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A Great Gaming Experience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: July 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing EverQuest for close to two years now and I still find it just as enjoyable today as I did the first day I purchased it.

This game is really designed for people who like to socialize, group, put work into their characters, basically if you want a game that you can master in two weeks or has constant blood and guts splattering across the screen this may not be the game for you.

EverQuest is a large world where you can create your character and adventure for levels, quest for armor, join a guild and interact with others of like interests, or group up with others and raid a zone. There is always something to do in EverQuest, if you don't feel like hunting that night, go questing or work on some trade skills, or vice versa.

The graphics have seen better days, and the customer service could probably be better. But the overall gaming experience I feel still deserves a 5 star rating. The costs of the game I feel are well worth what I get out of the game in ways of character development and friendships I have formed online.

Dont buy it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 17
Date: July 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I warn you. If you get addicted easily do not buy this game. I played for over a year and I was never happy with the game but I kept playing? Why you ask? well you work so hard to get better, but once you get better you feel like you've accomplished nothing, so you keep working hard to get better but you keep getting no where. This game is terribly addicting, you'll find yourself playing for hours and hours every day. You'll probly get on right when you get off of work and wont get off unless you absolutely have to, its that bad. I've heard of people killing themselves because they somehow lose all their equipment. They even have addiction groups to join (think AA but for EQ) to try and stop playing. How sad is that? I knew this game was consuming my life so I deleted my Characters, my account and I havent ever played since. Save yourself the trouble, enjor your life (your own, not your characters) and dont get this game.

The most addictive and exciting rol playing game ever made!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was turned on to this game by a friend at work. As soon as he told me about it, I knew I would have to give it a shot. I bought the basic game online from Everquest.com and have played it daily ever since. I soon plan on upgrading to Ruins of Kunark and Scars of Velious and then I will finish up with Shadows of Lucilin! (AMAZON.COM has a great price on the upgrades and the trilogy pack, which contains the basic as well as Kunark and Velious)
You have a plethora of servers to choose from and can develop up to 10 characters on any one server. I have several characters on Lanys server. This review is being written in the first person by my 20th level Paladin who is currently (as of 3/17/02) travelling through the High Hold Pass. Orcs and Gnolls are the targets of choice but there are plenty of NPC's to kill also. This game is awesome and very, very addictive too. I played Dungeons & Dragons for many years and this game overshadows D & D by miles and miles. If you choose to practice your fighting skills, you can duel with other Playing Characters without any loss of XP if you lose or die.
Be safe and enjoy your travels. Happy hunting and remember to help others as you were help before them.

Addictivly fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: September 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is great, there are vast combonations for characters with different beliefs, that only allow them to do certain things. The playing field is VERY vast, with thousands of people playing a any one server at a time. Skills can be obtained to pass time while healing and such, also skill can develop and get better with experience. Graphic are good, hopefully be much better with the Shadow's of Luclin expansion. I highly recommend this game for people who like dungeons and dragons or anything like that. It a great game!!

EverCrack? Or is it EverSit, EverMed, EverCamp...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 14 / 26
Date: October 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Make no mistake, EverQuest IS EverCrack. Friends of mine have been so addicted that they've been sent cross-country to residential treatment facilities. But there is one problem that most people don't see, just like drugs, until they're addicted: EVERQUEST IS _NOT_ FUN.

Indeed, this game WAS groundbreaking, but the key word here is WAS. It requires well over 30+ Hours a Week to get to level 60 RIGHT before the sun becomes a chunk of charcoal the size of one's forehead (thank you Dilbert). If you want to have fun, you have to be a "midlevel" or "highlevel" character. Reaching mid/highlevel takes months, if not years.

Furthermore, every week Verant, EverQuest's Devloper, changes something. Verant rarely listens to anything its players have to say (many of them are immature anyway, but the mature ones are also ignored), and treats EQ like "its baby:" that is, nobody can tell them how to make it. NO FEEDBACK IS ACCEPTED. Don't like it? Tough. They refused to acknowledge for well over a year that a skill was broken, and finally did after endless nudging. NO RESPECT FROM THEM!

EverQuest WOULD be fun if it didn't take so much damn time to level. Most of the time leveling involves sitting in one area, or Camping....hence the correct name, EverCamp. You kill monster. Sit for 8 minutes (EverSit), recovering your health, and "MED" or MEDITATE(if you are a magic caster) to recover your mana (EverMed). Kill again.

In about 12 hours, you will have gone from level 20 to 21. That is how painful this game is. PAINFUL. In order to change where you "respawn" when you die, you have to have a spell cast on you by often-greedy Level 12+ magic casters in what is usually a CITY. If you die, LONG RUN AWAY. This game was great, but time has worn away at it and it has become awfully boring. D-R-E-A-R-Y.

Now that Dark Age of Camelot and Shadowbane are on their way, EQ has outlived its glory. No longer is it as great as it once was.

1 star for the innovation, 1 star for the occasional fun, 3 missing stars for the almost always missing fun.

