These Unforgiving 1-Star Reviews of Everquest are something else
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- I was inspired by @WolfheartFPS and their video on one star reviews for Elden Ring found here: • Going Over One-Star El...
I wanted to make a comical video about Everquest and some of the one star reviews it's gotten over the years, realizing it'd probably be difficult to find many reviews with as old as this game was.
I did in fact find several funny one star reviews, what I didn't expect, though, was the perspective I'd gain from steam reviews of Everquest when it was on there as a free to play MMORPG.
I didn't imagine I'd find myself agreeing with some of the negative reviews about this MMO I enjoy so much.
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It was the best ever! WAY beyond its time. Never be anything like this in the History of games!
Coincidentally, a week ago I logged back into my original character after 18 years. It is amazing how EQ was able to do things 20 years ago that modern MMOs still can’t get right.
The interdependence of the game is what made it special. I always loved the idea of so many strangers banding together to pool their talents and abilities to attain a goal. Sure it was hard as hell, but you earned what you got and truly got out what you put into it.
It makes sense that this was my favorite MMO as a kid and now I am a communist.
That's exactly why classic EQ was the best MMO ever created, you actually had to work with other people, yes getting groups made up correctly with the trifecta was hard to achieve and took time, but once you had a good thing going, some of the best fun to ever be achieved because you had to socialize and work together. Most other MMORPGs you can work alone the entire time, and even when you are grouping, youre still playing alone, no one talks to each other, no one needs each other, you barely need healing, it's just plain easy and more of a solo game.
I started EQ with beta and my husband and I played it pretty much constantly for the next five years. It was fantastic, innovative, and a great deal of fun and immersion in a way nothing could capture now just due to the time it was then vs. now. We didn't have social media, smart phones, etc. Your guild would rely on email, message boards where you share links to videos and animated gifs and heavily upon in game chat - or even phone calls! EQ, UO and Meridian were pioneers in an entirely unexplored territory, and to have experienced it at the time - it was something very powerful to have been a part of.
I speak the same way about EQOA. Sony had a unique formula for both games. Nothing like them ever since.
Better than wow. Everquest made you feel like you accomplished something. WoW was just easy. I had a maxed-out character in wow in a month, and a 2nd that took even less time. The stupid requirements for flying made it even less worth playing. Never made sense how you acquired a flying mount. Everquest was a war of attrition. Wow was a war of tedium.
EQ 1 and 2 are both better than WoW. WoW was just the first one that appealed to a much wider audience and made it "cool" to play an mmo. EQ could eventually fall to tedium, but that took a lot of time if you were dedicated to raiding etc. When I last played, which was quite a while ago now, I saw people who were still playing when I last saw them 10 years prior. Insane staying power in that game.
EQ was so good that I'm still looking for that experience 20 years later. Just like The Pixies (the old albums) and David Lynch: you hear/see a ton of good music/movies, but nothing quite scratches that exact itch.
Monsters and memories might be it bro!!! Check it out. Still in development though
Loved EQ. I started back in 2000 shortly after Kunark had become a thing. Back when the game was a chat room, with some game play. played for 4 years, got to PoTime before needing to quit to IRL stuff. Miss those days chillin in PoEarth grinding AA's with my guildies. good times good times
The disks to install EQ, the dial-up connection and finally being able to play it for the 1st time back in '99 or early 2000s was legendary. Its difficult for some to understand that this was it back then before WoW and other games came. It may not be as epic as it once was but after 24 years, its still around and still updating.
Early EQ was the best. Loved the social aspect and how difficult it could be. Unfortunately, as years passed, they started to make it too easy. Also, as mentioned in the video, there are too many zones and if you play now, it is hard to find groups as a new player. Every few years, I find myself making a new character and playing for a month or so, but without the friends and social part of the game, it is easy to get bored and leave again. We will have to see what Monsters and Memories ends up being like. Seems like EQ 2.0
Grouping was always hard to do or was a chore, because of the fixation on camping rather than dungeon clearing like Vangard offered.
I think difficulty gets misrembered, because so much was compaired to platformers that we tended to mistaken hours wait and instantly dying for standing still as a good gauge of difficulty.
