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Smedley: "EverQuest Next will be the world's largest sandbox-style MMO ever made"
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This is accurate. I dont agree than you cant use a class system in a sandbox, but eq certainly has a skill based system underneath its levelling system. eq had soo much fun stuff that no one talks about. That stuff was the magic. Not the levels and not the raids. Weve seen what magic is created from levels and raids.
lets see what the other magic can do.
We shall see, but I wouldn't be so quick to write it off.
Non-stanced dungeons and forced leveling via question would be enough of a step in the right direction for me to be vaguely happy.
how can you tell if there interested in eq and sandboxes?
On this forum though, I don't know if we're a good representation of the current or potential MMO player.
I just installed and played EQ2 for the first time. The EQN team better, BETTER, forget any of those design concepts ever happened. And post luclin EQ1 frankly.
well after having a really good look at planetside 2's systems i have this feeling that the entire eq next gameworld will have a major territory control component to it and aside of starting cities there will be no safezones in the world and the game will be FPS.
i have this feeling that there will be frontlines for war and the teams will be as follows. The frontlines will be constant battles but behind the lines it will be relatively safe with guards and patrols.
Fae
Froglok
Halfling
High Elf
Wood Elf
Barbarian
Erudite
Gnome
Half Elf
Human
Kerra
Dark Elf
Iksar
Ogre
Sarnak
Troll
We are the Founding Fathers in this virtual world in which we create. As such it seems we must do what our Founding Fathers had to do.. in order to let our fellow gamers have a fair shake.
Doesnt matter if its true what you said Mr Smea...Smedley,but i give you now this rare Phial of Galadriel anyways,you might need it.
If you can lead MMORPG´s out of Saurons realm or help in the process even tiny bit ,then NGE never happened in my books.
Let's internet
I doubt Sony would launch a second rvr game, why would they want more competition, when ps2 will already have competition from gw2 & teso as a rvr game and firefall as a sci-fi fps mmo
Free assets i would imagine. Im sure theyll reuse anything thats useful since they are both made with the same engine. If its not rvr im sure it will be world pvp probabally half safe zones
have you seen those maps? each one is 64 square kilometers and there is three. Regardless of how it goes, i think we have alot of goodness coming our way.
Good take on the sandbox/themepark debate from Pyrostasis.
I watched it, he spent 2 months in UO preparing to steal everything from another person just to get back at him, that's griefing for me.
Dunno if this has been posted already but as we all suspected the failure of swtor was the main reason for soe to take a new direction in the design
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/10/23/sony-online-everquest-next-design/
actually the diety based pvp server from eq1 way back would be a more logical step and it's ruleset was pretty good and already written, wouldn't be too hard to adapt it and not have to change the world and it's lore to fit some weird one race per team thing. the three teams were made up of goodies (tunare, marr, etc..), newts (agnostics, sol ro, bristlebane, etc..), and evils (cazic, inno, bertox, etc..).
Was by far the best eq experience I ever had. didn't think they would end the server as it was the most popular pvp server by far, and the rewards for killing other players were interesting and just beginning to get creative when it was all pulled.
You make me like charity
In my perfect game, Smed mixes the lore and game of the EQ1 diety pvp server with the original SWG game, when we could 'bring a knife to a gunfight'.
SWG had by far the best cities, crafting, and population of any game, the wars were intense and hard fought. Put that in Norrath and I believe you have an epic game.
The best pizza i ever had. EQ2 is even today is an amazing game. Dwarfs every other PVE MMO in content and features.
But they scrapped their work before any of those games came out... I think he's using those more as supporting evidence of his idea that themeparks(WoW clones) are done.
There's the part that made me originally unsub from SWG, /flag PvP restricts a player too much. Some of you fulltime crafters may not want it. But all the real good stuff (thievery! banditry! mercenary work! assassinations! piracy! warfare involving politics!) are out once flagged PvP happens. The world may turn into a more grim state, but a sandbox requires the option to be the villain, as there is always the bully to smash your sand castle into bits, but its up to you whether to call forth your big brother, or grab that shover and stick it up the ass of the one who broke your castle.
The original EQ PVP servers had factions: Blue: Human, Barbarian, and Erudite. Purple: Gnome, Dwarf, and Halfling. Yellow: Wood Elf, High Elf, and Half-Elf. Orange: Dark Elf, Ogre, and Troll. I think it was one too many factions, so your faction list could be interesting, but with the world of Norrath being reinvisioned, they could go farther than simply Good vs Neutral vs Evil.
They said thats the code name of the project and not its acualy name i beleikve you will get the acualy name of the game when they show it off at the fanfair next year. They did state its just tempory name atm.