Building Team Work - a Role Playing Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: October 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If ytou hate the game then odds are you are an "arcade" game lover. Mrs. Pacman was more your style. If you played RPG's then this will fit the bill more. Designed for people to group and team up. Designed where you can build your own guilds of fellow adventurers and join in on quests. This is not a finger flippers game. This is not testing your thumb dexterity, but your logic skills. People that dislike it usually have no patience for quests and want to see "blood" splashing on the screen and do mega carnage to hundreds of orcs.
Set aside a reasonable amount of time. Building high level characters will takes hundreds of hours playing. Be sensible and read the rules and instructions. Go to the web sights eqatlas.com and check out the suggestions for playing. It will make things more fun. For GOD's sake print out the maps or this becomes "Everlost" real quick.
Biggest downer is the speed of the loading when you move between zones. That needs to be worked on.

The Best Online Roleplaying Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the best Online Multi-User Role Playing game, bar non, with a well established online community and true multi-server worlds to explore. It is a constantly changing environment with new events and quests being added all the time. I have played it from the beginning...and many patches later the game has taken on a life of its own, the only word of caution that I can give is: Say goodbye to your loved ones, give away all your pets, quite your job, and have easy access to food and bathroom facilities...this game is addictive, called Evercrack to the truely devote. The best there is untill the new expansion comes out.

This game blows.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 14 / 31
Date: April 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It's amazing me to find a lot of 5 or 4 star reviews, it makes me wonder if people enjoy being pushed around. Though it is also interesting to note that Everquest gets more 1 and 2 star reviews on a consistent basis than almost any other game.

Simply put, the game designers had them making money in mind when making this game, not your fun in mind. It seems everything set in place is there to keep you from reaching your goal, and thus, spending more time with the game than should be legally allowed. To top it off, the game developers have put in some ridiculous rules in place so the 'gms'(aka, ops) could harass you. So you pretty much are paying 40 bucks, then 10 bucks a month, so that the game can bully you. What Fun!

This game is fun to about level 10, then forget about it, and ask anyone, the higher the level, the better it don't get. You basically keep playing because you assume things will get better, but they never do. Plus the emphasis on socializing with the other players means the game makes sure you CAN'T go further in the game without 'grouping'.

The game, in short, takes great thrill in annoying you, rather than having a fun game, where you can level up and gain weapons quickly(ala Phantasy Star Online) that keeps you coming back because it's FUN, you instead come back because you have this sick desire to spend a few weeks to go up ONE LEVEL, so that you can start the mundane process all over again. And I would still be playing PSO if not for the unfortunate loss of my key code. So please please please game developers, don't do as Everquest do! Don't make rpgs the realm of monotany!! We'll keep coming back if you focus on making a game fun! HONEST! :(

Nice graphics, horrible gaming system

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 32 / 95
Date: October 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Compared to other games in the genre, Everquest graphics and graphical user interface (GUI) are outstanding. The texture of the landscape, characters and city scapes add to the sense of grandness and realism that one would like to see in an interactive role-playing game.

Why, then, a rating of 2 stars? Well, first off, their customer service ... As a business owner, one of the first lessons a person learns is that the business succeeds or fails one customer at a time. Verant (and/or Sony) seems to fail to realize this when training their customer service representatives. Unresponsive is the best way to describe their in-game and out-of-game customer service; and slow, one must not forget that descriptor.

Secondly, game play design is horrible. One can spend literal months developing a character to find out that the class which one picked is totally unessential in the higher end game. Not only unessential, but cannot advance due to gaming restrictions, making the time investment not worth the effort. Had this information been made available before hand, people could make proper choices based upon what they wanted to accomplish in the game... which, for most people, is to eventually be the best they can be. Another component of this is the fact that game design makes for LONG wait periods. Waiting for corpse retrievals (this writer has experienced 6 hour + corpse retrievals after death in-game), waiting for transportation around the huge continent and waiting (and never finding) groups with which to join which, in turn, is to relieve the boredom of running around solo. It's the waiting that kills people's interest in the game, and quickly.

Good customer service can easily overcome several design flaws; good game design can overcome poor customer service. However, a combination of deplorable customer service and horrendous game design makes for a very frustrating (if somewhat addictive) experience.

If you buy this game, do so with the understanding that you may advance to only a certain level and become extremely frustrated during and after that process. It can be a fun game, if one enters this world understanding the limitations put upon certain aspects of the game.

Is a very enjoyable game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: October 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I don't know why everyone is saying the EQ is a bad game and a waste of money and time. I have been playing EQ for over 3 months now and the fun has not worn off. Sure it takes some time to lvl, but not 12 hours to go up one lvl as has been mention in an earlier review I read. I admit, EQ takes time, but during that time you are not fighting and leveling, you are trading and interacting with 2,000+ other people on EQ. You build alliances, trade, you do so much in the time spent meditating or resting. Say what you want about it, I have played and enjoyed EQ more than any game in my library, which is quite a few. Do not judge EQ harshly because of reviews that do not give it justice...it is an enjoyable game.

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