Newb question (Hopefully not against rules)

eqjoe · Post by **eqjoe** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:11 am

The idea of bundling plugins is not a bad one. I would however advise against any pre-compiled plugins. Some guy was selling a MQ2 plugin on PlayerAuctions that did some cool stuff, and while it did what it advertized to do, it also ripped off account info.

-j

eqjoe · Post by **eqjoe** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:23 am

insanitywiz wrote:
cronic wrote:
Cr4zyb4rd wrote:it seems kind of obvoius to me (and others I've talked to) that a lot of them have moved on to other interests and/or think of MQ2 as a "finished product" or somesuch.
EQ is breathing its dieing breath. How long that breath will last, I have no idea. I do know that the numbers are dwindling, and they're not going to come back up again. Soon EQ will be gone, and with it - this project. Better have your moment of glory while you can
Actually, thats not really true. EQ's subscription numbers haven't dipped significantly in over a year, and even at the moment with EQ2 coming out and WoW being released soon they are holding strong. Now, give EQ2 and WoW a month or three each on the open market and we may start seeing EQ players drop their accounts to move over, but i think a lot of people have learned not to jump ship until testing out the new games and seeing if they are worth playing.

That is not the case on my server and its not the case in my guild. We cant put enough on to do phase one Time anymore. We have no fewer than 11 Time flagged clerics that no one has heard from in over a month. The bazaar once was constantly over 500 traders at any given moment. Today you will be lucky to see 250. The top 4 guilds on my server have a total of 9 active enchanter mains. Two of the top 4 guilds has ZERO active enchanters mains playing today. Clerics and enchanters have left my server in big numbers. SoE took all the fun out of playing some classes with OoW, cleric and enchanter being the two that SoE messed up the worst. Players are not having fun because SoE fucks up everything they touch. We are still crashing on zone .. they will never fix that. SoE is too stupid. We have class imballance that has caused enchanter to leave the game in hugh numbers. And SoE made is so damn hard for buff classes to get their group buffs that clerics and some druids and shammys have simply given up. SoE is too stupid to figure out that after years of playing and hours of work to get the AA abilities for Mass Group Buff, players will quit before going back to single cast mana intensive buffs.

Sorry to disagree with you, but my server is turning into a ghost town.

-j

KungFuHamster · Post by **KungFuHamster** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:41 am

So, uh... cast the group versions that work just as well as they did three weeks ago.

Cr4zyb4rd · Post by **Cr4zyb4rd** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 5:09 am

eqjoe, there's like 3000 other sites that seem designed for just this type of rant. please take it to one of them.

cronic · Post by **cronic** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:12 am

Cr4zyb4rd wrote:eqjoe, there's like 3000 other sites that seem designed for just this type of rant. please take it to one of them.

Yeah, it was a rant, but it was pretty much relevant to the conversation (I think). Besides, nobody likes SoE =)

A_Druid_00 · Post by **A_Druid_00** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:00 am

/shrug, my guilds still doing just fine. Sure a few have left for WoW, and some have left for EQ2. But, there's an eager batch of apps right behind them filling in their shoes. Just like Starship Troopers, more meat for the grinder.. All that, and we haven't had to reduce ourselves to stealth commando tactics like bribing members of competing guilds to defect and app to us with empty promises and assurances that phat lewt is rotting every day just waiting for them.

All in all, this is the best time I've had in EQ in about 2 years. I have only one OoW spell so far, and it doesn't bother me in the least since I'm a lazy fuck

. Most of our competing guilds have all but dissolved in the mess that was GoD, and a lot of content is now fair game. It's nice not having to race all over Norrath just to get a shot at a mob anymore. Minor bugs aside, EQ is still a pretty decent game when compared to the competition. The next gen games look nice, but I'm taking my time before committing to either, as every game that was supposed to be an EQ killer up until this point has failed due to shitty gameplay or shitty stability or lack of content/updates to said content

insanitywiz · Post by **insanitywiz** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 2:48 pm

eqjoe wrote:
insanitywiz wrote:
cronic wrote: EQ is breathing its dieing breath. How long that breath will last, I have no idea. I do know that the numbers are dwindling, and they're not going to come back up again. Soon EQ will be gone, and with it - this project. Better have your moment of glory while you can
Actually, thats not really true. EQ's subscription numbers haven't dipped significantly in over a year, and even at the moment with EQ2 coming out and WoW being released soon they are holding strong. Now, give EQ2 and WoW a month or three each on the open market and we may start seeing EQ players drop their accounts to move over, but i think a lot of people have learned not to jump ship until testing out the new games and seeing if they are worth playing.
That is not the case on my server and its not the case in my guild. We cant put enough on to do phase one Time anymore.

-j

We aren't dissagreeing, I didn't say how many people log in day to day right now, I am talking about the number of subscribed accounts. And I'm not saying that it won't happen either, I just know that as of yet the subscription base hasn't taken a significant downturn.