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krulux
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I've been a lurker on this site and a many other for years. Rarely do I post, and even less as a fanatic. I've posted more in the past week or two than in the last 10 years combined. I wanted to take a few minutes of your time and share my thoughts and explain why you've been seeing more of my ramblings of late.
I read multiple EQN forums a day and there are many, many people excited for Everquest Next. Genuine excitement. All around the various game news outlets are excited postings and tweets galore. By far and way, the majority I read is positive and uplifting. However, the mmorpg community seems to have the highest concentration of critical EQN detractors. I would never move to dissuade a person from posting what or where they will, but I ask that you consider multiple sources during your search for everything EQN.
The SOE dev team for Everquest Next has said multiple times they did not want to take players from EQ or EQ2 and that is good. It's also male bovine excrement. I make this observation based on all the change they have laid on the table for EQN. Make no mistake they are making a new Everquest. They want all of us to play. All you have to do is let go, let go what was and grasp hold of what will be. I have no doubt the hardcore of the old EQ guard will play EQ until they shut the doors - for the rest us, the magic is already starting.
The magic of Everquest is a late evening sunset, a summer breeze with a touch of fall promised, a song carried ear to ear. Friend, the pull on your heart and the warm thoughts of days past is to be realized once again. I make no apology for my excitement for EQN. As I've said in many other posts, I've got a feeling about this one. I had this feeling when I played Asheron's Call and Everquest. The next time I had the feeling was in Star Wars Galaxies. I had hint of the feeling playing in early World of Warcraft. I have not felt it since. I've played several MMO's over the years - but I'd lost that feeling. You know what I speak of - if you played the early games... you know.
Finally, the old familiar feeling returned to me briefly the moment I saw the re-image of the famous EQ painting by Keith Parkinson. Not long after that I watched the "Tell us your EQ story" videos, low and behold, the old feeling was thick in my mind. Then again, I especially felt it when hearing the new score by Jeremy Soule. The day of the reveal I gave myself over to the old feeling. The wonders I saw, finally realized, a new Norrath! And I get to enjoy all the wonders again and get to play in a fully realized living and breathing Everquest. The old feeling is with this one. I feel it in my bones. This is the game that we've been waiting for. This is the one. As sure are the sun rises and the moon lights the night, this one will be my new home.
The game they are building for us will change MMO's for the better, but more importantly it will make the crucial gap between the old games and the new gamer. A mix of things past and breath of fresh air. They are giving us all the tools we will need to build "our" game. They will give it to us with Everquest Next. The old lore, the old tales. It matters not the graphics, the mechanics or the GUI used to control it. The real heart of Everquest Next will be the community that binds it. People want this. This is the perfect time for it.
There are literally millions of people out there looking to find the one game, the one to call home. We are the geeks. We are the true gamers, true role players. The fans. We are ready for the next generation MMO. It's you and I that will make Everquest "ours" - don't let all the other voices drown out the one calling you home.
If you feel the old call and long for the kinship and brotherhood of days past and tomorrows to come... join us won't you?
We are legion.
TLDR; Everquest Next will be huge. Not everyone is negative. Many of us looking forward to EQN. Join us. We are many.
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Anything wrong with that? I think it's a cool idea.
great post !
/cheers
over 20 years of mmorpg's and counting...
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At least it moves your mind to think of something.
I've never cared about the hate in other game forums, becuase I never cared about those games. But Everquest is not another game. It is Everquest. So it pains me when I see folks giving negative misinformation or just outright hate. I want to show that most of the things they complain about matter little to a fan like me...
I did not get excited for Guild Wars 2... or GW1 for that matter. I am cut from the old cloth - the new games have not had that something I need to have fun. That is community. I need a community for me to have fun. I like hangin out with my in-game friends and just doing whatever. We make our own game. My band of merry makers will blush saltiest wench, and save the blackest of hearts.
Everquest Next is the game for us.
"Youre in our world now!"
this is drivel.
I got a more precise TLDR for this: "Dont be discerning or have a critical aspect. Just accept any Everquest label on the package and dont mind the ingredients. Go mooooo and open your wallet."
Seriously.. why are you "legion" of frightening fanboys so scared of any post that brings up concerns or negative comparisons with games that have proven to be lesser, not worthy of the Everquest moniker?
Wrong, Everquest is not just the community. I know thats a lovely sentiment that makes your heart flutter with delight while roses burst forth from your morning dookie, but if that were true then EQ2 - that most hilarious embarrassment - would have been a success because it surely inherited that EQ "community".
The MMORPG gamer is a more refined, more experienced, more demanding consumer than ever before. And smart, discerning consumers are very very right to voice their concerns. We know the difference between crass loudmouths and those voicing legitimate concerns. Trying to stifle this with your platitudes is transparent.
Get over yourself. Talk about drivel.
Clearly my message was not meant for you.
"Youre in our world now!"
Playing: FFXIV, DnL, and World of Warships
Waiting on: Ashes of Creation
Whats wrong with it is that all those adoring fan posts didn't make gw2 suck any less. Which is also interesting because all my concerns about EQN revolve around it being too similar to gw2.
I've just the opposite experience DSWBeef. I've not gotten excited for a game in ages. A large part has to do with the terrible forum behavior that's become the norm over the years, particularly since WoW's launch. Sure we always had folks with little to no respect for others - but it seems to be norm now-a-days.
