No I am not saying that this game is EQ1...I NEVER TRIED TO SAY THAT!! (first of all because i never played EQ1, all i know are the great reviews, the permanence in the market, the feeling from all of you EQ1 players, etc, etc)
BUT, if you put the label of something existing into something new is because, at least, that new thing will have something of the prevoius thing.....right?
That is Fact, and it is also proven that those kind of "franchise sequels" sell a lot and are good marketing strategies....
Otherwise, we wouldn't have had things like:
1-Tomb Raider 1,2,3,4,5, etc....(franchise died when they came out with the last game which really sucked)
2-The very same WoW...this is their fourth release!!!(first MMO)!!! They did it because they had the customer base already!!
If no, why didn't do it with Diablo?? Diablo was a much better and polished game than Warcraft at its time...why not? because Diablo would have been competing head-to-head against EQ...or so many others like it out there..right?
3-Why are so many other phantasy-like MMO out there like EQ? Because of its success..they try to emulate it.
If EQ2 would have been named "Phantasy quest On-line" (as an example), and they would have NOT used the name EQ in the marketing thing; i bet that the 80% of us would have not bought it!!! It would have been another MMO! Right?
That doesnt make it a bad game, or nothing else, but just another game. And it would have had the same process than any other MMO, reviews, critics, etc. etc.
Where that 80% would be now? Playing WoW!!! or still in EQ1 or still in SWG, etc, etc....see my point???
The EVERQUEST name usage for this new game was clearly a marketing strategy, and we all ate it! And maybe that is why we are being so tough and fiery critizing it and breaking it...because we all were waiting for an outstanding game; not simply another good game. see?
Pasho.