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This game is a waste. Misery Loves Company
Yea they will encourage you to go to this game they got so much time involved in it that they hate to see it die. I used to play this game till a massive rolleback and 7 years of getting nowhere caused me to hate it. Sony messes up it aint their fault its yours beware of that fact cause 7 years of your life might be taken by sony for something they messed up on. Sony dont know how to do anything with online gamming and they messed this game up so bad its just misery in the world of everquest. Beware of your time as you continue to get nowhere everyone wants to better themselfs they will not help you i promise and until they slow down a bit it will be that way till the end of everquest it will die I promise Eqreaper here. They banned me for deleting my 7 year old toons so you know they are gay i wanted to get on and tell ppl i did it but they wont let me get back on lucky me.
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If you called customer service and they weren't helpful, keep calling til they put you up to level 2. The people at level 1 are reading out of manuals and don't know what they are talking about. They are only useful in cases of RTFM. It took someone in my guild a month to get through to someone who could help her when her credit card was being charged but it said she didn't have a subscription. A month to get through, 5 minutes to fix the problem. What was the reason they gave you for banning your account? If you deleted all your old characters, what do you care? Post it on a forum somewhere. *smirk*
I have played for 7 years, but I don't feel like my life is tied up in my characters in EQ. If they banned my account, I'd just buy a new one. It's not that much misery in the world of EverQuest for me. I have only played off and on and never for more than 10 hours a week and still managed to get a character to 70 + 44AAs + 10.5k hp (buffed), without raiding, in the last year alone. About 20 days played, maybe slightly less. The only flag she's got is KT and the only key she's got is Sebilis, but I haven't been trying to get flags and keys for zones I won't likely show up to raids for. Making friends and being in a good guild helps a lot. I'd likely have spent that time in IRC or watching TV, so it isn't like I really wasted time I would have spent finding a cure for the common cold or anything.
I think it is unhealthy to feel that invested in a game. I know a lot of people do, perhaps most of the long time players, but I think it helps to take a step back and realized that maybe the social network you form while playing matters in your real life, but the game itself and all your characters don't really matter. At all.
[EDIT: I can't believe I am wasting time editing a post on this site so that it flows better. ]
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neschria, I went and did a "show all posts by" on DKid, saw that all 10 of his posts were basically negative and anti-Sony - that they were equally divided between the EQ forums and the Vanguard forums... then I wondered how he got a 2 star rating for that and just put him on my /ignore list
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Lol you are a everquest lifer thats why you mad and you know what I say is truthful dont hate the player hate the game.
Lol you are a everquest lifer thats why you mad and you know what I say is truthful dont hate the player hate the game.
Dude, let me introduce you to a period ( . ), a comma ( , ), and a ghetto cliche (don't hate the player, hate the game). You know I'm being truthful biotch.
Ah, so we can assume that SOE ran over his puppy or something, and that there's no reasoning with him. I think I will follow your lead on that one.
And here I thought the screaming about SOE was starting to die down. People need to relax a little and maybe consider switching to decaf.
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Well i know there are some ex-SWG players waiting to jump on and shout how bad SoE is but i suggest you find another topic to have a backing because this guy is talking total crap.
Whoever heard of any company banning anyone for deleteing toons.You know thats total bull.
Here is his thread he made in vanguard section which he failed to answer questions put forward to him and rather just decided to make another thread here .
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/93116/page/1
His story is as believeable as George .W.Bush and Saddam Hussain been drinking buddies
What i can't believe is you actually think this guy is telling you the truth.
1)a massive rollback that destroyed 7 years of work that no one knows about?Does he mean a particular bug that got him exclusively or whats the nature of it .
2)banning an account for deleting toons?Ok all vets who have played different mmorpg since the 90s help me answer this.Have you ever heard of such a thing.This is as likely as Matt Damon inventing a time machine.
3)this guy was ranting on the vanguard board and refused to answer questions asked there of him .
post is a poor attempt .I could think of a better and more likely story to attack SoE with -a much better story for sure.
What i can't believe is you actually think this guy is telling you the truth.
1)a massive rollback that destroyed 7 years of work that no one knows about?Does he mean a particular bug that got him exclusively or whats the nature of it .
2)banning an account for deleting toons?Ok all vets who have played different mmorpg since the 90s help me answer this.Have you ever heard of such a thing.This is as likely as Matt Damon inventing a time machine.
3)this guy was ranting on the vanguard board and refused to answer questions asked there of him .
post is a poor attempt .I could think of a better and more likely story to attack SoE with -a much better story for sure.
