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What is it about?
Zzad
Member UncommonPosts: 1,401
I´m seeing all these threads about EQNext...
But i don´t find conclusive information about the game...
Is it a "classic" MMO with trinity....raids....gear grinding....daylies?
Is it more open? is it Sanboxish?
Is it just vaporwear? Hype?
What is it about?
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It's about adventure in the fantasy world of Norrath.
Beyond that, no information has been released.
"Id rather work on something with great potential than on fulfilling a promise of mediocrity."
- Raph Koster
Tried: AO,EQ,EQ2,DAoC,SWG,AA,SB,HZ,CoX,PS,GA,TR,IV,GnH,EVE, PP,DnL,WAR,MxO,SWG,FE,VG,AoC,DDO,LoTRO,Rift,TOR,Aion,Tera,TSW,GW2,DCUO,CO,STO
Favourites: AO,SWG,EVE,TR,LoTRO,TSW,EQ2, Firefall
Currently Playing: ESO
So is it pure (blind) hype?
No one knows anything about the game?
Is that?
o.O
Correct. There have been a few vague statements indicating that it's going to be some sort of sandbox. But that's it.
No screenshots, no gameplay info, no story, nothing. SOE announced 1 year ago that they would reveal the game at this year's SOE Live and they've stuck to that promise.
"Id rather work on something with great potential than on fulfilling a promise of mediocrity."
- Raph Koster
Tried: AO,EQ,EQ2,DAoC,SWG,AA,SB,HZ,CoX,PS,GA,TR,IV,GnH,EVE, PP,DnL,WAR,MxO,SWG,FE,VG,AoC,DDO,LoTRO,Rift,TOR,Aion,Tera,TSW,GW2,DCUO,CO,STO
Favourites: AO,SWG,EVE,TR,LoTRO,TSW,EQ2, Firefall
Currently Playing: ESO
I would appear that they have come up with a number of innovations no mmo has ever had, and they don't want Blizz and others to steal them for their mmos in development or expansions for current ones. It seems SOE are still a tad bitter over WoW stealing a lot of EQ2's thunder.
SOE want to make sure they are able to cement EQN's features as being from that game in the minds of the general mmo culture, so we get "EQN" clones and not "Titan" ones flooding the market in 5 yrs.
It's a pride thing
^^ This, and only this.
To the OP, everything else here is just speculation and hype. Please, don't believe the hype.
1. Largest sandbox ever made
2. Player emergent content
3. f2p
4. Best in show from TTH and MMORPG.COM, think 1 other did too, but not sure.
5. Aug. 2 they will reveal stuff at the fan faire.
6. Will make you poop yourself.
Facts about the game so far.
-It's going to have some sandbox features. (specifically, we don't know yet, but there will be User Generated Content)
-Largest Sandbox ever made* (Probably refers to the amount of land-mass players will be able to play on)
-There are going to be alternate ways to fully play the game outside of adventuring (IE crafting won't be a side thought, and maybe other types of non-adventuring play and will play just as big a part in the game as adventuring)
-It's going to be set in an EQ theme, but not in the same timeline/universe as original EQ and EQ2. It's going to be a "Reboot". Think like Tim Burton Batman VS the Dark Knight.
-It's going to have OWPVP (either in separate PVP areas, or possibly anywhere). If there is FFA OWPVP any time any place, there will be PVE and PVP servers to pick from.
-It's using the forgelight engine (Like Planetside 2).
-The graphics look good. (Zbrush screen shot even untextured is impressive)
-They're is going to be some way to change classes. Possibly a respec option, or a way to freely level up all classes in some way (like FFXI), or something similar.
-It's going to be F2P but not P2W.
-All the original EQ classes will be in the game.
-Release is going to be this year. Sometime between August 2nd and December 31st, 2013.
I'm sure there is more, but that's the bulk of the facts.
Legends of Kesmai, UO, EQ, AO, DAoC, AC, SB, RO, SWG, EVE, EQ2, CoH, GW, VG:SOH, WAR, Aion, DF, CO, MO, DN, Tera, SWTOR, RO2, DP, GW2, PS2, BnS, NW, FF:XIV, ESO, EQ:NL
It would appear Blizzard was lucky they didn't steal ideas from EQ2...
It is head and shoulders above all other games that were at the show or currently out.
It is sandbox or has strong sandbox elements.
It will be familiar in some ways to people that have played any Everquest games, but it is not a direct sequel in any way.
It will have deep factions built into the gameplay.
Nobody has played a game quite like this before now.
There is something called Spellweaving in EQ Next. It is supposed to be quite interesting
We (the players) will get our hands on the actual game (not just a beta) within this year.
There is multi-day event in Las Vegas where Sony EQ Next panels will be showing off all aspects of the game starting Aug 2nd.
