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No release date? Not even a hint? We seriously that far away?
hMJem
Member Posts: 465
Are we supposed to play Everquest Next: Landmark for six months? I'm very confused.
They didn't even say 2014.. Not even a Spring 2014 hint.. Nothing.. For their big reveal?
It's a shame because I liked a lot of what they showed, but it left me 
not even a sign of release date. We kept being told "The game is so much farther along than you know"
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Well, he did say we'd "get our hands on it this year".
It's just that most of us didn't realize that meant we'd be developing it.
Landmark releases later this year. I'm guessing the first half of 2014 will be (in part) focusing on this while the second half focusing on a scheduled closed alpha/beta. My guess would be the game will be releasing late 2014/early 2015... 2013 is not an option and early 2014 seems highly unlikely.
My guess is they want the players to create the content so they can work on other stuff. Launch Landmark, hopefully getting players excited, and then get free work/ideas for EQN.
Launch sounds really far off by the way they were talking about EQN Landmark. My guess is 2015.
No, he said their website would show their development plans for the next six months at a time.
The game is a LONG ways off.
And they're hoping players will build the world for them. Maybe they should have players recreate the art design for them too.. and recreate the combat mechanics, which looked atrocious.
Major letdown.
Landmark will be release in the winter , so one would guess the main game will release within a year?
i hope SOE won't rush it, like they did to pretty much every god damn game released.
Did SOE not learn ANYTHING From EQ2 going up against WoW?
Blizzard JUST announced they were going back to the "drawing board" for Titan and redesigning things.
Now Blizzard has AMPLE time to take the idea's of EQnext and put them into Titan and go up against them with some of the core features EQnext put forward (Destruction, AI, etc).
You would have thought Soe would understand the need to protect their idea's and not allow anyone to take them and make a game that might make it to market before, or near the release of EQnext.
Aye this game is still a year away from release maybe even longer.
I was Expecting to see a beta launch before oct this yr and game launch no later then end of Nov this yr. They are very much missing out a gigantic marketing opportunity that exists right now in the gaming industry. Millions of drooling players all waiting for the next huge game to be released so they can sink thier teeth into it. Waiting this long to release will kill at least half of this games potential . Other games filling this gaming void will do very well and have LOYAL players who wont just jump at every game release.
Cant say i am surprised at todays information thou, it is SOE we are talking about!
You must be new to the MMO genre, welcome.
It might also be a sneaky way to find people good on creating content so you could hire in a few of the most competent ones...
It seems like the game is around 1 1/2 years from release though. Much more than so and I think they still would keep the lid on to not hurt EQ2s playerbase (many people will wait for the next instead of playing the old game when they hear stuff like this about the sequel) and I doubt they actually could release more than Landmark this year at least. 1 1/2 year is just the right time to build the hype without everyone forgetting about the game again.
So my guess is winter 2014-2015. But of course it is just a wild guess.
Random Forum Poster: I want an MMO that is different, original and fun.
Me: So you want something like EQN
Them: Nah dude, I want a Holy Trinity, Tab Target combat, Instanced Raiding, and Rigid classes.
Me: Double Facepalm.
If Blizzard is redesigning that means they do not have time. They would spend 3 years minimum in their think tank to conjure up anything better. With EQN Landmark they will have an even better head start on content.
Maybe the initial build won’t have it, but eventually (with future builds) I could see them integrating a character creator module.
I'm guessing it will actually. Since it sounds like EQ Landmark isn't just you in first person doing nothing but placing blocks to build stuff and that's it. There's some resource gathering and crafting involved in there too. Maybe not a sprawling full fledged MMO but it sounds like they want it to be at least something of a game standalone.
I think taking advantage of what other games and genres have learned, that player made content can be great, is a good step. Player mods and created content in other games has for many years far surpassed released content and kept games going. However, for an MMO it will be interesting to see how they filter it.
I also agree, based on what they appear to want landmark to do, what we see, and the items they claim are not final, doubt this game will launch before 2015.
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