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Topic: EQ2 Goes Free to Play too (Read 130254 times)
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Numtini
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The population of the game seem to be in deep denial. "revamp all the original zones!", "TV advertising with a big celebrity". Surely the game isn't holding the subs to justify any of that. This is a game that I have played to death and really on some level love. But at this point, most regulars have a very deep case of Stockholm Syndrome. |
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Murgos
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The population of the game seem to be in deep denial. "revamp all the original zones!", "TV advertising with a big celebrity". Surely the game isn't holding the subs to justify any of that. This is a game that I have played to death and really on some level love. But at this point, most regulars have a very deep case of Stockholm Syndrome. I loved EQ2. Three years ago. When your choices were WoW, EQ2, EVE or non-FTP non-revamped LotRO. Actually that may have been 4 years ago, it was before I met my wife... Personally, I think LotRO as it currently stands blows it out of the water (even just the beginning to end continuity of the epic quest line is reason enough to pick it over EQ2 or WoW to me). There is a lot to love with EQ2, Hartsman really did a lot for it before moving on to Trion and the team he left behind followed on in the best way but it's just so dated now I could never go back even if there is butt loads of content and three (?) expansions since I left. |
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Mrbloodworth
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Numtini
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I haven't seen anything that I thought was at all interesting since Kunark. After that it went to points and tiered armor and all of that and really just became a bad copy of WoW instead of an alternative.
I too am playing lotro, I wonder if there's something they've captured that we used to find in EQ2. Also, their free to play model by not forcing me to subscribe has managed to get me to part with $100 where SOE's money grubbing made me walk away.
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Zetor
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I can't really answer that, as you need the expansion to make dungeons. The add for it is on youtube. I have been picking up tokens that let me place different types of mobs. I can do them though, so I selected a dungeon that had a (SOLO) tag and entered a simple map with lots of props and mobs. My fresh L21 character was asked to pick a L50 monster to play as and started fairly easily killing mobs. Pretty easy, dull (since it replaced all my skill buttons), no flavor, no coherent setting and massive amounts of xp (a level in about 20 minutes) for sleep-walking through it. So either I'll get banned for just having exploited the game or they learnt absolutely nothing from the CoH experience. Also some tokens I can trade in for stuff no doubt. So, doesn't look too impressive. Good info (if a bit disappointing), thanks! I really wish someone'd take a look at the Mission Architect and improve upon that / implement it in a 'mainstream-y' game... alas. |
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RhyssaFireheart
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Holy crap, finding the "right" Station Launcher app to update within my EQ2 folder was a PITA. Finally got it, so now it's taking forever and a day to update since I've not logged in since September or so. Just felt bored tonight and wanted something online, so I started the updates. Now I'm determined to complete this and at least login to see where all my characters are, if nothing else.
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