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Please, ten minutes of silence for Earth and Beyond
Billius8
Member Posts: 574
The lights in that universe have gone out fo the last time. Earth and Beyond is no more. Glad I had a chance to play it for a couple of weeks.
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I was a closed beta tester way back when. Great game in its prime.
But, after a few months in retail the community numbers dropped below what I like to see.
I got it when it first came out, and I had a lot of fun doing the quests that the people kept giving me. But once those stopped short and they told me just to level up, I had no idea how I should go about doing that. I just started exploring and trying to level different things. I wouldn't call it a grind, but the traveling required was just really really long, and having to wait that long just turned me off from the game. That's why I'm sure the subscribers started dropping off so fast.
I did enjoy killing a comet with my roomate back in the day.
!<<ARMORcrafter>>!
!<<ARMORcrafter>>!
I played the game quite extensivly when it first came out, then they killed the crafter economy in one fell swoop...
They added a quest for a device in the game that would give you a 100% chance of crafting max-quality items of any level.(Zenshai devices) As soon as those things came out everyone in the game started demanding max-quality items for all their purchases.....It wouldn't have been so bad, I would have just gotten a device...But they took the quest out after the first 4-5 of the devices were obtained. It was also a huge 200+ hour campfest to get the componets for the quest then a 25% chance of a single device dropping.
So what you had was a game where 4-5 people per server haveing a permant monopoly on all worthwhile crafting with nobody else even able to sell for costs.
Really killed the fun for me.
I hate flat plane space games. For that alone the game sucks.
-eastside_!!!
-eastside_!!!
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33.333333333333336% of me is a huge nerd! How about you?
Killer 100%
Achiever 53%
Explorer 33%
Socializer 13%
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I only played the last open beta of E&B. Didn't really like just being a ship and only a guy while socializing in small starports. I wanted to be able to board other ships, blast my way down the cooridors to the bridge, take out the captain and salvage the vessel; land on alien planets and venture through lush otherworldly jungles, fighting off aggressive creatures; walking through a vast city, visiting bazaars and fights in the arena. Things like that.
Just roaming around in space doesn't do anything for me. Although along with the stuff above, it would be very cool.
Anyway, sounds like E&B had more problems than this anyway.
I think of it as good riddance. We don't have room in the MMORPG market for bad or mediocre games. If the not-so-good ones die out, that leaves more room for the good ones.
Eve Online = Overrated
I am having 10 mins of joy seeing the biggest massive multiplayer online story game go down finally! Some people loved it very dearly, but I hated it, after a weeks play I was so annoyed that I erased everything related to it off my machine.
yea EVE Online took its place quite quickly
*takes out his drums and starts pounding*
Sorry didnt know it was moment of silence.
I Played for 2 months after launch, and I enjoyed it, It just got tired of staring at that job terminal in the end.. quit just short of TL 45.
Think my TT got to L125 or there abouts.
I could craft any weapons and components (cept for L9's ofcourse) and ammo. and I for one atleast bougth alot of minerals to creat my most commonly used components. since there was like 8-10 others who already could craft L9 weapons I focused on a life as a travelling ammo dealer. large hold helped alot. Best moment was when 2 PW's took me out to powerlevel. Just serving as a ammo creator/storage. and giving them a shield fix if needed. made quite a few CL's. and in midst of all the combat spam I even got promoted to seargent in my Guild, Strength & Honour, lots of great people in there..
I pretty much refused to play eve-online because there were some idiots who were EVE addicts who came on to the E&B messageboards saying why EVE is better than E&B blah blah blah yadda and so on.
That didn't defenitly didn't help at all.
EnB was the first MMORPG I ever played in my life, when I first logged on it was amazing cant explain the feeling it gave me... Anyways while I didnt stay for long it still left a lasting impression on me and till this day is probably the main reason why I will never play EVE.... Allowing players to get out of there ships and interact is a must in a Space MMORPG.. Something a certain dev team Cough *EVE* should take notes from.
You will be missed EnB
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