@@FirstNameLastName-okayyoutube Camping was the best.
'Everquest sucked" are automatic fighting words. We rumbling now lol
Everquest was awesome when it was released. It would take 4 years before anything close came out (WoW and EQ2). I met my wife in EQ1 in 2002. I was a wood elf ranger and she was a dwarf cleric, met at the chess board in Butcherblock Mountains. We're still together playing games. The only reason we don't play EQ now is the graphics, mainly the character models and the old animations.
Was also a Wood Elf Rng. My bro got me into the game around Luclin.
imagine if a mob had killed either you or her, before that encounter, you might not have been together today :D how odd the world is.
@@Uzur9 I bought EQ when Luclin was first released
@@EchoesofthePast-l9z No kidding!
I just started EQ and love it. Would have spent loads of time in this game if I was a teen 10 years earlier, but I'll settle for Oakwynd.
Never minded the graphics, I grew up on 8 bit shit. EQ was crazy amazing when it came out, visually. I still play some old classic NES games, what is the difference? People will play indi games and praise them for their 16 bit games, graphically. Like huh lol
Great video & good idea Redbeard. Enjoyed hearing the old reviews for the game.
BUT in the spirit of this video, I cant pass up a chance to role play as your everyday hate commenter Scrooge McDuck.
"After 23 seconds of watching your video RBF, I feel entitled to let you know you're completely wrong for reviewing EQ so terribly with 1 star out of 5. My hardcore P99 raid guild eats nubz like you & spits them out for breakfast. Get gud."
Haha! Well played! Great hearing from you ion and was glad to see your premiere earlier
It’s hard for people that did not play then to understand how new being able to play and chat with people all over the country and the world was back then. That was such a fascinating thing at that time and no one else really understood cause the closest thing others had were just simply chat rooms.
I mean it’s still cool to think we can play a game with someone live in synchronicity with someone who loves on the other side of the world, but it’s become so common that it’s taken for granted
Still playing it on P99 Red, installed the EQ Classic HD texture pack from P99 Wiki, and enjoy the game as much as ever!
All day!
Ironically: EQ2 addresses the major issue of level gaps. Significantly better than EQ or WoW does. With the tutoring system where you can cut your level down and group with people that join at those levels. The shroud system in EQ is the closest I've seen to this, but you're still not playing your actual character with any of it's perks.
I'm a huge proponent of the mentor system in eq2 even if it can get pretty op because it let's you group with others rather than needing to be powerleveled before you can.
@@Redbeardflynn at the same time the mentor system is the best thing for powerlevel :D I don't really think that people using it for anything else anymore
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I really think Daybreak needs to take a short break from the same old routine of xpansion every year, and some cookie cutter rehashed TLP servers and, GIVE US SOME FREAKING QOL IMPROVEMENTS.
I don't expect them to take a break but they are working on the backend a lot with the 64 bit and now working on a new ui engine that they're migrating all year. I think the new ui engine work could lead to some qol improvements down the line. It's not happening as quickly as I'd like but it does sound like they're working on setting up for future improvements
I agree. They could easily go back and focus on improving the early game as well to help bring in or retain new players. Like adding the classic quests in the racial starting cities to the quest tracker, adding more low level quests, etc
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Wish I could get back into EQ. I've tried a dozen times over the years. When I do I end up just 3 boxxing. Alone. Never seeing another soul outside PoP. Join a guild, sure, did that. Guess what, they are all max level. I don't want to be power leveled, thanks. I missed a ton of content already. I think the thing that keeps making me quit is post level 70. It isn't fun anymore. The insane amount of AAs you cannot even grind for as F2P because of restrictions makes you not even want to bother. Pay and get them all auto granted I guess? So I can play alone for another 50 levels? Sit in a zone for the next 5-10 levels, grinding till you run out of shit to watch on Netflix? Bleh.
I can see the alure of progression servers for sure. I am always tempted to try one out. I did P99 as well, that game is just full of anti social twinks, no thanks.
