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First of all, greetings from Greece, as its my first post here!
After many years playing single or action multiplayer games, I decided this year to start a MMORPG game, after saw all my friends did that!
So I order a DSL(I wait it in the following days) and I start the search for the most suitable for me
After hundreds of posts and news mainly on mmorpg.com but on other sites as well, I decided that the 2 better MMORPG were EQ2 and WoW(also Darkfall and Matrix Online, but not so good as the first 2). In contrary with most of my friends, I believe from what I read and saw, that EQ2 is better than WoW and so this post is about EQ2 mainly.
Also, before going to the questions, I want to see answers, not for the guys who hate the game or SoE but from the guys that they are excited for the game and wait to be released.
Anyway, here we go
1) In the game, you will fight only against Computer? I mean your enemies will be the AI or another players as well? If it will be only the AI, could we say, that EQ2 is a single RPG game in the terms of Morrowind or Gothic 2 with the differences that u play it online, u can team up with some friends of yours against AI Computer only and has new content every day?
2) I read that some of you say that EQ2 will not have PvP right from the start(which make sense for me) but will feature it after some months, in an update From what I read here and in the official forums, the designer, for my opinion state that they dont intend to put PvP in the future So if this is true what we will do(whoever buy it I mean) in 6 or 12 months, when many of us will be top level characters and will be many guilds or families .?I think its a wrong decision
3) And if we suppose that will not have PvP, why have we 2 cities which are the bad ones and the good ones? What the meaning for that? I understand(never experienced of course as as I said before, will be my first game, but from the experience of my friends) that PvP often kill the game or its a way for some ppl to cheat(but double characters and all that) but they could have a PvP possibility, by having Guild or City Wars
Then will be a meaning about good ppl and bad ppl...
Also, what then the meaning of Guilds and families
Lets say we have a family or a guild called woodcutters and they are famous in the game
It would be silly I think, to not have potential to attack them with my guild, and gain fame from that
Dont u agree?
I think, that it is a major subject that, and we have to discuss it if we can with the team, if we want to think the future I repeat I dont mean nothing for the start, I mean what we will do after the start After 6-12 months
4) Anybody knows when will the game be released? A magazine here, said that it will be available in September but in Internet I saw that will be available in November Anybody knows for sure?
5) How difficult is to finish the game by having a Warrior? I say that, as many of my friends who are playing mainly DAOC, said to me, that a good warrior, dont stand a chance against a not very good Necromancer or a Wizard Is this also in EQ2? I am not very fond of the magic story, and I prefer in the RPG I play, the brutal way, so for that I am asking that
6) Ok this will be silly, but if I ask my friends they will make fun of me so .what are the group buffs?
7) Many here say, that its bad that SoE is behind the game...What does that means? In what terms is bad?
Thats all
I am new player here, but I want to devote a lot of time to a MMORPG this year, so forgive me, if some of the questions are silly to most of you
Also, please in your answers(if there any:P) dont talk in general or in vain but be specific and state your opinion
Thanks a lot for your time,
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Desolation
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Thanks a lot for the answers
As for the answers, some more comments
For question 2, in your opionion, in these PvP servers, u could loggin with your character or u must create a new one to play there?
for question 3, u said " Also this is a way to determine some monster aggro"...U mistype or i didnt understand well?
for question 5, what i meant, was that if u can survive in the game, if u dont mess with the magic stories...I mean only by using your sword...Is that possibl in Eq2?
for question 6, i meant, that i dont know what the word buffs mean . Maybe because i havent any mmorpg experience before
Thanks again for your time
Ps
As for the SoE part, i asked that, as i saw in Kunou article, that the designers keep saying for many parts, that they will not have this or that right from the start, but they will add it later...How sure is that?
I mean from your experience from EQ 1 or anyone else here, how often do they release updates?New content?
Also, how many expansions we could wait in a year?(based in your Eq 1 experience i mean)
At launch PvE Only. But there is also a ton more things to do than just mow through 50 million mobs. Coupled with the fact that the mobs are smarter in this game than they have been in previous games and in most cases react more like a group of players or and actual group of mobs would than just a random collection of mobs which just act like 15 loners.
Quoted from my 5-part writeup, directly from a Dev's mouth: " What we've found is that the PvP players really care a lot about their PvP and they're really vocal. We don't want to disappoint so whatever plans we have we'll announce when they're finalized but as of right now at launch we are not doing any PvP. PvE only at launch. The problem with allowing even the consensual PvP; dueling and such, you set expectations for what you're going to do later with PvP. We actually have some very clear ideas about where we want to go with PvP and it's not like anything you've seen before, so when you hear about it you'll understand why." Personally I'm not big on PvP so this matters very little to me. But it also sounds like they have plans and will set those plans in motion and I'm sure they're aware of the fact that people who are hardcore PvPers are concerned about having to basically start over a couple months down the road.
