If you're low skill points and low on money, best advise is stabber/rupture or vexor/thorax.

If you're high skill points and lot of money...you shouldn't be asking this, you should know already

Nah you can plug a keyboard and a mouse to a modern console.

The biggest problem I see here is selling a bug ridden, unfinished mmo to the console crowd. I don't think these people are prepared for downtimes, tons of bug fixes, patches, lack of information and non working features. Perhaps they are not going to moan to the forums but instead to the selling point asking for a refund (that is what we, the pc techies, should have been doing for ages)

I don't know how they are going to solve that. Well, Funcom is doing it by releasing first the PC version, fixing it then when it's finished and finally tested, rushing it to the console world. And they think we don't know about it

Originally posted by tman5

If Danny boy answers half those questions with accuracy and some level of detail, we could finally solve the Great Mystery of WTF Happened.

And rest in pace and move on.

Perhaps.

Originally posted by Faxxer

 

2 cents added.

 

I really just went on there to make sure they understand ONE thing...

 

Word of mouth hurts business.   and I still like to hurt them.

 

Faxx .. once of Bria

She was Nancy McIntyre

"There was lots of reading, much too much, in the game. There was a lot of wandering around learning about different abilities. We really needed to give people the experience of being Han Solo or Luke Skywalker rather than being Uncle Owen, the moisture farmer. We wanted more instant gratification: kill, get treasure, repeat. We needed to give people more of an opportunity to be a part of what they have seen in the movies rather than something they had created themselves"

oh wow that is a precious opportunity to dig into the past of mmo history !!!!!

I hope one day mmo's in general won't have levels. Great way of dividing communities and an absurd way of keeping players with an stupid goal.

Chimaera if you live in Europe

Bria, Starsider (roleplaying), Bloodfin if you live in USA

I hope it's not picked up by SOE

Entirely from word of mouth and reviews

Oh wait...

I'm playing the free veteran trial of EQ2 and well, the world is huge and I don't expect to find players in every corner, but being in Antonia Bayle server (the most populated) I, as a new player, find hard to say EQ2 is healthy. Server list is usually light on all servers except 4-5 at medium. So neither SWG or EQ2 are in good stance right now. For a new player, checking a 15-20 server list flagged light 80% of them is not a good indicator.

Also, giving 2 free months with all expansions for free is not a good indicator, regarthless the aniversary and such things.

hahaha obvious troll is obvious

lol it seems WoW is killing all around even the foundation of rpg games!! XD

Originally posted by mbd1968

OK, I'm confused... if there's at least 140K subs, and there's around 40K at peak, where do the other 100K go?

Sleeping or working, simple as that lol

it's all about timezones

and there are 250-300k total subscribers btw

Holy shit with those whinners!!!! one pilot mean nothing in eve, it's all about teams!! a little team of 1 week bees can easily kill a 40 milion sp, 3 years veteran in a big badass battleship!! you don't really understand the mechanics behind EvE, you do still think that the more sp is always the better in a combat:

A 3 years veteran with 40 milions skillpoints don't have any skillpoint advantage over a 1 year pilot with 10 milion skillpoint when choosing, for example, an interceptor ship class. The first, though, can probably fly not only an interceptor, but a heavy interdictor, a battleship, a carrier, etc but in a single combat, you just pilot 1 ship!! It's all about specialization or not, and combat experience.

Vet trial ended, not resubbing just because low population problem and no free transfer/merges. The game is pretty nice right now, I confess :l

huh? I'm not trying to reach the already lucky DAoC players, if you haven't noticed already.

Cool, good one for you old DAoC players :)

I wish SOE does something like this for SWG but they need directives wich understand players, not just numbers. By reading the DAoC producer letter, I feel he is very authentic dude and understands all kind of players. You're lucky. 1+ for Mythic.

Just read this:

http://www.camelotherald.com/news/news_article.php?storyid=3582

Quotes:

"My vision for the design of this new server is driven by my and my team’s own understanding of and experience with Dark Age, as well as yours, our Community of Team Leads, players and former players who wish to come back and experience not just the ‘nostalgia’ of this server, but a truly fun and compelling gameplay experience."

"This server is designed to return DAoC to the great game experience it was in 2001/2002, while also applying wisdom from the lessons we have learned since then.  DAoC is still a great game, but this server has its own appeal that we ‘old school’ players really enjoyed, and our goal is to get back to that while also continuing to support the other rulesets."

It seems to me this producer really understands all kinds of player base and feelings about different "ages" any long lived mmo faces, but instead of just changing every time, DAoC devs try to content those that don't like new versions with old school servers.

C'mon, if Mythic can do it for a very low subscriber base as DAoC is, why SOE can't do one single server for "nostalgics"? c'mon, it is possible to support old players!

I really like NGE content and new systems, but I feel the "urge" to play the profession and combat system from old incarnations.

Originally posted by batolemaeus

Do subscribers really matter?

From a players perspective the only number that matters is the amount of people on the same server you are on, imo.

I agree, that is what you experience when you go to a packed server or a barren one, that is the actual population of the game because it's the server where you play. Considering this, EvE Online has the absolute record for concurrent players in the same server. Something like 40-45k players at the same time.

The email says the vet trial ended 31/5 but, well, I'm still there.

BTW I also got a 60 days free timeplay for EQ2 with all expansions...and I've never bought it, just played a trial.