Everquest II

Calbiyum · Dec 13, 2016

chorboy said:
How is this shit not dead yet, there is like two guilds clearing all the content now and its half the difficulty of what it was two years ago.

It is so much harder now according to Onra

Identikit · Dec 13, 2016

Calbiyum said:
It is so much harder now according to Onra

having a player base of under 10 somewhat conscious people while the rest of the players are idiots will make the game a lot harder, so I agree.

Kreugen · Dec 13, 2016

The worst players I have ever encountered in any MMO were found in EQ2.

Rift was a distant second.

Jimbolini · Dec 13, 2016

The times I have played with Onra over the years, I thought he had alot of knowledge.

That being said, I am surprised he still has a guild running content.

bixxby · Dec 14, 2016

EQ2's playerbase was always the weirdest. I've never been in voice chat where it was 90% redneck accents, but that was every single time in EQ2

Kuro · Dec 14, 2016

Every time this thread is bumped I just assume it's the Shutting Down Announcement.

Calbiyum · Dec 14, 2016

Kreugen said:
The worst players I have ever encountered in any MMO were found in EQ2.

Rift was a distant second.

bixxby said:
EQ2's playerbase was always the weirdest. I've never been in voice chat where it was 90% redneck accents, but that was every single time in EQ2

Second time I've heard someone say this lolll

WoW imo is by far the worst. Everyone just has a 1 track mind and can't think outside of the box at all

chorboy · Dec 14, 2016

Calbiyum said:
It is so much harder now according to Onra

guy is a moron

sakkath · Dec 14, 2016

Early days EQ2 playerbase was fine, but in the last 5 years it's mostly stay at home mums, retirees and random other people who like decorating their houses who are playing.....

Tearofsoul · Dec 14, 2016

They are either casuals or thinking they are the best player ever.

Mur · Dec 15, 2016

This is what the current average EQII player looks like in my minds eye.

Kuro · Dec 15, 2016

The haircut on that dude in the front row makes it look like he lost half his skull in a mining accident.

Kreugen · Dec 16, 2016

Age them by at least ten years and put a trailer park in the background and add naked crying children

Sadre Spinegnawer · Dec 16, 2016

Calbiyum said:
It is so much harder now according to Onra

Oh man, you had to mention Onra. Think I got an email from him when this server stared up asking if I wanted to revisit the land of II. Meh.

But I had a fine enough time in Dracos Argent toward the end of my eq2 time. Maybe I left before the events making him infamous, or maybe I forget! It's those pills they make me take in here; time just blobs together.

And if I could feel confident someone was trying to make a classic (!ack!) eq2 up through, say, Echoes of Faydwer, I would def play. But I have not even thought it possible. Too much lost code, not enough enthusiasm. But I do think the game was fine enough -- and sure beats a lot out these days -- for first few years. Had fun!

Sadre

Kuriin · Dec 25, 2016

Kuro said:
The haircut on that dude in the front row makes it look like he lost half his skull in a mining accident.

You clearly don't realize that that is a tranny. A hot tranny mess.

ilmarz · Dec 25, 2016

Sadre Spinegnawer said:
Oh man, you had to mention Onra. Think I got an email from him when this server stared up asking if I wanted to revisit the land of II. Meh.

But I had a fine enough time in Dracos Argent toward the end of my eq2 time. Maybe I left before the events making him infamous, or maybe I forget! It's those pills they make me take in here; time just blobs together.

And if I could feel confident someone was trying to make a classic (!ack!) eq2 up through, say, Echoes of Faydwer, I would def play. But I have not even thought it possible. Too much lost code, not enough enthusiasm. But I do think the game was fine enough -- and sure beats a lot out these days -- for first few years. Had fun!

Sadre

I didn't get involved with the TLE mess because (I thought) it was pretty obvious how it was gonna go. They can barely support the "Live" game , there's just no way they were going to be able to fix years and years of broken shit for that server. I'm sure they made money off it but I don't see another incarnation of TLE fooling people again.

Felt a little bad for Onra though, he was taking it pretty seriously, gave them shittons of data on what needed fixing. He just didn't realize the general state of affairs, I think. IIRC they ended up banning him from the official forums because he was getting more combatative about the lack of fixes or responses.

The whole atmosphere is pretty adversarial, the developers know what's best and you can thank them politely or fuck off.

Jysin · Dec 25, 2016

ilmarz said:
The whole atmosphere is pretty adversarial, the developers know what's best and you can thank them politely or fuck off.

This pretty much sums up 17+ years of SoE / DBG Dev attitude. Why should anyone be surprised?

Shonuff · Dec 25, 2016

chorboy said:
How is this shit not dead yet, there is like two guilds clearing all the content now and its half the difficulty of what it was two years ago.

I believe this game got a total of three new instances for content last year. Two of them were the same zone (one for group and one for raid). I logged in, ran around a bit, and didn't see a single soul in Freeport. I went to the new xpac, and the music was horrible.

This game does not look good with no budget.

Calbiyum · Dec 27, 2016

ilmarz said:
I didn't get involved with the TLE mess because (I thought) it was pretty obvious how it was gonna go. They can barely support the "Live" game , there's just no way they were going to be able to fix years and years of broken shit for that server. I'm sure they made money off it but I don't see another incarnation of TLE fooling people again.

Felt a little bad for Onra though, he was taking it pretty seriously, gave them shittons of data on what needed fixing. He just didn't realize the general state of affairs, I think. IIRC they ended up banning him from the official forums because he was getting more combatative about the lack of fixes or responses.

The whole atmosphere is pretty adversarial, the developers know what's best and you can thank them politely or fuck off.

I remember people talking about items that weren't right in DoF on the forums.
One of the devs chimes in and goes WOW we will try and fix these can you guys post a full list of every wrong item.
I was like why are you having people who pay a monthly sub do your job for you.

Identikit · Dec 28, 2016

Calbiyum said:
I remember people talking about items that weren't right in DoF on the forums.
One of the devs chimes in and goes WOW we will try and fix these can you guys post a full list of every wrong item.
I was like why are you having people who pay a monthly sub do your job for you.

this happened from the beginning. They maid beta testing for subscribers only, and when we told them about shit that needed to change, they did fucking nothing aside from slow down experience gain. They did the bare minimum and never intended to do it right.

anyone who played TLE beta should of known that nothing was going to get fixed. The only saving grace for the first two expansions on TLE was PVP/contesting raid mobs. And even then that was kinda shitty

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