I've looked over the information, and I must say I like what I see. Looks like EQ2 will kick ***. It is unfortunate that I will be unable to play.

As far as I'm concerned, the system requirements for this game are absurd. Mid-level or high level P3, 512 MB of RAM, Top of the line video cards...just too much. I appreciate Verant's willingness to take on such an ambitious endeavour. However, making EQ2 only playable to those wealthy enough to possess such a high-level copmuting system will ultimately doom the game.

I wish Verant the best of luck. They're going to need it.

HAHAH I just thought of one last thing.. i bet this game is a ******* april fools joke .. cuz if its real? then ill be sooo pist at Verant.. haha i might quit this game tonight if they aint ****** jokin HAHAHA APril Fools.. HAHAHA

AND I AINT SPENDING ******* $500.00 UPGRADING MY COMPUTER SO **** THAT!

Well as you have guessed people dont like the Idea of EQ2 but i think that they should be happy just bcuz its more realistic. The only problem I have with the whole thing is the creatures zoneing... its going to make the game a whole lot tougher... LOL I think people are going to make ALOT of necro's,SK's,and enchanters for feighn death and mezzing just so they dont die so much.
Although I do not agree with whodu just bcuz NWN is definitly NOT the same thing as EQ which I GUESS he hasnt gotten through his head bcuz most of EQ hours are spent getting items and showing them off.

60 necro of Povar

If i wanted everquest to be just like DAOC i would have bought DAOC and not EQ. I truely hope they keep eq1 just the way it is. Not only do i not like a lot of the new features i refuse to be forced into upgrading my machines just to play a knock off of DAOC

Wow thats just great now noone can twink...
Yes of course they give us new grafix and such and make the game much more realistic but whats with not twinking... It puts more fun in the game.I seriously think verant should THINK this over before alot of people start quiting...



60 necro of druzzil

There are combining AC2, AC, DAC, UO and EQ together. Hmm the best from all worlds. The bad thing is they are develping this games on such highend systems they forget about us. Crap I have enough laggy issues with Luclin. I guess we will all have to have quad 1Gz p4s, 5 gb of ram,128mb graphics cards, and fiber opic internet connection just to walk around in the land.

I just read an older Casters Realm interview with the Executive Producer of EQ2 or EOA that says the world will take place 500 years BEFORE our current world... Now it says it is like 5000 years after... im confused and it kinda seems like they are as well since the interview i read was only about a month old. it would make sense for it being older with continents missing and races not yet being discovered... I dunno i guess we shall see :)

Personally I think that this new expansion they are coming out with is really stupid. For one, most people wont be able to reach those requirements, and even if they can they most likely will never see or meet the people they have once known. Another thing, WTF are they thinking? making mobs zone? Thats just ridiculous. Just wait and see, in the first few months people will be complaining how someone trained Dvinn or some high-to-newbs guy into the newbie zone or something. Then nobody can kill it. So that is just BS, and also means if you die, yo die, nothing you can do to avoid it. Another thing is, How in the world are they going to come up with a zone that big for around 2k houses? That is just the stupidest idea I ever heard. And then you have to hire pc mercenaries to guard your stuff? gimme a break, the mobs better drop like 50pp each or something. AND your armor can break. Its just like getting lucky and getting your epic early, only to find out that on the first couple of strikes, by "bad luck" it breaks and snaps or gets destroyed in your arms, and you are wearing a pile of crap rubble. And come to think of it, most people arent that trustworthy to guard your stuff. And this is BS, if everyone has to buy a boat how many docks can there be on FP or BB docks? Certainly they cannot fit 2k boats each. Not to mention there certainly WONT be 2k boats. LOL, come to think about it, with all this new stuff the game itself will cost like 100 bucks and each monthly payment will be like 50-100 dollars. If the Legends Server can cost so much then this certainly can. And Griffons as specks in the sky....... Now that is the stupidest thing. As usual, there is going to be the z axis glitch, which makes griffons attack you from 1k ft up in the air. AND now there is going to be fixed stats? this is BS, and overall retarded. Why would they do that? How is a newbie supposed to survive in this stupid world? How is anyone gonna get groups at high levels cause nobodies gonna play? who is going to abandon all their equip that took them years to get? Who is going to see everything they worked for lost? Who is going tospend so much money on a piece of crap and junk? Not me, I am sticking with normal EQ until they pull the plug. For EQ2, I will certainly be surprised that it will stay afloat for more than a year, and I assure you, many will NOT be willing to switch. If Verant does something stupid like cancel EQ1, their company is going bam, like that. personally i usualy dont harbor strong feelings about a lot of things, but lets just say that they make a zone large enough for that many houses, farms, boats, caravans, etc, HOW IN THE WORLD ARE YOU TO GET ACCROSS THE ZONE??????? It would be like 100k loc in every direction, and even with a sow would take like 15 minutes to get accross, and then you get the message, Griffon swoops down from 3k feet and rakes at your head! YOU have taken 100 damage! YOU have been killed by griffon! Loading, Please wait....
AND, even if you do run the griffon will chase you. Plus I really dont think they should change from EQ1 to EQ2, just too much BS, too many promises they will not fulfull, too many bugs, too many things they can never do. So why not just improve a lot on the Normal EQ? You will have a lot more income and success with sticking with EQ1

The new rules sound great to me.

One of my absolute biggest complaints about the "game" now is twinking and the fact that a groveling L1 dork can use/wear the same items as a L60 ubermensch. A lot of folks like this aspect but it totally blows the realism for me.

Which comes back to the fact that EQ is more of a game+chatroom than an RPG or a sim.

At first i was worried about what would happen to EQ if EQ2 comes out, (i have invested a lot of time in my chars these past 2+ years). But now i am thinkgin that if the two games are sufficiently different in rules, then perhaps they can both sustain an audience.

and have you looked at the screenshots? wowza

I was one of the first people to post on this thread and over the last 2 days it has expanded into 12 pages of posts.

I for one do not like the aspect of them coming out with a new game and I will continue to stand behind that statement until I stop playing forever.

maybe someone with a lot of money or clout can get a website going for people to post reasons why eq2 is a very bad idea. you could have charts and graphs and polls and stuff just to show to verant what there doing to the people that live and breathe there "game".

Ok worse case scenario...
EQ servers shut down on eq2 launch day and all your characters/plat/exp/time/money is gone...never to be returned.

soso scenario...
they continue to leave the EQ1 servers running for the die hards that will not throw away there characters/plat/exp/time just to play a new game.

the best scenario of all...
this is a hoax and there's never gonna be a new eq but there finally gonna do everything riht to the existing game such as the morphs into the bear, zones for houses etc.

the mobs zoning with you, bank, character picking, armor/weapons breaking things are all stupid ideas and i for one will never play any game with those features let alone something with the everquest name on it.
oh look I got this uber sword its like 20/30 1hs but im afraid to use it because i might break it...ill use this rusty weapon instead...or I'm so encumbered because i have to carry around 4 bags of spare weapons and armor in case my stuff breaks.

these are the single most idiotic ideas ive ever heard and i think everyone that has posted in favor of them needs to go play another game and stop polluting this game.

thanks for your time feel free to flame...