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Originally posted by smut

Originally posted by celline

Yeah level grinding ITSELF is not challenging. (of course it forces the players to do/experience fewer quest and contents than usual because many more contents will go gray fast... but actually I don't know whether it's good or bad) It's just grind and this exp change itself is not a real matter. 

The real deal is, how much exp requirements they will reduce in this GU (amount I say).  

 

but SOE has to reserve appropriate amount of whole exp requirements to not make EQ2 an 'easy game'

 

It already is an easy game since RoK with it's 90% solo content. I am holding out hope for the newest expansion because I did have a lot of fun playing EQ2 pre ROK but nothing I have seen so far has piqued my interest. I just saw a new video showcasing the shadow odyssey expansion and 95% of the enemy mobs were the same character designs they've been using forever, some even dating back to vanilla EQ2 launch zones. Get with the times, put new art in, fix the gimped classes that no one ever takes on raids or groups. Optimize your graphics engines for modern CPU's and graphics cards. Move light and shadow rendering to the GPU, your game will run A LOT better just doing that.

I care because the game had a lot of good things going for it and I played for over a year and a half and sunk alot of money into the game. But after Scott Hartsman left, (the guy who resurected EQ2 after it's abysmal launch period) and Rise of Kunark came out, it has been downhill since. I think Scott knew what was coming since the game has taken a drastically different direction, alienating their core player base along the way and screwing up the good will built up since they fixed the game and made it fun.

The new game director who took over for Scott is out of touch and if I remember correctly was responsible for the abomination of the EQ2 launch. He is out of touch with what the base eq2 player wants. Not to mention the corruption and exploit scandals among the EQ2 dev team. Please SOE, give me some good reasons to resub and buy this expansion and I gladly will give it another shot.

 Quick lev 70 button my ass =)

Anyway.... if   [ 1=easy, 3=mediocre difficulty(aka normal), 5=hard ] then the EQ2 is currently (even with RoK and all the misc) in 2.3 or 2.5 I think. So, there's a little more room for 'dumbing-down'  lol

All the jokes aside, yeah from what I understand SOE has removed a lot of good things from the game I agree with ya to an extent.

and it's very sad that SOE creaked from the get-go because of the unoptimized game engine.

Yeah level grinding ITSELF is not challenging. (of course it forces the players to do/experience fewer quest and contents than usual because many more contents will go gray fast... but actually I don't know whether it's good or bad) It's just grind and this exp change itself is not a real matter. 

The real deal is, how much exp requirements they will reduce in this GU (amount I say).  

but SOE has to reserve appropriate amount of whole exp requirements to not make EQ2 an 'easy game'

Originally posted by Ozmodan

"Everquest has the best, and most deep, lore for any MMORPG"

You have not played many MMO's have you, at least the subscription ones, most of those MMO's have tons more lore than EQ.

It has taken them awhile to getting around to adding lore to EQ.

This game will cost a new player a fortune now, because all the old leveling areas are vacant you have to have all the newest and greatest expansions to get to the new leveling areas.

 Yeah, actually there're WarHammer, Lord of the Ring and Ultima Online so EQ series isn't the best. BUT I CAN'T believe the above crap that ya mentioned Ozmo. You fail

Originally posted by JustBe

 

lol the graphics look older than WOW and yet run on a more powerful engine because the art style is underpar like everything SOE touches.

WTF is this guy saying?