I wonder how long it will take this game to have server merges. With that picture alone, it seems like it will be sooner than later. Im not a pirate fan, but it looks like another MMO bites the dust. Is it me or is online gaming becoming depressing?

One is called just Infinity, were the other is called Infinity:The Quest for Earth.

Was thinking about buying this game and have a quick question. I played the beta of LOTRO. I went to the turbine account page earlier, and it showed my beta account still being there. If i buy the game and activate it will that account have my beta character or no? Im hoping for a yes here, but nonetheless he was only 15, so it wouldnt be a setback or anything. Anyone know?

Not to be a hater, even though upgrading does help, its not needed here. My friends laptop runs it with 512 ram, and i can run it with 1 gig with no lag or problems at all. So for you guys mentioning that his memory is a problem, its not. It though however, could be a memory error problem. Therefore doing a memory scan could help. But if your not receiving errors after running it for awhile, i doubt thats the problem. A good memory checker and i beleive is free is, MemTest. Google it for the link. But as for his memory, 1 gig is fine to run this game on balanced which is what i play at, and especially at low settings.

If you could, post some system info. You can do this easily though the dxdiag. Also, are you getting any errors when the client crashes. If so post those. If not, then its most likely some networking problem on your end. If your running any anti virus programs, diable or remove them. If you have zone alarm, diable or remove that too. Also try this:

Open up your command prompt and do a traceroute to the main eq2 site or if you can find, one of thier servers. Or you could also try anything related to SOE. See if your getting timeout'd on any part of the line. If its within the first few hops, its usually something to do with you or your isp. If it times out from the get go, its most likely you. I would then suggest doing some virus scans and checking for spyware. The one thing i didnt mention was doing a memory check to make sure your memory isnt failing. But if your not reporting any errors or getting any windows bug prompt, then this is probably not the case.

Anyways post some more info and maybe i could lend you more of a hand. Im not the best at computers, but i have gone through quite a few and put some together. Let me know how it works for ya.

Yeah forgot about that also. When running in Vista you have to make sure your running it in XP compatiable mode, with admin privlages i beleive. You can do this by simply right clicking the .exe and setting the permissions there. Also as the above poster mentioned, using the launcher in the folder does bypass the SOE launcher. Although if you have to update, you might run into a problem.

Try adding the eq2launcher to your exceptions tab. Go to your control panel. Click on windows firewall. Click the exceptions tab. Click browse, point to the eq2launcher and click ok. Then make sure a checkbox is checked. Let me know if this works.

And just for future refrence for anyone, turning off windows firewall still will not turn windows firewall off. Windows will still set it to run in passive mode, even though you have it checked as turned off.

A few things you could try that may help you situation :

1. Check to make sure your DirectX is up to date.

2. Check to make sure your running the latest build on your video card drivers.

3. Running the game on the lowest settings to start, then move up from there.

4. Updating your bios.

5. Running a defrag.

And if all else fails, run a few benchmarks and post your results to see how you compare to others. Also, if possible, make sure you do a full file check when starting the client and checking for updates. Not sure if you can do this with Everquest 2. If your still having problems, you could send in a petition along with your dxdiag report and any error logs to Customer Supoort. Good luck!

Edit : Also, in my opinon your system seems it should be able to run it fine. My friend owns a laptop with less specs and can get it to run on the lowest settings.

Even if the NDA wasnt lifted, they have given so many invites away it wouldnt matter. Check out the guru site for info. It should atleast give you a decent look at it. Game plays like diablo with a semi MMO enviroment. The only downfall for me in this game is its all instanced, except towns. I would of rather seen the fields open, with only the dungeons being instanced. Other then that, this game is a really good dungeon crawler. But one would hope it is, seeing as these guys are the ones that made Diablo 2. Well most of it anyway.

Not bad at all. But if i ping over 300 from the central US, can i blame the internet as a whole for the problem? :) jk. Thanks for this though.

Originally posted by Polarization

 

If this is supposed to be the last update for a considerable period of time for a game that is set for beta and release this year its pathetic, amateurish and totally inadequate.

Just a Q and A but no demonstration of any of the features or game play just the same old talking but not showing anything new.

And to add insult to injury they even have the audacity to re-use screen shots from Dev Journal 16 and 20 in this update, they must be really desperate.

This is the last scheduled update we are getting and they cant even show new screen shots but are repeating ones from previous updates , Does this look like a game that is starting beta soon? Or that this game is coming out this year?. (these are rhetorical questions)

If this game is ready for beta “very soon” and is going to launch this year, this is one of the worst attempts at PR I have ever seen from any MMO company. (excluding the ones that fail miserably)

Not to dampen your spirits, but those screenshots were placed in the journal by Warcry, not Darkfall. If you had happened to read the 8 comments, someone in thier states that. Other than that, this journal was fine. I for one saw nothing wrong with it. But i do understand people wanting to see more from Darkfall.  

