On Thu, Sep 09/99, "Steven S. Klug" <sklug@...> wrote:

> From: "Steven S. Klug" <sklug@...>
>
> I guess I really don't understand this. Maybe I'm incorrect in assuming
> that the whole point of EverQuest is the experience of getting to level 50.
> There may be a few challenges left at level 50, but that's not really what
> the game is all about. Once you reach 50, I don't really see the point.
> You've won, essentially. You've become a demi-god, or whatever. If it was
> a single player game, it would be over. Why should Verant have to generate
> content for those that have maximized their characters, beyond the few
> really tough encounters that should be the ultimate victories for said
> characters? Once you've killed Nafagen, or Lady Vox, or other Uber-mob,
> shouldn't it be time to retire? Obviously this stance would cause the
> level 50 people to stop playing, and move on to other games, but I think
> that this is how it should be (unless they want to play as a different
> character).

Well, I guess as other games, like the Realm, and even UO were able to
keep people amused for years even after they had maxed out their
characters, most of us had an expectation that EQ would be the same.
Online games are _not_ single player games. If they expect to keep a
user base they have to provide something to do.

The VAST majority of players still haven't reached 50, and

> most aren't even close. Verant can't make the game revolve around
> powergamers, because they would never be able to keep up.

I think you are very wrong here. One the older servers, the vast
majority of players are well over L30 now, or at least on Tarrew Marr
where I play that is the case. And a large majority of the players on
the server under L30 are second characters.

> In fact, I'm for
> putting level 50 characters into forced retirement until the expansion
> pack. That way we could get rid of all this farming for guilds, and for
> other twinked characters. Plus we'd stop distracting the developers from
> fixing the real problems with the game. In my opinion, lack of things for
> level 50 players to do is not an important problem in the game.
>

If you think pushing L50's out of the game would stop farming for guilds
you are dreaming. It was happening long before there were any L50's on
our server. I think it started happening the first week they created
guilds at all.

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