Whatever happened to Everquest??

[bad111]

buckshot did you mean to only put caps on enough letters to equal the word BOOBIES? weird

[Steelmaker]

Well, it's debatable whether or not Everquest was actually any good or not. What's not debatable was it's popularity. I'm just curious as to why up to this point Sony has chosen not to bring this franchise over to their own console. To me it just seems like a no brainer. Yet for whatever reason, Everquest has faded over the years.

[reiella]

Originally Posted by Steelmaker

Well, it's debatable whether or not Everquest was actually any good or not. What's not debatable was it's popularity. I'm just curious as to why up to this point Sony has chosen not to bring this franchise over to their own console. To me it just seems like a no brainer. Yet for whatever reason, Everquest has faded over the years.

Everquest went from Premier, to "One of the crowd" pretty much in one day when WoW launched.

That's what happened.

EQOA was on the PS2 as well, as was EQ: Champions of Norrath [the sequel, later actually completely dropped the Everquest part of the name].

Alot of people have resentment towards SOE for EQ and various other reasons. It's not nearly as strong a property as it was 5 years ago.

[Cameh]

I played Everquest for over 5 years and a half, 6 months of Dark Age of Camelot, 1 month of City of Heroes, 1 year and half of WoW, and a few months of Vanguard.

Everquest was the best (t'was my first, that's maybe why?), by far, very far !

[reiella]

Originally Posted by Cameh

I played Everquest for over 5 years and a half, 6 months of Dark Age of Camelot, 1 month of City of Heroes, 1 year and half of WoW, and a few months of Vanguard.

Everquest was the best (t'was my first, that's maybe why?), by far, very far !

See, I still play CoH, so I counter that with a "N'yah" fear the costume creator .

Of course, I still adore my weapon named after my guild in EQ1 .

[jason_grumpy]

EQ ended for me and my guild once we finished PoP. For a lot of us, we felt that we finally 'beat' EQ after ~3 years. The subsequent expansion after that was so buggy that it drove us away as the servers would crumple, die, or simply warp raid mobs around to wipe us out for no reason. Adding insult to injury was the fact that SOE announced another expansion while we were raiding and dealing with the problems the last expansion created. We quit at that point, and my character retired in my favorite zone.

Myself (a guild leader) and the other guild leaders quit right then, and we only attempted to return once a couple years later, but it was a short lived and half hearted attempt to 're-band'. When they came out with the progression servers, I jumped back in until about PoP opened up to relive some zones.

I had played from EQ all the way through PoP and had some wonderful times doing so. I had made a great many friends as well. Nostalgia runs deep as I I remember the adrenaline rush of taking down RZ for the first time when everyone said we couldn't do it (#3 to do it on the server, and we backed it up with another take down a week later), Orc Hill firsts, or the bad PoF break pre Kunark.

I tried other mmo's since then, including EQ2, but I could never 'get into them' as I did EQ. Maybe it's that first magical experience with an mmo. Maybe it was the challenge.. I'm not sure, but it just seems that all other mmo's are simply missing the magic that made up EQ during the early years.

I tried LOTR (lasted a day), FFXI (lasted a few months), EQ2 (Lasted a few months), DoaC (lasted a couple weeks), and Eve (lasted an hour). I tried to play WoW and quit at lv35. My general feeling is that if WoW is the direction MMO's are going (which they are due to the $$$), then mmo's are no longer for me.

Such is life. EQ's glory days will always reside in the minds of those who played it during the gold years. EQ back then was special.

[Animusmors]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! ..........Everquest. It's all about World of Warcraft. That game is addicting. Like buying Blu-Rays. I CANT STOP!!!!!!!!

[zMadMonk]

Ah.... Everquest. I'm still playing CoH (okay, my account is still active, haven't played much in months).

I am looking forward to Sony's DC Universe MMO. Not sure if I'll play it on the computer, or on the PS3, though.

And I'm also looking forward to Cryptic's Marvel Universe MMO (I'll be playing that on the computer). I have a feeling that the Marvel Universe MMO will blow City of Heroes out of the water (since Cryptic created CoH - I'm sure their costume creator will totally kick ass).

[reiella]

Originally Posted by jason_grumpy

EQ ended for me and my guild once we finished PoP. For a lot of us, we felt that we finally 'beat' EQ after ~3 years. The subsequent expansion after that was so buggy that it drove us away as the servers would crumple, die, or simply warp raid mobs around to wipe us out for no reason. Adding insult to injury was the fact that SOE announced another expansion while we were raiding and dealing with the problems the last expansion created. We quit at that point, and my character retired in my favorite zone.

Myself (a guild leader) and the other guild leaders quit right then, and we only attempted to return once a couple years later, but it was a short lived and half hearted attempt to 're-band'. When they came out with the progression servers, I jumped back in until about PoP opened up to relive some zones.

I had played from EQ all the way through PoP and had some wonderful times doing so. I had made a great many friends as well. Nostalgia runs deep as I I remember the adrenaline rush of taking down RZ for the first time when everyone said we couldn't do it (#3 to do it on the server, and we backed it up with another take down a week later), Orc Hill firsts, or the bad PoF break pre Kunark.

I tried other mmo's since then, including EQ2, but I could never 'get into them' as I did EQ. Maybe it's that first magical experience with an mmo. Maybe it was the challenge.. I'm not sure, but it just seems that all other mmo's are simply missing the magic that made up EQ during the early years.

I tried LOTR (lasted a day), FFXI (lasted a few months), EQ2 (Lasted a few months), DoaC (lasted a couple weeks), and Eve (lasted an hour). I tried to play WoW and quit at lv35. My general feeling is that if WoW is the direction MMO's are going (which they are due to the $$$), then mmo's are no longer for me.

Such is life. EQ's glory days will always reside in the minds of those who played it during the gold years. EQ back then was special.

They fixed alot of GoD. The real problem was that they shifted design principles on GoD... And of course, the obvious split in expansion progression. GoD and OoW were really supposed to be the same expansion from most of the looks [alot of the problems with GoD weren't really problems anymore after OoW].

[Minimejer05]

I really dislike those types of games...too much obbsession.

[Uxi]

Something like the total pass could do well for PSN/PS3. I never really liked EQ much but loved Star Wars: Galaxies... until they destroyed the player economy and moved it from it's versatile skill system to an everquest clone. I actually could live with the current "twitch" combat system (and always wanted something more like Jedi Outcast/Academy) if they would bring back the original economy/skill system.

[shadowmoon]

I played on and off for probably 2-3 years easy... Quit after my guild got merged into a much bigger one (if anyone here remember Rendered Asylum on TP sent me a PM). Had a lvl 65 ranger and cleric, but things just gotten old after trying to keep up day after day after day and since I was going to school and just gotten a full time job, I couldnt keep up. Plus, the game just gotten old as friends I met online left either for another game, or just gotten tired of having a '2nd job' on EQ where you have to raid 8 hrs a day for minimum of 5 days.

But yeah, coordinate 8 ppl on CoD or SOCOM is WAYYY different than running 100+ ppl raids. Also all it takes is 1 small team to screw up and you're back to square one and wasted half the night. The game itself is really tough, and thats why it's still my fav. Played CoH for about 3 months, WoW for 3 weeks, and quit MMORPG for good.

Overall, yeah Im a recovered evercrack junkie, but I have a lot of respect for that game... Afterall, this is the game that really made a difference in a lot of people's lives... Good or bad I leave to the individuals...