I can see what the legends server will be. 75% of people will be level 55+ clerics, fighters, and enchanters. 10% will be people with solo classes like druids or necromancers also of high level with uber equipment.. The other 15% will be people without characters or with low level ones who will be left in the dust. You know the dynamic quests will be targetted mainly at the uber cadre of level 60 players.

Also, lets say you are level 20 on the premium server. What could they give you as a reward that is better than what you could spend some coins and buy off a level 55?

This would be wonderful IF they said NO CHARACTER TRANSFERS... It would actually be enough for me to come back to EQ after my long abscence because all of the new GM attention and quests would be catered to the low level players at the beginning and a real storyline could be created.

This would be even better if not only did players start all at level one, but if you had to do say 5 dynamic quests to get level ten, 10 dynamic quests and one epic dynamic quest to get to level twenty, etc. This would not only make it such that a few powerlevellers wouldnt sprint up to 50 and move the content away from the main body of players, but it would also insure that the highest level players WERE the LEGENDS of the server. That they were people who were out doing things rather than camping one monster over and over again.

This is a wonderful chance to do a GOOD experiment... $10 per month is barely enough to keep the servers running, minimal support and some profit. If you up that to $40 now you have say $20 per month going to people who's sole purpose is to make your gaming experience better. Dynamic quests all over the place and actual GM input. $20x8000=$160,000 per month. That can hire about 100 people whose sole purpose is to create and administer dynamic quests...

One other thing that would be nice for such a server where everyone started from scratch would be if they significantly updated antonica and feydwer. I would want surprises all over the place.

I can't even begin to express how disappointed I am in Verant.

I, for one, will not be signing up for Legends. What should be happening is that they offer these same services to the rest of us on our home servers and then tell us that we'd have to pay 15 bucks instead of 10. They would have had me then.

As far as expenses go...

Let's just say there are 100,000 EQ players to date (I know there are more, but bear with me). Each of us pays 10 bucks a month. Simple math: 1 mil bucks A MONTH! Where the hell is that cash going?

I, for one, am keeping my characters where my friends are on Lanys.

Maybe it is time to switch to the Dark Ages of Camelot?

Brigitmorgaine 39 Druid
Calibriede 17 Rogue

I was very pissed when I heard what Verasnt was going to do. This morning I woke up with a different veiw. It kinda reminded me of when all there was , was standard TV. Then Cable and and others came out..they offered the same channels abut better service at a higher price. Now my Digital cable runs me more than my standard did ..but I am willing to pay for it since there is more gizmos.


However, I understand how the majority of the people feel since they should have focused ALL of the man power they had on delivering what they promised. THEN offered a LEGENDS server. Makes you wonder whats coming down the pipes from the competition for such a quick and bold move.

All the rich ******* will be signing up... keep smokeing crack you greedy bastards!!

JUGGALOS CAN YA HEAR MAH!

Everquest Legends Hmm $480 per Year!! I have read all the post on this Forum and I must say I think this is a Insult to the Standerd Everquest Player I been Playing since May 1999 and Spent a Lot of money on this Game and for them to Offer what we should be getting NOW is insulting to say the least, Verant & Soe are making a LOT! of money from Everquest they are one of the Fastest growing Online games today on the Internet and to do this well its a Slap in the face to its Valued Customers..
Also there post about putting your characters online for all to see you can do this NOW! for FREE!!! goto http://www.magelo.com/ or have a look at me http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=7101

Pros:

1) The SuperUber will move off my server. That means Velk's, Sebilis, FG, and other 50+ zones won't be packed with 58+ AAS and loot farmers.

Cons:

1) This relates to my Pro; I'm not exactly in love with Norrath's voodoo economics, but without hi level loot farmers, that Stein of Mogguk is gonna run you 800pp again.

2) Even less attention will be payed to standard subscribers. If that's possible. Right now, there are a maximum of TWELVE GMs in the Verant building... and they support ALL the servers.

3) Those of us with "standard" accounts are now second class. If there's an identical complaint from the Cazic-Thule and Legends servers, you know which wheel's getting greased.

4) Loots that will never appear on another server, and a finite number of applicants? What if every single one of us wanted to sign up for this freeway rapery?


Verant is a joke of a company. They did not make EQ a success, the players did - who are treated with total disdain. Sony recently replaced half of the team... why? Because Verant has gotten in the habit of thinking it's THEIR success. Sony will NOT be giving the EQ2 contract to them, and has recently refused to meet with Smedley. Five million dollars profit/month, and their CEO can't get a meeting.