1. There was a rollback for low level characters when servers combined, I lost some level 10's that had some fantastic gear. He may have had the same thing happen. A level 10 can have a CoF or better!
2. Never heard of it, unless somehow he had multiple characters on FV server through an oversite by SOE, I had 2 characters on an account there myself due to a glitch.
3. Rant away! SOE ruined Star Wars and Everquest, they deserve it. Yes, you players (n00bs) that started EQ after PoP have no idea what EQ was! Raiding was not all and everything and EQ is now a waste of time.
If you have any questions please ask. I have moved on to WoW from eq and no longer have any desire to play a dead game. Thank you. (posted by another selling his account in EQ1)
What i can't believe is you actually think this guy is telling you the truth.
1)a massive rollback that destroyed 7 years of work that no one knows about?Does he mean a particular bug that got him exclusively or whats the nature of it .
2)banning an account for deleting toons?Ok all vets who have played different mmorpg since the 90s help me answer this.Have you ever heard of such a thing.This is as likely as Matt Damon inventing a time machine.
3)this guy was ranting on the vanguard board and refused to answer questions asked there of him .
post is a poor attempt .I could think of a better and more likely story to attack SoE with -a much better story for sure.
1. There was a rollback for low level characters when servers combined, I lost some level 10's that had some fantastic gear. He may have had the same thing happen. A level 10 can have a CoF or better!
2. Never heard of it, unless somehow he had multiple characters on FV server through an oversite by SOE, I had 2 characters on an account there myself due to a glitch.
3. Rant away! SOE ruined Star Wars and Everquest, they deserve it. Yes, you players (n00bs) that started EQ after PoP have no idea what EQ was! Raiding was not all and everything and EQ is now a waste of time.
1)then its a bug.Rollback means lose of that time period.Unless they rollback 7 years!Also if he lost an item obtained prior to the rollback again thats a bug and should be sorted by CSR mail assuming the bug ate all his loot for 7 years!
Highly unlikely story sorry.One thing to rant on valid issues another to create stories.If i am pissed on blizzard i would find situations of what really got me mad in first place and put it on.I will not make a post like
"hi i hate blizzard and WoW.They had a rollback(happens on the WoW by the way) and next thing i found my uber char delevelled to level 1 and naked .I decided to go into a bloodlust and delete my character.Then the CSR shouted how dare you delete a char i ban you!"
Sounds stupid eh.
1)a massive rollback that destroyed 7 years of work that no one knows about?Does he mean a particular bug that got him exclusively or whats the nature of it .
You know for a fact they had merchants in pok that caused ppl to rollback. So dont lie.
What i can't believe is you actually think this guy is telling you the truth.
1)a massive rollback that destroyed 7 years of work that no one knows about?Does he mean a particular bug that got him exclusively or whats the nature of it .
2)banning an account for deleting toons?Ok all vets who have played different mmorpg since the 90s help me answer this.Have you ever heard of such a thing.This is as likely as Matt Damon inventing a time machine.
3)this guy was ranting on the vanguard board and refused to answer questions asked there of him .
post is a poor attempt .I could think of a better and more likely story to attack SoE with -a much better story for sure.
1. There was a rollback for low level characters when servers combined, I lost some level 10's that had some fantastic gear. He may have had the same thing happen. A level 10 can have a CoF or better!
2. Never heard of it, unless somehow he had multiple characters on FV server through an oversite by SOE, I had 2 characters on an account there myself due to a glitch.
3. Rant away! SOE ruined Star Wars and Everquest, they deserve it. Yes, you players (n00bs) that started EQ after PoP have no idea what EQ was! Raiding was not all and everything and EQ is now a waste of time.
1. Low level characters got deleted if they weren't played for 6 months many many many years ago because they were running out of database space. They even warned you months in advance to log on characters you wanted to keep. This is something that has only happened a couple times and it hasn't happened in nearly 5 years.
2. Never heard of soe deleting a char... then again they don't garuntee they will keep a char after a certain period of time that you do not have an account(I think its 3 months), but I have never heard of anyone losing a char even after years away.
3. Saying that you played before PoP has little credability with today's game unless you play in today's game. I started in March 2000 and still play EQ and I can tell you now that EQ is less about raiding now then it was when I started playing. Raids are an integral part of the game still, but the developers have managed to focus a signifcant amount of content towards group/casual play(possibly more than raids). Although this trend didn't start until around DoN came out, so if you haven't played since then you probably wouldn't know about it. Regardless an mmorpg has the word massive in it, so if it gives players an opportunity to coordinate together in a team to overcome a very complex challenge then I cannot see where this is a bad thing. In my opinion SoE has made EQ much better than it has ever been before.
