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Everquest video documentary

ChieftanChieftan Member UncommonPosts: 1,188
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This is the first episode that covers the origins of Everquest and Verant Interactive.  Smedley and McQuad interviews included.

http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/481244/everquest-ii/videos/evercracked_prt_ep1_111209.html

 

Here's the one question I'd like to see asked:

"Whose idea was it to tune the classes to be too weak to solo?"

Talk about a pivotal decision. That's basically the difference between having 250k subscribers and 11 million...

 

Everquest was a huge leap past dice roleplaying and MUDs but as a pure videogame experience I thought it had some major shortcomings that made it alot less fun than it could have been.

 

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  • IhmoteppIhmotepp Member Posts: 14,495

    Gary Gygax wasn't the first to come up with the idea, but he made it popular.

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  • SamatmanSamatman Member UncommonPosts: 123

    "Whose idea was it to tune the classes to be too weak to solo?"

     

    That's a valid question, but as someone that played EQ from '99 to '04 and only returned to the game this year I can say:

    *Any class can solo now*.   It's not the forced group grind it used to be.  People are grouping now because it's more fun, not because they can't move forward solo.  It's a totally refreshing contrast to Warcraft where every solo encounter is trivial.  EQ retains the challenge and fun but has gotten rid of the stupidly excessive time sinks/downtime it used to have.

  • SoapysSoapys Member Posts: 33
    Originally posted by Samatman


    "Whose idea was it to tune the classes to be too weak to solo?"
     
    That's a valid question, but as someone that played EQ from '99 to '04 and only returned to the game this year I can say:
    *Any class can solo now*.   It's not the forced group grind it used to be.  People are grouping now because it's more fun, not because they can't move forward solo.  It's a totally refreshing contrast to Warcraft where every solo encounter is trivial.  EQ retains the challenge and fun but has gotten rid of the stupidly excessive time sinks/downtime it used to have.

    Yes, although soloing is still out of the question in the highest group zones though.

    It's a nice documentary btw.

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