EQ Live Has 66k Active Accounts (and Other Fun Facts From the Acquisition)

[douglas1999]

They did revamp them twice right? I seem to remember a second set of new models some years after luclin, when that expansion came out that let you play as some dragon hybrid race.

But yeah, the art direction on the original models was perfect, higher poly updates with higher res textures would have been great

Actually I think I'm misremembering. I don't think they made a second set of new models, but they did make a new model for the new dragon race. I think I'm just thinking of that.

https://everquest.allakhazam.com/gal...-0831-tss8.jpg

Not as bad as the luclin models but still kinda meh. Totally out of whack with the original art style

[Swish]

It might be a forgotten point in the timeline but it was a period of much outrage.

SOE decided at some point before GoD I'm fairly sure that they weren't happy with the Luclin model running animation...characters were running bolt upright etc and not leaning into a running stride.

So they changed it for about about a week? Characters would now run in a more realistic way... except everyone hated it, passionately. The forums blew up and they decided to go back to the original stiff/upright run on all characters.

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[douglas1999]

The EQ2 models at least had respectable animations, if a bit generic overall. The luclin model animations are just an abomination on every level

[Mblake81]

https://www.tor.com/2017/08/14/dd-il...s-of-all-time/

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Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As a follow-up to the acquisition news, it turns out the acquisition revealed some fun information about Daybreak, including how many subscribers (or at least active accounts) EQ Live still has: sixty-six thousand.

If you're curious the article has the numbers from all the different Daybreak owned games, plus this fun graphic:

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DDO had so much potential, but they took the original idea of an immersive dungeon crawl tabletop simulator and turned it into one of the original p2w games, super fail on their part. I'm sure the wales make it profitable and im not challenging their business model, just the actual gameplay itself.

[loramin]

New fun fact (didn't want to start yet another thread): Daybreak owns a license to make a Marvel game!

Apparently they have one last game in production, and no one knows whether it's the Marvel one or something else ... but honestly I kind of hope it's not a Marvel MMO.

Daybreak isn't exactly known for making the greatest games, so I suspect any sort of "City of Heroes wannabe" they might make would be a disappointment.