Originally posted by BuzWeaver

One of my friends said he received an email from SOE inviting him to play on Mayong for a month free. I'm still waiting to get me email, I'd love to try it out on Win7.

Free returns are only given to accounts with sub-lvl 50 characters only.  At least according to what I've seen.

Resub and give it a try imo, it's only $15

The only draw to the server right now is that it feels like old EQ in the sense that there are thousands of players online. Other than that the same problems still persist, so I'm not real sure why they opened it. Especially since it takes about a week(less if you get PLed) to get 51. If it would have been level 65 or 70, then it would make a little more sense(still silly since no issues were addressed that has made EQ fall from grace). 

Originally posted by brostyn

so I'm not real sure why they opened it.

Tons of people are having fun, lots are returning players been gone for years.  Do they really need any other reason than that?

I know there are people worrying about longevity of this server.  IMO, play if you have fun, and enjoy it while it lasts. Afterall that's why we play games.  Worrying about when it might end will simply ruin the fun for you.  Look at the new MMO's released in the past few years, now many of them keep you subscribed for longer than a few months at a time anyway?

The fact that 51/50 is an attractive server even though EQ1 is a 10 year old game proves that it's a success.  I don't play on it much myself, I have chars I'm working on elsewhere on the reg server.  But everytime I logon Mayong, there are tons of players everywhere in all sorts of zones, new & old.  I like seeing people have fun.

I tried playing this game again since like 2000 or whenever the expansion came out with the Lizardmen. I got stuck in a river and the ladder wouldnt't work and then I made a new character in South Qeynos but I got stuck in a pond and couldn't get out. Then I made a new freeport character and went to Nek Forest but then I got chased by a Spider so I ran into the River to get away and sumhow the Spiders can swim... well I say swim they spaz out and killed me somehow. So I decided to make a new character and go to highwind pass or whatever it's called but the map looks like it's been made by a 4 year old so you can't understand it. I got lost in all the dead ends there and had a train of like 50 people. The frigging NPC's never stop following you so I gave up and quit the game.

Don't see whats so good about it and you have to type to NPC's so they'll talk to you...... this ain't the dakr ages just let me right click!

Also where are the quests?

The animations on the combat are pretty bad too and the graphics are all over the place. Some zones look good and others look worse than Tomb Raider.

You are probably used to having the ability to click to accept all quests without having to read a thing, and having quests show up as dots on your minimap right?  In which case, the game isn't for you, no biggy.  Different strokes for different folks.  This genre used to be called MMO*RPG*, where RPG these days is a lost art 

Lots of the zones are kept as original design/graphics, because players wanted it that way.  It's a game with a 10 year history so people like to go back to it for nostalgia purposes.  You can find better graphics in the newer expansion zones, and you probably will have a better time starting out in Crescent Reach, which is made with quest-on-a-rail in mind.

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Originally posted by Mardy

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Originally posted by BuzWeaver

One of my friends said he received an email from SOE inviting him to play on Mayong for a month free. I'm still waiting to get me email, I'd love to try it out on Win7.

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Free returns are only given to accounts with sub-lvl 50 characters only.  At least according to what I've seen.
 
Resub and give it a try imo, it's only $15

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Interesting, that may explain why my friend received the email and I didn't.

this 51/50 isn't a bad idea because now there can be two seperate games going on. Previously it probably revolved too much around the endgame- this idea and people can start new characters on a whim knowing it's not as far as from level 1 and it fuels the low 50s game (which has some of the best zones for choice) as well as the progressing endgame..

Originally posted by Nadia

I'm not

but I'm hoping they launch another server in future,  that starts from level  one

im not saying anything bad about the new 51/50 server but personally i would rather start from lvl 1 and enjoy the game instead of it being handed to me halfway.

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Originally posted by spades07
this 51/50 isn't a bad idea because now there can be two seperate games going on. Previously it probably revolved too much around the endgame- this idea and people can start new characters on a whim knowing it's not as far as from level 1 and it fuels the low 50s game (which has some of the best zones for choice) as well as the progressing endgame..

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I would say this ideology is more indicative to 'new gen' players, for me as an 'old school' player this is just the 'hurry up and have fun' mode that started the whole craze.

hmm there will be continued resentment of this server when it was still quite bizarrely chosen over the progression server. Though I did read a new progression server is still coming.

This is where people are grouping and lfg atm:

Ssra
Chardok
Dulak's Harbour
Nadox
Grieg's End
Skyfire
PoJ, PoD, PoI
BoT
CoD
Occasional Ldon -(problem with this is the gear is too good to make challenging)
HoH
WestKorlach
Sebilis
KC
Velks
Rathe mtns?
The Hole
CazicThule

The server sure appears to have attracted a good sized crowd.  I've heard other returning players say they use this server to test out classes, so they know which ones to create on the regular servers.  There's plenty of good use for Mayong it seems.

It's been over a week now and the server is still very busy, so I'm guessing people like the idea of this server and it isn't just a launch day "let's go check it out" phenomenon.    It's also good to see that folks enjoying PoP+ content, contrary to what others may have said about people quitting after PoP.  I think it really helps having others to group with, like the good 'ol days.

I spent nearly three hours rearranging my spell book, LOL. I was using old saved screen shots. It took quite a while.

Im still wondering if I should try out the new server.  I've never really gotten a chance to play EQ very much for various reasons, and maybe this would be enjoyable.  How're things going now?

Busiest server so far, seems to be growing actually as compared to the first week.  Still tons of people grouping and raiding.

Server is still Busy with tons of groups popping up. Just if you can't find one make one there is always LFG people. Zones i have noticed people in, in my travels

PoI

PoF

PoV

BoT

PoM

CoD

Kael

DSH

and guilds are killing raid mobs everyday server messages never seem to stop =P 

If anyone wants to group up or something send me a PM.  Or if you're willing to answer my endless questions that would be cool as well. lol

I find myself wanting to return to EQ and this seems like a great time to do it, but everytime I do the trial I get stuck on how wonky the cam is, and not being able to free look with my left mouse button. 

I wish they could make these controls the same as what is standard now in almost every MMO.  At least they could offer the same cam and free look options as EQ2 does.

If they fixed this or updated this I would resub in a heartbeat.