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Smedley: "EverQuest Next will be the world's largest sandbox-style MMO ever made"
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Yes, they had PVP servers, now only 1 is left I believe. I don't know what the loot conditions were.
I remember the arguments when Rift launched between PVE purists and PVP players, PVE purists don't want any PVP on their servers at all and will refuse to play in games with PVP, some PVE players don't mind.
I think the same, Smed IMO meant some sandbox features but more hybrid. He has already said that the world will be more along the lines of EQ and Vanguard( have to find the interview) with new features. This will be the real follow up to EQ not EQ2 which is nothing like how EQ was.
ArcheAge is going to be the main rival to EQNext IMO, Smed may not be everyones cup of tea but he aint an idiot that's for sure, Smed is EQ.
Well, heres to EQ Next bros. Hopefully they'll give out a nugget of info or screen shot, trailer, etc before SOELive 2013 at E3, PAX, etc
We have concept Art .
http://www.onrpg.com/MMO/Everquest-Next/popupscreenshots#1
Im hoping we will see alot more immersive gameplay. The soemote and integrated and modulated voice chat will be nice. I assume any feature thats in planetside 2, EQ2 or SWG that has an eqn application will be in EQn, and that might include FPS combat (its certainly capable of it with that engine). Im hoping that they go 3 man grouping with no trinity but really advanced crowd control, but i have my doubts. I also doubt there will be open pvp anywhere other than pvp servers. I am really really hoping they do something with eq1's original faction system.
i would also like to see no levels or experience points and a unique skill collection system but well have to see on that as well.
that was from 2 years ago - and is now obsolete
http://eq2wire.com/2010/08/06/eq-next-first-concept-art/
http://eq2wire.com/2011/04/03/eqnext-screen-shots-and-concept-art-from-fan-faire-2010-repost/
http://eq2wire.com/2012/06/19/eqnext-news-late-this-year/
Smokejumper:
Screens you saw from a couple years ago are completely obsolete now and are not pertinent to the current game at all.
EQ2 fan sites
EQ was a themepark through and through. Linear class design, every warrior was the same, every monk, every druid... Completely loot driven. Zones catering to specific levels (yes there were some mobs in each zone that were harder but the zone itself was all approximately the same level). Llimted crafting completely outdone by loot and of course absolutely no way to impact/shape/own the world.
EQ was a complete themepark.
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Dont really care as i dont play anything thats closely related to Smedley or SOE
theres a smed interview at massively - not much info but seems like the game will not be tier based for gear
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/10/20/soe-live-2012-john-smedley-on-eq-next-and-soes-future/
EQ2 fan sites
I held the NGE againist SOE & Lucas Arts for many years and wouldn't touch anything with their logo on it with a pole the length of the Kessle run (12 parsecs) until Swtor. I do think SOE is listening now probably due to Smeadly being a EVE player and witnessing how CCP does it successfuly, I also understand that SOE has been listerning to it Beta/General Planetside 2 community so its a good sign.
From previous interviews like the Reddit one, Smed's comes across as humbled and wanting to use SOE's own IP to create a decent MMO to avoid artistic clashes with other companies which I believe was the problem in the past especially in SWG case. I'm going to chance it one more time with Smed's & SOE due to playing the all the right overures with EQN and not having anything to lose at this stage of the MMO genre and I don't think that anyone has anything to lose by giving SOE one last chance either
I think the fact he said sandbox 'style' is a prelude to a get-out-clause. This is hype talk to get people interested. The big AAA MMO companies are slowly coming around to the fact that players are wanting a proper sandbox mmo, just look at the top 5 development games on this site.
A Sandbox is a sandbox, it doesnt have a 'style' it is what it is. But I guess the fact that SOE is pandering to the demands of the players is a good thing, themeparks have become stale and washedout, they have been done to death while sandbox games have been left in the shadows of indie developers, truth is themeparks are the lazy games to develop, marketing guys proudly patting each other on the back for selling crap with little effort, suddenly they are now standing there wondering why the boss is shouting at them because thier $100 million dollars of the 'next best thing' is failing so hard, maybe SOE has realised they have to actually create an excellent game with talented devolpers for a change.
Lets hope they can deliver, but in al honesty, I think we are still quite a few years away from a true AAA sandbox, EQNext is just the first tiny step.
well after reading that i think we can possibly assume that traditional classes will be in the game. I really do hope though that they dont have levels and experience though. I am so tired of levels and exp. Lets hope they have a better way that is more immersive and organic
i started a dwarven cleric way back at the begining, and hopefully ill end as one as well
Warrior lfg in 2 years :P
Hopefully EQN gets it's own forum at least on here soon, or an offical forum would be nice.
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I would not be suprised to see EQN launch with multiple server types, could be some of the following.
1. PvE
2. PvP faction (evil vs good)
3. PvP ffa
Then you could have various loot conditions on one or all the pvp types...They have shown that they like to have multiple types of servers. Not saying they have done a great job with it, but hopefully they have learned and will do it right, if it is being built from the ground up. They even had special events in EQ, where they had a permadeath level competition...
I like the direction, I was hoping they would have something a little more sandboxish, as the current themeparks have been easy/stale/boring imo.
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This is wrong - what led to the downfall of SWG (the shrinking in player numbers) was that they used wrong metrics and did ignore their playerbase to get the mystical "bigger one" out of nowhere.
SWG did in fact grow until SOE decided to fire up the jedi (holo)grind what led to the destruction of the community and a first reduction of their playerbase.
Its somewhere beyond the 47 minute mark in this inteview with Raph Koster:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifhmDVWszbQ
CU and NGE were total ignorance on the SOE side and the NGE is the biggest debacle in the history of MMOs up to today and why there is so much doubt when SOE is involved.
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Lets hope hes learned his lesson.
SWG was not PVE oriented during pre-cu and cu. It became more pve oriented, but still was laregely pvp with the NGE/Trials of Obi Wan expansion that caused everyone to quit. After that if you looked in the right places you would find pvp, but the GCW was never the same after the NGE.
I concur.