I think I have to agree with you here. I have played Gemstone III online
since October of '92 and still love the game but find EQ mostly boring after
only a couple of months.
My background is table top RPGs so I guess I really miss the roleplaying in
EQ. It seems to be a fine game for the Doom/Heretic type of person who
loves to just go kill things and gain material wealth. To me a longterm
game is much more than that. It is the relationships you build up among
your friends and the other things that make a game more like a real world
than an arcade.
I am really waiting for Hero's Journey myself to see what Simu can do with a
graphical game rather than just a text-based one like GSIII. They are
already addressing the problems that EQ has an seem to have them solved. I
do know that twinking will not be allowed to the degree that EQ has it.
Nothing really erks me more than seeing someone in full bronze or better in
a newbie area running around killing everything in sight and leaving it lay.
I have had kills stolen from young ones and when I say something to them it
is always so-and-so challenges you to a duel. Some fair fight that would be
for sure. My character in no armor with a rusty weapon against someone in
bronze armor with a combine or better weapon. Yeah right!!
Oh well, just my view point on EQ and why I do not spend much time there at
all.
Yilari, 9th circle cleric of Tunare, Erollisi Marr
> From: "John Erik Maynus" <jmaynus@...>
>
> I've been reading on the EQ newsgroup that a good bit of ppl think EQ is
> already starting to die. Many are just bored of the game and are quiting
or
> getting ready to, others are getting tired of Verant changing everything
and
> some of it is for the worse. I've read where they are saying it's too
late
> to save EQ, some even say even the new addon will not save it cause it'll
> still be the same game with just some new things. And yeah it might spice
> it up a bit, but for how long, I give it 3-4 months tops. After 3-4
months
> the power gamers will already have the extra lvls, everyone should have
been
> in all the new zones, had a chance to play the new lizardman race. So
once
> that happens it's gonna be right back to where it is now.
> Some are waiting for Asheron's Call and others are waiting for
Middle-Earth
> to be released. Will AC or ME finish off EQ? I guess time will tell but
> since theres like 3-4 other RPGs coming out by the year 2000 I say one of
> them will put an end to EQ. And if EQ does die to fast it's no ones fault
> but Verants for not listening to the paying customers, they listen to a
few
> but not the whole.
> Even tho EQ is a very good game it can't or won't be around forever.
>
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> Azor
> Lvl 18 Human Cleric of the Rathe
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