Malevolence

It's pretty obvious, but some fuck bag always has to run his pole smokin lips so here is my disclaimer, since I don't feel like typing IMO after every fucking sentence: This shit is my own opinion. Agree or disagree I don't give a fuck. I've been playing since shortly after launch and now I'm done. Here is my feelings about eq2 and why I'm done if you care to read.

The game has been going in a direction I don't like for a while. Soloing to 80... fuck that. I loved doing lower level old world content, but people just do lame ass solo quests now. Population is dead in mid levels and the few players that are there are fucking soloing. Population is low all around, and I played on AB.

Death is almost always meaningless. The only time I felt the sting of dying (since they yanked shards and nerfed debt) was in a deep contested dungeon (having to respawn and fight back) or the short time I was raiding with a guild pulling contested under competition. BTW, competition is a joke. SOE has pushed the game heavily to instances, and fuck that too. Putting the best loot in instances and trash on contested content is retarded (mostly talking about heroic, cuz contested epics aren't contested). And bitch ass fuck boy players that get all pussy hurt when I "steal their named mob". Yea fuck that. It's not your fucking mob shit bag and go make a fucking post on the official forums pissing and whining about how some jack ass ninja'd "your" shit you've been camping for an hour. Pull faster or hide in instance bitch.

Nerfing heroic mobs to solo, nerfing epic mobs to heroic. Yea, fuck that too. Nek forest is emo bitch land. Timerous Deep is fucking gay hold my hand while I shit and give me my fucking candy. Current mastercrafted trivializes low level content turning heroic mobs into solo mobs. Old world legendary and fabled is fucking trash in comparison even though it's slightly more difficult to get. I've played since about 4 weeks after launch and watched the game turn into casual solo shit mode... so whatever, not for me.

End game content is kinda fun... although it's too easy to get shit. It's all fucking instanced, I miss the times of claiming a rare mob under competition and getting that ubah fucking rare drop. The Domini are kinda fun... on AB they are fairly contested. Not the best loot in the game, but not the hardest mobs either. Loot stacks up to the best RoK heroic gear, some instanced epic gear.

Just... not enough contested content all around. I want to be playing in a world with other groups around me. Instances should be icing on the cake, with requirements to be met to zone in. Fallen Gate has always and will always be my favorite dungeon in eq2. Lots of named, heavily contested, with a reward at the end. You don't wanna fucking wipe in there either or it's back to the respawn tent in CL.

Fuck Aerilik and fuck his dark elf assassin too. Fuck all the changes and rebalancing and shit. Goddamn, it's not that fucking hard, implement shit right and then leave it the fuck alone. The back and forth shit of nerfing, then buffing is retarded and they change shit up way too fucking much. His class balance adjustments are shit and he's a tumor on the nutsack of EQ2.

There's not enough time sinks in eq2, it's too quick of a game to play. As you can see by my little avatar name shit, I'm back to FFXI... bash it all you want I don't give a fuck. I'm finally feeling that sense of accomplishment I desire from a video game again. I don't want to fucking die in that game, and will spend 10 minutes training mobs back to town so I don't fucking die. The populations is heavy, between 2,500 - 4k players online at a time. I'm always seeing other players and the world feels alive (I do miss the level chats though). If I only have an hour or so to play, instead of insisting I get something done (like running an instance or some solofuck quests), I can spend a session just running from town to where I want to be later to group. It can take me 40 minutes to get from town to where I want to xp (at my low level) and that's just fine and fucking dandy for me. In eq2 I can get anywhere in the world in just a few minutes. Yea, fuck that too.

Anyway... fuck this fast leveling solo quest shit that seems to be so popular in this generation of MMOs. I've decided to go back to my old game where it takes a fucking year to get your first level capped character, earning money is hard, and the missions and instances are hard. It's a very grouping oriented game, much slower paced, and plenty of competition to play against for resources. FFXI has problems for sure, and there's things I don't like about it obviously. But it sure is a breath a fresh air when I look at the dribbling mass of shit sucking hold my hand stroke my cock I pay 15 bucks a month just like you casual fuck fest level to cap off solo errands and hide in bullshit pussy fucking instances EQ2 has become.