Sony has managed to keep a tight lid on this so far which is impressive in our current climate of leaks happening all the time in companies.
This has managed to create quite alot of pre-event hype in the MMORPG community as it gets closer to the date.
People are projecting personal ideas (myself included) about what EQ Next will be like with what little facts people have managed to find on Dev twitter and things.
How sad is it that some mmo players think a classic is raids, gear grind and daylies
EQ2 and WoW were the first modern themeparks. Im guessing the similarities were a coincidence though, its feasible to think both games thought quest driven leveling was a good idea (and at the time, it was)
they probably think the classic trinity is tank/healer/dps too
speculation, not facts
havent seen anything concrete yet
They are being purposefully vague.
We also know StoryBricks is involved
Basically every area where the two games differed, Blizzard got it right and Sony got it horribly wrong.
Just thinking about those godawful loading screens and mariner's bells in Freeport makes me want to break things. And female guards turning bald when their helmets LODed out. How immersive!
How many times has SOE had to change EQ2 to make it more WoW-like?
And they've still got that hotbar UI that's so easy to break and really hard to fix if you're not an expert. (You know the deal where you accidentally drag one end during combat so that it has 1 icon below all the others and it completely blocks off all icons in the row below it?) And that chinese water torture they call a "mini game" for crafting? I could go on.
EQ2 does have it's niceties (awesome racial diversity, deity questing, good/evil grouping, legend & lore, epic chain quests) but they had to throw out a lot of garbage to get to this point.
EQ2 Heritage quests knocked the socks off Blizzards vanilla quests imo
I also liked EQ2s public dungeons -- something Blizzard still lacks to this day
EQ2 fan sites
We know, if it ain't GW2 then it just hasn't got that swing, do bap bah do, right?
I speculated on what some of my points may mean, but the basis of all of what I said is a fact.
Legends of Kesmai, UO, EQ, AO, DAoC, AC, SB, RO, SWG, EVE, EQ2, CoH, GW, VG:SOH, WAR, Aion, DF, CO, MO, DN, Tera, SWTOR, RO2, DP, GW2, PS2, BnS, NW, FF:XIV, ESO, EQ:NL
We also know it was in development way back in 2009 and over 2 years ago they changed it from being a theampark like the rest to something totally different . We also know it will be a good game as every mmo that SOE make has been very good and with lots of new stuff in them. Most important is that it is set in the EQ universe.
Apart from that we know very little about it so yeah most is hype.
Yeap, heritage quests are the best. Not only good lore but they tend to give you a great reason to tour all the level-appropriate dungeons.
Public dungeons have a certain appeal (who can ever forget their first trip to original Blackburrow?). If I am to be fair, in the era of questing 100% of the time, that over-con/exploiter racing through the dungeon ahead of my group vaporizing our quest mobs gets old in a hurry.
Not really. I play A LOT of games besides GW2 mate....
I´m interested in Everquest Next,i played Everquest 2 and looking forward to play EQN too,
i just didn´t understand the hype & amount of posts on the game with so little information about it.
I just wanted you all to expain me what is all this hype about. Is it that hard to believe?
Is it true they plan to launch this year?
regards!
90% of the threads here are created and maintained by a small handful of people that are a little too excited about the IP. With next to zero real information on EQN, it has become an exercise of digging up old quotes, scavenging Dave Georgeson's and Smedley's wildly interpreted and cryptic tweets, rose-colored nostalgia, hopes and dreams, personal agendas, then liberally shaken and poured into a very large Kool-Aid pitcher to be passed amongst them as a beverage. Once you know that, then the rest makes sense.
The rest of us try to maintain balance and keep a rational mindset over this pre-reveal Hypercane.
Myself, I'm a long-time player of EQ and EQ2 for over 12 years. I, like yourself, am interested in EQN but my expectations and hope are tempered by my experiences with Dave and Smed and the potential reality that implies for the finished product.
As mentioned, it all boils down to wait and see. 10 days left.
Smedley promised that "EQN will be playable at the next SOE Live" (which is on Aug 2nd). Some people are interpreting that as being ready for launch or ready for short beta then launch. In actuality, absolutely nothing has been said with regard to release date.
"Id rather work on something with great potential than on fulfilling a promise of mediocrity."
- Raph Koster
Tried: AO,EQ,EQ2,DAoC,SWG,AA,SB,HZ,CoX,PS,GA,TR,IV,GnH,EVE, PP,DnL,WAR,MxO,SWG,FE,VG,AoC,DDO,LoTRO,Rift,TOR,Aion,Tera,TSW,GW2,DCUO,CO,STO
Favourites: AO,SWG,EVE,TR,LoTRO,TSW,EQ2, Firefall
Currently Playing: ESO
MMORPG has a lots of sandbox fans and Evercrack addicts. Mix the two together and you get the perfect EQN hype machine...that will probably fall apart on August 2nd.