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SOE and Intel PartnershipDec 14th, 2001 at 12:21 PM by Allakhazam

Here is is. Hot off the press: SONY ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT AND INTEL TEAM UP TO BRING GAMERS THE BEST IN ONLINE GAMEPLAY - New Technology to be Available to Enhance EverQuest Experience on Pentium 4 Processor - SAN DIEGO, CA December 17, 2001 – Sony Online Entertainment Inc., a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online gaming has joined forces with Intel Corporation to bring the largest community of online gamers the best gaming experience available. The two companies are working together to enhance the graphics of EverQuest®, the most successful massively multiplayer online role-playing game, for Intel® Pentium 4 processor-based systems by offering higher frame rates and smoother animations. "Working with Intel will allow us to deliver the best possible online experience for today’s gamer,” said Scott McDaniel, vice president of marketing, Sony Online Entertainment. “Gamers are a savvy group of people, always looking for new games and equipment. Through programming teamwork and expertise we are able to significantly enhance the gaming experience for Intel Pentium 4 owners.” Designed to provide the graphical and technical specification necessary for today’s 3D graphic display, the Intel Pentium 4 processor will provide the ultimate gameplay experience available. With the improved graphics of EverQuest: The Shadows of Luclin, which sold more than 120,000 units in its first 24 hours of availability, gamers are in for a rich, immersive role-playing experience. “Intel is pleased to be working with Sony Online Entertainment to optimize EverQuest for Pentium 4 processor-based systems”, said Deborah Conrad, Vice President, Intel Solutions Marketing Group. “A Pentium 4 processor based system is the ideal EverQuest gaming platform, giving gamers the speed and fluidity they want.” Continuing to grow with top-selling expansions The Ruins of KunarkÔ and The Scars of VeliousÔ, EverQuest is the largest fantasy world ever created online. With new player features and improved graphics EverQuest: The Shadows of Luclin is the latest and most extensive expansion pack yet offered. During peak periods, more than 98,000 adventurers and dragon slayers have explored the world of Norrath simultaneously. About Sony Online Entertainment Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE), the online gaming division of Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, is a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online gaming. Headquartered in San Diego, California, SOE develops, publishes and distributes entertainment for the PC and online markets. With more than 11 million registered users, SOE’s award-winning website, The Station® (www.station.com) hosts a variety of entertaining games and player communities spanning all genres. In addition to blockbuster hits EverQuest® and Jeopardy! Online, SOE has an array of cutting-edge online games in development such as PlanetSide™, Star WarsÒ Galaxies™ and Sovereign™. About Intel Corporation For three decades, Intel Corporation has developed advanced technology enabling today's computing and Internet innovations. Intel's latest advancement, the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor, offers performance for higher frame rates, smoother animations, and faster game play in today's leading edge games as well as being a robust platform for the next generation of games. Intel is also a leading manufacturer of high-speed networking and communications products.

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DAoC

# Jul 31 2003 at 9:49 AM Rating: Default

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I've been a DAoC player for about a year now, and i recently bought EQ. I can run DAoC on a 600 (OC'ed to 900) MHz Celeron with 306 MB PC 233 RAM, and a GeForce 2 MX 200 with 32 mb video ram, and get almost no lag, really good graphics quality, and a better crafting system. I don't care if you can't get drunk in DAoC, if you can't brew beer, or make food, because you don't NEED those in DAoC. If i wanted to waste my time and gold on food and drink, i'd play EQ. DAoC also has a few more servers and the PvP system is nicer. All this coupling with not having to find your corpse to get your @#$% back, and being able to pray at your grave to get back 80% of the xp you lost. DAoC owns EQ. Better economy too.

P4 vs Athlon

# Dec 21 2001 at 1:25 PM Rating: Decent

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Why go with the Intel chip when AMD's Athlon totally outperforms the P4? Or is it that Intel users are really suffering with game play?

I am running a 1.2Ghz thunderbird, 384mb ram and a Radeon card and it SCREAMS with all quality options/chars enabled.

If Intel users did their homework, they would surely see how poor their systems compare to AMD. God forbid any p4 users dont have RDRAM installed. (using SDRAM reduces a P4's performance to 33%)

btw...I have always used Intel products untill the release of the P4.

The "Partnership"

# Dec 18 2001 at 12:22 AM Rating: Decent

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I think there was a phone call like this in there somewhere:
"Hi Intel? This is Verant, here's the deal, you want to sell hardware, and we have a game that people are completely addicted to. You give us <insert whatever it is they want> and we'll change the game so that will run like a slideshow unless they buy your newest, fastest, most overpriced chip. . ."

