Verant Responds

So if she was banned from EQ, can I get her phone number?

Thanks!

-Lex

EQ sux.....
go play a real game...
UO www.uo.com

www.shadowbane.com (in developement)

for funy stuff that shows how fun uo is:
delucia.cjb.net (watch the intro, its about a famous murderer) lol

13 -- He stated they suck and why he felt that, but $10 a month had nothing to do with it. Christ, I spend that on lunch, like I care.

Xian -- I cringe to think I'm siding with Abashi, but frankly, don't play the game that way and expect it to be entertaining. EQ has its merits and good points, there's no need to sit there and kill the same thing over and over looking for an item, as much as the playerbase might think so. They do NOT in fact need that +5 Club of Slightly Betterness. The ones that realize that are having a much better time, but also aren't the ones setting the pace of things since they have better things to do.

Asheron's Call isn't bad, in many ways I like it a great deal, but somehow AC manages to feel almost completely directionless and generic, which coupled with a really stop and go feeling interface lost me very fast.

Hehe.. Penny Arcade has something to say about the situation.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-10-11

EverQuest is the biggest steaming pile of a game I have played in the history of my playing computer games. It ended up being a fucking travesty. It's the game you love to hate.

You love the game for the first 29-30 levels or so, then it starts getting mundane (camp one room, kill same MOB over and over again until he drops the item you want), and by the time you are half way through level 45, you start hating the fucking game for taking so long to level. By half-way through level 51, you want to personally rip off Brad McQuaid's head and shit down his neck for having such a myopic vision of the game.

The downtimes in the game are fucking attrocious and inexcusable. I'd spend 15 minutes meditating (I used to play a wizard), solo a MOB in 60 seconds, and then sit down and meditate for another 15 minutes.

I liked to play solo only because 95% of the players on EQ servers are mal-adjusted, ultra-competitive, social misfits.

Gordon Wrinn (sp?) aka Abashi is a fucking laughing stock of a PR frontman. Most of the time he opens his mouth, he spews the same rhetoric about how Verant is right, and the fans and playerbase, who are mere commoners, don't have the same omniscient Vision as the rest of the EverQuest development team. 75% of what Abashi says can be summed up as "Suck it and deal!"

I have never felt more strongly about a game outside of what id produces, since EverQuest. This is a game that could have been so much more, but instead Verant went and fucked it up.

I'm not ever giving another dime to Verant as a result of my experience with EQ.

-Xian

PS: I quit playing for good about 6 months ago before I retired my level 51 wizard.

I bet his\her story posted somewhere else after all this buzz. So, does anyone have a link?

What surprises me is that Graeme Devine (from id) wrote a whole article on Gamespy about those MMORPG game and clearly stated that "MMORPGs like Everquest just SUCK" and some shit about how those games rip you off with the pay-per-month thing.

I'll try finding the article

heh, in my opinion, its fucked up, so a story was writen, so it was graphic, so what, thats no reason to pull someones account. What the fuck happened to freedom of speech? If I were the one that was banned, I'd sue, cause you're sure to win

The answer is complicated and extremely subjective, so I'll just have to be honest and say we'll know it when it's over the line. We're going to discuss it in the upcoming few weeks and see if we can make it more clear, but I can't honestly say if we'll get anywhere because none of us wants to stop people from writing awesome fan-fiction about EQ.


Dear Verant,

Your recent actions have thrown those of us writing awesome Everquest fan fiction into serious doubt. Some of us are facing creative crises as a result. Please advise at your earliest convenience if any of these proposed storylines is over the line:

-- Dysentery strikes Everquest, but it's a special form, and everyone shits gold! At first the local economy is shaken by the influx of this super valuable shit, but in time everyone decides it's much easier to drop trou when you want something than to work for it. The Age of Shit, as it is known, produces many wonders and inventions, including zip-lock wallets.

-- As part of Verant's new emphasis on honesty and openness, all the men playing women in Everquest are outed, then led to a giant pit, and fitted with Accuracy-in-Gender penises. These, naturally, are taken from the women who are playing men. The bells of equality ring throughout the land, although prized penises are soon up for auction on e-Bay.

-- Feudal Realism Week! Ninety-nine percent of Everquest's population are declared peasants, and a handful of lucky sods get to be lords! Time to toil, peasants -- there's a lot of farming to be done before you die of a tooth infection at the age of 28. Just be sure to keep your wives healthy for lordly visits!

Sincerely,

Hi-C

Well, they probably did this guy a favor. Now he can start playing some real games...

Probably not tho... Now he has more EverPr0n writing time

Verant has fallen under the shadow of the GIANT COMMUNIST ROBOT

Damn.

Verant needs to take the stick out of their asses.

I just noticed this rather obvious contradiction in John Smedley's response:

That doesn't mean if someone crosses the line again and it's pointed out we won't do the same thing"

(snip)

"In the future, we're going to handle this in a different way."

Hmmm...

It wasn't a guy, it was a girl.

I still never tried this game, nor do I even know what it looks like.
I f'ing hate magical faggort games!

Guess who doesn't give a damn about this whole thing? ME!

If Verant really wanted to make right on this, they should unban the account and make a public apology. Oh, wait, that would mean they'd have to admist they were wrong, and Verant's NEVER wrong.

(snip) ...and they feel like EQ is a family friendly environment despite the dark overtones of some of the stories and quests.

(snip) ...it becomes our business because it threatens our business by making us a huge target for all the folks out there that think we all are all a bunch of violent video game players. This just gives them fuel for the fire.

Hmmm... Correct me if I'm wrong (I've never played EQ), but isn't this a game where you advance by killing, spend most of the time killing, and the overall object is to get bigger so you can kill bigger things?

Like I said before, Verant had no choice but to protect their arse. If you read the article, someone had already gone to a couple of watch dog groups to raise a fuss about this dudes post. The last thing Verant, or Sony, would want is for EQ to be shut down...their financial loss would be too great.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-10-11

yep

handle this in a different way

"we're gonna kill the guy!"

What is going to protect Verant againts the notion that Everquest's image is of a bunch of sweaty palmed bearded guys wearing t-shirts that read "I'd rather be compiling my kernel.", with McFarlaine toys on their monitors yelling "FatNSexy Shouts: I need a bind!" (???)

Id also like to make a plea to id, If there is anything that you can do at all to keep hippies from playing your game or really just being around I fully support you. Please forward an address to submit donations for this cause. Thank you.

Random comment:
poke: I am FreshView's complete lack of humor.... @ werd


fuck yeah lol

Whats the big deal about selling crap on ebay? I know a guy who has 7 DiabloII mules and he tells me he does the same thing...who gives a shit?

well I never played everquest I know it must be totally different from DiabloII,but if I want to spend $50.00 on a game and then sell my account with all my meaningless crap ornates/pikes whatever whats wrong with that?....:)

So I guess it's okay for them to boot him off everquest because of something he did elsewhere.

That's like id invalidating a bunch of people's CDkeys and justifying it with "this ain't no game for hippies and queers"

Damn....now lowtax'll never get his account banned...oh well

http://www.somethingawful.com/features/eqfanfiction/

boo

This whole thing was stupid. They should have asked him to take it down or sent a cease and desist.


Booting him from the game was totally inappropriate.

Fwhelp, morning.