New EQ 'EverQuest Next' Unveiled

Hopefully they have upgraded their engine tech to allow for large, open, seamless environments, instead of having to load a new zone every 50 feet. In a post WoW world, there is really no excuse for not having seamless environments. Hell, Dark Age of Camelot was able to do it years before WoW even came out.


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don't get me wrong the screen shots look great, but its like WOW 1.5... But thats NOT a bad thing...
EQ lost be when the released the new player models in Luclin... omg those things were GD horrible... and they kept that crap in EQ2...
If they clean up the world and clean up the player models... It'll be win...

What? Will this have a free version we can play? If not, then why would I want to play the free version of EQ2 when this is coming out? The attraction of playing the free EQ2 is that it's a current game.

As it stands, I won't play either.

I guess some committee decided that this model of MMOs isn't sufficiently played out yet.

Gonna be a long, dark ride toward the end of this mind-numbing hack-and-slash clickfest genre.

Nice quote. Over 50 words and he didn't say a goddamn thing. ;)

After playing EQ2 since launch I recently quit. I'm sort of interested in this new game but I really want to see that soe has learned from its eq2 fuckups.

The primary mistakes, in my opinion, were:
1. graphics engine runs like crap, even today, and looks much less good than it should considering its hefty requirements.
2. *constant* fiddling with character stats, combat mechanics, and gear. Every expansion sees some fundamental change to the core game play and, whats worse, the changes have all moved the game in a more cookie cutter, simplistic direction. Removing the ability to customize your character in any meaningful way.
3. there are too many classes that are differentiated from each other by only one or two abilities.
4. dps classes reliance on auto attack which is generally 40-60% of the damage output. Watching an auto attack timer is boring. Requiring one to be successful is just bad design.
5. PvP is fundamentally broken. CC abilities are massively OP. Some classes can literally become impossible to kill while others are little more than free kills.
6. marketplace and station cash selling XP potions and other things that affect game play.
7. lax enforcement of anti-cheating, exploiting, botting rules. I know many people that use third party botting programs to craft and adventure, who have used them for *years*, have been reported repeatedly and have never had any punishment of any kind. Legit players cannot compete with people who have 6 (or more) characters auto playing for days on end.

The world of norrath, its stories, characters, settings, is a really interesting and fun place to play a game so I'll be watching this new game in the hopes that it will be fun to play. But I have little faith in soes ability to learn from and fix their past mistakes.

I really like the look of those two screenshots. Granted it'll take a whole lot to convert me to playing EQ...

Please don't suck and be kind of true to the original, kunark, velious era EQ

Its good to see another High Profile fantasy mmo in development does anyone know of any more besides 38 Studios Copernicus?I noticed a few years back alot of them were cancelled around the time WoW and EQ2 came out Dragon Empires,Mythica,Warhammer Online(old version) and Ultima X Odyssey.

It does look purty. And I'll be an ass by adding that this is surprising for an EQ game.

"They" need to stop prattling on about Next generation when all it is tarted up reskins of old busted shit.

Probably don't care, but you're missing an L in the word installment