Yes some of us may be willing to pay more, so why does that get others of you so upset. If you can't afford it then stop screaming sour grapes. Use the services you are able to afford and enjoy the areas that you can explore and the servers that you can log in to. I have physical problems that don't allow me to go out and have much of a Real Life, so I am THRILLED that Verant is offering me a chance to do more of what I love about EverQuest. Namely QUEST. I find this an awesome way for me to forget my woes and problems and venture into realms I've only read about till now. Can't wait for the holodeck version. :)

If this is too expensive for you, you don't have to pay for the service to continue to enjoy EverQuest. Some of you don't seem to understand that just to buy the hardware is very expensive and what about the thousands that Verant pays for their ISP connections every month.

If you don't think you're getting what you're paying for, stay on your current server. It's not like they are saying pay-up or leave. Congratulations Verant for offering those of us who applaud your tremendous efforts and excellent work in continuing to improve the best game available. For those of you who think DAoC is so great, shrug, I don't know what you see in it. I bought it, tried it, lagged worse than EQ did when Luclin came out. So get off your high horses, oh I forgot you don't have one, sorry.

Ok for one... the service they provide in game is ussually that of, -I can not help you with that situation, contact your local internet service, or I do not have the power to ressurect your body from a bug which we have not yet confirmed.
I really dont think the customer service is all that great, and to pay 4 times as much just to get some good customer service and a web site to post your findings which ruffly nobody but yourself will look at. WHY? I can see for guilds, but why individuals. Maybe make a character bios thing for the guilds so they can do it for each member, but to charge 40 bucks per person is just insane. I know people have to much money as it is, since some people pay 500 bucks for a piece of armor over Ebay, but you dont need to cater to these people. Last I heard you were trying to ban Ebay selling, now your catering to the people? Your forgetting that most of your good players and truelly dedicated players first off dont have the money to pay for there already super expensive cable bill, and to pay for a super expensive everquest bill. I can buy a new game a month for the price im paying for your half rate customer service. AOL provides 24/7 "FREE" customer service. You guys should be happy were willing to buy your game, and then continually pay your company every month for it.
On another note, to go along with the EBAY shoppers and other people who just got money pouring out there pockets to spend on anything they choose. American societys good little spenders keepin this economy alive =) It will be nice if we could reduce the ammount of traffic on our already over burdened servers. I go into LoIo to lvl up my alt rogue, and some nights, if not most nights, theres 90+ people in the zone. And thats not because someobodies doing there rogue epic questing, its just sheer masses of lvl 20 players who cant go to luclin because of the INSANE computer requirements, and everywhere else in the entire game for mid lvls to camp for consistant experience with decent cash dropping, is over camped as well. I go to velks or seb with my 55 warrior, and that place is now PACKED! with people. Old lvl 60s trying to get alt exp, normal crowds in there tryin to get to 60, and alt exp, and then you get the ussualy economy driving loot hungry folk, who camp warrior items with druids and shaman gear with clerics. (Hint to all those in seb, a cleric not in a guild DOESNT deserve to get all the gems that drop, chances are its a loot hungry cleric, whose takin that money to twink the bejesus out of there alts. Gems are for raid situations where they spend lots of cash, guildless clerics just dont go on raids) So to get back on track with where I started, if this new server can open up space for the servers, hey go for it. If it gets rid of even one of the loot hungry people and EBAY buyers from our server, hey go for it.

