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Bait and Switch

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 18
Date: March 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have been very disappointed with Everquest. The game itself is quite good, although the company has been slow to resolve bugs, often denying that they exist.

1) The biggest problem is that the company is not truthful with the players. The starting statistics for character formation, for example, are extremely incorrect, and the company refuses to give the actual effect of various statistics.

2) More serious, the company vowed that it would keep online servers at 1500 players. Now that a lot of people have signed up and spent a lot of time building up their characters, the company has reneged on its promise and lets over 2000 players on a server in order to make more money. This means that you are frequently disconnected in the middle of a fight and also that, many times, you simply cannot play when you want to -- on weekends and between 6 pm and 11 pm.

The most important effect of this overcrowding, though, is that the game is downright unpleasant to play. The "prizes" that players get for accomplishing various missions are very limited. Thus, you will have maybe 50 players wanting to get into a dungeon and fight a particular battle, but only 6 are able to do so. And even then, the object will be obtainable only, say, once every four hours, so even among the six, only the one who has been there the longest will be able to get it.

Like an overcrowded highway, this makes the players very irritable towards each other and makes for an extremely unpleasant gaming environment. Not to mention, a lot of people paying money for a game they can't play.

In practice, therefore, if you want to play this game, you must be willing to play for 24 hours straight while snarling at other people.

Many many bugs in this boring game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played this game for several hours and I have ran into a multiple number of problems with the game.

How fun is this game?

Not very fun at all. This is nothing but a hack and slash game where no tactics are required. It is also very frustrating. You die quite often and when you do you lose all of your possessions until you recollect your possessions from your corpse. This means that you need to find your corpse which can take a lot of time. It takes a lot of time because it takes several minutes for your character to travel from one location to another because everything is needlessly placed several minutes apart. There is an instance where I go to my corpse and everything I had was now gone!! This is a bug in the game that the designers are probably aware of.
In order to recover your ability to cast spells, you simply have your character sit down and just wait and wait and wait. I was playing this game and reading a book at the same time because there was so much waiting for my character to recover.
Other examples of programming bugs are dialogue mistakes with NPC characters. YOu are supposed to type in phrases from a predetermined list to interact with some NPC's but half the time, it doesn't work! Not only that but the actual NPC dialogue was obviously written by people with little English skills but the sentences were very confusing and hard to understand. It would have been nice if Sony hired an English speaking American to write the dialogue.

If you like a game with lots of waiting, bugs, frustration, and a monthly fee for a game you already bought, then this is the gamne for you. I wish I could return the game but its already opened.

a Powerleveler's dream, Roleplayers need to look elsewhere

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: February 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Sorry to burst the bubble of all the people who thought that this would be a great way to roleplay online, because to be honest. I've had the game for a number of months now and I've seen distrubingly low amounts of Role Playing in this game, if you are one of those people who insisted on finding every secret in the Final Fantasy series of games, and don't care if there is an interesting story surrounding your god-like character (which will take you thousands of gamplay hours to create, and you still will not be on par with the toughest monsters in the game). Then ignore my one out of five star rating and knock yourself out. Oh and as a side note be prepared to be exploited by Verant at every corner, because to them you are just $9.89 a month nothing more.

RavenWarrior From Prexus Server

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: March 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Like many RPG addicts, I chose to ignore the warnings and go ahead and get EverQuest. After the initial ooo's and aaaah's wore down, I realized one horrible fact. The online gaming community that Verant has going on is horrible. The players treat each other with little or no regard, and Verant staff do nothing about it. And if you want to say the heck with them and solo, FORGET IT. There is such a horrible gap in the creature/zone level that even if you are lucky and can kill a yellow con on your own, a red con comes along, agro's on you, and you are dead. Save your hard earned money and seek elsewhere for an enjoyable experience. Wait for Icewind Dale or Diablo 2.

Pretty graphics, wretched game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: February 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I had fun in Everquest, for a little while. I could list the things I hated about this game, but I'm going to save the energy. One thing I must mention is that the gameplay is crap. The game progresses terribly slow and worst of all it doesnt progress anywhere in particular, just up. Up another level, up another level, up another level. Its about as much fun as climbing a ladder.

Don't bother

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: February 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I played EQ for about 6 months. This game has great potential, but is seriously flawed.

Its _NOT_ a ROLE playing game. There is no way to role play, no changes happen due to your actions. Indeed, since _most of the people on the servers do _not roleplay, you attempts to do so are doomed to failure. It is a leveling game, pure and simple.

Verant has the _the_ worst customer service I've seen, period. Problems with the game are not dealt with, long standing bugs and code flaws are ignored. A prime entire time the game has been in existance, despite _months_ of bug reports and feedback by _hundreds of customers. Verant couldn't duplicate the bug in testing, due to a flawed testing approach, and basically concluded that hundreds of customers were either lying or simply couldn't do the task properly.

Servers are grossly overcrowded, players will give detailed reasons why the servers should have an active number of players in the 1000 to 1200 range, yet the servers constantly run about 1800 to 2200. This overcrowding seriously hampers game enjoyment of any kind. Verant views this as acceptable, and has done little if anything to alleviate this problem. New servers pack to overflowing within days of their launch.

