EverQuest Next Announcement from Daybreak

[Daywolf]

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

True people would rather do H1Z1 Battle Royale games, swear a bunch of times and spend money on skins.

Nobody wants to play timesink nerd games anymore.

meh it'll prolly wind up like planetside 1, broken and full of cheats with no plans to fix.

[DarkwingDuck]

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

Seriously these fuckers just need to take classic - pop and revamp the graphics and add some less dumb quality of life shit and re-release.

Bam eq3.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

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

True people would rather do H1Z1 Battle Royale games, swear a bunch of times and spend money on skins.

Nobody wants to play timesink nerd games anymore.

Swish, when you are right, you are right, sir.

As I said, if everything went perfect, if it was marketed perfectly, I think you could get 3-4 stable long term servers.

The premise of eq requires at least a year+ of commitment to a gameworld, and not a gameworld designed in 40 minute chunks, or instanced or buyable for your coinvenience: it has to be a competitive world, too.


This is the flip side of the coolness of a truly persistent, shared online world. It requires people to inhabit it. And there are not enough of us freaks.

edit: this might be one of the geniuses of eve online: it is only one server, ie, one persistent world. As p99 proves, you can always fill one "instance" of an online world. But how to make that work as a game, and a business, is a big challenge.

[Jigawatts]

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

Camelot unchained
Pantheon

These are the last hopes for us old time mmo lovers, thats as close as it will ever get.

The beautiful thing about these two games is that they aren't trying to be all things to all people. Both are old school leaning, but Pantheon is almost 100% PVE focused, while Camelot is almost 100% PVP focused. No nerfing and balancing measures based on one style of play deeply fucking with the other. The games can coexist simultaneously, almost complementing each other rather than really competing with one another.