MY POST IS TO SONY and/or those of you that wish to speak for them anyway.

1. How long before the first expantion comes out??
2. How much will it cost? $29.95 ??
3. Will you call it EQ-2 of 8 ??
4. Oh one minor problem with first EQ game. Population has gone in the tank on my server. This is causing a snowball effect for a PvP server. You see without anyone to attack the predators die off. Without any predators(PK's) the server just becomes a low population blue server. Where is the fun in that?
Question is do you think the very first EQ server ever is going to die because of the lack of population?

Thanks

Oh one last thing. Good work on EQ-2 looks like you increased your monthly subscriptions by stealing from yourself. Question is how long will folks keep active accounts for both games :)

Yep, gonna be camping the FedX guy today and hope he has the drop I need!

if i spend the 80 bucks to get the baby dragon will it die if i dont feed it or something

I just got my pre-order character creation disk on Monday. I have been playing around with the new character models and think they're pretty sweet. I've already decided on a barb and a halfling. The new chick models are pretty cool. I might just have to make one or two for eye candy =). EQ2 ships in 4 days 8)!!!!

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Ok, I am an OG everquest player, I started my character in july of 1999, and have played only 2 different toons the entire time. I have to say, Sony has a bad track record for its expansions and the way it conducts business. For the past few years/expansions sony has been trying to keep up with its players because the playerbase rips through every expansion that comes out. There is no real challenge in EQ anymore in my opinion. In addition, me and the guild im in had a petitionable issues this past week and the GM's pretty much said FU until many threatened to quit even though the gm had admitted it was a bug on the games end, It took about 7 hours for resolution.
Everquest is a thing of the past, there are many new games coming out soon including World of warcraft, (which I beta on), Wish 2, matrix, middle earth, etc. I don't understand why so many people are diehard about a dead franchise. For one thing, what was the last GM event you went to that didn't involve mass killing of green mobs in newbie zones? Try something new, I mentioned above that I was in WoW beta..../drool. That game rocks, I saw above someone mention crayola graphics, so what? They aren't bad....at all. In addition the overall game play is much faster, death is relaitvely painless and downtime is nil. The game was developed this way so not to alienate any one customer in addition, we all know blizzard rocks if not a little slack on their release dates(due to the fact they create excellent products and thoroughly test things before releasing them to the general public). Open-beta/stress-test starts this coming week for WoW, I strongly suggest that everyone give it a shot.

I've been playing in Beta for 2 months. In that time, I've seen lots of changes. The lag everyone speaks of was server lag. Partly due to the fact that they were stress testing beta 1 server. Now with 3 servers open, beta 1 still has some server lag, but that's due to people not wanting to switch servers and build a new toon. Beta 2 and Beta 3 have zero lag, and beta 1 East Commonlands, (the Evil noobie zone) is lag free. What that tells me is most are playing good toons, on beta 1.

My recommendation to all of you is to see for yourself. If you don't like it, I'm sure it won't be the first 50.00 game that you thought sucked, and didn't play it. However, don't make the mistake of comparing it to EQ. It is not EQ in anything but name and some general Lore. After that, everything else is vastly different. Levelling, Tradeskills, Quests, Raids, Guilds, Prestige and several other things make EQ2 unique and stand out from all other games.

As for the system requirements, I run a geforce fx5700 with a 2600 athlon processor and 1 gig of ram and can max settins with virtually no lag except in battle. Try it for a bit, because the graphics are stunning maxxed out. So much detail.

I'm looking forward to the release of EQ2. I'm more of a casual gammer and having reached the upper end of EQ1 theres not much for me. I was in a great guild for four years and after it broke up I chose not to look for another. I just can't meet the requirements for the uber guilds. I can't raid 4 times a week and don't have 50-100 AA's. I checked out some of the lower ranking guilds, but just can't get into raiding Splitpaw again, lol.

I remember how much fun EQ1 was back in the begining when everyone was a noob and lowbie zones were packed. I hope to encounter some of this again in EQ2.

I have four accounts (only two are active) and tons of great memories in EQ1 and I will miss my characters when I leave. However, I suppose I will get over it like I did with UO, DAOC, Shadowbane, Earth and Beyond and AO. I will most likely keep one EQ1 account open with all my droppable gear from both accounts, but only time will tell for how long.

I'm sure that a bunch of people will stick with EQ1 and if it makes them happy then more power to them. There are a lot of things about EQ2 that appeal to me so I'll give it a spin. I even dropped a ton of cash to build a sweet gaming box for it, including a $580.oo video card (which made about 98% of my lag in EQ1 go away). Now-a-days gaming is more about the video card, than cpu power (although the more power the better).

Ok everybody to all the Eq fanboys out there please... stop being so blind the game looks absolutely atrocious, the lag is ridiculous, and the overall storyline is just stupid absolutely retarded. What also makes you think eq2 will be different and sony will actually listen to what the customers have to say? They wont Smedley is a jerk off and so are all the devs they dont give a damn about the players if you havent already noticed. Coming from a PvP server i find their customer service **** poor. If you want a good new mmorpg check out World of Warcraft the game is absolutely amazing. Great Graphics, great storyline, awesome gm service, reasonably good pvp for beta, and not to mention the game doesnt require you to have a super computer to run it.

/cheer SOE!

Although I'm incredibly PISSED that they didn't let me in beta (first beta i've applied for and never accepted since starting eq1 5 years ago), I am incredibly anxious for eq2's release. not for a replacement for eq1 (although it may become that for me), but for something new from an online game creator that has proven they can satisfy my tastes.

I've wasted money so far on Anarchy Online, Shadowbane, L2 and FFXI. Almost bought CoH after the beta, but decided it wasn't worth the risk after all the other games i wasted $30-$50 on.

/cheer EQ2!!!

I recently asked ten different people on Stromm if any would be playing EQ2, and EVERY ONE of them said, no for one of two reasons. Either they had invested a lot of time and effort in their character and had so much more to explore in EQ1, OR they were frustrated with the bugginess and/or gameplay of 2. When I ooc'ed in the bazaar which game do you like better, I got 3 answers of 1 and none for 2. So at least in this small sample of people, it seems that Stromm will be going strong in the months to come!

I was lucky enough to be in beta from start. And the devs really performed miracles on the lag and bugs. For me the game is almost crashfree, and with a little tweaking of settings it runs lagfree. People have to remember that Everquest 2 IS NOT a sequal to EQLive by any means. Its more a new game build on the lore of EQLive. If you are looking for EQLive in a new coat ( what many ppl obviously hope for) you are going to be disappointed.
Far as i know SOE will keep EQLive running for a long time and will still develop expansions and work on content.
With Everquest 2 they want to attract a new kind of audience and definitely do not want to draw all players from EQLive.