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EQ2: all servers to go f2p 12/06/2011, livegamer gone
Nadia
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12/06 is also when the Age of Discovery expansion goes live
if you ever played EQ2, you will be considered a Silver member by default
Membership and Pricing Changes
There will no longer be an up-front fee for downloading and installing the game. You no longer have to buy the software in order to use it, and game content through the Sentinel’s Fate expansion will be available to all players without charge. You simply download, and then launch and play the game for free.
Last year, we created a successful, but separate, “free to play” service for EQII called “EverQuest II: Extended” (EQ2X). However, now that all servers are becoming free-to-play, we are combining both services together and EverQuest II (including the EQ2X servers) will operate as a single game with a single membership structure.
The new membership structure for EverQuest II is simpler and easier to understand than the one we used previously, and we’ve adjusted the model so that Gold members in EverQuest II will get everything that current EQII subscribers do currently.
Here are the differences between the new EverQuest II membership model and the prior EQ2X membership model:
Gold membership in EverQuest II will provide access to all races and classes (except the Freeblood race and the Beastlord class) and is identical in all ways to the current subscription status on EQII Live servers.
The free membership level will be called “Free” instead of “Bronze.”
Silver membership now costs 500 Station Cash instead of 1,000 Station Cash. (If you purchased a Silver membership in EverQuest II: Extended within the 60 days before the launch of this change, 500 Station Cash will be refunded to your Station Wallet.)
Players can no longer purchase a Platinum membership. Existing Platinum memberships will continue until they expire.
A matrix showing the details of the three new EverQuest II membership levels – Free, Silver, and Gold – is available here: (insert link)
FAQ
new member matrix
http://eq2.zam.com/wiki/Membership_Matrix_%28EQ2%29 (ZAM has matrix info too)
more clarifications
ZAM returning player "free to play" FAQ
Comments
I wonder if like, they put all this time and effort and work, into EQ2 Extended and they were like, o crap - NO ONE is playing past level 10, eeeewwwps. O CRAP Vanguard is going F2P, CoH went F2P and even WoW is free up to level 20. EQ1 is more lucrative anyway, lets just make EQ2 F2P like we should have in the first place - gg SOE (everytime, *sigh*)
I started playing again last week and rolled a toon in EQ2x. Now I'm in two minds as to either carry on with my newbies, or hang on for a bit (with Skyrim to (hopefully) entertain me) and return to AB.
Decisions, decisions.....
contrary to your opinion,
EQ2X server has a significant number of high level players
last summers world event, Wiz spire rebuidling
http://eq2wire.com/2011/07/23/freeport-eq2x-server-completes-spire-rebuilding-in-17-hours/
EQ2X was 1st server to finish this event - an event that required buying the latest expansion to participate
the event took place in zones that were level 85+
EQ2 fan sites
well, im glad im wrong then, I like the EQ franchise, i just loathe SOE. perhaps the problem was then it worked TO good, and to many people are on the F2P insead
If I can roll a dwarf paladin without any up-front fees, then count me in.
If not, then middle finger to you, SOE.
Everytime I have gone back to EQ2 there are always large numbers of players on. I don't understand were people get the idea thet either EQ2 or EQ2X doesn't have people playing at all levels.
""But Coyote, you could learn! You only prefer keyboard and mouse because that's all you've ever known!" You might say right before you hug a rainforest and walk in sandals to your drum circle where you're trying to raise group consciousness of ladybugs or whatever it is you dirty goddamn hippies do when you're not busy smoking pot and smelling bad."
Coyote's Howling: Death of the Computer
I guess soe gets the finger from you
one of the things I dont like about the conversion is the trial will be discontinued
- thats means players cannot try the nonfree classes without buying them first (or subbing)
EQ2 fan sites
Let me Play Frog Man Ranger or no deal. The current set up is your choice of three human races with different hairstyles and a few of the most lame classes.
Untrue, the classes they offer for free are all excellent, though the Warlock is the hardest out of the bunch to play well.
The offered races might be mainly humans, but each one is very different, with different lores, languages, racial traits, etc. And most people on Live even have one of those races and/or classes.
Good luck on dictating to SOE what deals they offer you as a free player.
