What the fuck is this. I don't want a 'hint book' you fucking ponytail faggot. So ridiculous. STOP WITH THE HANDHOLDING.
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tad10
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This is what worries me the most. They make comments saying "It's a very non-guided experience" where players have to "figure things out on their own", then they later make comments about some magical book that suggests where you go.
I really liked most everything they said at SoE Live, I'm just afraid that it's not going to be quite what they claimed it was once it's actually out of the 'idea' phase and actually implemented.
Lol, you bring up EQ as having multiple starting cities and state why they can't do it today? You do realize that this argument is stupid as the amount of resources necessary to create content today is astronomically higher than it was back when EQ launched right? Do you not even realize the vast amount of artwork that is required for a game like EQN, especially compared to the artwork for a game like EQ when it launched? Games cost a ton more to develop now so don't bring up how thing were done in the long past and say why can't they do it today. It is a lot more costly to produce all this high fidelity artwork we demand today compared to the basic triangles for mountains we had back when EQ released.
People are not defending SONY, people are saying this game is at least something on the horizon that isn't trying to be another WoW clone. i don't care for much of what has been described, but I do understand their reasoning. I also hate some of the lore they've put out, but hell, I really could give a rat's ass about the story as I sure didn't care much about it back in EQ. Its all going to be about how this game plays when it gets released. If it is enjoyable and engrossing then great, if not, well, at least it doesn't cost me anything. This is basically a best of all worlds situation to me. I don't really like free to play, but if you think about it, FTPlay makes it so the devs better delivery something decent or they're not going to have many people staying on for long. I didn't pay for this so I am not going to slog through crap.
People are not defending SONY, people are saying this game is at least something on the horizon that isn't trying to be another WoW clone. i don't care for much of what has been described, but I do understand their reasoning. I also hate some of the lore they've put out, but hell, I really could give a rat's ass about the story as I sure didn't care much about it back in EQ. Its all going to be about how this game plays when it gets released. If it is enjoyable and engrossing then great, if not, well, at least it doesn't cost me anything. This is basically a best of all worlds situation to me. I don't really like free to play, but if you think about it, FTPlay makes it so the devs better delivery something decent or they're not going to have many people staying on for long. I didn't pay for this so I am not going to slog through crap.
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I have my issues with the game (e.g. lore) but I'm over the "Sky is Falling" mentality that is pervading some of the posters on this thread. Fuck, wait until the game is in beta before vomiting all over it -_-
Furious
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Not vomiting all over it at all bro.
A poster said there won't be yellow marks above the npc heads and I showed him there will be. It is very scary that the people in charge of making the next everquest seem to not understand immersion.
Drop me on a rally cry? Why not let me wonder till I find it or I fall into a ditch and drown.
Give me a magic book that tells me where to go? Great no need to learn myself!! ect ect ect.
Tad, we all wan't to love this game, Hell I was shopping for a New GPU and I just bought one for GW2 just anticipating this game.
BUT, the list of stuff they are doing wrong in the perspective of the most dedicated EQ players ever (RR) gives me great concern. Hopefully our voice can be heard a bit, as I hope yours is concerning the lore.
A poster said there won't be yellow marks above the npc heads and I showed him there will be. It is very scary that the people in charge of making the next everquest seem to not understand immersion.
Drop me on a rally cry? Why not let me wonder till I find it or I fall into a ditch and drown.
Give me a magic book that tells me where to go? Great no need to learn myself!! ect ect ect.
Tad, we all wan't to love this game, Hell I was shopping for a New GPU and I just bought one for GW2 just anticipating this game.
BUT, the list of stuff they are doing wrong in the perspective of the most dedicated EQ players ever (RR) gives me great concern. Hopefully our voice can be heard a bit, as I hope yours is concerning the lore.
Furious
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I honestly think as of right now, they are just saying whatever comes into their heads. Another poster said a few pages back that he thought the world was almost made/finished. In that interview the producer said that they want US to build the world using Landmark.
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On EQ Next Landmark vs. EQ Next: While having two separate hit games would be great with Georgeson, he said, "We're serious about Landmark being the gateway to EverQuest Next. We really want it to be the vehicle by which everybody gets to help us build that next big virtual world."
He never said "use landmark to add/grow this huge world we already have made". Makes it sound like there's not much there yet.
I'm positive what they showed at SOE live was All they have. VOXEL farm is too new to have built a world on it yet with their limited staff (what 20-30?)
It will be interesting to watch this play out.
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I wonder how true this is, or if it's just a marketing gimmick to try and get Landmark to the 'critical mass' that they kept talking about.
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I don't see how a book that is telling you to explore a general area in a pretty huge world is JUST LIKE a big fucking exclamation point telling exactly you where to go and exactly what to do. Sounds to me like they are just trying to put people with common interests in the same area.
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Lleauaric
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They said that they MAY choose really excellent pieces of player made architecture to include.. Through contests or whatever.. Not that they wanted players to build all the cities for them.
As far as the game and its level of completion.. They probably have all the land generated and a couple rally calls/cities set up. I'm thinking all the stuff "god" made (land, physics, life forms) is close to done and all the stuff made by "man" (cities, structures, dungeons, factions, populations, weapons, ect) being worked on.
You know what sucks? This dude had to preface everything he said with GUYS I ACTUALLY LOVE THIS FUCKING SERIES for like a minute or two before getting on with his point because people would are so easily offended by criticism that they would've worked themselves into a frenzy without it.
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