SOE hiring lead designer for new 'flagship' project

The only reason Everquest ever attained the success that it did was due to persistant online games being a novelty at the time. As for 'depth'...well...if you consider sitting in the same spot in the same dull, lifeless zone and grinding on the same mobs ad nauseum, then sitting on your ass and staring at a book for half an hour to regain your mana/health to be 'depth'...then I suppose that, yes, Everquest has quite a bit of it.

Dammit, replied the wrong guy.

I was going to say exactly the same thing and expect no support. So, agreed Sir. Planetside 2 please!

Planetside 2 would rule to a degree that I can not even put words too.

Warcraft is shallow as can be and requires no thought process whatsoever. This goes for the lore and for the game itself. Hell, Blizzard even had to go back and rewrite parts of the lore to make up for all the stupid shit they introduce with every patch. I don't recall SoE ever doing that with EverQuest. You just want someone to hold your little baby hand every step of the way to level 80. Don't call yourself a gamer, you insult the rest of us.

I don't call myself a gamer.. thats just sad. If you watch movies you don't put a gay name to that lol.

Sorry but Warcraft Lore and art just owns the mediocre Everquest Play Warcraft 3 and FT and you'll understand why so many people love WoW.

The subscriber numbers speak for themselves really WoW = 10 million players and Everquest franchise on the whole doesn't even hit 500k.


I played Everquest in 2000 and it wasn't fun back then with a crap UI, movement, combat, classes, art, pvp etc etc. WoW is an improvement in every single way and get anyone to play the two games now and see which one they pick because it'll be WoW every time.

EQ was only big cus it had no competition.

I played WC3 and TFT and there was no depth whatsoever. EQ's lore was insanely deep if you took the time to seek it out and learn more about it. But, being the WoW worshiper that you are, I'm sure you can't find the motivation. Something tells me you probably can't even find your genitals without the of a conspicuous yellow exclamation point.

LOL if you actually think EQ's lore is better because popularity shows different. Don't come out with that mc donalds argument that people who like shit games always seem to use because they're two different things. People eat at Mc Donalds for convenience and play games as a time sink for fun.

I have looked into lots of the EQ lore back when playing and I thought it was bland and generic and just not interesting. The world they created is a bore and the characters were just crap. Where as with Warcraft you have such an epic story with amazing characters such as Arthas and Illidan which EQ just doesn't have. Then you move into other Blizzard games and they are just the same, Diablo and Starcraft again have amazing stories with an amazing cast of characters.


I love quest indications because that way I know who gives out quests and who doesn't. Saves that tedious task to clicking on everyone and wasting so much time doing something that isn't fun and is pointless. I'd rather being doing the quest than still searching for who's giving them out lol. Thats why the system was put in place because people didn't find EQ's way fun. Also EQ was never known for its good quest system and it wasn't until WoW came along that it defined quest based progression.