The last game I got really excited for was Star Wars Galaxies. And for me, it delivered. I was in a guild made up of real life friends and we always had a blast for 3.5/4 years. (I admit I got a little excited for SWTOR, as I'm a Star Wars child - but again - the forum hate and in-game hate was horrific and ended up solo'n to cap and canceling.)
When I hear EQN was being made, I really was hoping the fans would be behind it.. and there are a lot of us that are, I just wish more of the mmorpg user base was happy...
"Youre in our world now!"
@OP, well the one you say criticize EQN and are raising the voice now are the actual real EQ fans. Why? They want the game to be the best that's why they are loud and are pointing at the stupid mistakes the devs are making. Just cause they are the devs doesn't mean they are right always. Yeah the world looks great the building tool looks great, but other ideas don't sound that great.
The community you are talking about is being left behind since you're saying they don't want them to leave EQ EQ2 so they are trying to aproch other crowd which might not be the one you're pointing out in your thread.
Your thread sounds like it was done by the EQN and not by some random mmorpg member.
"mmorpg.com forum admins are all TROLLS and losers in real life"
My opinion
U mad bro?
Good SamuraiXIV, not all of us original EQ fans are upset at the devs for EQN and what you call stupid mistakes. Some of us see it as progress. Also, my experiences may have been different than that of other EQ players. I enjoyed the more social activities of EQ and SWG.. and I even enjoyed EQ2 a bit - but my guild went to WoW.. and I with them. EQN sounds like a social fans dream game. And it will be Everquest.... thank goodness.
I made a post on here a few days ago of several old forums from UO fans loving UO and hating on EQ as the cop-out as it was the new and unproven game. Seems like the same posts were made back them by the UO fans.. only difference they were at least more civil than today.
Point being, not all change is bad. Also, just because something is similar does not make it the same. TeamFortress 2 and Arma3 are both first person shooters with guns and multi-player maps - but they are far different in scope. As such, so may EQN be different from GW2.
p.s. edit - and thanks for thinking I'm on the EQN team.. lol that made my night!
"Youre in our world now!"
Been playing MMOs for a long time, and I like what I've seen and heard about EQnext. I hope Sony is able to deliver on the vision.
Looking forward to playing it, hopefully in 2014.
EA affiliated games were worst for that but not the only ones by any means. I don't think he is a paid forum troll just overly sentimental and hyped. Its hard for us oldsters, so jaded and worn, to remember what that's like.
If a dev ever came to this site and took any of the criticism seriously they're still too new at the job. This site is where mmo gamers go to die and bitch about games not being good enough to play anymore.
This site is the text book example of what a vocal minority sounds like.
I'm with you on the bandwagon $$.
But a little clarification, terrible forum behavior has always been the norm for Everquest, especially in Classic. It got so bad between the developers(o the Abashi hate :P) and the fans that they ended up blowing up their own forums and removing them entirely for a couple of years lol.
So no.. don't go blaming WoW for bad forum behavior. Its always been there.
I also tended to find the less you worried about getting to and participating in the highend, the happier you usually were.
I agree.
Maybe "EverQuest Next" will be successful in driving away the negativity trolls. I would gladly pay the price of cartoony graphics to achieve that goal!
Others just shoot the zombies which are chasing us. Whereas I try to talk to them.
If the brainless realized that it is dead, maybe, just maybe, it would lay itself down to rest...
I second your post OP! Actually I've been waiting on mmo 2.0 for some time like 10 years when the idea first came to me. MMO 2.0 is like Web 2.0, user generated content like Wikipedia, Youtube and Minecraft. The technology and ideas just weren't there but now it's a new dawn for gaming. I'm excited about the emergent ai, voxels and Landmark. If you are not excited then you lack imganigation because these tools and ideas are HUGE. SOE can do this, they made EQ the template for the themepark mmo and SWG the sandbox mmo.
I am Next. I'll be crafting away in Landmark to help build Norrath and leave my mark. I don't have any skills in graphic design but I'm willing to learn!
same w me
I'm excited for EQN but lets see some gameplay
EQ2 fan sites
A fantastic post that I'd be grateful to feel, but i just don't.
There have been to many flawed and generic MMO releases for me to hype up any game anymore.
Sadly, i now see pretty much all of them as relative trash until a successful month or two after release proves me otherwise.
EQN does seem to offer some things that are unheard of, but even with these additions in my mind all i see is the next upcoming grind, even with a lack of vertical progression the grind will always be there.
that feeling of adventure and immersion we had in our first mmos, maybe even the first few, will most likely never return, it would require an overhaul that is unimaginable in a single iteration.
Of course i hope for nothing more then that I'm wrong
But i doubt we'll see the next big thing here, that is what the genre has taught me many times by sheer disappointment. - In the end the game is in too early stages to judge, and perhaps we will see refreshing AI, and be immersed in a MMO like we once where.
That was a side point of my post Agoden, I've not been let down as I have not felt the excitement of hype as it were in a long time. None of the recent games even drew more than passing interest from me. I've played all of the more popular ones searching out that old feeling - but none lasted more then a few days/weeks at a time.
I realize I could be wrong, but I'd be foolish to not let the feeling of old move me.. to not get excited about a new Norrath and all the good times to be had. And trust me, I know the crushing negativity on the mmorpg forums is near legend but I still like to read about MMO's here... sort of like looking at a car wreck, knowing you don't want to see - but you look anyway.
"Youre in our world now!"