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Looking forward to it quite a bit.....Echoes and Kunark were both excellent.

Originally posted by alakram

Originally posted by nakuma

not to mention the game runs like crap even on high end systems due to lack of multi core and SLi support.

 

I dont play EQ2 any more ad I dont think I'll play it. But in a Nvidia 7900 GS, 2 gigs ram, AMD Athlon dual core 2,0ghz runs really fine. So no, the game doesnt run like crap. Not anymore. This issue is an issue from the past, in older computers.

Right...so my 8600 should be able to get more than 15-20 FPS on a 3 month old high end machine? Old problem my ass....there are tons of new posts in the official tech support forums that say differently, but thanks for playing..

Originally posted by mdolsen

Looking forward to it quite a bit.....Echoes and Kunark were both excellent.

RoK just about killed this game....the ability to solo quest 10 levels destroyed grouping, the itemization is horrible, the reuse of old character models makes the game boring, if you aren't a member of a high end raid guild you will never achieve the mythical epic unless you pay some guild to take you...but other than that the expansion was excellent.....not...

SOE expansion logic is fubar.  They continue to add more zones and content while most of Norrath goes unused and gets left behind.  If they spent the extra time improving on the game engine instead of adding more content I think a lot more people would be happy in the long run.

Originally posted by permster

SOE expansion logic is fubar.  They continue to add more zones and content while most of Norrath goes unused and gets left behind.  If they spent the extra time improving on the game engine instead of adding more content I think a lot more people would be happy in the long run.

It's FUBAR because SOE won't allow their precious resources redo the game. it's obvious from a business perspective what's happening here. SOE is milking EQ2 for everything they can get from it. To do that they have to curtail most activity that would cost them money...In other words, they are trying to get as much bang from their buck as they can. In order to do that, they have been reusing character models and old content in new expansions, limiting the number of expansions to one a year and totally shut down their adventure pack developement. Sonce SOE hasn't announced a major release in the last few years, my guess is they are using most of their resources to design something new (and secret) and using dying games such as EQ1 and EQ2 to finance the work. Since both of those games now have lost a large protion of their player base, money is tight. I would look for a new, major game release from SOE in 12-18 months...about teh time they figure they can either pull the plug on EQ1 or sell it to another comapney who will try to continue to milk it for a small profit. EQ2 won't be far behind. From the looks of things, EQ1 still has a bit larger player base than EQ2 so those 2 might be reversed....At any rate, SOE can't keep these games around for ever. Unlike most game developement companies, SOE is forced to turn a profit. They are a publically traded company and as such they are beholding to the Sony board of directors and the share holders....so once these games no longer make money they are gone...or at least sold off to someone else...

so what is your ideal expansion OhReally? or are you just one of those rabid SOE hating dumbasses that treats SOE as the devil and curses everything they do?

To me this expac seems pretty ideal

More AAs instead of upping the level cap
more heritage quests
4 progressive raid zones
new persistant/instanced dungeons for groups of all levels of play
no more running the same dungeon a billion times HOPING the item you want will drop.

sounds good to me.

not completely sure about this expansion. but i guss they are at least trying to give players what the wanted most after rok. people complained a lot that rok was too much solo focused so this expansion is focussing most about dungeons which usually need groups.

many players did not want a level  increase, so adding new achievemnt tree and increasing achievement cap is also mainly what people wanted.

raiders probably won't be too happy about only 4 raid instances (3 bigger zones and 1 small one) and only one new avatar as only new contested,  it will depend on difficulty and size of the 3 bigger zones how much raiding content it has.

overall  the announcement wasn't that much a thing to get me excited as eof or rok anouncements. but rok sounded much better in theory than it was in reality for me so maybe this one will be better once it goes live than the anouncement made it.

I am waiting for expansion beta and hopefully i get a space there, if not then i will wiat till nda gets dropped and i can hear from players that played before i make my judgement on this expansion.

I would have to agree with OhReally on this one.  Taking what some others have said in the past, EQ2 is now in maintenance mode and has been for quite some time.  They won't put any real effort into re-engineering the game and most of their devs have moved on to other projects.  Leaving behind a small staff to maintain the game.

The SOE expansion model is a rinse and repeat process which is good for spitting out expansions every year, but leaves little room for new and innovative ideas.  I expected more from EQ2, but perhaps the game engine itself hinders creativity and originality.

By the way, I still have an active sub to EQ2 so don't take me for a hater.  It's the only mmorpg I play currently because I love the EQ lore.  I just wanted more...

Originally posted by ohreally

Originally posted by alakram

Originally posted by nakuma

not to mention the game runs like crap even on high end systems due to lack of multi core and SLi support.

 

I dont play EQ2 any more ad I dont think I'll play it. But in a Nvidia 7900 GS, 2 gigs ram, AMD Athlon dual core 2,0ghz runs really fine. So no, the game doesnt run like crap. Not anymore. This issue is an issue from the past, in older computers.

 

Right...so my 8600 should be able to get more than 15-20 FPS on a 3 month old high end machine? Old problem my ass....there are tons of new posts in the official tech support forums that say differently, but thanks for playing..

ohreally, a couple things first if you are running a single 8600 even if you box is 3 months old it is far from a high end system. However you should be able to get a much better fps then your 15-20. If it even matters to you I started a thread in the EQ2 forums here about graphic setting that may help. I post a lot of screens of EQ2 here to show how good it can look. I have gotten a lot of e-mails wanting to know how come it looks so good on my sytem and some e-mails simple call me a liar. So I started the thread to help others setup their graphic options better. You might check it out. EQ2 is trickv no doubt about it but if you do your homework a player can get it to run pretty well on mid range systems like yours. It is unfortunate you have to work that hard to get it working right but it is possible to get EQ2 looking and playing really well.