Everquest - F2P

dunevenker · #1 02-01-2012, 07:26 AM

http://www.everquest.com/free/

Not sure if anyone cares, but there you go.

I will certainly be playing it.

I wonder what will become of p99? Any ideas? I hope it keeps on trucking along, but who knows?

Aprio · #2 02-01-2012, 07:49 AM

Free to log in more like, 4 class choices, 4 races, 2 bag slots, 250 map AA. Anything more requires money. No thanks.

dark void2100 · #3 02-01-2012, 08:36 AM

Still, it has more content than here and if you find a good band of people to play with you could cap yourself at a certain expansion and the low aa cap would not bother you. the game is free up to a certain point, level 75 I think and you only get access to the horribly weak mercs.

And you begrudge buying a few races/classes (however any character you made before can be used no matter the race/class, so go on the free 14 day trial and make some classes in advance before feb 29th) are you one of those that do not support this server?

SyanideGas · #4 02-01-2012, 08:45 AM

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I wonder what will become of p99? Any ideas? I hope it keeps on trucking along, but who knows?

I think it will...Mostly because alot of the people that play here probably want to continue playing classic EverQuest, and enjoying all the classes and races for free.I doubt that EQ will keep alot of the players playing for free if your choices are limited. On the other note,P99 is here to stay for me. :P

Blither · #5 02-01-2012, 09:02 AM

I know I won't be giving SOE any of my money. I gave them enough in the 5 years I played EQ and they need to pay it forward.

What's going to happen when I log in old Blither? Will I not be able to equip some things? Will I not be able to go to expansions that I bought and paid for? Because I'll tell you right now that if I don't have access to that stuff it's going to piss me off enough to never log in again.

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Blither, Guild leader of the Sylver Gryphon Brotherhood.

acid_reflux · #6 02-01-2012, 10:10 AM

Are the mercs limited to apprentice mercs? If so, that sucks, they run away too often. Anyway, the only servers worth playing on live is the progression servers and they have already gotten to a point of unlocking PoP. They did raise the shitty exp cap to 4%/kill solo( up from 2%) for noobs. But old world content is really buggy. Junk.
This is far superior than anything soe can produce. If sol is released here I'm out for sure. I hope they keep this going.

Aprio · #7 02-01-2012, 10:17 AM

Velious is the last stop for P1999, no plans to go further.

acid_reflux · #8 02-01-2012, 10:31 AM

That's cool. The velious content is my favorite. I did some hard core poop sock solo grinds with my old druid back in 03/04. It was epic.

noffo · #9 02-01-2012, 12:03 PM

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I wonder what will become of p99? Any ideas? I hope it keeps on trucking along, but who knows?

There has always been interest in a true, classic server. P99 is the closest we'll ever get to that, and the best years of EQ were in the Trilogy. No other game I have played has had the "magic" that the original EQ had.

Retrogaming is a huge too. Let's be honest. Classic EQ is retrogaming, and P99 excels in delivering that. Modern EQ is watered down, bloated, and a programming mess.

Odeseus · #10 02-01-2012, 12:52 PM

For the vast majority of us who have played before (and somehow remember our username), we'd be in the "silver" category.

There are 2 problems with this move. The first is the AAs. My main had like 3k AA when I quit many years ago. I'm sure there are new AAs worth getting, but because of the 1k AA hardcap, I can't get any of them. And I'm sure as hell not giving SoE any more of my cash. This cap alone is by far the biggest problem. I remember getting my fiancee's cleric leveled up and she was really gimp until she got around 500 (ish?) AA and got most of her basic healing stuff done. That was years ago, how many new and just as important AAs are there now? Probably alot I'd guess.

The second big issue is that it doesn't sound like there's any way to earn or unlock things via playing, similar to LOTRO. LOTRO you can earn Turbine Points (Station Cash, whatever) just by grinding out different quests. Takes a HELL of a long time to do but theoretically you can play the entire game without having to spend a dime. No such luck with SoE. All the minor annoyances and restrictions on the "silver" level will be with you PERMANENTLY unless you pay up and continue to pay up.

To make a long post short, no thanks. Not worth it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]