I am also running into this same issue with EQ2. Minus the fact you can SOLO RAID BOSSES as you level. Like wtf? There is 0 group content to group, while leveling. I wasn't even twinked out. I was taking down heritage quest raid bosses (same con or higher). I quit after that. Not like there was anyone to group with to begin with. I didn't bother ever asking for help with group content anyway, cause I could just solo it all. I can only imagine the dumpster fire this is for people who try the game out for the first time with friends.
Maybe keep going for the social aspect of it? I dunno, like I said, was in guilds, no one really talked, everyone was busy with their own objectives and goals. I think MMOs have slowly forgotten they are for playing with other people. Just an expensive single player game now with a chat room attached to it I guess.
Oh wait, raid content you say?! Ok, play with some people 1-3 times a week, who only show up 1-3 times a week, never log in or say anything outside those 1-3 times a week. Half of them high off their asses or drunk. Not my idea of fun.
Long rant, sorry... I've lost my love of MMOs I think. It only took 22 years to do it. Maybe I just haven't found my people. I know that can be a thing as well. I do keep trying on and off, here and there though.
Ugh, I hate the auto-opening a window when I close EQ!! It goes to a browser I usually have closed and it can mess up my page restores
They aren't the only F2P optional Sub MMO that does this but it's always a pet peeve of mine. It feels very invasive.
This is pretty Good video and I fine agreeing with Some of the Reviews (The last Review was a tear Jerker) I say yes the Games (Both EverQuest & EverQuest 2 are Good) but I also agree that Daybreak Games is a very good name for the Company ( We Break Games and Sometimes Hearts and We really haven't made any Games since 2018 Remember Plantside Arena yep we made that then shut it down along side EQN & Landmark). Sorry to say this but yes even the Subscripting got you that pops up and then opens up the webpage before you even have a chance to play the Game is a downer. It really should be if you like the Games sub to us not here before you even have a chance to play. Sad part is I'm keeping my sub to WoW more then my Sub to EQ because again Blizzard is still making Games where Daybreak Games is ?
I'm tempted to dabble in the new progression server as well. (Been a Fan of EQ for a long long time) I did just start up in Embers adrift though, checking it out. Have you made a video about Embers? would be cool to hear your thoughts on it :)
I have a handful of videos where I dabbled a little in the game but mostly haven't had time to jump into it to give it a review or anything like that.
I hope they continue to to expand on the game. Sounds like they've been adding in free new content though I do still think they may have too large a financial barrier entry for many players in 2023.
Some of the reviews remind me why i loved eq. You could not rush to 50 and begin min maxing like all mmos now including eq now.
Remembering when the community was not fond of the L33T gamer style etc.. lol. Now its kind of standard.
Been trying p99 but like your previous video about what no mmo will ever have, that feeling of logging in on the hill of felwithe and being amazed and wander down a path and finding a zone line and taking it not knowing where you were going and getting lost is lfay etc. But will always be fond of eq above all 😊
EQ and its playerbase have gone through so many changes over the years. Looking at the reviews from 2000 was really interesting to me.
I'll admit, p99 intimidates me! I might need to try it on a new server launch some day, though.
The thing that EQ still does better than most other games is Factions, the fact that "good" and "evil" Classes/Races can just team up with each other is great. Also, in the early days when you needed a Credit Card to play it was an auto-buffer to rebuke kids and toxic people. Verant was actually a good Developer, Sony economized the game more and from Omens of War you really feel that. But the most fun from this game comes from a good group and a chatty one is even better! Have some conversation, and fun with others. It's something you didn't see in WoW, WoW was full of Blizz fanboys that flooded in from Diablo 2 in the early days and they brought their toxic mentality with them. Something that to this day EQ doesn't really have most players are older gamers that stuck with the game and they understand that teamwork truly makes the dream work in this game!
I liked it when factions were a thing.. being a low level ogre trying to get in to Freeport and being kos.. loved the risk. When they came out with Planes of Knowledge, etc were every race was working together (really killing immersion) is when things started to lose their appeal for me
@@cybergun01 Sneaking through them old sewers and such so you could bypass them Guards and Paladins in North Freeport to get to the Bank... Good Times, Good Memories!
Reading comments, it's exactly the way i feel about EQOA. One of a kind, in a unique and exciting time, lightning in a bottle. Came and went, and can never truly be recaptured.
