Do you still play LIVE? [poll]

[milsorgen]

How far does your commitment go?

[Charlievox]

I stopped playing Live about six or seven years ago when my craptastic Alienware laptop died and my old reliable desktop could no longer handle the client.

I don't even remember the password to my Live account.

[maskedmelon]

I stopped posing live 11 years ago.... I feel old now.

[maskedmelon]

How far does your commitment go?

Not really sure I understand this question. Live is unrelated to what we have here. Not even remotely similar.

[myriverse]

^ 'bout the same time I stopped... right after City of Heroes dropped.

[kate79]

I still log in once in a while. I feel so far behind though that I usually just say to old friends and then log out. Sometimes I do the daily quest things but not often.

[perditionparty]

2005 or so was last year I played. Checked out live in December of '14 and it was awful, but from it I found P99. Signed up for live in June or so when the progression server went live, it paled in comparison to p99 and was not worth a monthly subscription.

[Voland]

^ 'bout the same time I stopped... right after City of Heroes dropped.

CoH was 1st of many MMOs to distract me from EQ1, but I always find my way back.

[Taminy]

Quit during early GoD.

Tried to play again before P99... 2007 or 2008... there was so much crap cluttering up my screen I found it stupid. Didn't even have my original account info.

Game should have tried to simplify/consolidate stats and gear instead of continually building and building upon itself.

[Erazmus]

CoH was 1st of many MMOs to distract me from EQ1, but I always find my way back.

Same. I'm surprised no one made a COH emu.

[blondeattk]

should be an option for not live, just emu servers.

p99 isnt the best emu server, it just has the largest community.

[Monty405]

I have been away from EQ since GoD. Out of curiosity I booted up my old account info and logged into gfay where a character was parked. I then proceeded to nuke an orc pawn and received a piece of defiant armor with ridiculous stats for a lvl 3 npc to be holding. I didn't even need to walk to its corpse to loot it - talk about lazy mode.

I soon logged off and went back to P99.

[fadetree]

should be an option for not live, just emu servers.

p99 isnt the best emu server, it just has the largest community.

Hmm, I don't know about that. I don't think it's a coincidence that it has the largest community,

[absol]

I still play live from time to time, got a beastlord up to 75. But honestly, I tend to play my lower level chars more and stick to old world zones. Its more of a nostalgia kick for me that anything else.

I wish there was an xp slider that controlled the rate at which you get xp. Leveling is ridiculously fast now. Took my 40 ranger to CoM, left after an hour or so at 43 and I wasn't even trying. You just outlevel zones long before you settle into them. You can avoid unsing the overpowered defiant armor that drops randomly from mobs, but you can't avoid the fast xp. Not unless you kill youself and lose xp... which I have done on more than one occasion.

Its funny. I was killing beetles at lvl 3 back in the day. I'm still killing beetles at 75, only this time they have a ton of hp and hit harder than old world dragons. But as much as I rag on EQ, its still the only MMO I've tried that I've tended to go back to. None of the others have that same 'stickiness'.

[Monty405]

I still play live from time to time, got a beastlord up to 75. But honestly, I tend to play my lower level chars more and stick to old world zones. Its more of a nostalgia kick for me that anything else.

I wish there was an xp slider that controlled the rate at which you get xp. Leveling is ridiculously fast now. Took my 40 ranger to CoM, left after an hour or so at 43 and I wasn't even trying. You just outlevel zones long before you settle into them. You can avoid unsing the overpowered defiant armor that drops randomly from mobs, but you can't avoid the fast xp. Not unless you kill youself and lose xp... which I have done on more than one occasion.

Its funny. I was killing beetles at lvl 3 back in the day. I'm still killing beetles at 75, only this time they have a ton of hp and hit harder than old world dragons. But as much as I rag on EQ, its still the only MMO I've tried that I've tended to go back to. None of the others have that same 'stickiness'.

Are most of the classic zones still the same? At what point can you go back to old raid zones such as ToV and just clean house solo?

[HowlingMad]

Or have your pet solo for you, while you're afk watching Big trouble in little china...

[Lamil]

Hmm, I don't know about that. I don't think it's a coincidence that it has the largest community,

I think thats the guy always pushing the 2002 server.

[absol]

Are most of the classic zones still the same? At what point can you go back to old raid zones such as ToV and just clean house solo?

Most old world bosses die 1 min after they pop. I don't know who's doing it, but people must have them timed and on lockdown because I've very rarely seen them up. Maybe I've just been unlucky. This is on the FV server where pretty much everything is tradable so there's a market for the loot still, particularly as old world gear has no level requirements so its good for twinks. Or maybe its fuelling the secondary market so real life cash is involved. I dunno.

Last week was different. I was running through Kael to get something for an alt, and Vindi was up. Never seen that before. I killed him and his 2 protectors, fight took about 10 mins. He dropped the bp.

Kael was empty, nobody else here but me so I made my way to Tormax's room. He wasn't up, but I was just goofing around anyway, so I started killing stuff in the room. I turned around and all of a sudden there was someone sitting on the throne, who definitely wasn't there when I came in. Dude came out of nowhere. I said hi and tried to strike up a conversation being friendly and all but the guy just ignored me. Undeterred, and realising just my presence here was messing with his plans, I kept on talking. After 10 mins I thanked him for being such a good listener and left.