All this is still concerning PvP which has been covered, moving on.
One of the Devs stopped by the chatroom for OGR's Friday Ravecast this past Friday and when asked about it he stated "November, and yes, you can definitely quote me on that." So, November.
Finish the game? You can finish a MMORPG? There's an ending? I was unaware of such. Though it sounds more like by "finish the game" you are referring to PvP again, which we've covered enough already. Moving on, again. If you just meant how feasible are they or group worthy then all the Archetypes are needed for groups. Groups base their needs off of the Archetype levels, not the class or subclass levels, so one fighter won't be very much more or less desireable than another, regardless of their subclass. And you'll always need one in a group, they're called meat-shields for a reason.
If you're asking what a group buff is, it's a buff that affects the whole group. If you're asking someone to list all the group buffs in the game you're not going to have such luck.
A lot of people are of the opinion that just because a company releases one bad game, or a couple bad games, that by default any game they release is going to be bad. While I agree SWG had many problems, it wasn't just SOE involved there, Lucas Arts does have their hand in that pie. Also, completely different Dev teams work on the different games. Of the 100+ people on the EQ2 Dev team, only 15 or 16 or so have been there from the start or came from other games. Personally I don't see it as an issue at all. I've played the game, I've seen how nice it is first hand.
Richard J. Cox
"There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
Congrats on choosing to play the right game first off. I highly recommend you read the Fan Site Event article part 1 -5 it is well written and will answer many of your questions.
Superb!
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Desolation
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Well it all comes down to a balance issue. As a Dev you have all these great ideas to put into your game, and other people are constantly suggesting great things to put in. If you sat there and put them all in BEFORE releasing the game, the game would never be released. At some point you have to start putting ideas on the back burner and let them simmer until after release. It doesn't mean you should have less faith in those features ever gettign into the game, it means you should have more faith in the game actually getting released.
Richard J. Cox
"There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
According to all the information provided to you, I hope we have enlightend you into the world of Norrath.
See you there, Cheers .
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Desolation
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Desolation
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Well, you are a member of Blood Clan...
Richard J. Cox
"There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
"Stare at the Sun im bored..."
Desolation
"Stare at the Sun im bored..."
Hello again,
Thank you all for the answers u provided me
I am covered now to everything i wanted so my next final question is simple...Do u know a link where i can preorder the game? I will do it from September, when i have my payment here in greece and i am thinking a collectors edition maybe(to start well)
Also, for the site owners, it seems that when using MyIe browser(what i use) and u open 2 different pages in this site, it make both of them the same....I didnt saw that in other sites...so i just mention it:)
Hope we will have more to talk here, as i plan to have this forum as my main Eq2 forum(not only) and after my dsl comes, to stay here for a long time
Thanks all again
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Desolation
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Actually it would be my Guild who is most lucky I did that interview/event.
Richard J. Cox
"There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
"Stare at the Sun im bored..."
Desolation
"Stare at the Sun im bored..."
MMORPG's I Have Played:
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FFXI - 56 Taru Warrior
Asheron's Call 2
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Saga of Ryzom
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Yes, never played a MMORPG till now as i said before....
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But i will learn quickly in...EQ2
Yea, you will find tons to do in EQ...you stay so busy with raids/ quests/ and just having fun with the endless amount of game content that PVP really isnt missed.. or needed.
MMORPG's I Have Played:
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Everquest - 61 Gnome Warrior
FFXI - 56 Taru Warrior
Asheron's Call 2
Lineage 2 - 38 Orc Monk
Saga of Ryzom
---------------------------Desolation Guild WebSite-----------------------------
System Specifications:
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AMD Phenom 2 x4 @ 4.0ghz
8 gigs of DDR3 Ram
2x HD4870 1 gig DDR5 Video Cards
Coolermaster Haf932 Full tower Case
2x 2 Tb Hard Drives
Dont let them lie to you.
Bottom line is no PvP is lame.
This game is a waste of talent as is now.
The bottom line is your a troll. Stop hating and find a board of game you like- if thats possible.
EQ2 Qeynos Guild- http://eq2imperium.proboards15.com
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Actually, I think if you check out Fileplanet, they are offering EQ + 2 Expansion Packs + 60 Day Play for $9.99 if you wanted to see what EQ was about.
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