All Posts by fozzie22

And to the OP..the trial is awful,it really doesnt give you any sense of what awaits you once you go away from the newbie areas.

Originally posted by Ap0kalyps3

I don't know how you could just rinse and repeat the same instances over and over for a year without challenging yourself to the raid content, ever.  Raiding made this game fun because of the competition with other guilds, and if you haven't raided once like you said, and hit level 80 there is something wrong.

 To me thats more hardcore in its own level than raiding everyday for 3 hours, because instanced content is so easy and dull and requires very little if any skill at all, it takes a short amount of time to clear an instance, and after that the game is boring (I tried to come back casually, and its so bloody boring theres nothing to do after clearing instances which took about 40-50 mins to clear everyone, mind you I hated the lore as it's played out beyond belief, and you have to read it that instant it becomes available, or you can't read it again, waste of time when people are waiting for you!!! and to be not allowed to read it after is B/S and always was).  I still find it hard to believe you never raided before.

Monk's can solo and train named mobs easily though, considering they have a decent Feign death and avoidance, which makes content x2 easier to solo than any other class besides bruiser, however there roles in raids leave little to be desired.

You must be either a fan of the lore, a guild leader/officer, or a farmer :P  Anyone not matching one of these criteria would drop this game in a heartbeat due to how amazingly dull it is.

I will give it decent itemization from levels 20-70 though, more so than I've seen in most MMO's, however, its horrible past level 20ish, when grouping allows you to progress way faster than soloing, then it changes from 65-80 back into the WoW questing solo is better model.  Overall, they took the hardcore out of this game, and its a disappointing, dying game from what it was back in T5.

With ROK i'll agree they dunmbed it down far to much (and i say this as a dedicated soloer) but we can hope that the next expansion will be better balanced than that one was,as for it being dull well hey thats your call,if you found it dull then it wasnt the game for you,i and many others have a good time ingame and as for it dying since ROK the servers havent been quiet that much (even my observation last week that my server had gone a bit quiet was just tempory) so if anything the games thriving rather "dying".

I agree Nadia,crashes happen but everything should be done to try and stop them,its never going to stop ALL crashes but its something any dev should aim for in a perfect world :)

The game at launch was certainly more of a challenge thats for sure as soloing wasnt much of an option back in the day but now its easy to get certainly to level 70 within a few weeks depending on how often you play.

Quests are the way to go though as they give lots of nice AA as well as xp

Originally posted by diknak

Originally posted by fozzie22

Yup it looks like a good update but still they leaves the many bugs ROK brought into the game alone..the mind boggles about that one.

 

As for rangers well in the years ive played ive never rolled one but i remember the great nerf back in 2005 which pretty much made them useless,so its a bit of welcome love for them at least.

 What?  Rangers have always been top on the parses.  They got a nerf a little bit ago that really shot their dps, but it wasn't back in 05.

Mounts arent an issue,for the love of  god it takes but a few seconds to call for one so why bother with these fiddling little changes? a waste of man power IMO that could have been put to better use.

I agree that it isn't an issue, but you clearly haven't played in a long long time or you don't have a mount.  If you go through water and your mount goes away, it is just visual and you DON'T have to summon it again.  You kept your run speed and it appeared again as soon as you got out of the water.  I guarentee all they did was tie it to the swimming animation; if you start a swimming animation, the mount visual drops.  I bet it took 30 mins to do, so I wouldn't consider it a waste.

 

Good to see the client at long last getting some love as well,its been a problem since launch and should have been sorted by now,no excuses either the meer fact they've done nothing about this wide spread problem till now is shabby to say the least.

What?  They are addressing an issue that only impacted a very small portion of the players at launch.  In 05 when the game was launched, how many people do you think had 3GB+ of memory and using a 64bit system?  The problem only started becoming a problem as technology got better and these specs became more affordable.

I am glad to see all of these changes.  I have a ranger alt and I did a /feedback about 6 months ago about being able to set the ranged item to appear out of combat instead of melee.  There must have been a lot of people asking for that and I am glad to see the devs listening.

I've at the moment got 5 wargs,2 rhinos (dont like them at all) and a plethra of carpets among my many alts and frankly i very rarely ever get off them tbh other than when i die or have to climb walls and even when i go into water (i.e the willow wood between NQ and QH for instance) is really the only time my mount ever disappears on me,maybe others have a problem with them but i dont.

Rangers IIRC most certainly DID get a nerf back in '05 around the time of LU13 (but then again who didnt get hit with the nerf bat back then) so its good to see them get some love as i said.

As for the client well you see this is an issue wether you choose to beleive it or not becuase more and more people do have lots of RAM and while i wouldnt touch a 64 bit OS with a stick to play games on some people do and theres little doubt that this and many others changes are needed to the client and ingame to make it all the more stable,becuase in my book one crash for anyone is one crash to many and this is the mantra ANY mmo dev company should sing each morning before work.

