but..yes... They promised us tons of dynamic quests etc. Now we're paying for them- It won't be much longer until we can just buy our titles for $30 or so...

Despite the fact that you have to fork out more, I feel the experience is 'cheapening'

All I can say is that its sad that they are going to create a premium service for those willing to pay more, with dynamic events and sorts of other goodies which they have been promising the player base and have yet to give us (when was the last GM event on the regular servers? The multiple one on Halloween, if I remember rightly?). When I started reading the post I was like "Wow, I have to sign up for this, this is what I was hoping EQ would be when I first bought the game!". Then I continued reading, growing more and more excited by the moment. Then I saw how much Sony/VI wanted to charge for this, and my heart shrank. And finally, the little cynical voice in the back of my head went over the post again and said "Doesn't this sound a lot like a Test Server to you, with the only difference that you are going to see lots of GM events at 4 times the cost??". And, for once in my life, I listened to that little cynical voice, and agreed with it.
To put it mildly, I'm rather unimpressed by this. One of the reasons I bought EQ was the prospect of playing a long-running game at significantly reduced cost from what buying a regular PS2/PC game and finishing it and buying a new one. So far, I have enjoyed EQ (although the End Game has proved to be rather tedious). But with this announcement, I can but fear that what will happen is that the Premium players are going to get all of VI's attention, while the rest of the player base are going to be 'fillers', kept hanging on to a game fraying at the edges, with bugs that should have been removed long before anything like this Legend Server was offered, and with no one to bother helping them out when that Orc Pawn assassinates them and sends their body under the world or into a wall. After all, players on the Legend Server are going to get paid GM's, while those on the regular servers are going have to resign with volunteer Guides (no offense to all those GREAT people out there willing to spend their time helping the rest of the EQ community - If anything they have my wholehearted respect), operating under a Server GM (who might feel rather disgruntled at having to resolve yet another Epic Mob eating the items you have to hand in rather than participating in the Return to bloody Kithicor Event on the Legends server).

To put an end to this rant, if after the Legends server goes live VI 'forget' about the dirty, stinking masses of 'penny players', I reckon they deserve having people /quit en masse. In all truth, EQ is (IMO) the best of the MMORPG's available at the moment, but one can still hope someone will force them to stop angering their customers and start straightening out the more blatant issues in their product.

Irisia Faewind
Champion of Faydark
Shades of Fire
Tholluxe Paells

1) Yes, $30 additional per month is very high... I certainly won't pay it.

2) Just how "dynamic" is dynamic? Do you WANT to play on a server that, just because you didn't log in yesterday, you can log in and suddenly find that Freeport is now controlled by Dark Elves? (Who promptly kill you at your bind spot in a death-loop down to level 5.)

3) It's bad enough when I read about how people used to do all kinds of hunting in LFay (before the Brownie Scouts) and Kith (before the "bloody Kithicor" event). Do any of you really WANT to play on a server where, conceivably, you could miss out on large amounts of content because you weren't in the right place at the right time? (Sleeper's Tomb is a great example of this... when the Sleeper is awoken, the Warders NEVER repop again on that server.)

4) Does anyone truely believe that the "Dynamic Events" will take place at any time but "Prime Time"? I play late at night PST... GM events have always been early evenings PST. This will be the same.

Not worth the bother.

On the flip side, I doubt most "ubers" will bother with this either. Why should they?

Guys, chill.

This is an upgrade. If you can't afford it, don't buy it. If you don't think you're getting your money's worth at $10 a month, quit.

Allakhazam's poll so far is showing:

8% cool, deal me in
35% those bastards! regular players shafted again
The rest intermediate responses (predominantly negative.)

But hey, if Verant sees that, they'll ignore the fact that the majority are unhappy with it.

They'll see the 8% and start doing the math.

"Hm, 8% of 400,000 = 32,000. We need FOUR Legends servers! Wow, cool! This is a huge success! Hm, where will we get enough GMs? I guess we can strip down the regular servers...all those people are cheap-*** anyway."

You think service is bad now. Just wait.
They'll have no incentive to keep the majority happy. In fact they'll probably decide that we need to be UNHAPPY, to increase the number of people switching to the premium service.

I see this as the beginning of the end.
OK, the beginning of the rest of the end.

This is obviously a test, they want to minimize the number of people as to better control the enviroment. Yeah, it really sounds cool, and some of it indeed sounds like stuff we already supposedly pay for (ie: dynamic quest and gm aid). But, there is two ways to look at it: either varent and inevatably sony are trying to create a high end everquest market (EQ permium) because it does indeed cost A LOT to run servers and update technology and pay all the developers (that are earning a living, not trying to make me or you happy, but as many people as possiable) and they still want to make money because they are a business and not a charity; or they are using this as a test server and giving a few bonuses to make people pay more for test (which they have to do) and they limit the numbers to control the enviroment better and make it seem more exciting and special to be on that server. Either way, if you are not paying (or not able to pay as I am) the 40 bucks a month, what does it matter to you? You are not getting negativly hit because they people are paying the price for what they get. DO you get mad at every person you see driving a better, more expensive car becuase they got a better product and better service with a much higher price tag? I hope not. If you pay more, you get more; that is the way of the world. No matter what, our little addictive conor of norrath will continue just as it always has with the same service and the same bug and performance as we expect and have got up to this point (just with 8000 less uber, or not so uber player) and those people who have the money and want to throw it at there addiction can do so and reap its rewards. Thus is the way of class system within society, and now in everquest. Just be happy with what you have, and let the rest that you don't go, or you will live a short depressed life. good luck to all on the new server and good hunting to everyone else in norrath.