Verant's constant stream of changes and revisions to the game mean that you can't expect _anything_ to remain stable. Spells, abilities, treasure, creatures, skills, all these go through constant changes and modifications.

Overcrowding and farming of items (gathering items for sale either in or outside the game) mean that you will have to wait in line _hours_ realtime to get nice items and equipment. No, you can't avoid this, you will actually need ot constantly improve your gear as you advance, or weaken drastically. Verant's policy of putting valuable items on rare spawning creatures, and then only having a small percentage of that rare occuring creature drop the valued item means tht you will spend endless frustrating hours (yes, real hours) trying to gather the gear, and mostly failing. Oh, and that assumes someone more powerful than you simply doesn't 'killsteal' the creature, taking it and its loot from under you nose after you've waited hours.

This game has a lot of potential, but is too flawed to waste any time or money on. It will be remembered as the game that pushed the MMORPG (gah, its not a RPG, but that the acronym it has).

It will also be remembered as a the game run by a company making money hand over fist, but absolutely unwilling to spend it to give its customers the product they both expect and deserve.

Just don't.

Fun for about a week

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I first played the game I found it very fun and interesting, but the more I played I realized I was doing the same exact things over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. It became mind-numbingly dull. I only managed to make it to lvl 5 before I couldn't take anymore.

The game has a great concept and the graphics look very nice. I enjoyed playing in a world full of other real people that I could actually interact with. The huge downside is that there is little variety to keep things fresh and interesting. I spent hours upon hours running around killing rats and snakes and whatnot. I would find a rat, hit the "attack" key and watch the battle unfold. Yeah, it was sort of cool the first few times, but after hours of doing this I felt my sanity starting to slip away.

Dont Bother, wait for Never Winter Nights, or Shadowbane..

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The original game EverQuest, was a great idea, but the people at Verant have taken that idea, and bent it out of shape for the only purpose of slowing down character advancemet so you will have to play longer, and pay them more money!

This is not an RPG, unless you read that as... Really Profitable Game!

Varant has some of the worst customer service I have ever seen in any company, and their basic assuption is, the player is always lying!

If you dont believe me, check out the EQ web sight message boards, And see what other players say. But do it in the next two weeks, because they are about to clamp down, and censor the boards of any un-favrorable posts.

They have banned peoples accounts perminatly over some of the most ludicrus things. and once your account is banned, you might as well throw away your CD, because its now useless! if you ever want to play again, you have to buy a new copy, and start all over with new characters.

If you enjoy frustration, and boredom, play a character past about lvl 25, you'll have a ball!

You may find it fun at low levels, but try to build a high level character, and you hit the "hell levels" that take forever to get through, and then the next level penaltys for death, are 2-3X normal, and throw you right back into the hell level! again, if you dont believe me, check the message boards. see for your self!

If you want the most powerful items in the game, expect to spend 12-18hr non-stop on-line to get them! (this is not an exageration!)

And even if you totally discount me as a disgruntalled player, just check out the web sights, befor you buy this turkey!

Save your money, much better things are on the horizon!

Shameful Customer Service Makes a Good Game Stink

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am actually kind of surprised that Sony and 989 Studios would jeopardize their good names by being associated with the unprofessional service staff at Verant software.

At first you might think that once you buy a game, what does it matter how the company runs its customer service? But believe me, it does. In a game where you can only play online you are at the complete mercy of your hosts. And if they are poorly staffed with an array of unhelpful and sometimes arrogant, unprofessional personnel, you are probably playing EverQuest.

EverQuest is and of itself a fantastic world of fantasy adventure, and probably one of the best games of its ilk to come around in a long time. The character designs, graphics, music (when you are in a place where the game plays music), and gameplay are all very good. The real problem with this game is the way that Verant handles its customer support. The term "customer" is ironic here because never have I seen a company treat the people paying its bills with such utter disregard.

Any time a player has a problem with the game (and plenty crop up), the only course of action that will have any effect is to "petition" an "in game" Verant representative known as a GM (which is not a highly publicized fact). E-mails to various "authorities" will go unanswered and fruitless long distance calls Verant's California offices will result in endless run-around to the point of which one can only conclude that the company is atrociously organized. When a GM finally has the time to answer (it could be hours), expect a hasty conversation, contradictory information, and in the end unsatisfactory results. All this will add up to great frustration while trying to play the game and a feeling that the company couldn't care less whether or not you continue to use their service. It is inevitable that when there is release by another company to rival this game, people will abandon EverQuest en masse.

The programmers of EverQuest have done a great job at creating an online 3-D fantasy world. It is perhaps a testament to their skills that people in great numbers continue to play this game even though the staff running it could possibly be worst front line to the consumer ever assembled.

Ruins of Kunark

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Well don't get too excited. It seems Verant is interested inselling the scraps ommited from the original design because of the popularity. But this time with Lizard people! Woo how unique. Anyway the game still has no story, no coherent history really, no roleplaying potential, just a nice item to buy so you can continue to raise stat scores to unparalleled heights. Have fun (I wish they would sell something from the good people at middle earth)

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