Why the BFG was removed.
 

EverQuest popped up an article in my Facebook newsfeed that had some interesting EverQuest stories from current developers related to Project M and other things like the BFG.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/25/th...e-muffin-zone/

And along with the ninjas came guns.

“And any time you have pirates, there’s a cannon there,” Caraker said. But that wasn’t the most famous gun in the franchise, he said. That one is actually an homage to another game altogether.

“In 2000, in the Scars of Velious expansion, somebody put in a reference to the BFG from the Quake franchise,” Jonathan Caraker said. “They put in this quest, and you did a couple of things, and you got a weapon that used archery but it looked like a robotic arm that you wore.

“It was out of character, and it did some things in our game that weren’t good for the gameplay. When you would attack something, it would fly back across the zone. A huge swath of the zone would come back to where you are. It created crazy trains. Players have been asking for us to bring it back forever. We have said no for 15 years.”

MAn BFG better be in

Too bad the BFG will be literally farmed 24/7 until it's removed and everyone and their third twink will have one removing any exclusivity.

You want exclusiveness on a 15 year old video game?

Isn't that why TMO gets up in the morning*?


* or whatever time the batphone rings ;)

I hate that I'm not the only one on the server with a prenerf CoS... life is hard :(

When Yelinak was rooted the BFG could still move him. I think on the 3rd change to Yelinak they changed the type of "root" that was used to control him and it no longer worked.

Cool find Zander! Hey guys in this pic a caster has it equipped but afaik a caster isn't supposed to be able to use this, anyone know the rule?

http://venturebeat.com/wp-content/up...15/03/BFG3.jpg

probably just used MQ to equip it

This was a thing?