I've been playing about 6 months. Love the GAME. Server mergers were great, now I can find or make a group even late, late at night (I work till midnight and play after work). Yes the population has declined, and as new zones are added players are more spread out. I have not been to all of the zones, but that just leaves more game play for when I develope alts. I won't have to grind exp in the same old zones (right now it's Dulak... Ugh!). If you don't like the GAME, don't pay, don't play. Pretty simple really...

Here we go. More Ldon / DoN Style Stuff.
Like i needed this. And playing as monsters uh. no, it was fun for less then hour chasing noobs in the forest on druid with group of friends as wolfs. 'Back in the days'.
Watching them run and try to cast is fun. But then they notice and oh never mind.

Not only did ldon give poor gear, unless you have 2k points, DoN items/gear is too ubber. ONLY if your lvl 70. then its just ok. (to a lvl 50 drool)
Iv had DoN from the start. im just now getting into it. DB Mobs that hit for 400-500 swing. i felt like im in a raid. for few crystals.
823187 more DoNs ill get UBBER Gear.. so when i ding 70 ill have some ok stuff.
For the new Adventures. What? 5x better gear then what DoN can offer? So OoW gear WAS pawn. but now its all about what you can get from Adventure camp. Great.. " /ooc WTB DoD Stones to buy gear at camps " .

Yeah, lots of LFG but no groups. Ever since servers join. Cant figure out why. My guess on $2 more month on EQ because more people is gone. So they need that extra money. But that $2 aint helping. So lets make some NEW expansion. Make money off something we could just patch in. Could be just a guess. but i think its obious.Why the money, why people leave EQ. Whats really going on. and for EQ2 never. ill just stop playing games like this. no GW, no WoW. enough is enough.



Just an opinion But, maybe because they keep adding stuff? and Trivia on to make these things!
Look at main page " Added new stuff for you to drool over " Its over flow of that stuff.

Im not saying i wont buy the new expansion. I just dont see this as " Helping " to survive EQ1.
This is to have fun sure. Quest aint for me. and Adventures not my thing after getting killed 3x.
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if they didnt come out with an expansion you would complaine about that, if you dont like it go play ultima online.

Stop complaining, dont like it dont buy it. in my opinion it sounds interesting, just one thing missing. the graphics upgrade for PC's the promised. That would realy make this expansion sell. however this monster thing sounds stupid, project m was indeed fun.

evolving weapons...
sounds interesting. sounds like it could be usefull for noob gear as well, weapon evolves with you so u dont need to buy gear as often. that be awsome.

the lore sounds cool for the expansion as well. i felt the lore lacked in OoW and GoD. but perhaps because it just jumped into the story, and had nothing to do with what was happeneing in norrath at the time. this however sounds very interesting and cant wait to see how it turns out.

I love expansions, some more than others. and I dont mind that I dont/cant use most of the " features" that any given expansion offers ( have yet to do a successful DoN ) the only problem I have is the price of the digital download expansion. we are already paying customers, how bout 15.00 bucks we dont get any packaging, maps in game items anyway so cut your loyal players a break!

Safe hunts and rare drops!

Fanboy ************ aside, nobody thinks EQ needs any more money but EQ. They're raping us for higher monthly fees and they still want to gouge us for another expansion? I'm sick of paying to cover SoE's costly marketing blunders and greedy execs. Bye EQ. Helloooo Dungeons and Dragons Online!

Hate to hear people complaining on these boards. I think SONY is doing a freeking great job!...I have yet to hear ANYONE say anything GOOD about the game, your comming HERE (alla) the biggest site in the world totally dedicated to the game, to complain about paying a few bucks....yer most likely the same person that plays for like 40 hours a week. I personally think more expansions are great...and I'm sry if yer broke and have to spend money, Get a job...or just don't buy it and stop complaining!!!! But you will buy it cause yer addicted to the game and you will probably like it too, (never hear them say that tho). Look at DoN...everyone complained at that too...but look you see more people in DoN's than in POK now. In Fact everyone's always complained about every single expansion ...guess I'm just wasting my breath

Come September, I know how I am going to spend my $29.95--I will host a BBQ for my friends or take my honey out on the town.

