"Elves are showing up everywhere. Elves help the hobbits in Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. With Elf, they even have their own movie.

But who exactly are these mysterious creatures?

An elf is a kind of fairy. Many people believe fairies are little people with magical powers who can control what humans see and experience.

Elves appeared in stories even before St. Nicholas, who lived more than a thousand years ago. Many people believe that St. Nicholas became Santa Claus—that makes elves even older than Santa!

Elves first appear in Germanic folklore. These elves were pranksters. According to legend, they would cause diseases and give people bad dreams. In fact, one German word for nightmare is alpdrucken (ALF-droo-ken), which means "elf-pressure."

The legend of elves spread across Europe. In Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, elves became associated with Christmas.

In these countries, people say elves are small and mischievous. They wear red clothing and have long beards. To stop them from playing pranks, the story goes, you have to give elves a bowl of porridge on Christmas Eve.

In Denmark, people say that elves can be seen only by cats.

In Iceland elves are called yule lads. Starting on December 12, a new lad visits each day until Christmas. These elves play tricks on people. Because of these tricks, each elf gets a name like Door Slammer or Sausage Stealer.

Kids in Iceland don't mind the pranks, though. The lads leave behind presents. "

 

Originally posted by Heltern

Originally posted by axyrn
After readin all the postings and ratings here i came to the conclusion not to buy this game. Why not ?? 1st reason is that many people here complain about a huge grind fest. 2nd reason is that many people complain that after L15 the solo time is mostly over. 3rd reason is that i read that many people with High End systems have problems with grafics. 4th reason is that the game has to many Bugs and should be BETA. I hate beeing a paying beta tester. 5th reason it´s to expensive. 50$ + 15$ is to much for a game in Beta state. 35$ + 12$ would be fair. So thnx alot to all the people here posting about this game on this board.

You won't be missed at all "NOW GO PLAY WoW SINCE YOU CAN'T HACK A GAME REQUIRING SKILL"

Make sure your friends don't play either, we don't like your ilk!

It seems Vanguard  has a bad  community. Is it lot of players like this

 

This is taken from Game Spy's review of  Vanguard: Saga of Heroes  

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes  was recently profiled in the New York Times with some interesting quotes from Sigil co-founder and executive producer Brad McQuaid. "People ask me, 'are you launching a finished game?' and the answer is 'no, we're launching a game that is good enough to launch, but it's not finished.' And that's why I love these games: because they should never be finished."

Read more here

 

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Originally posted by Zhiga

 

We alredy have many MMORPG which based on fantasy...And if you want some skeletons and monsters, there is another game,which will come out this year...PotC online

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www.piratesonline.com

 

 

 

Do You know if many people use "Power Leveling Services".  Does it have any impact on the gameplay? For me it sounds unbelievable. I play for fun. However, we have all different goal with our gameplay.

1. Power Leveling Services
2. Power Leveling Service

Originally posted by SnaKey

 

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Originally posted by RAF-dood
For Eve to truely succeed CCP would need to give the PvE players their own server and stop offering them up to the asshats that infest the game as some kind of toy to play with. Until that day comes it will continue to be the joke it always was.

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EVE is not your game.

 

There will never be another server.
The Devs intentionally make it where ppl can kill carebears if they really try. The game is not designed for PVE and really, if they did open a PVE Only server the game would crash and burn, the PVE sucks hard. The PVE community is actually very low.

I just killed an Iteron Mark V in 0.8 tonight. :) I was hoping he would flag me in his hulk, but he didn't. hehe. Made 50mil though. Woulda made 100mil on a ransom, but someone showed up and he was half way through hull and I panicked and podded him and ran.

Reader's Choice Favorite PvE: EVE Online

In a tight race, last year’s winner World of Warcraft (47.2%) lost its title to EVE Online (52.8%). While EVE may have been seen as a bit of a dark horse going in this category (not even garnering a nomination last year ), its strong showing in the nominations round continued throughout the final voting phase and lands EVE with its second Reader’s Choice Award of 2006.

