Going by that estimated EQ Next release statement, the next WoW expansion will have been out months before EQ Next even launches. At this point I'm not buying it for a second. I get that Blizzard loves to cater to 15 year old twitch streamers, but we're at a point now where it's time to move on. The MMO stagnation is at its end.
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Is she even in the black box? What makes her more credible of a source than the president of SoE? Does she even lift?
Bro there is another tweet from her with same question and she says you know Smed then says haha to EQNext being playable not a demo next year.
Then she says in same tweet that could be many things or some shit like that.
Even if they launched in like April 2014 just cant see that early that would be like between 3-4 years max time to get to launch, but bare in mind the 1st year and some it was very small team, and the team with Smed basically scraped the shit like 2-3 times which is more lost time.
To test this shit beyond the Pre Alpha, tech alpha,alpha then closed betas 1-4 or 1-5 then you would need the stress tests as well as the final open beta pre launch.
So even for April 2014 that would be under 3-4 years max development for a project this massive as SOE really wants a True AA MMO again they would be stupid to launch 6-12 monthes before the game was ready and fully polished.
Let me be more Direct I am dying to play this like the rest of you.
We see Friday I would love to be wrong, however if they do announce a date Friday and its way sooner then Nov,Dec 2014 I would be very worried they are yet again rushing another MMO launch.
Everquest Next if done right will be there Flagship MMO they SOE wants a cash cow badly.
I know. That tweet I linked immediately followed the one you are talking about.
Smed never stated it would be released this year but that a playable demo would be available at this years fan faire. He stated this on a panel last year.
http://www.mmorpg.com/newsroom.cfm/read/25849smed_sl said:
Tidbit brother, you can't pass a random tweet off as evidence when all other signs point to something otherwise. Stay positive
I agree. It would be pretty dumb of SOE to keep EQN in a black box this long, and then make us wait over a year to play it.
It will probably be a starting area or something. Probably just to show the engine and how it works which is fine by me.
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Same. I wanted to skip Kepler GPUs anyway, and if true, this will give me an excuse to wait until 2014 to upgrade to a beefy gtx 800 from my 580.
A 'demo' would probably tide me over for a while.
As little as I've followed this after the massive fail that EQ2 was, if they announced that it would be release this year, I wouldn't even bother reading further into the game let alone waste my time with the open beta. SOE hasn't put out a quality MMO in a long time, and if they don't bother getting feedback from beta testers to fix things before release; I could care less about SOE's creativity at this point. Having played EQ, EQOA, EQ2 to max lvl for several years each, they've only gone backwards.
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Willing to clutch? There are not a lot of studios (some might argue none) that have delivered on the amount of content needed or desired, and that's been true across nearly every MMO ever made. People can probably nitpick any MMO you could possibly mention and it isn't just Blizzard that has put out a paucity of content at times. And I'm talking MMOs based on INSTANCING here, which (in theory, anways) might need less overall dungeons. Now picture an MMO that is completely non-instanced and one that needs enough unique, individual dungeons that the population is spread out adequately.
That would be wonderful, except that no one has ever been able to spit out that much content (and been able to keep their proverbial head above water that is). EQ was renowned for putting out half finished shitty content and while I think that EQ2 did well early on, they really phoned it in over the last few years and many of their "dungeons" shouldn't even be counted. On top of that you have the issue of people progressing as fast as humanly possible to the "endgame" of available content, such that:
So out of the 82 dungeonsI just counted for VG, they were kind enough to bold the 11 or so"most commonly run"dungeons and nearly half of those are 50+ (if you toss Rahz Inkur in there for being 47-50). Point being, if you want to forgo instancing you're going to have to include a LOT of dungeons and zones, as once your playerbase churns through your lower level content they're going to be stuck with 5-10 dungeons (10 being generous, many have less) that they will have to run over and over again. You could say that a system w/o levels might mitigate that to some degree but people will always try to progress towards the best rewarding dungeons, and any honest attempt to create enough content so that your population is spread out enough to do away with instancing (and not create hundreds of low pop servers) will likely end in failure. As much as we hated on SOE in EQ1 for the lies, timesinks and bullshit, they were being honest in that they couldn't keep ahead of players.
It's honestly possible that had VG not shriveled on the vine that the number of dungeons that they did have might not have been close to enough.
No offense to Brad, but anyone who is willing to listen to him now (especially in light of his past lip service paid to us) should be clubbed to death like a baby seal.
I think EQ2 released a character creator/engine test. Maybe something like that?
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Shh. Don't keep being factual. Some people think they started over from scratch 3 times. It's asinine. Same graphics and engine as the first time. Same animations. Of that I'm 100% positive.
I hope to god all you all are right mates.
I may due to my cancer as most of you know, be on borrowed time, they will have more of a picture in 5 months when they do my colon surgery then they can tell which stage 3 it is.
My chemo,Rad treatments starts in 3.5 weeks.
So my point is as huge Everquest fan if my cancer heads south fast, It would be nice to see this and game with you all 1 last time before I go.
I don't think worrying about WoW release windows is as important as it was a few years ago. The market has fractured alot since WoW hit its highs in wotlk. Back then prolly half of western mmo players were playing WoW, now its prolly more like 20%.