Daedalus

They only offer free play to people who've quit.

Redlance71

To about 90% of the posting quitters in this thread listen up. Why was this thread even started? Cry me a freakin' wahhhhmbulance. Like any game, EQ2 has it's limits. you CAN'T make a game please 100% of the subscribers 100% of the time - this is one of the few good things Smedley ever said. Look at WoW, thier attempts to get on everyone's good side and make it acceptable to the highest % of the masses has led to broke dick things such as druids who can heal tank and melle at the same time, why play any other class? And don't get me on the sheep fetish they have over there! GL on your next mmorpg. Often your issues carry over to whatever game or platform you go to. You oversaturated in this game, didn't find a path that interested you ie farm routines, raids or alts but want to lay it all out on SoE. YOu find it convienient to just blame the game. Go back to the 70's and 80's(for those whiners posting here old enough to remember) when you had to sit on your doorsteps with your friends as a kid bored out of your mind and making entertainment out of very little or nothing at all. Then go to the WOW boards and whine. Don't need it here. Nuff said.

Amalar

Startin to see like the MMORPG world is fallin apart :P I think a better PVP system would be intresting cause I have been on private servers in WoW with upwards of 6k players on constantlly... PVP could not only give us something to do when we are bored to fuck of the same old shit but if they properlly implimented a rewards system it would give us more stuff to work towards... OFC it would take a shitload of balanceing and I dont think SOE is up to the challange...

Im all for the hardcore and whatnot but I really think what these games need more than anything is more FUN stuff to do... Or SOE needs to change thier view of what us gamers consider "FUN" because the latest expansion.. has been mostly grinding and grinding and grinding.. then once you hit 80 you get to grind through these quite static enviroments and instances..

we need more INTERACTION with out game world in order to be able to enjoy even the commonlly "Boring" aspects of the game... It would be very nice to even be able to maybe actually SIT in a fucking chair while we wait around in EFP wondering WTF we are going to do... Little things like such are critisized as not being important or critical for a game and are often seen as a waste of time by the dev team from the looks of it, they need to stop tryin to shit out expansions and make us feel more part of the game world.
Stop re-vamping zones give us encounters we can "play" with more im not saying allot of our encounters are "boring" they sure keep you on your feet and alert but its always the same old stuff.. mob either aoe, dot, KB, heal at certian point.. personally i do not feel as if we have much veritity as far an encounters go...

It may be easy to argue and say "Oh but theres lots of different mobs that use a different comination of those things" I understand that I would like DEV to try and think outside of the box (the box being the basic tools used to try and create unique encounters, not only for raid targets [My girl takes up most of my free time now lol tryin to be commeted to a raid guild would be a pain for me i dont want to put a game infront of my future] but for instances and casual players as well)

SOE has been going in the right direction with ROK (EXCEPT for the grinding which was A FUCKING MASSIVE PART of the expansion which IMO was fucking FAILBOATx100) It would also be nice to have an enviroment we could interact more with in the way of terrian..
I know that that is quite vague but I believe that having the players be able to a certian extent "sculpt" the world they play in would cause people to have a greater desire to play in order to feel like what they are doing effects everybody (in a good or bad way, because as you may have already heard [forget from where i have heard this] that in order to have a thriving online community there must be forces of so called "good" and "evil". You may think that this causes seperation in the gaming community but it in fact creates more dimension/action/spontanious(ness?) which means more intresting gameplay for everyone.

This part goes back to the section where I state that a better PVP system may improve players will to play the game, because PVP can be used in many ways to allow players to create change (like capturing citys ect, AOC had the idea but from what i see AOC was a FAILWHALE).

I also understand that not everyone is intrested in the idea of PVP because it has been known in the past to create allot of problems, the biggest problem i have with PVP is the ganking, there are TONS of fucking assholes that just want to make other people miserable, but this part is actually somewhat a nessessassity (LOL SPELLING FAIL) for the communtiy as it creates action blah blah blah...

To find a way to include PVP that can cause change of the overall gameplay and (terrority controll, (enviromental/terrain effects?) would be the biggest challange but I believe that solving this problem and the problem of player-gameworld interaction would be the biggest challange that SOE has ever faced, but it would indubidaly make more people want to play... Thanks for reading

The one and (hopefully at least EQ2 wise) only -Amalar
/endrant
/passout

Heidi

do they offer you to play for free or do you have to get it via complaining?

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Daedalus

The way I think it works, as long as you had an active account before, but quit before the free play promotion, then you qualified.

They didn't even bother notifying me the last time they did it.

Amalar

And just curious... anyone else fucking bored to shit of havin most armor keep the same models but just change texture / colour (yes I am Canadian I put my U in Colour :P) I mean all the plate armor is boring the crap out of me lol... makes wanderin around EFP (when I bother to log in anymore) more boring lol... Not a huge deal just sumthin that bothers me...

Redlance71

Amalar, the sitting in the chairs thing has been something I been peroidcally sending as feeback to SOE for over 4 years when was in EQ1. Other idea I usually tie into the feeback is mount food for run or even jump stats similar to our own stat food. I can see it now, Qeynos Oats and Freeport Fodder!

3devious

Go back to the 70s, 80s, or whatever where stupid people will cry about an issue for 4 years and keep paying. Here's a better deal, send your subscription fees to me instead. You actually have a better chance of seeing your issue fixed, lol.

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Heidi

oh man.. this is not good to read when you're tipsy /vomit

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lazarus102

I canceled for 3 months shortly after rok was released. At first i was all for the solo questing, Loved it, cuz of not needing to find groups, but at the same time, it reminded me of how much i HATE soloing, and now it's near imposible to get a group between 70-75, and even if you do, the xp gained from grinding is nearly nothing compared to questing, maybe the way it should be considering the game is called everQuest, however, they seem to be forgeting that it's an mmo, ultimatly, PEOPLE WANT TO GROUP. So what this game really needs and people have been asking for it for a long time now, and of corse being ignored, is a server merge, we need more populated servers, and i'm noticeing this even moreso since working nights, I come on anytime past 10-12am pst, and the server is nearly dead, THE ENTIRE FRIGGIN SERVER! it has a max of a few hundred people, most of which sleeping at keyboard, or the 1 person playing 5-6 toons, farming shit. and the armor is so repetetive it makes me wanna puke, I played wow for my few months away from eq2, the armor you get from raids is flashy and particled up(people who bitch about lag from it can get a better pc or TURN PARTICLES OFF) point being, all weve gotten for the most part in armor changes is, the same damn model repeated 10k times with different sikins(colors) makes me wanna puke when i see yet another t7-8 raid obtained armor that looks like something i could equip myself with in tier 1-3. and my final bitch(though i have MANY more) is the grfx, why is it that i can play crysis(an fps with astounding grfx and shadowing) at full grfx without a hint of lag, yet i put shadows on in eq2 and my damn system throws a fit, the grfx engine needs a fix, support for pixel shader 3-4-5 or whatever needs to be added, because this 4 year old game runs like shit compared to newer games with better grfx, WTF!!!

As it sits now, i'm on the brink of perminantly canceling all 3 of my acnts after seeing the info on LU48 and the next expantion, some of the things in LU48 were so useless/pointless, they shouldnt have even been mentioned, and none of the updates for anything seem to be addressing any of the major things people have been wanting for years, all their doing is 'more new dungeons, new duneon system' new this new that. basicly all they're doing is saying HEY, LOOK AT THIS BIG FLASHY THING! and pointing the finger away from the major fuckups they refuse to fix or do anything about, if they keep this up, they're done for, eq1 is gonna have a bigger pop then eq2.