I 100% agree. If you go out to the movies on average lets say a ticket is $7, and thats for tops 3 hours of entertainment. Add popcorn and drinks and your at half the expansion cost for just 3 hours of movie watching. Ill be the first to admit im a EQ addict and i too get critisied by my alcohol drinking friends. But when you break it down i have seen them spend atleast $20 just so they can get plastered and wake up with a headache. I think ill pass on that and save money and chill at my computer.

While i am in a raiding guild we are still working on GoD progression and have barely touched OoW and DoN progession and we have yet to look into DoD raid content, but i will still get them for the other things that they offer. Id love to kick a door in and possibly snare/slow a mob with a trap on inc so theres less agro needed on innital attack.

The more they add to EQ imo the more interesting it becomes because of its complexity. It really is a huge puzzle that you need to solve: strats for encounters, best XP spots, new gear to advance your character (getting all necessary focus effects and what not), new AAs to make the puropse of your class ever changing and unique is my favorite part of EQ. If they stop adding things to it via expansions the game will die cause who really wants to stay in the same zones griding XP and seeing the same few drops off the same named.

As much as people think that they arent getting their moneys worth outta the expansions that they buy to be honest theres only one person to blame and thats themselves. They have the expansions so the fact that they have yet to go to them and experience in them is not SoE's fault for releaseing a new one. I personally wish i had done more DoD before PoR comes live in a few months and now that i know a new expansion is comming out ill prolly try to get into it more.

The day that EQ stops releaseing expansions is the day it stops becomeing EQ. Its called Ever-quest if you planned on it having an end then you must have a different definition of Ever then i do. The requency of expansions have sped up ill agree with that and that most players dont enter the newly released content untill 3-4 months after its release and by then they are popping out a new one. For those people i could understand the confusion and anger in feeling the "need" to get the next one before they have even tryed the previous one, but again it all depends on the player, their play time, and motivation. Obiviously new expanions arent for everyone but i personally plan on preordering and cancleing all my plans for release day so i can go adventuring. Theres nothing better to me in EQ then being one of the first to try something new thats what makes things fun and interesting, now i know ill never be in an endgame guild being the first though raid content so being one of the first ones in the grp content is the most enjoyment i get from EQ so i say let the expansions flow like water.

Edited, Thu Jan 5 17:10:10 2006

uuuuhhh...
Isn't it illegal to put spyware on a disc thats being sold? Hmm...
I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure that's illegal.

If its so easy to get to high lvls why are you complaining about it being hard to get XP in dulak cause of Plers. I could be wrong but i dont see to many lvl 70's pling other lvl 70's. So i guess getting to high lvls isnt so easy if your not there yet huh? And on a similar note why are you complaining that people that are capable of lvling their own alts are doing so, isnt it their right since they have obiviously put in the time to get to high lvls so they are able to do more things. Eliminating power lvling wont change much of anything aslong as there are still twinks. The only way to stop PLing and twinking is to rewrite the way EQ works and the whole system of obtaining gear.

Those that put in the time and effort to get themselfes to high lvls have imo deserved the right to not have to go though hell lvls again just because they want to try another class out. The ability to PL takes 2 accounts in thus 2 times as much money. Dont be pissed at ppl that can PL just because your not in one of their groups and because its hard for you, because i assure you those that are doing the PLing have put in their time at the comp doing the same thing your doing and dealing with the same matters you are. If they didnt have to deal with ppl of higher lvl helping their lower lvl friends then they were around from the beginning and had it much harder then you have it now.

And as for it being hard to get a grp unless your a cleric or warrior, heres one plan that works 99% of the time. Send tells to people and be the grp leader, have some initative if your just sitting there looking at the lfg screen and waiting for someone to pick you then yes it will be harder to get a grp, but if you start sending tells to those that are also sitting lfg staring at the screen most of the time they dont care who invites them or how "l33t" and "uber" you are they are just as happy to get a grp as you are if someone invites you. Take some initative and form a grp it doesnt take all that long or all that much effort.

Edited, Thu Jan 5 16:38:18 2006

You are the one flaming people Winchester. Insults actually make you look like you are 7 years old. Unless what you really want is to draw attention.

What you can see here is criticism. I doubt you understand it, but people is concerned about the game and offers their opinion. Hopefully someone from SOE reads this forum and gets some feedback from the players. Thats why I post.

As I see it, it is very hard for relatively new player to enjoy the game. The game population has decreased and it concentrates on the newest expansions. Theres the new fancy zone every once in a while, you work on it, and when you are starting to enjoy, another expansion arrives and drives all people away to the next fancy zone.

If sony wants to keep this pace it is all good. BUT, I suggest refactoring the old zones so they are not left obsolete, I suggest improving the soloing capabilities of players, I suggest to create new expansions that integrate with the old world..

Do you have any suggestions Winchester? Or any other insult instead?

There is no challenge in EQ2....sat on it for 4 months and got bored silly thinking that something MIGHT get good. Thanks...staying with EQ and loving it...have heard more complaints about EQ2 then about any expansions...looking forward to new one too...even at the cost of another $30...times 2...lol