Kinda wish an independent group were able to buy the rights to EQ and let people who love the game work on updating it.. maybe like the guys at Monsters & Memories, among others
No story and no coherent history? I really can't take that review seriously at all.
Yeah, I'm guessing it was someone who wasn't used to or unwilling to look for lore/story beyond a series of quests.
Everquest is the best mmo but I can't play it because of the raids. I have like zero time control there. Wakeing up at odd hours. And the whole process takes too much time. I think queing up for raids are a better solution.
On progression servers since 2016 there is an "agent of change" that lets your guild basically pick when to raid so you'd raid at normal raid hours instead of waiting on spawns. One of the best changes EQ has made in recent memory imo.
@@Redbeardflynn Progression servers die after an expansion everyone hates. In live servers there are very few low leveled players. I never liked boxing our buying exp, so my only option is to get in a leveling guild, if there is one and mercs. 2 most popular versions of the game are p99, and Project Lazarus. they have a healthy population of low and high level players. IMHO Everquest is hurting itself with its own mechanics. It is nearly impossible for new players to make progress coz mobs are so strong in this game, and you need teammates in other to do so. In EQ live bigger problem is the early game, while in p99 is late.
We all loved eq and still love eq. We are going to launch a TLP guild. We just think the new zones was a over done and bad design.
My most favorite game
I just quit again... still a great game. Alot of people still playing my guild still got full raids and people sitting outside. But the exp came super fast i started back up for torment of velious... i was 75 and it took me about 2 weeks to hit 115... and then the aa grind started as i was only at 2k the free stuff goves like 25k but cap was still about 50k and it really took me 1 month to hit max. When CoV and TOL came out it legit took less then a week to hit max level and aa leaving the mindless mission grind for aug replacements and waiting for raids. Its not as slow anymore... i ran a ranger and with headshot i was droping mobs fast and if i hit trueshot it sped up so much and i could go pull 30 mobs in Cobalt scars or maidens eye and 3 headshots and they die. The game is pretty great but my only problem is you can not use any of your gear if your a raider without a subscription and being stuck at 2k aa when the cap in ToL for rangers was 60k. But you can break the rules and make enough money to buy krono with free accounts as the level is so fast it takes 2 days to push a char from level 1 to 85.
That's not true... there are alot of people still playing at max level. It was easy and fast to get a group on the Povar/Quellious server.
Everquest took the RPG and D&D online with an amazing world that would let players craft stories. Just like D&D adventures do not always end well. People ask why don't you just go and play EQ now. Well, EQ then was a huge step in the right direction and to this day I'm still waiting for someone to continue in this direction.
Well said.
@@Redbeardflynn Thanks. Awesome content as always!
@@CoreChamber Thank you for your kind words!
I'm Brand new to Everquest been playing the p99 Green server and it's awesome so far
That's awesome! I'm glad to hear it.
EQ > All
Old norrathian saying.
Got it in Kunark and it blew my mind.
Same! I started with Kunark and remember being terrified in Overthere as a lvl 13
EQ was amazing but it peaked at PoP. From LDoN on it becomes a bloated mess.
I did enjoy Ldon since it added more content for the older zones.. just wish it was used more for low levels and let you access it solo with merc (requires you to have at least 3 players still unfortunately)
I’m 36 I always wanted to play this game when I was a kid but it cost money and we were poor lol so I got into Diablo two and counterstrike
Diablo and CS are two great games. The sub fee was a lot back then. I'm not entirely sure how I convinced my parents to pay it.
Great game, but the death penalty needed to get toned down a bit.
Just started playing p99 green 5 weeks ago and I love it like when I 1st started in 99
That's awesome!
It would be cool if you made videos about the TLP and good quest or new zones and things to do in each expansion
I have some older videos with guides and what to expect with PoP and GoD/Ldon expansions when they go live. I'll see what I can do as far as other guides. Currently working on some beginner guides for Everquest.