Oh yeah

# Dec 17 2001 at 6:43 PM Rating: Decent

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one more thing I feel sorry for those P4 owners who ended up getting a socket 423 chip coz there screwed as they cant upgrade unlike the socket 478 users who can,,,,,, maybe,,,, for a short time. However us AMD owners can upgrade as we want for now :)

Re : Everyone

# Dec 17 2001 at 6:40 PM Rating: Decent

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OK Yeah the Game is P4 optimised, but surely still that is unfair. Babys you go on about getting a life and stuff but hey peeps play this game a lot and they pay money for it on a monthly basis, I dont see id or valve charging 10 bucks a month to play Quake 3 or Half Life online and their bothe fantastic games. So why arent the bugs fixed sooner and the play testing done before release. Im sure a good majority of people wouldnt be bothered about a delayed release date (damn Im still waiting for Sam & Max 2) as long as it works correctly when they install it . And yes I am still experiencing problems with my soundcard(of all things the sound is screwed up and I know others who have the sme problem to) so whats all that about. The new cat city's noob area is a stroke of genius, a really good idea, but splitting the city into zones ala freeport may have been a good idea also. Anyway enough ranting and of to play my fave game even though there are a lot of problems.

P.s. Ya may sound hypocritcal to play it but I love EQ and something needs to be done to create enjoymnt for everyone. Also if ya check out my system specs on one of the first few posts ya can probably agree that the game should nt run like a lame dog!

Thanks for reading :)

Baggwinn

P3 or P4

# Dec 17 2001 at 1:35 PM Rating: Default

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I think pentiums are great, i just upgraded to p4
and play EQ as much as i can (alot)hehe,
Its just the way things are moving nowadays,
iused to have a p3 and loved EQ just the same ,
Its not a game too me anymore,,its turned into a second life,(and its far out man)

P4 upgrade

# Dec 16 2001 at 12:56 PM Rating: Default

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I used to love EQ, but with all the upgrades, my computer can no loner function on EQ. Haven't they ever heard of making things backwards compatible? And yes, the P4 announcement doesn't mean you must have a P4, but I have played EQ for 3 years now, and my P3 now can't handle the graphics. If you think you don't need to upgrade your computer to play when they upgrade, you will learn the truth when some componenet of YOUR computer is no longer compatible.

Good bye lvl 49 enchantress with 250 jewelry skill, it was fun!

lol at funny ppl

# Dec 15 2001 at 1:24 AM Rating: Default

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Get a clue people, it says it will be optimized for P4, that does NOT mean you must have a P4. It just means that if you have one, it will supposedly run better.

It does not mean your gameplay will get worse or that you will not be able to play it on an AMD or any other chip machine, sheesh.

no play !!

# Dec 15 2001 at 12:45 AM Rating: Default

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Why do we have to pay,when we can't get in to play??It's been ten days and my daughter has a new Sony computer,she has not been able to play since you started downloading all this JUNK!! tried to play today and I can't get to my server,have tried for hours and the same old thing comes popping up>>try again later,how much later is the question..Please get this thing up and running so all of us can play. Thank You !!

babys

# Dec 14 2001 at 11:14 PM Rating: Default

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Ya know its just a dam game if you cant use it then just dont play it. I dont like people complaining about how DAOC is better,who gives a ****, if you dont like eq and your playin daoc im sorry you waisting your money. Eq has alot of people that take the game way to far and daoc. if all you do when you go home is hop on eq or daoc you need to have mor hobbies ya its fun but its a lot more fun to go out and do things. I played eq way to much and really when i click /play and it says 126 days ok look thats a !^%# load and people have way more than that. plz get away from comp for a lil make new friends yadda yadda yadda.< my points are spread out and i had to ***** a lil>

UNHAPPY WITH EQ!!!

# Dec 14 2001 at 10:27 PM Rating: Default

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On a side noe. If SOE and Intel have partnered up, then wouldnt that be the same thing the Government is going after Microsoft for? Forcing people to use their chips to play the game, when we have already got perfectly good chips? Why should we spen the extra $ on a Intel chip when our AMD works fine with everything else? Sure, some people will go ahead and get the Intel chip, and new players will probably do the same. But they will lose allot of customers if they do not make the game AMD friendly SOON!!
Again, I invite anyone that is interested in a Class Action suit to reply to this.

RE: UNHAPPY WITH EQ!!!

# Dec 15 2001 at 1:45 AM Rating: Decent

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this doesn't mean it doesn't work for AMD

RE: UNHAPPY WITH EQ!!!

