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EverQuest II Makes Three Expansions Free to Play, Adding New Level Cap and Features for Free Players

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited July 2023 in News & Features Discussion

imageEverQuest II Makes Three Expansions Free to Play, Adding New Level Cap and Features for Free Players | MMORPG.com

Today, EverQuest II makes three more expansions free to play,raising the level cap and adding new classes and features for free players. 

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  • OG_SolareusOG_Solareus Member RarePosts: 1,041
    F2P or DIE !
  • richrem1richrem1 Member UncommonPosts: 198
    I gave EQ2 an honest try, with a mothly sub, and stopped playing after 2 weeks. With the shitty glitchy graphics, and terrible game play (not knowing what to do or where to go unless I looked it up in the wiki), I couldn't stick with it. It's strange they are doing so well to keep making expansions for it; yet they won't do a dam thing to make the game look and play better.
  • husscoolhusscool Member UncommonPosts: 85

    richrem1 said:

    I gave EQ2 an honest try, with a mothly sub, and stopped playing after 2 weeks. With the shitty glitchy graphics, and terrible game play (not knowing what to do or where to go unless I looked it up in the wiki), I couldn't stick with it. It's strange they are doing so well to keep making expansions for it; yet they won't do a dam thing to make the game look and play better.



    EQ2 was released in 2004!! You are playing a 20 year old MMO that has been updated and maintained for their playerbase. The graphics and gameplay are a product of its time. EQ2 is not trying to lure in a new generation of players or reinvent the MMO genre. It's already been done.

    When you play EQ2 you are playing to revisit an *ANCIENT* time in MMO gaming before every game became a WoW clone or as of late an action RPG/WoW clone hybrid.

    Believe me, the devs don't care about people who install it expecting a modern MMO.
    Sovrath
  • caalemcaalem Member UncommonPosts: 312
    Video games were significantly better when they were designed around the idea that the player should pay attention instead of having a GPS widget guide them to their next dopamine bump.
  • ValdemarJValdemarJ Member RarePosts: 1,419
    edited July 2023
    caalem said:
    Video games were significantly better when they were designed around the idea that the player should pay attention instead of having a GPS widget guide them to their next dopamine bump.
    lol funny comment because EQ2 has had the wisp trail, for well over a decade, guiding players to the quest objective before most anyone else even thought about it.
    Bring back the Naked Chicken Chalupa!
  • ShrekomancerShrekomancer Newbie CommonPosts: 5
    edited July 2023

    husscool said:



    richrem1 said:


    I gave EQ2 an honest try, with a mothly sub, and stopped playing after 2 weeks. With the shitty glitchy graphics, and terrible game play (not knowing what to do or where to go unless I looked it up in the wiki), I couldn't stick with it. It's strange they are doing so well to keep making expansions for it; yet they won't do a dam thing to make the game look and play better.






    EQ2 was released in 2004!! You are playing a 20 year old MMO that has been updated and maintained for their playerbase. The graphics and gameplay are a product of its time. EQ2 is not trying to lure in a new generation of players or reinvent the MMO genre. It's already been done.



    When you play EQ2 you are playing to revisit an *ANCIENT* time in MMO gaming before every game became a WoW clone or as of late an action RPG/WoW clone hybrid.



    Believe me, the devs don't care about people who install it expecting a modern MMO.



    Everquest 2 was well known to not look that visually appealing on an artistic level to many people back when it came out (Penny Arcade use to mock it all the time) due to the complex nature of the engine it was built on. It took multiple expansions for the game to start looking decent outside of its vanilla content. There's a good reason why it flopped hard and failed to succeed in those first few years. And I say this as someone who played the game from 2004-2014 right around the time Altar of Malice came out and had attempted many times in the mid 2000's to get people to play the game with the responses always being it looking drab, bland and ugly.

    Hate it or not, WoW has aged with grace due its unique stylization primarily because it wasn't striving to look cutting edge with top of the line hardware and focused entirely on its colorful worldly aesthetic.
  • richrem1richrem1 Member UncommonPosts: 198
    husscool said:

    EQ2 was released in 2004!! You are playing a 20 year old MMO that has been updated and maintained for their playerbase. The graphics and gameplay are a product of its time. EQ2 is not trying to lure in a new generation of players or reinvent the MMO genre. It's already been done.

    When you play EQ2 you are playing to revisit an *ANCIENT* time in MMO gaming before every game became a WoW clone or as of late an action RPG/WoW clone hybrid.

    Believe me, the devs don't care about people who install it expecting a modern MMO.

    I don't know how my post suggested that I was expecting a modern MMO. I knew it was a classic one. I put up with the drab; but I also mentioned it was glitchy. I also mentioned the game play sucked. Sure, a niche group enjoys the game, and all the power to them. It wasn't for me, and I sure wasn't expecting a "modern" MMO from it. I was expecting to have fun, and I wasn't.
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