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Smedley: "EverQuest Next will be the world's largest sandbox-style MMO ever made"
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This is a thread about EQNext not GW2, go to your GW2 forum if you want to talk about your messiah. The game will be nothing like GW2, last time i checked GW2 was a linear themepark of the same mold as all other themepark.
Smed has already said it will be more akin to Vanguard and EQ1.
EQNext based on PVP lmfao.
This is great news about EQNext and I hope SOE can pull it off.
Companies can evolve, just like games can. They are dynamic and they change with circumstances. It would be great for our genre if we can get the sandbox people want. Of course, not everyone will ever be happy with any game, but I think this could have a huge positive impact on mmorpgs in the future, if it's done right.
What? Roaming to find more quests makes a game a sandbox these days?
GW2 is 100% Themepark. Even WvW resets in the thempark spirit. You and your guild have absolutely zero impact on the themepark world of GW2.
As far as Smegleys anouncement, it's intreaguing but as an old time customer of his, I won't get my hopes up.
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Well after testing PS2 voer a few mnoths now and seeing how well SOE are interacting with the community I have a very very good vibe about EQ:Next and I cant wait to find out more details...
As for people saying GW2 is a sandbox all I can respond with is this..
LOL
You have to figure though if you can see AND play at FF next year there will be a reveal before then. Maybe Dave's comment on "late this year" may still happen.
Too bad you can't trust a damn word the guy says.
Seems like everything the guy ever says might be "true at the time or moment he says it" but what shows up ends up being something completely different.
Sorry Smed, nothing you say can be believed.
well before i would have agreed with you but since testing PS2 over the last few months i would have to disagree..
Im sure it will involve a supped up version of eq2s dungeon maker and be driven alot by player created content, but that too makes me nervous. Guess all we can do is wait and see.
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Best news of the decade
I am very very excited about it.
Now we need Blizzard to announce that Titan will be a Sandbox too
An EQ sandbox would be cool. But I have serious doubts about this.
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When is last time you heard of EQnext news?
Exactly..............
From the end of the 10 year anniversary book it the last 2 pages were on Everquest Next they didnt say much but they said it was cming
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Last paragraph : So you can see there a lot to wrestle with and we begin laying the founations of Everquest Next As i right this, we have concept artist and game designers working hard in our studios-taking the lessons of the past, the best parts of the present and the most promising ideas for the future-to bring the world of norrath to a new generation of players, aswell as the dedicated legions of fans who made the everquest franhise timeless. I hope to see you there.
This paragraph basicly says the game been in development for atleast 3 years if not longer so they have put an incredible amount of time into it since you wont see anything on it till next year.
They sure are but the problem is that creating those tools take a lot more work than most people assume. That is exactly what Bethesda and Rockstar said in interviews about it and I have a feeling that creating the tolls for a MMO is way more work than for a single player game.
SOE could reuse stuff from SWG to cut production cost but I have my doubts about that they will, I think they will botch up the whole project.
As for people being more ready for sandbox now, I think that they always have been, it is just that few good sandbox MMOs have existed. I wouldnt really say that themeparks are too old and tired though, MMO themeparks are just 1 1/2 years older than MMO sandboxes (M59, UO). Themeparks problems is more that they have been far too similar for a too long time.
Any good MMO will always get in money, no matter if it is a themepark or a sandbox. However do it need both fun gameplay and good programming. The reason Wow ganked EQ2 was not really that Wow was more fun but because it was so better much programmed (ok, 5 times the budget didnt hurt either).
If SOE either trained up their programmers since last time or hired in someone really good they can actually pull this off. If not they will just add another small MMO to an increasingly long list of smaller F2P games.
Judging by planetside 2 beta they realy have improved substancialy compaired to when they made EQ2
That do sounds good, because EQ2 was sadly a mess (I havnt tried the PS2 beta). It should actually have been the next big MMO instead of Wow, everyone thought so before release but they gave it away to Blizzard.
A MMO is just as good as its coding. Of course a good MMO needs more than just great programmers but all good MMOs needs that.
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It's Smedly saying this.
Never forget that.
It's only playable at Fan Faire next year, so it will be more than a year before the game comes out.
EQNext is using the Planetside 2 Engine, in a year from now that Engine will be considered outdated unless they update it.
Surprised some don't associate EQ with a sandbox.
EQ1 is a semi-sandbox when you compare it to themepark MMO on rails. EQ1 balanced between a sandbox and themepark. People who played EQ1 know it's nothing like WoW, for some reason it's percieved as a themepark for some, but it's nothing like a traditional themepark, you are pretty much able to wander wherever you want and quests are almost non-existant in the early EQ.
Thanks Davis, wasnt sure if it was just me thinking his whole post came out of his ***.
If you continue to make sweeping statements like you know what everyone everywhere thinks about a certain topic then I am going to shout at you.
It easy to type 'I think this is the worst game ever'
Rather than the 'This is the worst game ever'
This sentence doesn't make sense.
Everquest started with absolutely no quests at all.. unless you call the jboots quest a "quest".......
They had a couple things that were more afterthoughts than any actual cohesive questing system, and they didnt even work that well to start.
I remember the hours and days of AC camping for jboots and if those are the "quests" you think EQ will lose and never be the same, I'll be happy to see them go.
EQ2 quests were just a hop of the DAoC/WoW bandwagon. EQ2 was in development for a very long time (hell even the videos they showed at game shows wasn't the actual finished product).. they surely didn't invent any "questing" system.
Looking at the Planetside 2 footage and lighting and animations, it's a a decent engine I think, I just think "amazing" is a bit too far. It's no cryengine.