EverQUEST, Verant.

Absolutely, I like the loot code on dropped items. Destroy the uber campers who are just there to twink someone. But loot code on QUESTING?! that's just stupid. If you have made an effort to actually PLAY the game, the game that you put MONEY into, you deserve to have a enriching experience. Verant, please LISTEN. It's going to kill EQ's customer base the second another MMORPG comes out! Look at the talk of all the other games...right next to yours. Everyone is all jazzed up about other games because of how you have limited us. I, as a player, deserve to have a reward for effort I put into something. Yes, reward should be equal to level, for SIMPLE things (i.e. drops). Kill something easy for you? so what. Kill something, carry it across the world, hand it in, take next item to...etc. That's an effort of the preson behind that screen, and deserving of the reward. Please. I enjoy your game, but I swear, if you ***** me like that, I will leave. Believe it or not, I have a life past EQ, and my guildmates agree. Heh. But we can be guildmates in another game...it doesn't hurt to reconsider your opinion when you get new information. Only the stupid or insane don't.

Dump, MT server, 39 SK, 36 druid, 21 necro

I read the Caster's Realm snippet, and considering the posts I made on the Station concerning this very issue (under a different name), I am completely flabergasted that Verant would take this position after having been fully warned early on by many customers that this is not a desired repercussion of the game.

No matter how Absor (ever the argumentative and never-give-an-inch man) phrases it, this does punish people for levelling. His argument that not all aspects of the game are available to all low level characters is logically weak given that we all have the potential to earn higher levels and complete tougher quests. Sure, a level 10 paladin can't complete the Fiery Defender quest at that level, but how I read this issue is similar to saying "You can't complete the FD quest because you weren't clever enough to start it when you were level 10". And as such, it is a punishment.

It prevents the paying customer to access content of the game with his or her character of choice simply because they didn't first use a spoiler site before playing the game. Sure, enchanters can't complete paladin quests (they can, just can't use the reward... my druid has done many of the mid-level armor quests for each class just for fun). Sure, level 10 players can't access content in Temple of Veeshan at that level. But nobody had any reasonable expectation to be allowed to kill a dragon at level 10. However, the customer has voiced that we want the questing content regardless of the utility of the reward. We need it, as an alternative to evercamping, as a roleplaying aspect of the game and our characters, as a "fun" element of the game that we expect to be able to access because we payed $50 to buy and play a "fun" game.

Do golf games prevent players from doing a par-3 hole because they can play from the pro tees? Do driving games prevent players from driving on the practice course because they have "levelled" past it? Does a First Person Shooter game prevent a player from using a handgun because they are competent enough to use the missile launcher? Does Red Alert prevent me from making infantry men just because I have a helicopter pad or a nuke silo?

"You're in our world now"... Verant's mission statement clearly shuns the customer.