Tired of the ebay buyers and loot hungry punks of the server getting what they want simply because as the GMs say, be a little more cautious on who you select for a group, your group must decide on the loot selection, and if he ninja loots while in the group, well... you shouldnt have grouped him. It may make his reputation bad, but some people just dont care about that stuff, and Im still stuck without an item ive been camping for weeks to get, and now will have to wait for several more weeks before im lucky enough to get the chance to roll for it again.
Cash issue... you guys say you got an active player base of ruffly 800,000 peeps i think i read somewhere before? If so, 10 bucks a month, your getting little under 8 million dollars a month just for us to continue playing. What your business execs are goin through ruff times or something? Price of yachts going up? I know it must have been tuff for them to fuel there private jets during the fuel price increase, but is it necisarry to take it out on us, their customers. Do that math, 8*12, ruffly 96 million dollars a year, JUST FOR THE RIGHT TO PLAY THE GAME. Not to mention paying x amount of dollars to get luclin, or the other games in the trilogy. For 96 million dollars you better be able to get someone to serve me drinks at my computer side. Now thats the customer service id pay 40 bucks a month for. Your a money hungry company, case in point. Anything for some extra bucks. Now that everyone is in a republican frenzy with Bush in office, we just dont ask questions about giving MORE money to the top 2% of the nation who holds 90% of the wealth. With enron scandle taking place, dont more people question your motives? The fact that the french revolution took place with an actual better economic situation than what were in, doesnt that make any concerns to people around the country?
Well im done ranting, you wont be getting my 40 bucks a month, plans would be to change that 9 million dollar a month pay check to a 36 million dollar a month paycheck, and its just not going to happen. Because things will settle in and the server probably wont be as good as its being hyped up to be.

Wow! An extra 30 bucks a month to play on a re-vamped Test server with pretty web pages? Where do I sign up? HA! Not bloody likely. I guess some marketing genius at Sony figured that out of the 400,000+ subscribers out there, there's got to be at LEAST 8000 suckers willing to pay more to play on a Test server. Sure there will be more GM's....there should be - look at all the bugs that these people paying 40 bucks a month will be hitting before we do. :) Suits me fine.....an extra level of testing is definitely needed and I don't mind waiting for the content to be pushed to the Live Servers. If some people want to pay for this "privilege", so be it. Say, as long as you're bending over for Sony to pay 40 bucks a month to test their software for them, why don't you become a guide as well and do some un-paid customer support for them? HAHAHAhahaha....

I think Verant just lost me as a customer. They could have tried to fix the massive farming problem or done something innovative that other games are developing like making personalized dungeons (when a group goes in it spawns a private dungeon for them). Instead I find they are spending their time and money developing a special area for a select few.
I've been ignoring the siren call of Dark Age Of Camelot for awhile thinking I'd wait until Star War Galaxies, Planetside, Shadowbane, and Dragon Empires were released next summer then review them all and compare the winner to EQ. Since EQ so obviously doesn't care about my measly standard account much anymore My $10 will be going to DAOC.

Okay, reading through this...
I like the idea of the server - but I don't like the cost.
Yes, all of it should be available to normal players. It would knock the socks of any other game out there if it did.
All those people saying "to pay customer support people"... I'd like to point out that 90% of contact you all have with "Customer Support" are guides in game - and they are NOT paid. They are volunteers.
(I confess to ranting at one or two before, and for that I want to apologize to the guide community on a whole. Yes, apologize. You guys are VOLUNTEERS and I respect you for trying to make life easier for the rest of us and for taking the time to *try* and help - and all you usually get is yelled at. Thank you for doing a thankless job.)
Ok, I hit the signup button and I got "Forbidden".
But here is a question for ya all: Can try it out for a month before you decide to carry on? And if you don't like it - will they move you *back* free of charge with all your items????

I can understand that they're trying to make money here. But I also think most of the stuff they're promising-- dynamic quests, a mapping feature, in game character customisations, a quest journal... are things they SHOULD have included in Luclin, if not in the game itself.

It's like they were GOING to, and then they said: "Hey we can take those features out and give them to an elite server and make more money!" Actually i'm positive thats what they did! I remember them promising capes being visible for Luclin's release, and then saying they didn't have time to do that (or get the bazaar to work); it would be interesting to see if we're getting visible capes at all-- or if they're going to be something only the legends get to have. =(

And you 'tour' the legends server on the legends site-- you'll see the whole thing looks better than regular EQ, even the new inventory layout, but then-- at 40 bucks a month, you get what you pay for I guess. /em shrug

I was really unhappy with Luclin. EQ needed a total rehaul; and instead they rehashed everyones faces and left everything else the same. While I love the new character models except in a few cases; I really wanted more than just cool models, I wanted what they're giving the 'Legends', and if I could afford it, maybe i'd go for it but at the same time I don't want to leave my server and my friends, my guild-- and what if it sucks? So even if I had the money i'd probably say no for the other reasons...

