Note to Self

[jdotmi]

No matter how many "fixes" and "updates" they do to "improve" it, don't ever give in to the notion that EQ2 could even be remotely fun to look at again. There's a reason you dropped it like a hot potato after the trial month.

Comments

[mat-t.livejournal.com]

Dunno about you, but I'm enjoying EQ2 a lot more than CoH at the moment. I've finally gotten bored enough with CoH to go on a hiatus, most likely till Issue 5 comes out. Issue 4 did NOTHING for me, since PVP bores me to death.

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

Issue 4 gave me a month long hiatus due to the fucking over of Regeneration, which was done based on flawed testing and with no consideration of other powersets and ATs. I got over it. :-p Of course, I'm also playing my Kin/Psy defender instead, but hey.

EQ2 has very little I'm interested in. I've played it. It sucked. It doesn't look like any improvements have gone in to make it suck less, just suck in different ways. There's a problem when you rub off the shiny and expose styrofoam underneath, and I played EQ1 for far too long to tolerate that again.

[mat-t.livejournal.com]

Different strokes for different folks I guess. I got to the point in CoH where I was tired of making new alts and I just wasn't having enough fun to push my level 46 controller to 50. It became a big snore.

What did you think sucked about EQ2?

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

Pretty much everything. Tradeskills weren't nearly what they claimed they would be, and wound up being even worse time and money sinks as time went by. And, of course, once again crafted items are far overshadowed by dropped items, but then EQ has always been about who got the uberest loot off the monster with the most hitpoints ever anyway, so this doesn't really surprise me. The market system truly sucked, but from what I can see they have fixed that problem for the most part. Trying to walk around in either city on even my best system was akin to running a marathon in a sea of molasses. The character limit is true stupidity. Ohhh, they added two more slots! Ohhh, you could get 4 more slots by buying the overly fucking expensive station pass to play even more games that I don't want (and my EQ1 account is free anyway, so why the hell would I want to pay for that again? Hell, my old server doesn't even exist anymore since they merged it with another one).

[meenfrmr.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad i never got into EQ2. WoW's enough for me.

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

Yeah you really didn't miss much. Espeically since 4W tried to be all "look we're organized!!1!" and then dropped the ball yet again. And people wonder why we don't have an official WoW chapter? :-p

[meenfrmr.livejournal.com]

yeah, i know. the whole problem with 4W was the xenophobic issues people have there. I'm just glad I'm able to play with cool people and a lot of whom are local friends and of course have the name "Guild" is pretty fun too heh. We totally could've had 4W in WoW but 4W has never been organized enough to be able to pull it off successfully. oh well.