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EverQuest: Progression Server Riches
Dana
Member Posts: 2,415
Laura Genender recently stepped into the world of EverQuest to try their progression server. We've hardly heard a word from her since! Nonetheless, she recently returned to pen this article on how she and her friends made a mint on the EQ Progression Server.
;) We have been invaded. Despite the efforts of honest players and developers alike, no fragile ozone can contain a virtual worlds economy against real world buyers and sellers. Trying to retake those virtual universes that have been permeated by corporate pests is near impossible. Trying to protect worlds of the future is proving more fruitless and futile than we could ever expect. Systems are easier to break than they are to build were always a step behind.
Even honest players who have never bought or sold are tainted by their brethren. All transactions are sullied, all markets flooded, all prices skewed. There is no escape from IGE and eBay. |
More is available here.
Dana Massey
Formerly of MMORPG.com
Currently Lead Designer for Bit Trap Studios
Comments
Thank you for the very entertaining read. I've never played EQ and have very little knowledge of the crafting gameplay but that didn't deter me from enjoying the article as a veteran EVE player.
Nothing can replace the awe and humility you get when you first start an MMOG, but sometimes starting fresh on a brand new server can have a unique experience all it's own. I wonder if EVE will ever bite the bullet and invest in a second shard...
Personally I hope CCP does not but it would be interesting to see what would happen.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
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Laura "Taera" Genender
Community Manager
MMORPG.com
The reason the progression server didn't realy have any IGE'ing yet was because it was very new, so there haden't been a time to actualy farm the money to sell
Selling basic items for more plat than ANYTHING eversold for while i was playing post planes of power is unbelievable, and after having the balls to comment on how all these other places have ruined game economies, it almost makes me sick to say im a gamer too.....how far we have fallen.
Great article!
And what bizarre coincidence that I bumped into you guys on Sleeper only hours after reading it!
Keep it up,
Coercium
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It's better be hated for who you are, than loved for who you aren't.
Loved the read, brought back many memorys and makes me want to play it one last time... But i think i'll resist that urge:)
As a person who plays crafter on every game, i have to say thats an awsome article
Thanks for takign the time out to write it
Karr1981
Hey Coercium! Thank you very much for your comment, and for your company last night. That was a great hunt - it's always awesome to meet good players in pickup group situations
See you in Norrath!
Laura "Taera" Genender
Community Manager
MMORPG.com
The progression server is a very different world that the normal EQ servers. Time and expansions make a huge difference in the availability of different types of gear, and prices are similiarly effected, in both directions. For example, while Banded costs you more on the progression server than on a regular server, you can pick up a Fleeting Quiver for about 2k less on the Sleeper than you can on a normal server.
If I overpriced, I would not have a customer base. I would rather make two sales at 200p than one sale at 300p. I hope this clears things up
Laura "Taera" Genender
Community Manager
MMORPG.com
Sounds like a great idea.
I sure hope this doesn't turn into one of those ideas that looks great on paper but horrible in application.
EQ was my very 1st online game. I was instantly hooked. I played up until I started Beta on EQ2. (hooked on that too) Never thinking I was going back to EQ ~ but, I did and still do maintain the all access pass, just in case I wanted to feel the zing of nostalgia. Well your artical has done just that. I do believe this is a good time to check out the progression server.
Oh and not only is EQ altered by the likes of IGE, so is EQ2 ~ They are the moffia of on line gaming §
Laura "Taera" Genender
Community Manager
MMORPG.com
....Then posts from morons like the one a few posts back makes me happy I left.. Someone once wrote, "the internet is like a microwave for character, it makes you braver and stupider.."
-Pea