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Didn't i tell you :D DOF released and soo unready!
scaramoosh
Member Posts: 3,424
in Everquest II
SOE have done it again and released another game/expansion that was too early in beta to be released!
Even Sporkfire said to me that SOE forced them to release CORECOMBAT a game they didn't have time to test and had to make it in 3 months for release!
Same thing happened to DOF for EQ2
CU for EQ2 also ruined balancing issues in the hame with Rangers not being able to stealth or solo anything anymore
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If true - and I don't mean that you're a lier by saying that - then it wouldn't surprise me if this is true. For years they done the same thing with expansions in the original EQ on top of not finishing up the patching of problems caused by previous expansion before releasing new ones.
From an outsider's point of view, at least, it looks like their business model relies more on the release of expansions than it dones on the monthly subscription.
/shrug
Still, it doesn't matter how terrible the product is. If a company keeps putting out broken products and people continue buying them then there's no reason for the company to put out better.
I don't know if the EQ2 expansion is as broken as you say, I'm just say'n...
~Mysk
Again... Your posts are utterly useless!!! The launch went smoothly, everything is working, everything is beautiful. I play a ranger, and I'm a soloing machine now. It's about how you play your char, because with the CU this game is 40X better, duels are alot of fun too.
STOP GETTING ME SO FRUSTRATED! Your posts are so un-informed and retarted. Show me some god damn proof of this early release... I was in beta and there are NOOOOO bugs. At all! Please dude, please please please, spare me and never post again!
Again... Your posts are utterly useless!!! The launch went smoothly, everything is working, everything is beautiful. I play a ranger, and I'm a soloing machine now. It's about how you play your char, because with the CU this game is 40X better, duels are alot of fun too.
STOP GETTING ME SO FRUSTRATED! Your posts are so un-informed and retarted. Show me some god damn proof of this early release... I was in beta and there are NOOOOO bugs. At all! Please dude, please please please, spare me and never post again!
You'll see
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Don't click here...no2
Again... Your posts are utterly useless!!! The launch went smoothly, everything is working, everything is beautiful. I play a ranger, and I'm a soloing machine now. It's about how you play your char, because with the CU this game is 40X better, duels are alot of fun too.
STOP GETTING ME SO FRUSTRATED! Your posts are so un-informed and retarted. Show me some god damn proof of this early release... I was in beta and there are NOOOOO bugs. At all! Please dude, please please please, spare me and never post again!
You'll see
Scaramoosh, you really are a twat, and if you don't play then just stop posting here.
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Scaramoosh
I like you as a person and all, but I think you're not playing the same game my friend. Actually..Ill go as far as to say you make half this stuff up
I just got done playing 3 hours of it and I find it nicely done. KUDOS to the Devs for balancing the classes.
I have a 30 Necro, a 50 Templar, and a 44 (or 43?) Wizard. So far Ive enoyed them all. The spells are adjusted so that every profession actually means something now.
BTW....Im still waiting for your pre-release Desert of Flames screenshots of your character that you say you had ...i mean you did play it and said it was all a mess way before it came out.......right?
If you dont like a game...that's cool. But just dont make stuff up to make other people think the expansion sucks; many people will call you out on it.
People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.
Actually, I LOVE the changes they have done with combat. there are some minor bugs here and there but nothing major so far.
I must say I'm a bit suprised...but happy none the less.
Don't mind Scar, he just likes to bitch in general.
Joined 2004 - I can't believe I've been a MMORPG.com member for 20 years! Get off my lawn!
The usuall stability problems on launch day. Seems like its solved now, and zoning seems faster then before launch. It also seems like they've managed to solve the QH dock lag problems.
As a troub I feel really loved by SOE today
So much that I'm already getting ready for a nerf 
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
I really enjoyed the expansion and upgrade. I especially like the voice emotes and how you can change how your guy sounds. You can choose like, sly, flirtatious, angry and stuff.
The combat is awsome. I like the fact that most of the spells i had like martial focus are now lasting until i decide to cancel it. That makes them way more usefull than lasting 30 seconds with a 1min recast like before.
The launch DIDN'T go smooth for me though Antonia bayle was down until about 11:30pm. I was patient and didn't complain though so time flew and I was able to get a taste in no time.
Well, I wish I was able to play to tell you my experiences with the update. All I have been able to do since the update was log in, see most of my high priced spell updates get replaced with app 1 substitutes, pets get nerfed hard, broker not working, and more. Then i tried to zone to another area and the real fun begins. Can't zone. I get stuck in zoneland every time. You exit the game, log back in, now your character can't be found on the server. If you wait a random amount of time, it might find em later, but still can't zone. It happens again. Finally Tuesday evening they closed about 6 servers, my server Antonia Bayle among them. I went to bed at 1 am central time to that scenario. I wake up this morning, whoo hoo there is a patch downloading. Servers are up. Log in, select my character...... not found on server. SOE forums are full of people that are extremely angry, CS says they are still sorting it out.
So it's obvious that depending on what server your on, you have a totally different experience. Along with Antonia Bayle, I remember Permafrost, and about 4-5 other servers all having same problem.