@@Redbeardflynn I love all that you do. I did watch the what to expect and what changes in these expansions. Thank you so much for making videos on a game that is so old. I try to get my friends to play as well. ;)
As a person who played EQ1 for hours and hours daily from 1999 to 2004, let me say that - EQ was a game that was first on a whole new level, it was awesome because of that, but it also had gazillion of flaws. Of course with with perfect hindsight 24 years later, I can see many things that were not so obvious, not to players, not even to devs. People's understandinf of make makes MMO run have improved greatly, but the scope of what specific people want from the MOO also vary greatly today.
I play EQ1 like MAD back in the day - but today I absolutely do not want to go back to that, and I share very little in common with hardcore fans at P99. From certain QoL features to class balance, and zone designs, there are many things today that I would have done differently.
Nevertheless, EQ was the foundation of entire MMO genre, it was as good as it could possibly be, given that even devs didn't really knew what they were doing, much less the players. Without that hard earned experience that we had with EQ we would not be here today with all our ideas and expectations from the modern games.
It was telling to me that most of the 1 star reviews from 2000 were about Customer service or at least heavily around customer service while lauding praise on the game itself.
@@Redbeardflynn customer service in early years was in fact horrendous - game did had ton of bugs, people lost their corpses because they fallen through floors, died due to zone crashes, got stuck in terrain for hours, were cheated by other players and so on. It got a lot better by 2003, i lost my gear due to crashes and disconnects more than once, and often got very prompt response. GM Llirus was head gm on Morrell Thule was really great
@@Redbeardflynn in defense of Verant team - they NEVER expected such fast game growth in so little time. During pre-release they were looking at Ultima Unline with its 40k players and were hopping to get at least 10k to justify the expenses and hoped to get to 40k by the end of the year and call it total success. They got to 40k in 1st month and 100k in 6th months - they were simply NOT ready to handle this work load, fix bugs, provide SC and work on next expansion. They eventually caught up but it took them at least 3 years
modern EQ is great. Needs a lot of touch up on explaining the lore. Maybe a chronicler in NPC... a better one. Vet Players dont even know whats going on in some zones / expansions.
This alone can work alongside the achievement window and get new players on board with what to do.
So having devs explain themselves would be fun
I wish they had a tome of knowledge that would explain when you went into a zone. For a while they had lore stories sent by their in-game mail system. It kind of worked but...so so.
@@Redbeardflynn If you are talking about what i think you are talking about... that was almost 20 years ago.. you old as dirt! hahaha
@@Redbeardflynnthey have some knowledge helper npcs and some guide players on relivant lore, but they need exactly what you are talking about. Can load them in say a year after an expansion. Maybe credit players for discpvery like they did i think twice in the past
Last comment, I honestly didn’t even think EQ was still going legit. I’ve played 99 a few times here and there, but apparently legit servers are still around. Though, PEAK playing count, like MAX, was about 750 players. Normal count over 24 hours is about 350. Back in my times peak counts were 40k-50k daily.
I only had 2 real complaints about EQ.
1: Recovery times. I know you don't need it to be as fast as modern games, but 15 MINUTES to recover my mana when I had water and max meditation on my druid was insane. You should NOT have to spend 10 times as long recovering as you spend traveling + fighting.
2: Corpse recovery. Don't get me wrong, normally it did not really bother me, but when you could FALL THROUGH A SOLID TREE to the bottom of a dungeon 10 levels higher than what you were fighting when you fell, so there is ZERO possibility of getting anything back? Yeah, THAT was a problem. And yes, I AM talking about the Blackburrow.
Edit:
Oh and a number 3: If your internet connection was slow, it would actually slow down your character as it was set up to not allow you to move more than a certain distance between data packets, rather than between time points. So my crappy internet forced me to move slower with a speed buff, than other people moved normally:D
I remember how frustrated I was with EQ, with their "balance" choices, with their bugs, with their expansions, etc.
But then I played WoW and I realized how good the EQ devs were in comparison.
