Comments on: EQ2: The Shadow Odyssey

By: momgof

momgof — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:04:59 +0000

I went to WAR, and I sorta trickled back. I took the time to hit tier 3, and will probably hit tier 4 sometime, but it just wasn’t as rich as Norrath. I trickled back.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:56:56 +0000

EQ & EQ 2 have much larger player bases than SWG so it’s simple buisness that they make a lot more money by making a new EQ/EQ2 expansion every year. Since they ruined SWG for the majority of fans it had the time, they haven’t really known what to do with it anyway.

By: undead dolphin hacker

undead dolphin hacker — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:08:38 +0000

People didn’t trickle back slowly from WAR. They flooded back when they realized it wasn’t DAOC 2 or World of Warhammer.

By: Ganoa

Ganoa — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:52:23 +0000

I’d agree with Grey_Ghost, there is very little overlap between the EQ2 community and LotRO. As far as WoW, I feel like most people only really have room for one PvE MMO in their lives at a time, and those still playing EQ2 have either consciously decided to avoid WoW or have already tried it and come back. The only two things that really hurt EQ2 numbers recently were MMOs with new gimmicks: AoC (and nearly everyone came back after a month) and WAR (people trickling back slowly.)

By: Grey_Ghost

Grey_Ghost — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:18:24 +0000

WotLK? I honestly don’t think that people who are still playing EQ2 are affected by much of anything going on with WoW or LotRO.

By: shon

shon — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:34:50 +0000

“Why is this and the LotRO expansion being launched less than a week after WotLK? It seems like if there’s any time not to be launching your new MMO expansion pack it’s right now, I just don’t get it.”

Because now is the last chance to get some 4th quarter profits to boost your revenues for 2008. And yeah, I kind of agree with you.

By: BobB

BobB — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:24:31 +0000

Why is this and the LotRO expansion being launched less than a week after WotLK? It seems like if there’s any time not to be launching your new MMO expansion pack it’s right now, I just don’t get it.

By: Zyrusticae

Zyrusticae — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:14:06 +0000

@Sal:

I… actually agree with that. They say they want to support SWG even after the release of SW:TOR, but that’s all hogwash if they don’t try to grow the playerbase and expand the game’s content. Clearly they have the resources, seeing as how they’re still making expansions for EQLive, for crying out loud!

But whatever. The, er, unofficial SWG servers might even be finished before the release of SW:TOR. Nobody’ll quite care ’bout the SOE incarnation at that point…

Anyway, back on-topic.
I’m still entirely miffed that EQ2’s character customization is inferior to SWG’s, which uses the same engine, not to mention some of the lame armor appearances and the fact that my boobless Iksar wears the same crappy dresses as everyone else… I mean, they have no friggin’ mammaries! Surely there’s some unique fashion statements they could make from that…

Seriously, it’s the one thing I want them to fix for an expansion or even an update. But it seems it’s not a priority for them, so whatever. Maybe for EQ3…

By: Sal

Sal — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:35:17 +0000

still makes me want to punch someone from SOE. I mean, 5 major exspansion…and SWG had what 2? makes me sick to see how SOE has fail…

By: Brant

Brant — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:06:49 +0000

Five (5) new Heritage Quests with unique rewards being added.

Ahh, marketing copy. Why stop at saying anything just once?

Back when I was still riding the massively-multiplayer dragon I always had a lot of respect for EQ2’s live team for the degree to which they turned the game around after the launch. Although between the art style and my mental association of “EQ” with “Grindy McGrindathon”, I could never bring myself to try it out, except for a brief free trial where I couldn’t be bothered to progress beyond the newbie island.