As for dynamic quests-- wasn't the whole point of EQ to make it less like a game thats always the same and more like a real changing evolving world, with gnolls storming the gate and kobolds going berk and wars and fights and other cool things? I thought it was the whole point of a MMORPG, to be different and dynamic. I've had EQ for over 6 months. And in those 6 months I have NEVER, EVER been involved in a GM event. Halloween was the exception; but even then they just let a script running and forgot to turn it off for a couple of days. It was fun but it wasn't dynamic. I was promised much more when I first started playing and honestly I expected much more. And now they're giving much more out-- except... of course, as usual I'll never get to see it. =P

Ah well, such is life... although DAoC is looking like the greener pasture on the other side of the hill; and even though the grass isn't always greener on the other side... it's mighty brown on this side... ;)

Some of these features may be nice, but not worth the insane amount of money they want, every month. $40 just for 1 server? The friggin game only cost $40 at retail. Then you wonder why you didn't burn the box when you find out you can only play with a subsription. 8000 player cap? Let's do some simple math...oh yeah, unless you're in a really popular zone, there's nobody to play with, especially if it's 2:300AM. Bah. If they want more money, why don't they just do something like $10/mo per server you want to use or something.

This is so gay, $40 is way too much for such stupid upgrades. Verant has gone to far with this, and now they are only going to pay attention to the rich high payers, when the people who really need help dont get it because a gm isnt allowed too.

I think it would be cool to get an item named after me, but i wouldnt wast 40 dollars on it.

Timmy: "Dad, can I have another $30 a month for EQ?"
Dad: "No! And go mow the lawn."

Isn't this what Verant promised us before the launch of EQ, so why don't we get it, and why does it cost 40 bucks. I would say boycott it, but i am sure there are to many 60 plus nut jobs out there already signed up. Today is the 4th i am curious to go on and see what is going on. Plus, i hope they don't abandon us regular only 10 bucks a month servers. Remeber all the new features that were going to come in Luclin? Like the bazaar idea, well i bet they are legends only now. I bet the server will also be like all 50 plus so it will be impossible to do any thing that a high lvl would ant to do because there are so many of them.


Lets hope Verant stops smoking crack and gives us some new items... and more importantly a friggin story line. Who the hell cares about some stupid web site except for a conceded high lvl character plus no one will look at them except the person who owns it so what is the point??

Fah-Q Verant, stupid money grubbin little laim @$$'s, What? $10 a month isn't enough from like a million people each mont? ($10,000,000 a month!) they gotta try for more? These were things that they had promised ALL players back in the beta, "We'll have such things as GUILD HALLS in the first expansion." Did they? NO. Now they're totally ******** us. This game is going to hell, and so is the people who made it. It's BUNK.

This looks like a good new server i think im going to play it if it actually comes on.


Look fer me on there.

The issues I have with it are different.
I have pleaded for this service for over a year. The 30 a month is not the issue, the question to me was for 30 a month does the game become better?
The biggest problem for me now is
1. Overcrowding
2. Uber guilds monoploizing the mobs
3. 13 year olds and under ruining the fun for ME

Now that is why I wanted a premium server
1. 2500 people on at a time, as they have blocked access to the number of people playing at a time now, they can blow smoke at us and say this is less than average but I do not beleive it. I want to see the numbers again. I want to be able to kill dervs in Nro without having to wait an hour for a group, have a chance to kill a gnoll in SK without having to be on a waiting list for 3 hours, then get one spawn every 15 minutes and this 2500 avearge 8000 total does not make me feel that this will happen
2. Movelogg ability assures this new server will have uber guild come here intact and take over this end game, the rest of us by the time we get there will have to beg them to get a taste of it
3. 40 a month will help out on the 13 year olds, they will by and large not chose this server

1 point in 3 is not enough for me, I am not paying 40 a month to go to a new crowded server

Ok VI now you're just rubbing salt into an open, bleeding, sceptic wound. How DARE you charge your already unhappy customers an extra 30$ a month for services they should already be recieving. To say that i am outraged would be an understatement. I don't think i have ever heard of bigger rip off in my entire life. You money grabbing, weasely little scum bags. Get back to fixing the game of all its glitches and bugs instead of creating silly additions like this. Whats the point in sugar coating a ****?