As someone who loved original Everquest, P99 and TLP both leave a lot to be desired. The PNP on P99 makes a lot of zones useless or unusable in a traditional sense. I’ll use TLP as an example. While leveling, it’s common for groups to camp Hamlord. Doing this on P99 would be highly illegal, and because of this, you just have zones like this transformed into AFK camps for high level players. That’s not classic EQ at all, so in that sense, TLP actually gives me more nostalgia than P99 because those are the type of camps I did as a kid. With TLP though, the pay to win(clarity potions, no exp loss perks, Kronos etc) and the fact that everyone is boxing makes the game feel very un classic. Was a really bad feeling being a cleric main on P99 and then coming to TLP to discover everyone has a boxed cleric, and you’re better off playing any other class because of this. I can genuinely say no version of EQ exists that feels right. I think P99 without PNP would be close. Game was better when players were allowed to KS or do bad things anyways, because that was true classic EQ and peoples reputations mattered a lot. Toxic players would ultimately become shunned by other players. Was neat how the community policed itself.
I'm so glad for servers like P99 and Quarm. They give us old school MMORPG'ers a place to remember what it was like to a certain extent before Blizzard and the like turned the genre into a theme park. Back when UO and EQ and DAoC ruled the internet and the game and the "vision" mattered to some extent to the developers more so than the dollars. When names like Richard Garriott, Brad McQuaid and Matt Firor were the pillars of their MMO communities, each with their own take on how it should be done. Playing on Quarm recently has brought all those memories flooding back in... I don't think there will ever be anything like it again.
Also, PoK changed EvErYtHiNg! Probably the best expansion (PoP) for quality of life improvements.
I got ahold of the 12/2001 CGW issue featuring the (an actual) free 7 days trial. I played for the 7 days and went out and bought another mag for 7 more days. Unfortunately I didn't have a credit card nor were the cards available here but on and off for the next decade I managed to get a month here and there. I was obviously hooked and it wasn't because of the graphics. It was teh frustration of getting my necro newbie gear out of Qeynos, stumbling around blackburrow due to human poor eyesight, hunting spider silk in east karana, and finding out why you don't wander through kithicor after dark. The Alt-itis kicked in due to needs of trade skilling. Finally EQ went ftp and I was able to sub after jumping through many hoops because prepaid credit cards aren't accepted.
Everquest is and probably always will be my favorite game. But they do constantly screw things up in an epic fashion. Poor class balance because of short sighted, heavy handed nerfs. Tons of great ideas with terrible execution. Insanely busy UI, with no acceptable default layout or explanation of how to set up the UI for new players. But their biggest mistake was spreading the game too thin, geographically. They turned a ton of content into a ghost town. They should have had a finite game space, and have it evolve as the game does. Between that and mudflation.. defiant gear made 99% of gear obsolete. Defiant should have *only* been augs, to bring existing gear up to speed. But ive never played a game where i had as many awesome abilities as an everquest bard with all my clickies. Its unreal. I friggin love everquest. Good bad and ugly. And theres plenty of all 3.
Playing EQ as a teen was probably some of the best times I’ve ever had gaming. I maxed 3 character and played for yeaaarrrsss. When I finally let go I sold my account and characters for nearly $1500 in about 2006.
4:46 if someone only has 10 hours on Steam, that doesn't mean they've only played the game for 10 hours. Typically when you are looking at old games like EQ, this is just them coming back to the game, but on the Steam platform. They probably played it a lot more through Sony's launcher, rather than Steam's. Same thing with Anarchy Online on Steam.
Guild Wars 2 does the best at keeping zones populated, by scaling everything to the player's level, so even a max level character can get killed in the starting zone if they take on too many mobs. I think if a game works out how to get max level players into early zones regularly, that would probably help new players a LOT.
Everquest is so good I wish my friend would have never showed me his brother's account in 1999, which launched my addiction during the kunark expansion. I was finally able to convince my parents to upgrade our computer and pay a monthly subscription. 15 hour grind sessions gives you lots of time to think about rhe time lost to such a great game.
I really wish I could play EQ again but I tried to play last years server and got to Vel, but I just have some bug where I have a random chance where my game just crashes while zoning. And looking into it just looked like its a known thing with no real fix :( while its a great game still because we don't have anything like it its really getting harder to play. Most players 3-5+ box so they don't even need other people. Its sad to see but it was it is now I guess I really wonder where MMOs will be in 10 years with all this AI
I would be curious on when you played Lotro and reviewed it as free to play. When Turbine first took that game f2p it had one of the best f2p systems of any game not just to that point, but period. You could unlock every area and piece of content if you grinded hard enough on deeds and got the points. It would take time, and likely a lot of it, but it could be done fairly easily outside of the time commitment. Still the most fun 6 - 12 month period for any mmo was in Lotro for me back in 2011-12 or so. Right before and after Isengard came out and the Great River quest pack. I had way more fun in EQ, EQ 2, and Lotro than I ever did in WoW. I tried playing wow like 6 times but I just couldn't get past level 30-40. It just got so boring for me.