I wasnt asking for a full engine rewrite becuase we know that wont happen,what i and i'm sure many others would like to see is a massive bug fixing programme implimented within the game,thats not to much to ask for surely?

In the 3 pre ROK expansions all gear WAS upgraded but it was done in a way that was gradual,not like the armour you get in ROK which in mny cases is better than raid gear.

This isnt WOW,its EQ2 and i expect better than we got in ROK

Originally posted by nakuma

just curious, how many people would accept a few updates that only focus on performance enhancements?? cause i for one would definitely tolerate a few updates which focus only on performance enhancements. so far we have recieved stellar content and feel we can allow for a good 2-3 updates that focus only on upgrading the code to the engine, and optimizing the engine and game in general.

 

so just a simple response to that would be nice,like "yes I would like updates to focus on optimizing the engine and game performance enhancements" and adele if you could relay that to the devs by all means please.

Now wether they'll do it is the question becuase i would assume itss a bit easier to make a few new dungeons than actually go looking for fixes to problems that the game has but time will tell.

If its going slow for me during a reinstall i always relog the launch pad usually works for me,but its a big game now to D/L in one chunk

Originally posted by JK-Kanosi

 

Originally posted by quaiky

 

Originally posted by fozzie22

The Kunark content for levels 70-80 is more or less quest based and the vast majority of it solo too

i want to correct it a bit, there is about same amount of group content in rok as in previous expansions but most of it is dungeons and instances which are aimed at lvl 80s.

 

so leveling from 70-80 is mostly solo questing if you level in rok. in the last levels you can start visiting instances and gain some xp there.

overall you have 3 contested dungeons, 5 instances (but i have to say one of them is quite small), so thats not less than in previous expansions. risk/reward is ok for the instances so people keep doing them, but it does not feel right for the dungeons so nearly noone goes to sebilis or chardok unless he needs updates for his epic quest there. (which in the end means you have a lot group content that is not really used).

 

I've heard the same discouraging things after every expansion has been released for EQ2. EQ2 has a plethora of quests, but people skip a lot of it, because it isn't "worth" their time. Kind of turns me off from the game, since I have never played any content above level 15. To be fair, most games that come out with more than 1 area to level for that particular level range ends up with a favorite area and a ghost town area. This is why it is so important for me to get into a game at launch now. I just feel like I am really behind the EQ2 power curb and will never catch up in a reasonable amount of time to the higher levels. Especially if I am wasting time trying to find groups to experience content that no one wants to do.

As Nadia says rightly too,the newbie area in ROK is madness and for me sums up all that is wrong with ROK,the insanely overpowered gear thats there beats the crap out of anything pre-rok,something that needs to be addressed in the next expansion thats for sure.

Quests though as you say theres tons of them,and its up to you if you feel you need to do them i like doing them but i know everyones not like me.

Originally posted by quaiky

 

Originally posted by fozzie22

The Kunark content for levels 70-80 is more or less quest based and the vast majority of it solo too

i want to correct it a bit, there is about same amount of group content in rok as in previous expansions but most of it is dungeons and instances which are aimed at lvl 80s.

 

so leveling from 70-80 is mostly solo questing if you level in rok. in the last levels you can start visiting instances and gain some xp there.

overall you have 3 contested dungeons, 5 instances (but i have to say one of them is quite small), so thats not less than in previous expansions. risk/reward is ok for the instances so people keep doing them, but it does not feel right for the dungeons so nearly noone goes to sebilis or chardok unless he needs updates for his epic quest there. (which in the end means you have a lot group content that is not really used).

So as i said you solo the game

The risk going into the dungoens are not worth the effort unless,as you said you need updates for quests,which even as a hardened soloer i find very sad,becuase every now and again i do like the odd dungeon crawl.

The Kunark content for levels 70-80 is more or less quest based and the vast majority of it solo too

Originally posted by forthelulz

after reading it...meh. pretty weak reason to ban someone. they just caved to religious nuts. have you seen some of the warcraft porn? i bet blizzard doesn't ban those doujinshi.

And no i havent seen some of the warcraft porn..i have to ask why would i even want to,theres enough of it with real people on the net without resorting to a game for jollies.

Originally posted by hubertgrove

 

Well, since you ask in a courteous and thoughtful way, I shall reply in the same manner;

 

If one puts aside SOE's initial argument, that they found the writing 'offensive', and just concentrates on their second objection - that the work was in breach of their intellectual property - then yes, I agree with you, SOE has a 'right to remedy'.

That right to remedy provides specific course of action based on the 'cease and desist' and 'recompense' principles. In other words, they could have insisted that the site or the writer either remove or re-edit the piece to remove anything that referred to SOE characters, locations, ideas, etc. If the site or the writer had made any money from the article, SOE could have insisted on a cut of some or all of that money. If they genuinely believed their IP was harmed, then they could have insisted that the writer or the site pay compensation to restore its value and perhaps even ask for punitive damages to deter them from infringing on their copyright again.

