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Do you think they will ever make it?

I mean I think it could be semi secessful espcially if they fixed somethings they did wrong with EQII

Considering how many games SOE ist running at the moment (Planetside,SWG,EQ,EQ2,PotBS,MxO,Vanguard..) and the ones they have in development (Agency,Free Realms,...) and the ones they are going to buy along the way... don't see it happening.

I am  pretty sure that what they are still looking for is something to compete with WOW. With EQ2 they were a bit unlucky - the franchise was not popular enough amongts non-MMO gamers, it was somewhat buggy and unfinished at release etc... I could imagine that their next big project will be something either with a very popular franchise or a new approach to the genre alltogether. Probably the former....

No,

SOE has already stated they are more interested in going the route of games like Free realms and the agency. Free to play with micro transactions.

Why the hell would they go microtansaction so they can produce crappy games and say hey there free

Originally posted by sfwtboy

Why the hell would they go microtansaction so they can produce crappy games and say hey there free

How the heck should I know?

Have you been following SOE? Freerealms...a free to play that will have microtransactions.

The Agency, not sure if you will need to buy a box but it will also have microtransactions.

SOE isn't the only company going this route in the future. Traditional monthly sub MMO's will become fewer and fewer. Bioware has even voice support for the model.

Besides. SOE's MMO lineup is completely to the last game sub-par junk, I'm surprised they haven't abandon the genre altogether.

I wouldnt say that I think Vangaurd is a very solid game now

EQII is good but could be better

I think the reason they go microtransaction it because they see these people in f2p games pay 100s a month playing them which is soo dumb and I dont see why people spend so much on those crappy games

Micro transaction games have the potential to make a lot of money, and you partially remove yourself from being direct competition with the likes of WoW, which helps, cause quite frankly competiting directly with the market leader is always going to be expensive and unprofitable.

Originally posted by sfwtboy

Do you think they will ever make it?

 

So does that mean EverQuest fans don't have anything more to expect in the MMO genre? Not at all. Smedley told us that they fully intend to do another EverQuest MMO.

"One day in the future, but not sure what point. No one's actually working on it," he said carefully.

would be interesting to see an Everquest 3 would be like... It would have a problem with Everquest and Everquest 2 being different games that it may possibly alienate one of the crowds.. It would probably not be able to rely on sit 'n' grind which is Everquest 1, as with the trend with every mmo now it probably will have instances.., rehashing the same old classes might be pretty dull..

It could potentially be good but it hope it would take a long look at Everquest 1 and draw some inspiration from it's diverse world and it's dungeons and also hire the right artists. Perhaps part of the original charm of Everquest was it's environments and some of it's character models like it's frogloks, kobalds, orcs, gnolls- they all were distinctive and had character.

If they do it won't be called Everquest 3. They regret using Everquest 2 for the last one apparently.

Originally posted by Mahlo

If they do it won't be called Everquest 3. They regret using Everquest 2 for the last one apparently.

Maybe it will be 'Everquest Free',  the micro-transaction version where the 'Level Up Ding' is replaced by the sound that cash registers in shops used to make.