I actually hadn't played it until last year when I tried it thr first time. I had fun but found it a bit too easy and a major gripe of mine was how they bombard you with monetization options. It's gotten better with what rhey offer like tons of quests but was still in your face to subscribe or buy things much like eq does.
There certainly are a few as I used tí play lotro for free but I still feel it wasn't that bad like hes saying here you can grind lotro points to get the rest. The thing on EQ 2 also where it opens the browser everytime you close the game is bs imo I don't mind restrictions but things like that just annoys you and makes you not wanna play
All these Problums are Easy to Fix TO make money LET FTP grind AA's take off the Dumb Prestige items. Have only 4 Servers 1 Free to play locked at the lowest free one a new FV server but like mistif no item REQ so lower levels if they have the plat can level up quick and make twink 3rd server make it were ftp or Pay to play can all play together on a normal server the last 4th one PVP server they rake in a ton of $ how you ask if anyone can earn well some of the items they already have in store the new player base because now it will be like old EQ. people will still want menber because the free aa's you get add a free mount thats faster then very fast and can only be used if you are a menber . so much can be done i wish some other company would just take over
It's really difficult (later on impossible) to progress solo in everquest past a certain level. Now that the population is incredibly top-heavy, it's not fun to start out anew since finding a group has become impossible. And yes you have the progression servers, but they are infested with box teams that farm krono coins to sell online. WoW is much much more fun solo.
man i used to love this game. EQ was great at that time it deserved the name Evercrack, now, I dunno. It feels like 5% of what it used to be, I stopped playing a bit after WoW took everything away. Then I rejoined some years ago to be bombarded with my guild (which I was still apart of for some reason) asking to do raids. I did not have anything set up, my keys where all gone, my Skills where all messed up, the UI was all messed up. I wanted to relearn the game a week or so, they kept bugging me so I left and never returned. It was a fun game. I do miss it, I would return, I feel like I should I know it won't be as good and I rather have those memeroies then try to make new ones. Friends I made are gone, things I did, people I meet. I would return, I just know I will get the raid things if I still in guild and then I would have to have membership. I miss it I do, I left for a reason and I do not think that reason changed.
Haven't played since 2001. Gunna play again with my gf when Oakwynd comes out this month. Can't wait :)
the #1 worst restriction on F2P accounts for EQ is not being able to join general chat , sitting in the tutorial with less than 10 other players in new player chat and maby 3 other people in the tutorial zone with you and its the same once you complet it and move on to CR it makes new players feel like the game is dead almost never seeing another player and a dead chat screen ......... if your not familiar with the game and the hangout zones new players struggle with learning and are blocked from talking to and asking experianced players for advice / help
at this point, everquest needs to do what wow did - level, stat and ability squishing. everquest is so insanely bloated with aa's, abilities and the level grind.
Everquest was so good when it came out. I think maybe the times changed and Everquest didn't. I'm still crowning it the all time best MMO though. On a side note, the newest progression server don't really interest me this time around. It will do a great job of keeping people all levels, but it just inst enough to drawn my attention back like the increased rare spawn chance and random loot did.
It's good to know that even back then people who don't like RPGs were stumbling into them and misunderstanding why they aren't having fun.
Yeah the in-game pop up is really bad, and if you minimize it, it just pops up with another variant. I think it's just the way the game is now, its a niche community and those type of games they have to over monetize per person to make up the difference.
The younger generations do not understand the concept of earning stuff. EQ awarded time and effort, and it actually felt good to level up. In something like WoW, you level so fast it is meaningless.