Final note, Dkid is referring to when they accidently live copied beta pok from the Prophecy of Ro Beta onto live around Feburary of this year. This is probably the worst decision I think SoE has ever made(that is to do a virus style rollback), but at very most you lost 3 days. They did try to make ammends by giving a double xp week, but I can understand how that wouldn't sate the anger of the people affected the most. In the end, 3 days is not equal to 7 years.
Final final note:
Sebbonx your sig does not show diffculty, but rather the similarity of time investment the two games take to reach a high level. Such time is not a measure of a difficulty that takes any kind of skill as the skill lies in the challenges confronted along the journey not the length of said journey. Although, if you do compare the two journey's length you would find that it takes much more time to reach max level in EQ(75 with 1400 aa's) then it does in warcraft(soon to be 70).
With that said there are ways to make EQ approach the simplicity of warcraft.
If you came to everquest today and wanted to plow threw levels at the speed of warcraft you would need:
1) Buy plat (sad but you'll spend 100's of hours longer leveling with bad gear) The more you buy the faster the levels go.
2) Bring friends (enough to make a group of 6, and all play the same hours) Should get by with 3 people if everyone duel boxed. Having people to keep a group going allows you to avoid massive downtime LFG.
3) Scout potential guilds while your groups leveling and always goto newer expansion areas when possible.
4) OR save yourself the headache and just buy WoW
I havnt played since planes of power so thats about all the ideas i can come up with
butt load of content play EQ. There newer survers still have
plenty of nubies on it.
Honestly, I still think EQ is a game worth playing.
If you came to everquest today and wanted to plow threw levels at the speed of warcraft you would need:
1) Buy plat (sad but you'll spend 100's of hours longer leveling with bad gear) The more you buy the faster the levels go.
2) Bring friends (enough to make a group of 6, and all play the same hours) Should get by with 3 people if everyone duel boxed. Having people to keep a group going allows you to avoid massive downtime LFG.
3) Scout potential guilds while your groups leveling and always goto newer expansion areas when possible.
4) OR save yourself the headache and just buy WoW
I havnt played since planes of power so thats about all the ideas i can come up with
I can't say enough about option #2, guess how I leveled in 12 days to 63rd +10 AA's? You don't have friends in this game it sucks to you.
If you have any questions please ask. I have moved on to WoW from eq and no longer have any desire to play a dead game. Thank you. (posted by another selling his account in EQ1)
I had played for 3 years and gave up.
Went back last xmas and played for 5 mins.
It looks ancient and tired.
Have fond memories but its really time to move on for me.
Now playing: VG (after a long break from MMORPGS)
Played for more than a month: Darkfall online, Vanguard SOH, Everquest, Horizons, WoW, SWG, Everquest II, Eve
I've played EQ, since the release of the Kunark expansion.
During that time, I've tried other games, put some serious effort into them...
But they don't measure up. Their graphics aren't as good, the rulesets aren't as good, the mechanics aren't as challenging.
I may not like SoE, but they have developed the best looking and best playing game on the market, today, for me.
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EQ is still a great game though the graphics are def. dated and need an overhaul. The new race models and armor though shows promise on some changes in this catagory that may be comming.
Grouping in eq is more a mindset problem then it is in reality. You can take just about any 6 people and kill in certain zones for good xp decent loot and make a fair amount of pp if you know what you are doing.
If anything i think sony is starting to look into dropping swg and eq2 before eq1. They seem to be putting alot more into the game to make it last longer and aside from the new lead lead dev's "everything is working as intended" all seems to be going better in the world of eq. I have actually noticed more people comming back to the game then leaving in th last few months but i know some servers are having some population issues.
All in all, eq is still probably a top5 game on the market for playability and balance. It has a huge varity of options for spending your time and has no rivals in its amount of content nad probably never will. As fun as wow, eve, vanguard and any of the other new games may be they will always be measured against eq.
Also i have played wow and its a great game, probably the only yet to give eq a run for its $. But lets be honest wow is a spinoff from one of the most succesfull pc game franchises ever with worldwide support comming into an established market with impeccable timing. Eq starts in a young barely devolped underground market and at what time had almost as many people playing as wow does now.
I do not belive wow has 3 1/2 milliion active players. 3 1/2 million accounts in thier db is more realistic. alot of which have been banned or inactive as people left for other games.
Yea i Prolly would be better off with 14 year olds cause grownups playing video games are really nolifers anyhow in my opinion and if you got kids thats even worse to spend countless hours on everquest.