# Dec 31 2001 at 3:57 PM Rating: Decent

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I doesn't mean it won't work for AMD users...but there is a clear problem with the AMD K-6 2 processors that is severly affecting playablity for those who have them. Horrible and unnacceptable framerates and unbelievably long zone loading times. This has been a problem since Dec 4th when lucin was released. It's not only affectin those who are using SOL, it's affecting those who haven't even installed the expansion.

Yes it "works" but it's very unplayable for a lot of people.

Sshais Nilok, 26th rank of The Greenmist

UNHAPPY WITH EQ!!

# Dec 14 2001 at 9:52 PM Rating: Default

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In many ways DAoC is better that EQ!! I have never been disconnected playing DAoC, never experianed LAG with DAoC and the game (DAoC) runs perfectly!! EQ on the other hand, ever since their "GREAT NEW EXPANSION" has had nothing but problems!! I can not play for even a min without getting disconnected. Last time I died because of it, and I can bet you any amount of money that if my body disapears by the time I am able to get on line to get it, EQ will not give me back the equipment that I had. They will say it is my ISP, whome I never had a problem with, I mean hey, I can play every other game I have without a problem. Then they will say my system is not set up for EQ. BS!! I made my computer specifically to EQ standards for the optimum playing experiance like they said, 639 megs of RAM, 1.33 GIG HD, Prophet II G Force NVIDIA vid card, Sound BLaster Live and am running DSL conection. All of these, or should I say none of them, were listed as not compatable. I am running a AMD processor, but I had no problems till now. After they started patchin all the things still wrong with their "HOT NEW RELEASE". I wonder if they are geting kick backs from Pentium to make it so people HAVE to spen more money than needed for a processor chip? There are so many people using AMD that they should take that into account. I am seriously thinking of filling a class action suit against them for delivering what they knew to be a faulty game, just so they could make big bucks before the hollidsay. I know, you are going to say that I agreed not to hold them responsable for such things. That of course is true, but I had to do that in order to play the game and find out that it is a piece of crap. I think a Lawyer would love to tackle this one. If things are not fixed SOON, then I think I will do that. If I do, I will re post here asking if anyone else would like to join in in the suit. See if that does not spark SOE and Verant into getting things fixed. I guess that the entertainment part of SOE is sitting back counting the $ they are making and watching everyone complain about how it does not work. I guess it would be entertaining if you work for SOE or Verant.

Also

# Dec 14 2001 at 7:31 PM Rating: Decent

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If anybody in the UK reads Edge Magazine they may have read the article a coupla months ago regarding SOE. The CEO (cant remember his name and dont have mag to hand ) said that they didnt care about what the customer wanted and they were thinking of putting up the subscription whats that all about?

Goddamit

# Dec 14 2001 at 7:28 PM Rating: Decent

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Ok for a start I dont wanna Sound Like Im boasting but I have

An Athlon 1.4
Geforce3 64MB
1GB DDR Ram
Win XP
40GB IBM Deskstar HDD
Soundblaster Audigy Live

Thats the main specs right, so why on norrath does it chug in the new zones like the Cat City in particular, its supposed to be "optimized" for Geforce3, even Nvidia have it on there website as the game of the moment. I have major problems with sound going funny on me (i.e. it freezes until I press attack) and Ive sent bug reports so why do I have to put up with this kinda rubbish and poor suprt after spending over £3,000 on a machine that runs other games like Max Payne, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Commanche 4 at over 200 frames per second. I only get about 15 20 fps (in the new zones ) from luclin . Verant and Sony its just not good enough. (god forbid what Planetside is gonna be like)

Baggwinn

Ps dont retort with ny crap like "because its online" as I get frame raters in excess of 270 on unreal tournament which Doesnt even use T&L.!

Hehe

# Dec 14 2001 at 5:03 PM Rating: Default

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I just find this funny.

I remember back when pentiums first came out, Intel had a little "Optimized for Pentium" stickers on them.

Optimized for Pentium (aka, Runs best on P4) simply means - We never bothered to optimize the bloat out of this code, so you're going to need supercomputer like processing power to run it.

Sounds like SoE got a bunch of free chips in exchange for not bothing to optimize the Client :)

What about AMD

# Dec 14 2001 at 4:34 PM Rating: Default

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What about all thouse of us that have AMD, they are cheaper and better processors and now we will be punished for it. First no 95 then 512 ram now NO AMD!?!?

RE: What about AMD

# Dec 14 2001 at 6:35 PM Rating: Default

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I concurr,

If I Didn't know better I'd day SOE/Verant is trying to drive away customers.

RE: What about AMD

# Dec 18 2001 at 12:47 AM Rating: Excellent

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Folks, just take a deep breath and relax. EQ is just joining in with Intel for marketing purposes. They are NOT cutting off AMD users. Everything is going to be just fine.

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