Whatever, I'm rambling and pissed. To the Verant lackey who gets to read all this crap: I enjoyed my time in Norrath VERY much, and I'm sad to see you kill it this way.

Hey, at least I'm laughing. DAoC has such definite appeal...

A couple years ago I played an RPG named 'DragonRealms' by Simutronics. It was a completely text-based role-playing game, but it was a very nice game for the price -- Free.

However, as time went on they discovered that it is expensive to run a game as expansive as it was. So they moved it from an AOL-based game to a general Internet-based game. And charged 10 dollars a month. I went along with that.

Later a 'Premium' service was launched. This gave certain players advantages over those that were not Premium. The price? An extra 20 dollars per month. Honestly, I disagreed with this new service. It makes no sense to separate the people willing to spend more money on the game from the others that just find it as a nice distraction from real life. I did not participate in the new service.

A few months later, DragonRealms 'Platinum' came out. An entirely new server, more GM interaction, a smaller, more closely-knit group of players -- A lot like what Legends is boasting. At its release, this new service was only 70 dollars a month.

70 dollars a month. For a text-based RPG.

Ludicrous.

Needless to say, I certainly didn't buy into that.

It's money. The Company sees something that has 50,000 (that's the statistic I see for EQ's population on some of these posts) people paying 10 dollars a month to play, and they wonder if they can't make them pay just a little more. If they can actually deliver what they promise, then more power to them. That's what Capitalism is all about -- Advertising and selling a product.

But I'm not going to contribute.

What it all comes down to is how much you want to spend on your own EQ experience. If this game is important enough to you to pay 40 dollars a month, go for it. Knock yourself out.

But if you don't want to pay 30 extra dollars, *you don't have to*.

I just hope Verant doesn't put all of their effort into Legends and neglects the 'regulars'.

We'll see how it turns out.

I feel that this server is an insult to all players. I don’t care about the silly web utilities, but about features(?)such as improved customer support. I don't think that the profit margin for EQ is so tight that Sony/VI can't afford to add a few more Guides to each server, or perhaps add a few developers to resolve the list of known issues. Guild halls? Those were a feature promised since the beta of the game. Sony/VI will assure us that they never "Promised" guild halls, but it was even printed in the manual for Ruins of Kunark, p.78: “Some of the larger player-created guilds may purchase halls as well”.
When is Sony/VI going to deliver the Bazaar player merchant system that they promised? Oops, they really didn’t “Promise” the Bazaar system…..they just told us that it was something that they were working on and weren’t able to deliver with the launch of Luclin. Never mind that a player merchant system would relieve player of one of the most boring, time consuming tasks in the game, buying and selling items. Never mind that a player merchant system would be a huge step to having a real “Market Based Economy”.

John Fisher

Why exactly are they incapable of aking things better on the other servers? Does this mean the rest of us will start getting ****** customer support? Not like it's great now, but for $40 bucks I wouldn't blame anyone for demanding instant GM service, and the rest of us are going to pay the price in help times thanks to this crap... This is the dumbest idea since trivial loot... why only 8000 people? Because out of the hundreds of thousands or whatever they claim that play, only about 8,000 people have the money to throw away, ego, or downright stupidity to sign up for this... Thanks Verant, DAoC never looked better...

over priced,i do NOT get good service now

all those that want to go to the new server; the best of luck to you.
i personaly am not in favor of thieves emptying my wallet.
this is a shameful try of verant to grab some money instead of improving the nearly unexisting service they offer .

Hey ah, I've been playing EQ for something like 2 years, so if you have any questions, just send me a tell. Oh, and if you want a webpage with your character stuff on it, Allakhazam has that, and Geocities and many other places offer free websites. Or just ask me and I'll build one for you. And eqatlas.com has maps of everything ever visited in Norrath or Luclin. And if you want to know what zones you've visited, just write them down as you zone. If you want to know where you're bound, just type /charinfo. If you want EQ stories, just visit ANY eq site and i'm sure they have some great ones. If you're in a guild, most likely they have a website with calandars, guild members, etc...

There, I just saved you five hundred dollars a year.

Everblend
28 monk on Morell Thule

I would consider signing up for this new and seemingly interesting service if it wasnt for the fact that the servers they have now have so many problems that they have to take them down every other day and do "emergency maintence". I say fix the existing problems then maybe think about doing something like this.