"a persons last true freedom is to choose his or her attitude in any given situation"

i like the game,with so many players it is hard not to have unhappy ones,but u have the choice to play or not to play so it shoud not be something bad.I think that to be rich is to have a lot of choices the more the better,u can not afford it no problem i can not afford it either.But let others that can pay play and will see if it is something different or it is the same as the other servers and may be possible to afford it ) if u like ti bad eunogh.Instead of sabotaging why not come up with some ideas that will make the game better for all of us.I repeat,more choices is better and remeber it could be worse....what would u play if you did not have everquest )
Well that is my opinion of course ).

You gain exeperience!
You gain a level!(hopefully level 100 ))

I may be a relatively new player and I'm definitly not the best but even I can see that they're trying to rip us off. Everquest is about having fun doing things you like, not paying $40 to be guinea pigs in Sony's test!


YOU have just killed the Sony bas**** who came up with this!

You gain experience! (not to mention the respect and admiration of of your fellow gamers)

You wake up from the best dream you've ever had in your life!

ok this doesnt seem fair, when i got EQ originally it cost like 40 bucks then i bought kunark w/ whole game another $40 then velius like $30 then now luclin which was.... like $30 again i think add in 3 years of game play for $10 a month, thats 40+40+30+30+360=$500 thats 500 i have spent on EQ and now im supposed to pay another 30 a month for somethings we have and should have already!
character pages- um ok most guilds make their own webpages already+ castersrealm and magelo already have services like this! I think CR's is free too
"Dynamic Server (Exclusive)
Our dedicated team of Customer Service & Development staff will not only be providing in-game support to our Legends players, but also running new quests and adventures for players of all levels to participate in."
ok so you are supposed to pay extra to get in-game support? and your supposed topay more to get more quests froma game called everquest?

"Legendary Items
Some of these Legendary items will even be named after the first player who discovers them."
ok it would be cool to have a item named after you, but all it is, is a cosmetic change... does it really matter if it's "Jebantik's rusty short sword" if it has the same stats?

"Calendar of Events
This web-based calendar will be kept up to date by the Legends Team, and will let you know who, when, where, and what is going on server-wide."
Everlore shows upcomming events on their news page every day for free! there are TONS of websites devoted to this!

"Interactive Maps
Quickly find which zone your character is bound in, and which zones you have or haven't visited."
ok we already have the /charinfo command that tells us where we are bound and unless you have some memory disorder you will remember if you have been in a zone before. This function seems wortheless... each expansion you buy comes with a map and there are many many sites with very nice zone maps.

"Tales of Adventure
The Tales of Adventure will feature the best stories submitted by Legends players, prominently displayed for the whole world to marvel in your glorious deeds!"
Again, on everlore people post stories of GM events on there all the time and you can read them for free.

"Guild Halls
This new service includes a guild calendar, message board, member roster, and pages to post guild news, the guild history, and more! (Including logo)"
Im guessing this is a new guild website thing, which again you could make for free and almost every guild has one or at least a forum.

This seems like your paying for a EQ expansion every month with WAY less content! 8k people for 30 more $'s a month=$240,000 MORE a month!(not including the $10 they already pay) the expenses are probably no where near that much!

From my perspective you dont get what you pay for! For this much a month you could have a EQ account a DAoC account and a Asheron's Call account and still have money left over! I think the dynamic quests should be free. That is the only thing i would want out of all this mess. Norrath seems to be a pretty static place with the story only changing slightly with each new expansion. Also why should someone pay more for these bonus features when there are still bugs in the game from beta testing!!! I mean how long have bards been strumming a flute while they have a drum equiped? What happened to the M project huh? All the zones from the original map havent been implemented yet!!!!!!!!

Is it just me, or does this "Legends Server" sound more like another test server?

With the amount of new items that they are going to get first, it honestly sounds to me like they are trying to see how they will work there before they put them on the real servers. If they do it there, they have a max of 8000 players complaining, whereas if they do it on the real servers first, they have over 400,000 people complaining?
And to charge THAT much for it, who are they kidding? No way in hell am i gonna put that much moneyinto a server that is HIGHLY likely to have more bugs and be another way for them to test items etc without a bunch of people complaining.
Yeah the new interfaces looked ok, but in my eyes, the old one seems better laid out.

Initial reaction... nice. Finally, a dynamic server. Then, PRICE? Come on, 40 dollars a month? Like someone below already said, this should already be available to everyone, not just a few (OK 8000 but considering the number of players EQ has) lucky ones who want to fork out extra cash. Anarchy Online has a constantly updated story, Asheron's Call had frequent story arc events... why doesn't EQ? Someone called this the beginning of EQ Premium, they're probly right.

And wow, if this doesn't make you feel that much more pissed off about how many things are already broken... and now they roll out another server full of shiny new crap. Grats Verant.

/rude Verant Interactive
/rude Sony

Bloodsucking sons of ...... Like they dont get enough money to line their pockets at 9.95/mo. Lets leave stuff broken that has needed fixed since release and create a new server so we can charge more $$.

BITE ME SONY!

/em cancels his account