Here is an interesting reading from a Blog:

"The population density issue becomes far more difficult to handle if the number of players is shrinking, which happens sooner or later in every MMORPG. Especially the lower level areas of a game tend to become less and less populated with age, leading to problems in finding groups. Also the player economy suffers when the player numbers fall below a critical size."

Read more here: Tobold's MMORPG Blog

I like the new layout. It  is more easy to follow and significantly better on the eyes.

If You tend to avoid groups  is EQ2 a game for You!

Here is a post from  http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com

Where are all the people?

"Man, this has been bugging me as well for about two weeks now. This will piss some people off, but the only thing I can compare the play experience to is WoW which I happen to be playing right now at the same time.

I find it most ironic that a game like eq2 which prides itself on roleplaying and interaction actually has less of it than a game like WoW. Now, many people here will post in response that WoW is full of kids and kool dudes but thats really only a few PvP servers.  There are a ton of RP servers where some people spend more time talking and roleplaying than questing, etc.

Eq2 seems almost deserted in comparision and the players seem too self absorbed to really be much help or fun. Don't kill me, it's just my limited observation after 2 or so weeks of play.

I love different aspects of each game, eq2 has a depth to the character selection that WoW is certainly missing, but the people playing it appear to be somewhat older and much, much more serious about being serious in the game. "

Tuesday,05 December , 2006 at 19:00 UTC

SONY ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES EVERQUEST® III



-SOE Debuts Sequel to World's Most Successful Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game-

SAN DIEGO, CA - April 1, 2006 - Continuing on the success of EverQuest II® and in line with its tradition of consistently providing new and exciting content, Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE), a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online gaming, today announced it is developing EverQuest® III. Scheduled to launch in Winter 2009, EverQuest III adds significant improvements over the first, widely popular, iteration. EverQuest III uses a completely new, cutting-edge 3D engine developed in-house with a host of technological features allowing the development team to generate an unparalleled visually stunning 3D world. Other features include the ability to own real estate, ride horses, command ships, and experience all-new enhanced spells, quests and events. EverQuest III returns to the culturally diverse world of Norrath in the future of EverQuest II, with the sheer size and graphical detail greater than ever seen before.

"It's no secret that we have seen phenomenal success with EverQuest II" said Robert Paulson, jr. vice president of Sony Online Entertainment. "With these improvements to an already great game, we are not only investing in our growing online community, but also pushing the boundaries of what the next generation of role-playing games aspire to be. EverQuest III is the successful embodiment of better technology, player feedback and our desire to build an online global community."

Larger in scope than its predecessor, EverQuest III will be able to host millions of simultaneous users from all over the world. And, due to increased localization features including real-time translation in English, French, German, Japanese and Korean, as well as localized servers in select countries, players from every corner of the earth will be able to explore familiar areas and new, undiscovered territories of Norrath. With innovative in-game creatures, weapons and items EverQuest III promises something new for all subscribers.

"EverQuest III is truly an amazing experience," said Andrew Teegle, producer, Sony Online Entertainment. "The vastness of the world, the increasingly deep storyline and the continuity of the online community make EverQuest II an unparalleled game."





Key features and improvements include:
• A brand new 3D engine which takes full advantage of a wide variety of recent technological advances in 3D hardware/software such as per pixel lighting, dynamic environment mapping, and a fully programmable surface shader system

• More intuitive gameplay features appeal to both new and seasoned players
• New branching class structure that players define as they advance through the game
• Vast world of Norrath revisits familiar locations and introduces a variety of newly discovered areas in the Age of Destiny, a time period in the future of the original EverQuest and EverQuest II.
• Increased character customization capabilities allow players to customize characters' faces, hair, and body types to create truly unique avatars
• Deeper character development offering pacing options that cater to game players new to the role-playing genre as well as experienced role-players
• Non-confrontational means of character advancement that including a completely new tradesman character class
• Rideable mounts and vehicles to own and control, including horses and boats, make traversing the massive world of Norrath faster than before
• Norrathian real estate for players to call their own
• All-new tradeskill/crafting system
• Completely new and tactically rich combat, spell and skill systems
• A completely revised and enhanced quest system
• Dynamic world environment shaped by player events

EverQuest III is due to ship Winter 2009. For more information please visit www.everquest3.com.

 

 

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