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Piff91
Member Posts: 12
in Everquest II
Sup guys I just downloaded EQ2 in hopes to find a decent MMO. I played wow for about 4 years and been on and off with MMOs since due to not being able to find a good solid one with a good community. I hear alot of good things about EQ2 so it came down to EQ2 and Vanguard. I went with EQ2 but i heard good things about vanguard, except that its dying out. I am willing to upgrade to silver, or even gold. but i am looking for a good guild to get me on my feet that i can chat with and have a good time. What are the benifits or cons of starting now?
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There is only one EQ2X Server, you get access to that with any level of membership.
Upgrading to Silver will not give you access to any new classes, or races.
You should have a look at the membership matrix, it has all the info you need in order to decide whether it's worth it or not:
http://everquest2.com/_themes/default/images/extended/membershipMatrix.jpg
If you go with EQ2 Live, instead of the F2P version, you can sub and get access to everything. That's what I do.
Yes there is, but it s the same, it doesn t effect gameplay at all.
The toys 'n junk have no impact on actual gameplay.
Not an item mall in the traditional Korean sense, but more like the WoW one.
Actually, mounts and the XP and AA pots do affect the gameplay. Not as much as in a F2P game but more than in Guildwars that is B2P.
And the Wow shop is like the EQ2 shop, not the other way around. EQ2 was the first P2P game that started with the shop, the Wow players were laughing and pointing fingers at the time and more than one person here said that Wow never would do the same.
The whole thing is very annoying actually, but if you want a game very close to EQ2 which is P2P and have no cash shop there is Vanguard, EQ2 is larger but they are very similar and about as good.
I played EQ2 for 5 years (with a 6 months break in between), I gave up finally after Sonys security failure this spring. It is not a bad game, but somewhat past it's prime now. I personally think the game toped just after EoF came out, with the patch that added estate.
OK, so there's some potions and mounts with a small effect on gameplay. But you can simply ignore the market and just play the game. (Not entirely ignore it I suppose, because SOE sticks it in your face every time you log in.) The only things I've ever gotten on the EQ2 Live market are the actual freebies that show up from time to time, like the Frostpaw kitten. Only thing bought on EQ2X was Silver upgrade.
I believe that a few things on the market would otherwise be handled as game website services: potions to change name or race or sex. Server transfer potions, too? I don't know, I don't pay much attention to it.
to clarify
paying monthly on EQ2X does give you almost everything, including all classes
- the only restriction is player races, restricted to 4 half elf, barbarian, erudite, human
there is no adventure gear on the EQ2X marketplace
there used to be - but it was removed in July and still missing 4+ months later
Live gives you all races and multimonth discounts
EQ2 fan sites
I've been playing the game since beta and lead an active semi-casual raiding guild. Aside from the occassional "fun outfit" no one buys anything on marketplace. Certainly nothing is required. XP potions aren't needed to level up in the game as it is fairly quick and easy. During "double xp" weekends, I know people that get new toons to level 90 and 300 AAs in like 24 hours.
So yeah, the item shop has no effect on live gameplay whatsoever.
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But WoW started with the trading card game, which got the vast majority of its sales by people hoping to hit the lottery and get the loot cards.
WoW was also the first to sell DRASTICALLY overpriced mounts. 25 bucks? really? And then lo and behold, a couple months later SoE started selling 25 dollar mounts. Since then theyve dropped the price on mounts, most are under 10 now with some at 15.
But dont go try and saying WoW copied its greed from SoE, both companies were plenty guilty in their own right. Also, based off NA/EU subs alone WoW has 25x the income of EQ2, yet over the course of 7 years EQ2 has added significantly more content.
Of higher quality as well.