[Voland]

Same. I'm surprised no one made a COH emu.

They are working on a spiritual successor: City of Titans.
There was some talk on resurrecting CoH, but last news were from 2014.

[Erazmus]

They are working on a spiritual successor: City of Titans.
There was some talk on resurrecting CoH, but last news were from 2014.

I just think its bullshit some companies never release the source code even though they never plan to release the game. Their not making money on it. Why shelf it when there are people who'd still like to play it?

[Charlievox]

Most old world bosses die 1 min after they pop. I don't know who's doing it, but people must have them timed and on lockdown because I've very rarely seen them up. Maybe I've just been unlucky. This is on the FV server where pretty much everything is tradable so there's a market for the loot still, particularly as old world gear has no level requirements so its good for twinks. Or maybe its fuelling the secondary market so real life cash is involved. I dunno.

Last week was different. I was running through Kael to get something for an alt, and Vindi was up. Never seen that before. I killed him and his 2 protectors, fight took about 10 mins. He dropped the bp.

Kael was empty, nobody else here but me so I made my way to Tormax's room. He wasn't up, but I was just goofing around anyway, so I started killing stuff in the room. I turned around and all of a sudden there was someone sitting on the throne, who definitely wasn't there when I came in. Dude came out of nowhere. I said hi and tried to strike up a conversation being friendly and all but the guy just ignored me. Undeterred, and realising just my presence here was messing with his plans, I kept on talking. After 10 mins I thanked him for being such a good listener and left.

By the time I left Live, it was infested with bots permacamping a lot of the old world bosses. They ran on timers. They would pop in just before a spawn, kill and loot and pop out again. Always parked right on top of the spawn point so even if you were there first, you couldn't pull agro.

[Monty405]

Why would they be so committed to killing old npcs that drop completely outdated loot? Also, why would Sony / DBG not monitor this

[Villide]

Are most of the classic zones still the same? At what point can you go back to old raid zones such as ToV and just clean house solo?
A few months back, I rolled a Paladin on FV to work through some classic dungeons. Way back when, I was a casual mostly-soloer and reroller (only got one character to level 50) so figured I'd grab a merc, gear up and see the more difficult parts of the zones I'd missed the first time around.

It was pretty fun, and a bit nostalgiac - but of course, not overly challenging. Spent a fair amount of time in Befallen, Unrest, Highpass, Guk, Najena, Gulf of Gunthak, ToFS, CoM. Just started to spend time in the Hole before I came back to try Red 99.

Those old zones are dead empty. I'd see someone occasionally pop into zone, but it was really rare.

The gear and the mercs made it relatively unchallenging. Not sure how that would translate to places like ToV or the Planes though.

[absol]

By the time I left Live, it was infested with bots permacamping a lot of the old world bosses. They ran on timers. They would pop in just before a spawn, kill and loot and pop out again. Always parked right on top of the spawn point so even if you were there first, you couldn't pull agro.

Ah, that explains it then. You would think that SOE would have taken steps to kerb this behaviour by changing the spawn times. I suppose it was very low on their list of priorities.

[Charlievox]

Because you could RMT for Raid level gear that was not level restricted and twink out your newbies. Or just buy a few million plats for the price of a three month subscription.
Sony would only do something if enough players complained. But since hardly anyone was going to these places anymore, there were few complaints.
And if your bot is running 25 different accounts you hardly ever see the same bot twice.
You have to remember, these were big time Korean and Japanese operations with hundreds of accounts. So what if a few of them get banned now and then.

[Charlievox]

A few months back, I rolled a Paladin on FV to work through some classic dungeons. Way back when, I was a casual mostly-soloer and reroller (only got one character to level 50) so figured I'd grab a merc, gear up and see the more difficult parts of the zones I'd missed the first time around.

It was pretty fun, and a bit nostalgiac - but of course, not overly challenging. Spent a fair amount of time in Befallen, Unrest, Highpass, Guk, Najena, Gulf of Gunthak, ToFS, CoM. Just started to spend time in the Hole before I came back to try Red 99.

Those old zones are dead empty. I'd see someone occasionally pop into zone, but it was really rare.

The gear and the mercs made it relatively unchallenging. Not sure how that would translate to places like ToV or the Planes though.

I had a level 80+ Mage, i could grab a level 80 merc cleric for pet heals and solo in the planes all day.

[Skydash]

I logged in last year for the fist time since 2001, leveled my 60 monk up to 83 and was grinding AA's. Just then they announced that level 85 upgrade with 3000+ AA's and I decided it was a waste of time playing this game.

At 83 I molo'ed Vulak and let the crap rot. I also went and molo'ed the main raid from Luclin to gear up alts.

But the way the game is set up now with tiered gear, is just stupid.

I logged in last week and plowed through Siren's Grotto for fun, and I couldn't even attack the water elemental nor the named raid siren. It's like the put a level cap on engage or something.
Stupid game.

[webrunner5]

Wow, not only I play Live, but I still play the Sleeper. But I am old and retired, so I have the time. :D:D