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Smedley: "EverQuest Next will be the world's largest sandbox-style MMO ever made"
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Despite the understandable skepticism towards SOE, I am awed and wowed. I would assume Smed would by now not say such a thing, if it were entirely untrue. How much of a sandbox it is remains to be seen. I hope it is a healthy mix of the best of things. A pure sandbox a la Ultima would in our days not really work IMO. But many strong sandbox elements would be cool to see, and I especially miss the world of Everquest.
EQ2 and SWG were the two MMOs I spent the longest time in, by far, and Planetside II seems to be quite good for people who like that sort of MMOs, too. So I make a small leap of faith and for now give them the benefit of doubt.
If that even halfway plays out well, hats off.
People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert
It was just EQ, a MMO prototype.
The original EQ was as far as possible from a Themepark, it didn't have a single feature which could associate it with a Themepark.
The gameplay was player focused like in Sandboxes, but it didn't have any Sanbox feature either.
But it felt like a Sandbox because of its freedom and because it was community driven.
I actually believe they will deliver and I will be satisfied. I believe this because now in the 13+ years I have been playing MMO's (from age 9) EQ has been the best MMO I have played to date. It is the only one I played for many years... it is the only one I still have an account (of course it went F2P so makes it easier to keep the accounts but prior to F2P I still had active accounts.
The only game I have really enjoyed since EQ was DF and I did not enjoy it nearly as much as EQ... hopefully DFUW will be good enough to last me until EQ Next.
ALL ELEMENTS OF THEMEPARKS
games like uo and eve are as far as you can get from a themepark, not EQ lol.
I don't mean themepark as an insult though. I love daoc and that's a themepark.
The mmos I don't like are endgame lobby games like wow and swtor. I hate instancing.
I thought that too until I learned the decision was 100% SoE. See archived SOE Dev blog at link:
http://www.mmofringe.com/forum/15-Star-Wars-Galaxies/14-OM-NOM-NOM
Luckily, i don't need you to like me to enjoy video games. -nariusseldon.
In F2P I think it's more a case of the game's trying to play the player's. -laserit
You da Man!
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
EverQuest 1 wasn't quest based, so why shouldn't the call it EverQuest?
The difference was, quests in EverQuest were ACTUALLY quests. Few, but heavily lore based and important/challenging.
Not the annoying and obvious busy work we have in modern questing systems where you literally cannot progress without questing.
NOpe.
No no no no no. No. Nope.
Man, even the fanboys never tried to claim that one.
Their quests were rewarding for the challenge. They don't give you freebies for picking up 5 items on the ground or killing 8 mobs.
I won't even touch it if there won't be some separate sub only servers wihout any kind of microtransactions shit or currency selling. Since SOE made a shift to100% freemium I doubt they will and so that's what I will (or not) blame it on
Yes, I am afraid they did.
This isn't highlander mate, there can be more than one.
Well, considering many of the responses about this announcement, they act as if this is the only AAA sandbox even coming down the pike. That's why I question sandboxers who always act like they are never represented in the genre.
There's Archeage as well as the new and improving Darkfall and the potential of Citadel of Sorcery and now EverQuest Next, all of which are claiming to be sandbox games.
So, three unreleased games and one Indy effort of which the previous version was filled will bugs and cheats (hopefully the new version will be better). I guess we should be grateful.
People need to understand this, games are created by the people who drive the concept and the programers. Thats it art is just that what you see eye candy is nice but a picture is not a game.
For too long bad programming has got in the way.. ANETs programers are seriously crazy good, from the launcher to gvame systems, they are crazy good. The vision.. half baked, the combat is amazing, the lack of item progression and support roles (there is no suppost in the game despite what anet claims) is awful thats a failure of the visionaries. Which is sad because had they made the game a bit harder inclucde real support in the game, and item progression the game would be amazing.
This being said im so ready for a andbox or at least a camp based exp system like daoc , eq of old.
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Well, hate to break it to ya, but you are a niche within the genre, no matter how much your group believes otherwise.
This is Smedley talking......
So I will chalk this one up to "we will wait and see"
I have played MMO's for over a decade now and 1 thing has stayed constant ....SOE ALWAYS lets me down.
Matrix online? let down
SWG? let down
EQ? let down
EQ2? let down
Vangaurd? huge let down
DCOU? let down
Playing: PO, EVE
Waiting for: WoD
Favourite MMOs: VG, EVE, FE and DDO
Any person who expresses rage and loathing for an MMO is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Well Darkfall is also kinda indie. Borderline, but still. Also DFO 1 was in big way huge deatchmatch with other things not so developed so it was niche in a niche. Other than that let's not praise day before sunset imho.
I don't see where he claimed otherwise?
Rejoicement over a noncommital ambiguous marketing statement?
Don't blame the industry for hype, just look in the mirror.
'Sandbox MMO' is a PTSD trigger word for anyone who has the experience to know that anonymous players invariably use a 'sandbox' in the same manner a housecat does.
When your head is stuck in the sand, your ass becomes the only recognizable part of you.
No game is more fun than the one you can't play, and no game is more boring than one which you've become familiar.
How to become a millionaire:
Start with a billion dollars and make an MMO.
Darkfall is sandbox and has amazing PVE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2DP-SqsB4I
And FFXI easily has the best storytelling and PVE in the genre.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one.
We will always remember your sacrifice, Louisoux!
Seems you have ridiculous expectations because EQ and SWG are and were amongst the best MMO's ever made. It is a shame a game as terrible as SWTOR forced them to shut SWG down.