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Would you come back to EQ2 if?
Jd1680a
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I know there are alot of problems SOE is doing to their games. We all know what they did with SWG and now they seem to have screwed up EQ2. Some of you might agree or disagree that SOE is doing a terrible job with its games. Personally I find there respect of its customers and its business model to be very poor.
Honestly the one man who I blame for all these problems is John Smedley. Mr Smedley is the man who is running all the online games that is under SOE, so its really his fault for SWG fisaco and with the poor performance with its other games. Definitely when SOE begins losing money because of its great loss of its player base of many of its games.
My question is this, if Sony Inc, were to release, as in fire John Smedley with many of other higher management of SOE. Would you consider of returning to EQ2?
Have played: CoH, DDO EQ2, FFXI, L2, HZ, SoR, and WW2 online
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In my opinion, simplifications like "Smed = The Evil" and "Tiggs = The Angel" are exaggerations and don't help much.
I just play the games I like and don't play those I don't like.
Well
SWG - LA is to blame tbh : One of the guys from there wanted change to SWG. LA are to blame just as much as SOE.
PS - Ruined by SOE wanting money from a rushed expansion.
EQ2 - launched as a disappointment, been getting better ever since but taking it's time tbh.
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I agree totally. I left SWG cause I didnt like it anymore, now I've come to EQII. I dont care if its SOE, I enjoy playing this game.
ordered EQ2 today.. will start with EQ2 and leave SW:G (honestly now.. this is by far the worst game ever after the NGE)
Retried EQ2 for the 4th time. It's interesting to play now because of the LU18 changes, especially the quest indicators. But man, this game kills my PC. I start lagging about 10 minutes into playing which suggests serious memory leaks. I cannot get into this anymore, I tried but it is so choppy. I have yet to hear anyone LFG in the nooby areas, not once and I just hit 9. Good night nurse, they need to start from scratch.
Well lvl 9 doesnt require grouping. So basing it off of the noob areas is a little foolish. Once u get to Antonica or the commonlands, people lfg becomes more common. Thats too bad about the lag tho. I know how annoying it is. But give Everquest 2 a chance until u get to lvl 20 atleast.
I played a Warden to Level 24 when the game first came out. Even in the noob areas there was some grouping, now it is deserted and I'm on AB. Give me a break, this game is dead.
Because you didnt see any LFG's, the game is dead....?
besides reason why i posted in another topic another thing that ruined eq2 for me was alot of there revamping.
i picked necro beacuse it was a massive dps class.....thats what the description said...thats what i wanted thats what i played. along comes the revamp....turns my dps machine into an area effect caster...NOT WHAT I STARTED....by this time i was lvl 48....KINDA PISSED ME AND ALOT OF OTHERS OFF.
Between that and very little high lvl content....well....sorry sony im headed to another game....PREFERABLY one not run by sony.
OH BTW......after i canceled my swg account i was charged another month by sony...they appoligized but offered me no refund....had to fight it through the bank. Just another in the long list of reasons i started to hate sony ( besides poor customer service )
THANK GOD RF ONLINE ISNT SONY
I would start playing EQ2 again on a regular basis if they completely optimized the engine, fixed the memmory leaks, got the bugs down to less than a few thousands, stoped messing with the classes, balanced pve and pvp, so we dont have classes that cant solo or pvp and other classes that can solo and others that are unbeatable in pvp.
I many many more armors and waepons, and not just a paintjob over old armors, i want the ability to sit on a chair, bench, or to sit down on the ground asd a normal person instead of kneeling down like someone from a Teletuby show.
I want real content and real raids, not the "new" raids that are nothing more than the old raid zones with new mobs. (pre DOF)
Thats bout it, i think its a pretty tall order and SOE will never get anywhere close to fixing the game of the problems i see in it, the NGE thats coming up in january will prolly screw the game up even more, but i guess ill wait and see.
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Because you didnt see any LFG's, the game is dead....?
Let me rephrase it...the population in this game is very small., maybe in the hgher end zones, but in the starting areas, there are very few people playing. Not really conducive to start anew, is it?
I dont want to start another population server debate on this thread.
