leads the rush into Venril Sathir's room to engage him for the very first time on any server.
He died before the rest of the group even got around the corner. What transpired was the harshest thirty seconds of whoop ass ever brought down upon a group of players in the history of a video game. Snoota fucked around with this message on 08-19-2004 at 02:51 AM.
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Snoota wrote this stupid crap:
And besides, nobody I know was in awe of Luclin, PoP, Ykesha, or Gates of Discord.
I happened to love Luclin. But I only played the lower levels. I have no idea what the high end stuff in Luclin was like.
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Palador ChibiDragon stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
I happened to love Luclin. But I only played the lower levels. I have no idea what the high end stuff in Luclin was like.
I love LoY. Great xp, neat mobs, good loot, a nice challenge and some rather interesting lore and quests. Too bad more people don't utilize it.
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From the book of Jania Arindelil, chapter 3, verse 16:
Deth and I intend to play both EQ and EQ2.
And CoH!
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I've glanced around at different sites, none give out a server list yet. But I think it'd be great to get all the ECers into one of the Family groups they've got planned.We'll all be able to move around and do our seperate things, (Grouping together when possible, though it's not required) but if you're logged off; you'll still get some XP when other people in your family go leveling. It's their plan to keep friends together, even when they can't all play at the same time or as often as others.
Edit: Just read that members of the same family have to share a surname. (Makes sense I guess) Soo, we'd all have to come up with something to agree on if there's enough interest in banning together in-game. Rodent King fucked around with this message on 08-20-2004 at 04:33 AM.
The Vision did also keep the game in check... In a challenging, but good way. Black fucked around with this message on 08-20-2004 at 04:38 AM.
I remember Scouting out Kunark, with this same wood elf bard, runnin with my guild, having a blast, and thinking..
I remember being in Beta.. when none of these IDIOTS were training me.
Fags.