But SOE did none of this. It took the easy, arrogant and, to put it plainly, just plain wrong approach. They banned the writer from the game. SOE acknowledges this action was wrong because, after all the fuss they made about it, they then reinstated this player a couple of months later when, it seems to me, their legal department said they would be in trouble if they didn't.

Let me give you an anaology of what they did. It's like the police banning you from voting because you have some unpaid parking tickets. In other words, you're being punished for something that may or may not be a crime, the piunishment may or may not be disproportionate and, for sure, you're being punished ine one arena for something you did in another.

I hope this answers your points.

I agree with you that SOE's PR and CS is frankly shocking,but in this case they got it 100% right with the ban,now if they let him back then you can call them weak not to have the courage of thier convictions in enforcing the ban to its fullest extent.

There was no way in gods green earth that he could rewrite the story becuase its main theme was about underage sex and when you dip your toe in those murky waters well he really did get what he deserved and SOE got it right with the ban.

Originally posted by hubertgrove

 

Originally posted by fozzie22

Having just read the "story" (for want of a better word) its no wonder SOE wanted thier name disassociated from it,apart from the fact its been written in the style of a 13 year old child its offensive in just so many ways.

 

For my money if Smed/varient/SOE hadnt have done something about this at the time then i would have cause to complain sorry this isnt freedom of speech its utter and offensive drivel.

 

Now, you're beginning to get it. Just because something is 'offensive' does not make it 'illegal', especially if it is expressed in a legal way in a legal forum. The story was not printed on SOE's official board but on adult fanfic forum on an independent site and came prefaced with a clear 'adult fiction' warning. For SOE to have interfered and then lied about interfering clearly demonstrates its crass contempt not just for its playters but for the law itself.

I know where you're coming from Hubert i really do,but i ask you this question

If say for instance an adult star wars story had appeared when SWG was at its height and involved lets put this nicely padme's or leia's or in someones mind a relations to these charcters "younger" years wouldnt that be deemed offensive? and do you honestly think that LA (lets leave SOE out of this for a sec) would have just let it lie?

No they wouldnt,its as simple as that if they'd been playing the game the first thing they would do would be to ban the offending person pronto,when you start to go into the very murky world of this sort of "fiction" you know you're on the edge,if you dont then the person who wrote this trash is stupid.

SOE have a right to protect thier IP,its a "family" company that sells everything across the board and to even be mentioned in the same breath with any sort of work (fiction it may) with this as its subject matter makes the boardroom men very twitchy and rightly so too.

You may see it as "freedom of speech" well i see it as offensive trash and poorly written trash at that,the internet isnt as free as everyone likes to think it is and given when that "story" was written it was a lot freer than it is today,there has to be some boundries in everything we do wether we like it not.

SOE IMO where right to ban this person for this regardless of where the article was posted in the first place.

Yup this thread is another production of Hubertgrove..*cue music*

Originally posted by Daffid011

So if other games are doing it, then it is ok for SOE to do it and it should just be ignored?

 

Maybe there are so many throw SOE to the fire threads, because it seems every other week they are doing some boneheaded move and they know most of the playerbase won't care, because it doesn't directly affect them in a tangible way.

 

I'm curious if SOE will address this to the players, sweep it under the rug or find some way to offer this as a new premium service to its players. 

 

Honestly something like this needs to be addressed to the playerbase since it seems to be a growing trend in the game.

Well said,its far too easy just to say well it goes on in other games..frankly i dont CARE what happens in others games,thier devs could hand out blue elephants in cycle shorts for all i care,but this has had an impact in the game i enjoy.

Having just read the "story" (for want of a better word) its no wonder SOE wanted thier name disassociated from it,apart from the fact its been written in the style of a 13 year old child its offensive in just so many ways.

For my money if Smed/varient/SOE hadnt have done something about this at the time then i would have cause to complain sorry this isnt freedom of speech its utter and offensive drivel.

The single worst thing SOE did in regards to EQ2 was saying the engine was "future proof"..ohh how thats come back to bite them on the ass

Originally posted by deucallion

 

Originally posted by Zenasa

While I agree with much of what you say on the part of SOE being crap......

..... Blizzard does not know how to make games. WoW sucks, horribly. If you want to kill boars, crabs, and giant owls all day with no storyline or direction at all.. go for it. I personally prefer character development and group play than farming, pvping, and more farming.

EQ2 rules.

 

Exactly!  Blizzard has no idea how to make video games, let alone hugely popular ones!  We all wanted desperately to believe that the Warcraft games would be some of the most successful games created thus far, but i think it's time to admit we are just fooling ourselves.  Blizzard doesn't know the first thing about making good games.  5 million-odd subscribers to WoW?  Thats obviously a myth.  A ploy by the Bush Administration to get us all to support his war in Iraq.  Blizzard makes horrible games.  They should definitely change products and start making parkas or something . . .

It got a chuckle from me 4 stars for this post