Originally posted by Bafucin

Think I'm up to 7 warnings at the forum and what do I get?

This!

"Whilst we've tried to put this back on a constructive tone, it is apparent that it won't stay that way.

It is okay to be unhappy. It is okay to disagree. It is okay to discuss the game, the community and your experience. These things are all fine for our forums as long as all posters are following the PotBS Forum Rules & Expectations.

I'd recommend starting a new thread sans the flaming if folks really want to discuss the status of the game and their issues.

Let's get back to being excellent to each other!"

And this!

 

 

Im not sure what any of this has to do with your topic thread. Seems you were caught trolling a forums board, and the admins warned you for it, with politness. Am i missing something here?

Originally posted by Daffid011

By the same logic UO2, AC2 and EQ2 should be really successful?  How about The Sims being the biggest selling computer game title? or for some of the most popular franchises such as star wars, D&D, matrix or lord of the rings.

 

Sometimes there is more than just a name or large fan base. 

Not sure if you noticed, but you showed me games that only come in twos, when i showed you a company that has more than a handful of used to be top games. Im not sure if you ever played Warcraft, but it was huge. I can't even remember ever seeing UO2, AC2 or EQ2 being top games for the genre. Were as Diablo was a top dungeon crawler, and warcraft and startcraft were top RTS games. Its fine if you don't think im right, as it is my opinon. But i can bet, alot of people out there share my same veiw. WoW was succesful because blizzard was already succesful. Thier previous games gave them enough capital to invest in WoW to make it a succesful game. And thier community helped ten fold with that, because of the relationship they share with a company they know does good business.

WoW is succesful because blizzard had huge community support before WoW was thought of. Most of thier games were in the Top Ten most played games before WoW went live. Think about it. Diablo 1 and 2, Warcraft 1, 2 , 3 and Starcraft. Surely not everyone of them came to WoW. But thats the thing, Blizaard had a 1mil + community before the game even launched. They just made a game that could merge them together into one gaint community.

Originally posted by Daffid011

I was just pointing out a flaw in your logic Mack.  The entire NGE was designed to be a new game which is why they titled it as the New Game Experience.

However, calling the NGE a patch is just being deceitful.  It was a total game design overhaul that rebooted the game.  Saying SWG is the same game now as it once was is like saying Tabula Rasa is the same now as when it was first designed as a game with magic, swords and elves.  Both had the name Tabula Rasa.

 

 

 

On topic though I see a couple games I've never heard of.  It sounds like this site needs a graveyard forum for us to mourn.

 

I know this is a littel off topic, but seriously ..... Amazingly even though a patch was named NGE, its still says SWG. Untill they change the name of the game, its still SWG. And yes i said patch, do you need that definition to? Calling the NGE a patch is what it was. Just because you and prolly 90% of the SWG players didnt like it, doesnt mean SWG is dead. Just because they gave the patch a nice little name called NGE, it didnt change the title of the game. It only changed the way you play it. Hence New Game Experiance. I really should drop this, and im done after this i promise. Im just get a little frustrated when people go around claiming things that are not true. As stated SWG is not dead, just the way you veiw it is.

Originally posted by Daffid011

 

Originally posted by mackdawg19

Sorry but SWG isn't cancelled, regardless of wether you liked the nge patch or not. Title still remains.

 

Do you mean the "patch" that starts out as NEW GAME enhancements?  

 

UO2 looked promising. 

Did the NEW GAME enhancement patch change the name. I dont think it did. As stated you may not like the patch, but its name is still considered SWG. Therefore SWG is not dead. Only the people who hated the patch. Trust me, i hated a few VG patches. Probably nothing like what SWG did, but the game is still called Vanguard, not Game Update #2!

Not to be a troller, but if it is trully cancelled, show me proof. This doesnt mean show me the NGE patch notes or showing me statistics of them having only 10k paying customers. If servers are up, its still there. So therefore your wrong! :)

Sorry but SWG isn't cancelled, regardless of wether you liked the nge patch or not. Title still remains. The only thing that was cancelled with SWG, is your account. =)

I would have to say Gods and Heroes for me. They had a semi solid product which was already in testing phases. It was just to buggy, the company to cheap, and the team lost all its focus. To bad none of it was trully apparent till after the close. Also i knew a few of the devs over the net and had talked with them after the fall out. Nothing more to say but goodbye, and good writtens. On another note, i wonder what they will do with that code now that they are no longer a company. Im sure most of you think it was crap, but it had some solid points that could have been worked on more. Probably ended up at the bottom of the trash can. So to that i say, GG!

