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EverQuest: Ragefire Progression Server Reopens
SBFord
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Daybreak Game Company has announced that the Everquest progression server, Ragefire, has reopened. The server will run alongside current servers, but players will be able to experience the game as it was at launch in 1999 and as expansions launched over the years.
Q: Which versions of zones will be on the server?
Like the previous two Progression Servers, zones that were graphically revamped (Freeport, Commonlands, Nektulos, Lavastorm, Ro) will be in their revamped form. Our Progression servers have to co-exist with live servers, so we need to have the same geometry running on all of them. In cases where the geometry was the same but population changed, we will use the original populations where possible:Zones that are set up in this manner will transition to their current datasets in roughly the same timeframe as they originally changed.
Splitpaw - Will begin in its first revamped form (with the Ishva Mal).
Cazic-Thule - Will begin in the form after Rubicite was removed.
The Hole - Will begin in its first form (with Master Yael).
Plane of Hate - Will be in the current layout, but with population much like the original zone after the first loot revamp.
Plane of Fear - Will have population the same as the first loot revamp.
Droga/Nurga - Original population.
Firiona Vie - Original population.
Veeshan's Peak - Original population, but no death restrictions.
Plane of Mischief - Original population. The "easy" entrance will not be active until it changes to the current version.
Grimling Forest - Original population.
The team has a great Q&A for players interested in Ragefire on the EverQuest forum.
Comments
They needed two simultaneous progression server launches, and they knew it from the last round of progression servers. They opted instead to take everyone's money and not open a second - meaning there are going to be queues until people quit, but they got their quarterly earnings report up, and that's what matters, right?
They claimed it would be a server with features voted on by the community, but the features the community wanted to vote on were decided upon for us.
if you want classic everquest, go to emu.
Playing: Secret World: Legends
Waiting for: Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen
I wanted to play P1999 but since the disks are too expensive and I'm not going anywhere near the dodgy dl sites to get mine I'm stuck with Daybreaks version, I eventually got onto the server after many hrs of trying, I really hope this is not going to be a daily routine.
Haven't been able to clock any time on Ragefire since it was supposed to launch 2 days ago.
If these people can't even handle the opening of a single server for a game that's 15 years old... how the heck are these people going to handle the release of Everquest Next?
This is appalling.
No one's saying that - I'm pretty sure I can speak for everyone who's trying to play that a taste of nostalgia is what we're looking for.
What I'm saying is that this is, arguably, Daybreak Games first "release"... and it's a single server for a game that's 15 years old. And they've screwed it up beyond all measure.
How in the royal hellfudge are these people going to launch an actual MMO that's supposed to revolutionize the genre in a year or two... when they can't even do this right?
Easy it wont be anything like they promised and when servers have the stability of a drunk man trying to stay upright on an icy surface they will just say this is normal launch issues. Also it wont launch in a year or two unless they rush it out the door to make money before word of mouth can spread about how horrible it is
It's not Daybreak that wanted the Progression server, it was the constant threads asking "When is there going to be another new Progression server?" multiplied by a thousand.
Progression servers are good money-spinners, they are mega popular to start off and then slowly dwindle down to the hardcore Progression guilds racing to be "First" again on the server with new content release boss kills.
The 2007 version is free from virus or bugs on the DL site, but if Daybreak was smart they would start selling Digital copies of Titanium for $10.00 I would have bought from them had I had the choice.