Remembering the fun of Kunark & Velious CONTINENTS of dozens of zones, multiple cities, factions to choose from, & varied zone terrain, I have little enthusiam for the buggy-grind-this-now expansions foisted off on the public every 6 months. IMO, LoY + GoD + OoW + DoN make one good expansion combined, maybe worth 50 bucks instead of the 100-120 bucks combined.

Adding EQ2 features (gimping down, I mean mentoring down in levels) is not what EQ needs, but its what they will try to sell us anyway. Expect more of it, as EQ2 is not the runaway success Sony hoped.

Hawker

Truth of the matter, I hate to spend more money for something that I may not use, but I will buy it, More for the fact that my Guild may want to start going there. I use to wait and buy the BOX, not for the free item but for a manual, then they did away with that, bummer.

Fen 67 Sham
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i see several issues with this but lets start with playing monsters, anyone remember on the test server when you could log in as a random monster in low level areas, it was the funiest thing ever being in greater fay grouping with a bunch of other people doing same thing with reg chars shout to watch for the smart orcs as we would put like 15 orcs into a spot where only one or two were suppose to be, granted there were probs in that you could not speak as the mob and had to do things like jump up and down to communicate with others and you could not pick which zone you wanted to play mob in but it gave whole new meaning to game in that you could not say what a mob would do. now something like this i would love but the issues are by what i read that you could basically play a mob up to your level. don't see the prob yet well here it is, someone in your friends list plays the mob you want dead person comes up to kill you do not fight back they kill what they should not be able to. we shall see how they handle it.

ok next issue the shrowd that lets you play lower level char. Do i get to keep equipment or is that gonna be reduced. says i will get xp but at level i am or level i am playing? do i get to keep aa. what about combat skills? Now i am level 70 xp is a grind or aa but if i delevel with shrowd i can go back to fungi with friends and AoE groups for 20 aa a day. Whats this mean classes that are great for xp at lower levels will have easy ways to gain xp without the risk but no loot. ie above AoE groups or druids quad kiting, etc etc.
also if i go back to level 1 and gain 3 levels killing rats does that count for 3 level at 60, if that were the case then we are talking having a level 70 with max aa in what 2 days. so they really can't do this, thus lower your level and get what a chance to play with lower level friends for no xp and loot you can kill yourself solo without blinking an eye or watching your health bar even go below 99%. So who does this help, new players, yet how many new players have there been in last year.
I see no content for higher end players listed no new skills levels ablities, class advancement, and so on and they consider this an expansion. Do they have a clue any more? Oh wait lets go back to OOW expansion with new epics which they said there would be 2 one a small family guild could complete and one for raiding guilds, great, name one small guild that has finished wiz epic 1.5 or any 1.5 epic for that matter. Did they fix the fact that i bought dire charm for 9 aa and have not been able to use it for more then farming or that a wiz bought mana burn yet can cast a nuke for a tenth of the mana that does more damage. and so on

ok I am venting now will stop here before i say thing i will regret.

Edited, Thu Jun 16 11:15:39 2005

I for one will not be buying anymore expansions. This game is already filled with more than enough content to last me, the casual player, another 10 years of enjoyment. This is severe overkill if you ask me.

I agre with alot of the posters....fix old zones/ quests and forget about the new expansions short of a lvl increase.

WOOT ... A NEW PROBLEM, I call any new expansion a new problem. I cant wait to sit there all day on problem day (day of new expansion) for the Time I can play EQ for maybe 3 hours before an emergency patch comes out. I swear Sony has taken thier business model from Microsoft. Every, time they come out with a new problem (expansion) Sony says it will fix problem with the old expansion. Only to create more problems so you have to buy the new problem (expansion) just so you can play with the old problem. WHY, cant Sony fix the problems they have NOW. I have four accounts right now, two are inactive because, I cant play them on the systems I would normally use. Sony is aware of the problem according to all the boards I am ready they are just not in any hurry to fix the problem. I am getting very tired of this and seriously thinking about leaving the game. AND now they are coming out with a new Problem OH BOY, I am all ready feeling my money should be spent elsewhere.