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Way too little players on, not playable anymore
I'm really trying to be objective here, cause I don't dislike eq at all, and I've had really fun times in EQ.
But honestly, there's way too little players on to keep supporting groups or just to meet new players. 10 people in pok and 10 in the guild hall at peak hours is just nothing anymore.The only grouping that's left is done within guilds. There are exceptions, I know, but they really are exceptions.
And this is for max level players, imagine what it must be for others.
The community that is left isn't "nice" or what you would excpect from an adult community, alive and fun to be around. They seem mad at the game or at life more.
It just struck me yesterday, it's been declining every month. But yesterday I saw just one newbee at the bank in pok LFG, lvl 60, it's hardly a newbee really. Only me and a cleric that didn't want to buff him where there. Seemed so stupid to believe he was actually going to get a group, I felt sorry for him really.
Maybe they should do away with the monthly fee, cause I don't want to keep paying for a game anymore so deserted.
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I really wanna start playing a MMORPG now that Ive gotten a lot less work and will have more time. I have been playing EQ since it came out, but stopped awhile ago. I love the game but I'm just worried that Ill pay for the expansion and I wont be able to find a group or guild with a level 65 druid on Bristlebane/ Solusek Ro server. I was considering WoW but I don't really know if its for me. I played a character up to 38 and wasn't that impressed with the actual game. If anyone has any suggestions please tell me.
Thanks,
Xiacb
Xiacb,
I hate to say it but you missed the EQ boat by about 5 years. This was a great game (prior to SoL), but it has been slowly but surely sinking. The game world is HUGE, but the player base is TINY. My suggestion would be to skip EQ and move on to another game.
I can understand your misgivings about WoW. It was and still is a great game, but something is lacking. I too am feeling a void in my MMORPG experience. I'm not sure what it is, so I went back to EQ for a time. However, I've found EQ to be completely different from days of old. And as they say, you can never go home again...
... unless SOE gets some smarts and opens a "classic" version of the game.
Well Wishes,
Honos
Past: EQ, EQ2, DAoC, SWG, WoW, LotR, VG, WAR, GW, GW2, Rift
Present: The Elder Scrolls Online
Future: Everquest Next
Moved to Quenyos after a while to grind on rats and check out Blackburrow. And to my astonishment saw another human. A naked male barbarian, he came up behind me while was beating down a rat. I was so excited to see someone I was unusually chatty.
"Hey man, how's it going?" .....no response.
"You know your the first person I've seen the whole time I've been playing this guy!".....silence...
"So you just ported over from Halas?" .....nothing...
"Have you been through the new newbie tutorial yet? I thought it was pretty well done." ....dead creepy silence.
Finally I gave up and went back to killing rats. He followed me a around for about ten minutes and then finally ran off. And that was the only human Grizlith met during his entire 14 levels. True story.
I don't want to write this, and you don't want to read it. But now it's too late for both of us.
EQ's time has come. I still think it is/was the greatest MMO of all time but after 8 years it's kind of hard to keep it fresh especially when 99% of the player base is max level.
A classic server of course would change all that but SOE has never listened to its players so I'm not holding my breath.
I agree with the poster before me. EQ was, at one point, the best game ever created. The feelings I can remember from when EQ was young are so strong that it makes me (and many others) somewhat crazy. Something about that game made a person very very happy (and addicted). I loved it, it was a drug yes, but I loved it and I would play it back how it used to be in heart beat.
Cough cough, classic server, cough cough. Seriously, what do they have to lose? They have to know that enough people would play a classic server to support their investment. Even if they lost some money, they have to know how many past eq addicts they'd be making happy by giving us what we want.
Edit: Oh yea... And the population now is so low it's depressing. I tried getting back into EQ around 4 months ago. God was I disappointed. I got not even a sdmige of joy from playing again BARRING ONLY the nostolgia happiness ( which was not even that great considering how much they have changed). It hurt though, to see all my favorite zones revamped (aka ruined), and sharing the zone with an average of 1/5 of a person at any given time (the person usally being top level). SOE has to feel bad about this... How can they not make a classic server
. It WOULD draw back old players (with such a damn small amount of advertising; just enough for the average guy to notice that EQ is making a classic server PRE luclin would draw back many). A large amount of people WOULD come back to the old game. I know this because I know how I feel about the old game, and about how many others on the net feel about the old game, and how many of my friends and old guildmates feel about old EQ, and this is not including the larger percentage of people who aren't actively pursing facts about EQ, but would still come back upon hearing that there would be a classic server.
The Old Timers Guild
Laid back, not so serious, no drama.
All about the fun!
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Didn't Everquest have recommended servers for new players? Have they got indicators of how full a server is?
But it is crazy the feeling of nostalgia you get when running through gfaydark or qeynos or killing orcs in crushbone.
Why'd you have to say that!!!! Now you make me miss it more
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Just the phrase "running through gfay" makes chills go up and down my spine... Me wanty a classic server
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My raiding friend logs in EQ once or twice a week, to raid.
He almost never group nor play another character anymore.
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
I got to agree, population (or lack of same) is depressing. On the other hand, the guild I'm in has 464 members. Even if every member has all their alts in the guild, that would be 58 real players. We don't have problems finding in guild groupage.
And last night, we actually grouped, over a period of time, 3 total strangers... so, it's bad, real bad, but not... vacant...
Maybe another server merge, would help?
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Hmm if this is really a problem do you think if every new toon was set to level 70, would that ruin the game? Hmm actually thinking about it there are other solutions to it if SoE cared about it.