"Its not about the 880, its about the perception of no limits."
Amen, Toco! I'm with you 100% on that one. If I'm going to pay good money to go escape into an alternate reality, I too wanna have fun instead of feeling the designers' leash constantly jerking my neck.
Even worse, I suspect that this 4-slot nonsense is some form of SoE beancounter profit-maxing plot. I can't prove it, but it sure smells like one.
I don't mean to hype WoW or irrationally trash EQ2 w/ what I'm about to say, but I just got an email that WoW is completely sold out. Yes, completely sold out - in stores, on line, everywhere.
I haven't comfirmed this, but this is what I just read on their email. This person can't find it anywhere for sale except on Ebay for twice the original price. A week ago we had an empty character slot on one of our EQ2 accounts, and I occasionally peeked at server health. They were all down a full click - none were FULL any more. Many were green (light load).
Well, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing that we bought 6 months of eq2 or whatever it was we did. If this is true, SoE has got to be shocked. So far they are losing big-time to Blizzard. And it is only true fear like this
that will force them to face reality and make the game better (and do it fast). Maybe some of the idiots who sucked the fun, life and innovation out of EQ2 (see the game they launched was nothing like the innovated "next generation of mmo" they promised in the hype months earlier) will get fired and have to go work for cel phone companies or something - and maybe with regime change we'll get a really good game - if the very real and chilling (
) fact of having lost to Blizard doesn't do that right away. Here's hoping!
<-- that's us clapping for u, Moorgard - come on - really fix EQ2 this time - lose the tightness - be a little more generous - and make it FUN - u can do it!
Edited, Fri Jan 7 19:19:11 2005 by EvilGnomes Edited, Fri Jan 7 19:16:04 2005 by EvilGnomes