Looking at the player search in the game doesnt seem to be very reliable on how many people are on the servers. You might want to go on the character creation, and look at the server popluation status before you chose the server. That window would will say either, very light, light, medium, heavy, or full. Looking at it on peak time on the weekends would probably would be the most accurate. i have seen what population looked like two months ago, all the servers on peak time on a tuesday, were medium, except for the exchange and RP servers. AB does have the highest population then any other server since the.
Have played: CoH, DDO EQ2, FFXI, L2, HZ, SoR, and WW2 online
"The man who exchanges Liberty for Iconic classes is a fool deserving of neither." - Me and Ben Franklin
Because you didnt see any LFG's, the game is dead....?
Let me rephrase it...the population in this game is very small., maybe in the hgher end zones, but in the starting areas, there are very few people playing. Not really conducive to start anew, is it?
let me refrase waht SLNTASN said.
Dude you must be really stupid if when you were in thundreing stepps and saw the usual 50-70 people on /who you thought the game was dead.......unless you are on the least popular server...there is allways groups, gotta use the level channels now because nobody uses the LFG tag realy.
you said you were on antonia bayle....that server is paked....you obviously are pulling things out of your ass because you hate soe for some stupid reason.
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Hmm I guess those groups I got into in "the Sprawl" zone, and the "Graveyard" was all my imagination...
No, it's obvious from the start that PvP will come into it at some point and SoE are bound to $%$£ that up. Dwindling populations would mean they make more of it soloable and screw anyone that wants a challenge (they changed crafting a few months after release to appease the alchemists), change to archetypes means they make everything generic and screw those that spent months getting adept 3's or masters I will never buy any game from SoE ever again even it were a very good game.
Instead of making wizzy graphics and effects why don't they optimise their engine so we can see them at respectable frame rate instead of that stop start animation or if you are going to use collision detection code don't make a half-assed attempt. Watching a character run is totally strange, looks..just..odd kind of like they are floating.
Crafting was the most anal thing in the game, do you still button mash in it?, what a weird system that was and made macroers job 100x times easier. Get your resources, clear your inventory, press a button, come back 3 hours later with a shedload of chemicals/food/whatever.
SOE is really trying to get their subscription numbers as high as WoW. Stupid at is sounds, but getting a million people is like shoot for the moon, if it does happen thats just great. SOE needs to learn how to be loyal to their customers they already have, but they dont. They are becoming increasely dangerous and will do anything to get to a million. Look at what they did with SWG, they blew off their current player base for customers they dont even have yet.
This is why they need to fire john smedley and a few top executives in SOE. They need to get someone who will be able to work with the community and still try to improve their game and help bring in players. This is the only way for me to come back to SOE. I dont like a company who doesnt provide good customer service and have a lack of customer loyality.
Have played: CoH, DDO EQ2, FFXI, L2, HZ, SoR, and WW2 online
Exactly, does anyone think SoE care if they look at WoW see it's successful, understand
why it is and alter EQ2 to be more like it? lvl 60 cap, PvP servers, more casual/soloable. All you end up doing is alienating the existing EQ2 players for the sake of attracting more. Managing all their online games and providing support at a respectable level must be difficult. There is much more to look after, something has to give. I think it is a little unfair to say SoE customer service is poor until you look at the whole picture. What affects one game has to impact others and I doubt their CS dept has grown that much in 5 years.
#1 reason for not going back, low pop servers->frustrating finding a group->SoE makes game more soloable->game is less challenging hence enjoyable->low pop servers...
Try turning the graphics down if your lagging. I run it with 1gb of ram and its fine.
Dont be quite so quick to blame problems on the software, and ask in the EQ2 fourms, someone will answer or one of the dev's will most likely answer.
You have to at least hit 20 before you trash the game I think. Once I hit 20 and started doing Stormhold runs its been a whole new game I cant stop playing its awsome. And being a Fury sure helps in finding groups. and I would recomend not getting into groups if your only lvl 9 its pointless its so fast to lvl at that point and Ive tried alot of classes to see what I liked and that includes Warrior, Priest , and mage and I never ever had a problem soloing.
I dont know why you thing EQ2 is deing, Lets face it Not every game is going to have the same amount of people WoW has infact unless Blizzard does another one I doubt you will see it again for along time.