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

[Mblake81]

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

Probably got gunshy due to the outcry associated with the first revamp, then by the time they might've be willing to do it again there's no funding for it. The great mistake was, I think, changing the style and scale of the models the way they did instead of simply improving the polygon counts and texture quality. Didn't even look like the same game.

What I thought EQ2 was going to be at first.

The original models were inspired art, dated sure. Those new models were goofy. The Trolls and Ogres lost all their charm and everyone adopted that silly spread-legged model to ride a game breaking horse.

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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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[Swish]

Talking of Luclin models and shittyness...Iksars lost their flowy swim animation to the standard one everyone had, no tail movement :s

[Knuckle]

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.