Originally posted by Orphes

 

Originally posted by altairzq

 

Originally posted by mackdawg19

Yes they are. Is something wrong with that? Im not sure if your trying to mock me because of what games i like to play or not. Is it that shocking that i, a parent of 2 kids, not play games centered around such things. I've grown up, and to be honest, and games like that no longer appeal to me. If your shocked, well dont be. There are alot more out there like me.

 

QFT I'm one of them

 

I'm not... I have 3 kids. They don't play those games being refered. While my oldest is old enough to play PC games regurarly, those games is just not interesting yet. And when they are old enough to find it interesting they are also old enough to be able to not get influenced by fiction.

How old are your kids being refered to. 3-5-10-15? And why is it not possible to realize that if one cares enough to actually educate ones kid on what is right or wrong they will still have that knowledge when they get intouch with these "kind of games".

The biggest thing is not what can influense your kids from the outside, it is always how you been towards your kids from the first day. You are being rude expect your kids to be like it.

This things is quite natural. Are having a problem getting out from a fictional reality, that you just goes "meh" if you see someone being abused.

Is there any grown up needing to specifik state that they are grown up?

What would ever be a reason to note these kind of obvious things, and thus making it on a gameforum.

Aren't you to grown up for this?

What does what you type have anything to do with what i tell my kids to play and not? And how is this rude on my part. FIrst off, let me clarify you on this. I do not tell my kids what to do. Im not one of those parents that just runs around preaching to my kids of whats bad and whats not. That is for the judgement of my kids to partake on. I as an adult have made that statement my own. I dont preach it to my kids nor will i ever. And what does any of that have to do with me seeing someone abused and not responding. I was only stating were i come from. As you say, this is a forum. I dont think i need to define to you what you can do in a forum, regardless of it being a game forum or not. As long as i adhere to the rules, im well in my rights to post whatever i see fit. Me as a person, i like people to know WERE im coming from before i talk about my opinon. That way you can see what angle im coming from. And just because im in a certain forums board, doesnt mean i cannot state my opinon. If when i entered this forum, the POTBS launched and put me directly in-game to voice my opinon, then i would not be here. But otherwise i have a right to answer the OP with my opinon. He stated his, which was more just a correction of his opinon and that is that.

Yes they are. Is something wrong with that? Im not sure if your trying to mock me because of what games i like to play or not. Is it that shocking that i, a parent of 2 kids, not play games centered around such things. I've grown up, and to be honest, and games like that no longer appeal to me. If your shocked, well dont be. There are alot more out there like me.

Originally posted by HiGHPLaiNS

 

 

Nah, its a SHAME when haters, I mean people that havent TRULY played the game make assumptions and base their experience on only a game they played for a short period. The main focus people say, well I played BETA. Umm, did anyone tell you that BETA is a testing period, so you will have all the drama and bugs that BETA brings.

Want to be a true critic? Play the game as a solo player (up to level cap), then come back and play the game as part of a society <guild> (up to level cap). I gurantee your experience is going to be much different. If you are playing solo, you are missing a huge part of the game.

Just face the facts, the game isnt for both of you. Its not your average mmorpg with wizards and knights. The game in its sense is more strategic and based around economic warfare / faction vs faction and pvp. What other games have you played that is like PotBS?

On a different note, most of the MMO Players today are SPOILED. No offense to the new breed of gamers, but it is a damn shame you didnt witness the 1st mmorpg on the PC market. It looked like shit, but was fun as hell, it was called Ultima Online. Then when EQ started coming around, people said WTF is this? A couple months later as they kept playing, they started calling their game EVERCRACK, but you had your haters back then and said, ok people, keep your mmo, I am heading back to Counterstrike and Starsiege Tribes.

But yeah, I agree, always when a new game comes out, it is highly ranked and then it evens out. But to say the game is not that good is only valid by how much time the gamer has played it. Sounds like you folks just dropped a few hours into it and said it wasnt for me.

 

I'm only replying to the comment about MMO players being spoiled. And to this i say play the game. I hope you know you put yourself into that same category. If not then please inform me on who you think most MMO gamers are. Is it everyone but you? And to this game, i have not played it nor ever wanted to veiw it. Pirates were rapists, pirates stole money from hard working citizens, and pirates murdered alot of people because they thought they could. This game is trying to make a bright subject out of a gloomy one. I understand it being just a game, but its just the reason i will not play it. To FLS, or any gaming company i ask this. Why would you make a game that only appeals to a very small niche crowd? I take it this was sort of a starter game for a comany to get reputation, other than that it seems like a waste of business sense. Goodluck and have fun with whoever is playing this game.