EQ Next

Maybach 2.0 · #1 08-25-2012, 05:06 PM

Anyone been keeping up on this? I just scoped the site out.. yikes. 3/4 of the links are broken and send to dead pages. Half the news updates are some bored Dev talking about when he used to play Eq1, and the concept art of the zones is quite WoW-like on a conceptual level.

Sigh.

Diggles · #2 08-25-2012, 05:09 PM

you talking about everquestnext.com? there is no official eqnext website iirc. that's some fansite poorly maintained piece of shit.

OngorDrakan · #3 08-26-2012, 12:38 AM

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you talking about everquestnext.com? there is no official eqnext website iirc. that's some fansite poorly maintained piece of shit.

Diggles · #4 08-26-2012, 12:59 AM

also you're not going to see shit about eqnext until like 2014 just consider the game vaporware until then.

HappyTr33z · #5 08-26-2012, 01:10 AM

" EQ Next is still being built within a black box. The *earliest* we are currently considering that we *might* reveal info is late this year. We’re being very particular about what needs to be in the game before revealing it to folks, so until that stuff is ready, we won’t be showing anything. (Screens you saw from a couple years ago are completely obsolete now and are not pertinent to the current game at all.)

There is no reason for EQ or EQII to ever fade away. EQN is not being designed to replace those games. The only way it could “kill” EQ or EQII is by being such a phenomenally better game that everyone flocks to it. Many miles to go before we sleep." - from Dave Georgeson on the EQ2 forums back in June

They claim they are "returning to the original Everquest style of play" which I hope isn't just abunch of bullshit.

**nilbog** · #6 08-26-2012, 01:19 AM

I am not sure how much of this is true, but from this article, I was disappointed:

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Everquest Next had two pre-production builds proposed.

one build was extensive with a large budget of 100 million dollars. It was Everquest on steroids, thats its nickname around the water cooler.

the other build proposal is extremely casual. Its known around the cooler as everquest invades farmville. its budget is very small, 20 million dollars.

the farmville version was approved.

in addition, more cuts are coming within SOE. Several hundred subcontract workers have 6 month contracts expire december 31st. They will not be renewed

basically the team that was working on the Everquest on Steroids build lost the contest and is being let go

http://www.mmofringe.com/forum/2-Sec...Everquest-Next

Diggles · #7 08-26-2012, 02:23 AM

sorry guys i need to bail out of this dungeon, not enough energy to med.

HappyTr33z · #8 08-26-2012, 03:04 AM

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I am not sure how much of this is true, but from this article, I was disappointed:

http://www.mmofringe.com/forum/2-Sec...Everquest-Next

It seems Sony's been doing alot of flip-flopping in the past year when deciding on what the hell kind of game they want to make. Judging by some twitter responses and things from the devs, I think SoE's gameplan changed when all those F2P switches didn't attract anybody for any time at all. They might actually try to make this a decent game.

But, I doubt it. Games can only be mass-produced, generic, linear, easy, hunks of pretty-gfx covered shit nowadays, and it makes me sad.

Diggles · #9 08-26-2012, 03:32 AM

someone tell me why SoE is funding DUST 514 and trying to create competition against it with Planetside 2

also why can't smedley fly a galaxy for shit he wrecked a fucking galaxy into a biodome

Hailto · #10 08-26-2012, 04:00 AM

If Sony actually pulls off PS2 i will forgive any past mistake they have ever made, im not getting my hopes up though.