Playing MUDs and MMOs since 1994.
the free class of Guardian is recognized as a great raid tank
Beserkers (and SKs) are recognized as the best self healing AE tanks
Wizards and Warlocks - nothing lame about these casting nukers
Brigands / Swashbucklers - never heard people calling these scouts lame
Inquisitors / Templars - all of EQ2's healers are well balanced, these are not inferior choices
EQ2 fan sites
Lore, you mean meaningless fluff, EQ2 insn't worth paying a montly fee just to get race selection, it hasn't been worth the money they were asking for in a long time. And the races you get LORE or not lol are just humans with different names and bonuses. Thats the same reason D@D online didn't do well lame human classes and some stupid golem critter.
This. I cant speak of the free servers but AB has always had a good population. I will say that it is a bit top heavy but any game this old is bound ot be so. F2P killed any desire I have to ever return to the game. Just to get in before the F2P fanbois, I will add, yes I know, for every one of us that never return, there will be 100's who create an account.
Really? This game sucks and Im not having fun? Im going to unsub right now. Thanks for the tip.
Anytime someone post a statement like this the child like wonder of the world dies ever so slightly.
""But Coyote, you could learn! You only prefer keyboard and mouse because that's all you've ever known!" You might say right before you hug a rainforest and walk in sandals to your drum circle where you're trying to raise group consciousness of ladybugs or whatever it is you dirty goddamn hippies do when you're not busy smoking pot and smelling bad."
Coyote's Howling: Death of the Computer
Short Human
Tall Human
Fat Human
Alcholic Human
Human with pointy ears
Dead Human
I still like my freeblood though.
She's hot.
updated my first post with this link
more clarifications on the merger
http://eq2wire.com/2011/11/19/eq2-free-to-play-a-few-details-and-clarifications/
EQ2 fan sites
thanks for the link
Epic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
ZAM returning player guide
http://eq2.zam.com/story.html?story=28427
EQ2 fan sites
Perhaps I remember wrong.
But there is an gold limit, something like max 1 plat fro the free to play players.
If I would cancel my subscription and then log in, will I have lost the amount of goold above 1 platinum?
I'm so broke. I can't even pay attention.
"You have the right not to be killed"
there is a plat limit for silver members, 50g per level, max of 18plat at 90
if you exceed that limit because you used to be a subscriber, you dont lose any gold
but you wont be able to carry any gold beyond what you already have
EQ2 fan sites
more clarifications
if you have no sub and are wearing legendary/fabled gear (as a returning player)
your gear will pop off as soon as you log into your character
you will need to either find different gear or buy a set of unlockers (5 for 1.50) so you can wear fabled/legendary
EQ2 level cap is 90
all returning players w no sub will be treated as silver members
you will have access to most quest content allowing you reach level 90 (except DOV and AOD)
DOV did not raise the level cap, but its where all the high end gaming is happening
DOV is also the only way to quest for a flying mount at level 86+
you cannot quest in DOV unless you are 86+ and the expansion offers nothing to players under 85
AOD is not adding any adventure content, but if you want to play a beastlord, will need to buy it
AOD info
http://eq2wire.com/2011/09/23/everquest-ii-age-of-discovery-2-months-to-go/
lastly, if you do sub, you also earn 5.00 SC credit each month
EQ2 fan sites
FUARRRKKKKKK. I might just re-install to play BL.
beastlord info
http://eq2.zam.com/wiki/Beastlords_%28EQ2%29
warders they can tame
http://eq2wire.com/beastlord-warders/
EQ2 fan sites
servers are not available yet but EQ2 forums are up
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/forums/list.m?category_id=1
EQ2 fan sites
11.12.06
server merges
# Blackburrow merged into Everfrost ----- Completed Dec 8, 2010
# Najena merged into Unrest --------------- Completed Dec 14, 2010
# Kithicor merged into Butcherblock ------- Completed Dec 16, 2010
# Mistmoore merged into Permafrost ----- Completed Dec 16, 2010
# Befallen merged into Oasis --------------- Completed Dec 20, 2010
# Nektulos merged into Guk ---------------- Completed Dec 20, 2010
# Nexus merged into Barren Sky (RU) ----- Completed Jan 25, 2011
# Runnyeye merged into Splitpaw (UK) --- Completed Feb 4, 2011
# Innovation merged into Valor (German) - Completed Feb 8, 2011
# Lucan D'Lere merged into Crushbone ---- Completed Feb 16, 2011
Well I wanted to log in until I read this. What about if your character already has expert/master level skills?