Nobody wants a ton of new zones they just dont yet understand how new content generation is going to be presented. (forevergames)
These reviews are based on live servers NOT progression/p99, they need a FREE progression server without a lot of the nonsense that live has. (or a p99 like server)
None of the modern mmos does even half of the things you could do in EQ. EQ was the definition of world immersing for that time.
All MMOs focus on now is leveling to cap for end game with crafting as an option.
I mean, they're not wrong on a lot of their reviews. I think it just depends how much you like the game whether you can tolerate the game's flaws or not.
Slow progress = More money. They had to keep people playing...that is why a lot of MMOs last a year or two because they make it too easy to max out
EQ was one of the best games ever. Unfortunately, like every game, it had it's moment in the sun, and now it's over. I've tried to go back to it and other games but they are never the same. With that being said I live by the rule now to always go forward and never look back.
I feel a bit like an anomaly because my best times in EQ were from 2016 to 2020 playing on a TLP almost to live. The ingrained memories are still from before when I played in 2000-2004 when I was younger of course, but for game play that last long stint stands out (I came back again 2006-2008 and sporadically from 08 to 16)
Great video thanks
Thank you so much. Glad you enjoyed.
Are you on oakwynd ?
Magebeardflynn and Treebeardflynn!
As someone who just returned and had my PvP gm event special title deleted because of the surname system changes then had customer support refuse to restore it, I'd give it a 1 in 2024 as well.
Oh that sucks. I'm so sorry!
I'm struggling to get going as a new player of the game. any suggestions
tlp's when they first open are fun, always lots of groups
Kinda silly question it's still going for 24 years
My only gripes -
1. Not overly solo friendly. Originally by design. There are tools to manage, but it takes knowledge. I think this in a way might inadvertently stop new players from trying it out, due to how un-solo it might appear to those without the experience to know about mercs, camps, etc etc.
2. The sheer time involved. Even if you fast forward with the hero boost, it will take ages to have an alt catchup to live now. And that's not considering that when you boost it can be daunting to figure out a class and the like. (Personally i think that varies class to class.) But to oldschool it and level up without boosts to current level with all the AA you need, you are talking a lot of time. Longer for someone who has never done it before.
Just my humble opinion.
With the advent of mercs and the quest system now, plus hot zones, it's easier to level. But if you start playing today and want to be in a top tier raid guild within two years you are out of your mind. Those guys have tens of thousands of AA at this point and you are a literal decade or two behind them. I'm sure it can be done, but the amount of time and effort it would take to get there would be equivalent to a full time job or more. I may be wrong, but when I last played probably a decade or so ago people already had 8-10k AA that were playing high end content. But I agree, I think the time involved to do that would be astronomical and people are more likely to just play something like Elden Ring 17 times instead.
I also like soloing in online games, including Everquest, but I have learned that there is a reason they aren't solo friendly. (Game Design of course) Second, who cares if you take forever to level, it's not about the ending/end game, it's about the journey and the friends you make along the way. That was the true original purpose of MMOs, they just made them easy so people can play solo for more sales
editing and final watch all the way thru, bro !
It will always be the best. Other MMO's are too easy.
UI made the game a one star for me. Unplayable.
You’re the man Redbeard. I’m strongly considering starting the new TLP as my first MMO experience in almost two decades. I am saving money for a gaming computer, and I hope to have it by August. Is August too late to start the TLP? Will the early and mid-level crowd have already thinned out by then?
Love your videos!
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Project 1999 still fun as hell
So the hell levels are like....hell.....
''Drive and determination''.
Bro I still play it 23 years later 😅
top 5 all time game. easily.
Well, there is that. ✌
EverQuest was the best MMO of ALL TIME. (I currently think FF14 is the new King of MMO's) People don't get it. This was AD&D (sort of) in 3D. It was the first of it's kind. I feel deeply in love with EQ and played is a super hard core raid guild, 7 days a week for 6 years straight. Then I got married and my life ended as we know it. Now I am single again. But now I am too old and ugly to land a woman so I play video games in my 50's .... But these 1 star reviews are just of everquest are just clueless people that wouldn't have liked any mmo in 1999... now zero star revies for Daybreak the company. yes. those are legit. Lazy ass company just milks TLPs and Krono but won't make a new EverQuest. Garbage company now
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