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• • How many people still play EQ2?

  • EQ2 is alive and kicking. Summer is always a quiet time in an established MMO, but I've seen a steady increase in old players returning (myself included after a brief stint away due to AoC) and new players trying it out.

    The live events leading up to expansion 5 are keeping us interested (as well as the thought of the impending guild halls).

    RoK was not everybody's ideal expansion, it's had mixed opinions from the playerbase. Personally I don't like the solely quest-driven aspect of it, and would have welcomed an equal amount of group/kill xp action to break up the monotony of the faction questlines, but I still persevere with it, and enjoy the groupage when I can.

    I'm sure there are quiet servers out there, but the ones I play on are buzzing all the time. I play on EU Runnyeye and love it there. I can always get a group, I'm in an active guild, and there's plenty of new players asking questions 24/7.

    If your server is dead, try another. Simple.

  • Posted: 8/30/08 10:33 AM
    Everquest II
• • Looking for social roleplaying

  • RP is a hard thing to find. And you usally have to look real hard to find the crowds who do RP. I played WoW for a bit on a RP server and couldn't see anyone RPing at all for weeks on end. Then I added a RP specific addon that creates RP flags/descriptions/etc that only the RPers can see and I found them. Suddenly I was immersed! I still had to put up with a lot of muppetry and anti-RPer crap, but that's just WoW in general.

    There's a fair amount of RPing going on in EQ2 as well, again, hard to find but it does exist. Never tried LOTRO RPing, but I'm guessing that has a fair amount.

    THe best thing I can suggest is try a game, ask around, see what you can find. I've never found much RPing in the free MMOs, as most people playing then are happy endlessly grinding and ganking.

  • Posted: 8/01/08 3:52 AM
    General Discussion
• • They told me to quit and play something else....

  • I never had any problems with the AoC community personally, but I was aware of a lot of muppetry going on in the channels. It's the same in every new MMO unfortunately. A lot of those asshats will move on (or hopefully back to wherever they came from).

    Still, I gave up on AoC. It's a promising game but I really didn't like it as much as I do EQ2. I got a Tempest to level 40, started my tradeskills, and left in disgust. The tradeskill system is awful. I missed EQ2 crafting I guess.

    So I'm back in Norrath. Loving EQ2 with a newly rolled Coercer (a class I've never tried). It sure is the most solid MMO out there imho. And the community is certainly better than most.

  • Posted: 6/24/08 1:10 PM
    Everquest II