I'm going to find it amusing if/when the "amazing unique combat" goes the way of Age of Conan with its directional attacking/blocking.

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes was something that could have beat WoW in terms of quality, but people had every reason under the sun to dislike it. Comparing a game that just came out, to WoW and it's patches and expansions over the years...not exactly fair. Vanguard had a lot of room to grow.  After Vanguard bombed I doubted companies would ever go for the true, old school mmo feel and so far that's been the case.

I think the idea of minions, the crux of the game, would have been suited better to a different IP. A fantasy setting would have been much better imo where you could have tons of different types of minions/pets you could recruit, instead of just humans/humanoids....unless they have others? I always thought how cool it'd be if you could recuit different factions like you see in WoW...mmm Sporeggar. But that's neither here nor there.

It is true perhaps. Gamers tend to give games one chance with releases...hopefully that doesn't apply to developement cycles. In some sense, I think it may though.

Good for you for warning other players. I had a similar and horrible experience with the makers of AoC near launch, and things don't seemed to have changed. 

I cancelled my subscription twice, and twice they charged me for 3 months. So I payed for 6 months and never played a minute, they could see that and still wouldn't refund my money even about 4 days into the sub.  They really are disparate for money it seems...still didn't do them any good now that they're F2P.  Worst customer service I've seen...although FFXI is up there as well...both foreign companies.

Thanks, found all that I needed.  Even got 2 emails helping, looks like I should have it by tomorrow.

Preordered today and it looks like it takes around 2 business days to get the codes emailed...anyone have any experience getting it sooner? What can I say, I'm impatient :P

Works now :)

I wouldn't think it'd take too long..

Same here.

You can tell they're probably more behind the game than some other companies are with their games. I sort of feel it might be in a similar situation as Vanguard. Initially it wasn't complete but given more time, and player support, it could have been more rounded out.  I think the game will have a lot of (free) updates once it goes live.

Good news.  Can't say I know any of the names however lol.  But I do like Fippy Darkpaw as a name though, sort of has a flow to it.  Plus reading the story about Fippy Darkpaw is pretty funny, poor guy.

sweet, would be nice if they could keep it as close to the original timeline as possible. Content accurate to each expansion that is :)

You know what..I wouldn't be too surprised if they included 3D into EQ Next.  

EQ1 was one of the first 3D mmorpgs.

EQ2 had some pretty high system reqs right off the bat so the graphics wouldn't become obsolete.

Since Sony is pushing 3D pretty hard on the PS3 and with it's TVs (because it thinks "3D is the future")  making EQ Next with that in mind could be a possiblity. EQ Next could be the first 3D mmorpg. 

Did they say it was every 6 months for each expansion?

I think it should be pretty nice, seems like a decent number of people already looking forward to it. Would be nice to get a list of interested players from here before launch.

I was going to get it...but then since I plan on playing on the progression server, it probably would be useless for a long while. Got all but the last 3 or so expansions.

How much would it take for them to lose to split into Enix and Squaresoft? Let us pray....

Really though, someone should have blocked that crap years back.

Someone needs to beat them with a belt, they've turned into whiny children.

An mmorpg with an overhead view like Lineage or Warcraft 3.  

Something where you have multiple characters in a party.  I think there's a lot of interesting things you could do with lore and factions.

An mmorpg that uses something like Kinect would be fun as well....at least for awhile lol.

I just started playing using Windows 7 and it works fine; Vista should be no problem in that case.  I'm planning on playing on the progression server in Jan but for now just getting a feel for things, trying classes ect. 

Something tells me they aren't spending their money very wisely..

Making a great mmorpg shouldn't take insane amounts of money, especially taking into account how much the quality of single player games has gone up in comparison.