Thanks for reading and I'd destroy my stuff before I'd give them to you

Pink Poodle

FFXI? Ahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha hah enjoy your blue crabs.

Also, people in FFXI are much more nasty about... everything. /check a player's gear? OH SHIT YOU JUST E-RAPED THEM. Get a NM from them? They report you to a GM. Goddamn. At least play LOTRO.

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Malevolence

LoTR... yea that's nice. Thanks for reading.

And quoting my entire wall of text even though you posted right fucking after me.

Pink Poodle

Welcome to Flames.

I came to EQ2 from FFXI. FFXI's the only MMO to ever make me fall asleep while playing. The game would be OK, if the Japanese players weren't elitists, and the latest expansion is basically "let's take all the old zones, turn the contrast up, put in new mobs, 35 BUCKS PLEASE!" Even a diehard FFXI fan I know admits this.

Sure, EQ2 is much easier and has HUGE FUCKING FLAWS, but thing is, you can get a lot more done shortly than in FFXI. I do miss when EQ2 had a longer time to get to max lvl, but at least people are more open to going to other zones. When I played FFXI, people wanted to do the same zones over and over. I didn't want to see Qufim ALL THE TIME. Other zones would have been nice to visit.

The game would be much better if everything and everyone didn't go down the same path. Sorry, I just... FFXI could have been so much more.

Also EQ2 has PVP. It's not the best, but it has PVP. FFXI has that 3v3 thing which nobody cares about.

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Corto

IMO, this post wins.

Even if it's whiny as shit.

Kantaris

Since you can't delete your account, can I have that? I just want accounts with time on them for vet rewards. You can PM it to me. Thanks.

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Tarao

I cancelled some days ago after 3 years of great fun. My wife told me "you know, sometimes when you play, i feel alone..."

I love this game, but not more than my wife.

So long norrath.

Jovantis

Me and the wife canceled 2 days ago. Station cash is what did it for us. Been on the verge of it for awhile now and finally did it. I feel so liberated lol

Commando

Feeling liberated here, too. For me, it's only been a little over 2 years - nothing compared to some of the old-shchool hard asses frequenting this site - but nonetheless I've spent a good amount of time playing, 7 days a week, sometimes 6-10 hours a day.

In the end, I felt overwhelmed. Overwhelmed by a 5 nights a week raid schedule, overwhelmed by new content and pressure to get the new AAs as fast as possible (on 2 Mythicaled toons) and overwhelmed by the fact that, really, I wasn't enjoying the game any longer. Hell, I found myself creating a deck and actually winning scenarios in LoN instead of questing - that says it all.

My time has come to leave and even though it breaks my heart in a way (I've met many many awesome people and had a shit load of fun overall), it's the right thing for me to do at this point.

Hubby is still playing and that's cool; I can't force him to feel the way I do (but I sure hope he's not gonna continue our regimen of 40+ hours a week, that would suck big time).

Anyways, I'm out - good luck, merry christmas, happy new year and all that..

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eladan

Some people will understand what I mean by when leaving an MMO that you get a sense a freedom.

It'll generally apply to people who were in mandatory raid guilds and had to login and raid every night for 4 hours.

After cancelling it's a form or relief because your times isn't required to be spend in front of a PC . Soon you begin to realize that there is other and better things you can do heh.

I've learned myself that playing these games casually is often more fun then being in the somewhat regimented raid guilds. I do miss raiding but I won't be giving up to much to achieve it.

I have always felt that people in hardcore guilds sometimes sacrifce to much to raid and it's probably why some of them take long breaks after getting fully kitted out from the current expansion.

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Seriously, all those swaying tree branches moving in random directions, multiplied by however many trees are in my view and draw distance.

Mythic, please give me a way to turn off swaying branches, so my client can concentrate on more important things, such as providing me quicker response times and feedback during combat. - "Oldguy" WAR whine thread.

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