I am one of those people who don't have a stable of alts to play on other servers either. I have a main, a low level alt on same server, and 1 really low level alt on The Bazaar. The Bazaar server seemed fine, (go figure, it's one of the Exchange servers) but my toon there is level 6 on the Isle. It's there just so I can see how the world evolves in that Exchange society, not something I want to continually play. So I'm basically sitting on my hands for 2 days so far, with the choice of play or start a low level toon on a different server, or do stuff around the house. I was hoping to try and relearn how to play my main character, reset all the toolbars cuz all the spells are whack, maybe make a few copper selling spell upgrades, etc. but can't login.
All hail SOE???? puhleeeeeese........
Only two complaints so far: lots of missing items from my characters, and initially 4 missing characters that as of this morning is down to 1 missing character. And I'm on Neriak and Blackburrow.
Not commenting on combat arts/spells until I can actually explore them for something more than a first impression.
Don't like the fixed-value nature of armor now. I liked the range, it felt like you actually improved with an item as you became familiar with it -- more immersive, that game mechanic. Scratch that.
Love the new Persona page. Better -- but I still want to see ALL my skills, like originally. Who wants to play an RPG where you use skills that you can't even SEE?
I think they did a great job of launching the expansion. Prior to launch I was warning on the beta boards that the expansion would not be ready for release on the 13th. I can say now that I was wrong.
Just a quick little note to Anarchy Art: Thanks for reminding me why I turned off sigs before..... 3 banners???? Come on dude... pick one, or alternate, but 3???
>>turning sigs back off<<........ wait for it........... ok........ NOW!
What are you on dial up using a 486? Banners don't affect me at all lol and I like them. And 2 days sitting on your hands? The expansion has only been on for 24 hours at the time I'm typing this.
They are very distracting, 3 banners overshadows your couple lines of text, they detract from your valued words of wisdom......
And I'm counting days as, Monday I couldn't play, and today Tuesday as of almost 2 pm central time, still cant play.... so technically a day and a half, poke me with a dull blade for rounding up a bit....
And yes, I am on dialup (because nothing else is available)...... gonna flame me for that?
They are very distracting, 3 banners overshadows your couple lines of text, they detract from your valued words of wisdom......
And I'm counting days as, Monday I couldn't play, and today Tuesday as of almost 2 pm central time, still cant play.... so technically a day and a half, poke me with a dull blade for rounding up a bit....
And yes, I am on dialup (because nothing else is available)...... gonna flame me for that?
HEHE no
Sorry to hear you're on dialup. Lemme just say that if you're on broadband the banners have absolutely no effect on site performance and aren't distracting to me.
Well all the servers were up as of 11:30 last night when the final locked server AB was brought back. Everything seemed to be working fine. Plus I really love the changes to the login screen and the UI tweaks and some of the skills and spells have a new picture. Can't wait to see how combat is different now, kind of glad I re-rolled on Antonia Bayle so I can get a feel for everything from the ground up.
Hmm, I havent had any of these problems except for getting stuck in zoneland once. But im playing fine now
Well everyone who is on and playing, you are very lucky indeed. Count your blessings. Here's a link to EQ2 thread where 2 pages of people are still having problems, it was started at about 10:15 this morning.....
EQ2 Problems, still!
When I was able to play a bit this morning before the server went down again, it wasn't too bad. The spells that were once group buffs that turned into single target buffs, now last until cancelled, instead of on a timer. That's pretty much what I noticed once I went back thru my spellbook, found a bunch they added I didn't know I had, and there are a lot of trade offs. Lose some spells, but the ones you still have are more powerful, Can't buff stack on pets, but they seem to hold aggro better, nice since mages lost the parry ability. Once I get to play a little more, might get to like it. But the not being able to play part is the kicker.....
It is weird as someone else mentioned that things 7 levels below me that conned waaayyyy gray before are now green..... you get xp for em, so gotta killem again. And that brings back all those green aggro mobs I was finally past.......
The original poster is a moron or WOW/Guildwars fanboy just trying to dis the game. Sorry, you obviously arent playing the same game i am. Now there has been some issues, and some servers are still experiencing problems, but personally for me it has been extremely smooth so far.
The combat balance patch is good, they have injected a good healthy challenge into the game, thats good too. The game is much healthier now. If you cant solo or think your class is gimped the sad fact of the matter is you just suck at eq2.
A problem I see, which a saw comming from a mile away is that the majority of the poeple complaining about there classes simply have not sat down and carefully /respec'd or examined all thier spells. I personally spent about an hour just sitting down with my knowedge book and getting an understanding about what each and every spell did. I did this before i even touched the + ability button to respec. I played all yesturday and had no problems whatsoever. additionally I had the most fun I have ever had with this game.
I think it is funny how this works, never has a game released anything then the beta testers or testers think it is ready.
If they waited until everyone said it was ready it would never hit a live server.
Heck even WoW and there one patch every 3 months releases patches that break things, or need to be patch again to fix things, or just break the servers in general.