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a very poorly maintained MMORPG

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: January 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I played EQ for over 2 years, and I have to say that at first, it was like totally awesome. I bought EverQuest thinking that it would be a high fantasy role-playing game, with the unique experience of living an virtual life in a virtual fantasy world, so to speak.

However, EverQuest just doesn't provide the traditional RPG features that made the RPG genre so great. The game just doesn't live up to its claims or even its name. EQ really should not be in the RPG category, because the developers who make the game really have no respect for the genre at all. This game is all about hack and slash action. It's been dubbed "Quake with Swords", and "the worst MMORPG ever made" by many real RPG enthusiasts. The beginning of the game starts out ok. There are 65 levels (if you get all 4 (soon to be 5) expansion packs...hope you got a big fat wallet). The game just rocks for the first 30 levels or so. But after that it's all downhill. The main focus of EverQuest is on the level 60-65 range.

pretty much when you log on most of the time you just twiddle your thumbs until you can band 30 people together to kill something for a single piece of lewt. It's a commitment that will cost you maybe 7 hours a night, literally (if you don't devote those hours you will probably not get anywhere in the game...) it's very political - it's not just a freeform "adventurers getting together and killing" kind of thing. You have to join a guild, and most guilds of the right level range require you to be at the raid if you are online. Some people enjoy it, but they are usually people who enjoy military style ethics, which is VERY much what it's like. Many people feel like it's just like having a job though. Playing the game is more of a chore than about having fun.

There is no "high fantasy" or "roleplay" in EQ - you make a character, kill any NPC or PC you can find, and pay 13$ a month. It's as dry as it sounds. I'm not like a hardcore roleplayer or anything, I like action too... But even killing stuff in EQ is no fun. You're so strictly dependent on others in this game that essentially if not enough people are online to kill anything, you either can't play, or you just sit in a town twiddling your thumbs waiting for people to log on so you can actually do anything. Some classes are more important than others, unfortunately, so you may just gain 65 levels only to find out that on raids you do nothing but hit 'autoattack' every 5 minutes for 7 hours... Seriously! I'm NOT exaggerating LOL

If you like having to commit several hours of your time everytime you log on, waiting for enough people to show up so you can kill something, hours upon hours of mind numbing repetition, and being STRICTLY DEPENDENT (I can't emphasize this enough)on other players, then maybe you could find enjoyment in EQ. However, if you're looking for an immersive, high fantasy, well-designed, well-managed game, you're better off going with some of the newer MMORPGs. Mix mind numbing boredom and monotony with the worst customer service in the history of mankind, and I wonder why people even play this game anymore. Some just have a higher tolerance for incompetence than me I guess.

The developers of this game clearly don't have a passion for games - they exploit their players for money too much for me to believe otherwise. EQ2 will be released late this year or early next year sometime, but to be honest, with SOE/Verant's track record, I have no plans on buying it. It'll have great graphics and technology cuz that's all the devs seem to care about (and the sys reqs will make you believe it with a vengance...keep in mind that once your character is high enough in lvl, most of the time you're playing you have to be with about 30 other players...and neither will an ATI Radeon 9700, DSL, nor 8x AGP be able to save you). But the gameplay is going to be headache spawning dysfunction, and the customer service 10x's worse (worst case scenario: had a friend lose all of his hard earned equipment to a game bug, his EQ life's work, because of no response from customer service (their logs expire after 7 days)...with some items in the game taking months to over a year to get, losing them permanently is NO JOKE). The game will change a lot over time through weekly/monthly patches. There's a strict Verant vs. Player relationship, and you WILL learn to hate it. I mean the Gamemaster spell for summoning players in EverQuest is called "Call of the Zero". How weak, let alone insulting, is that? THis is why I have high skepticism about EQ2 and other MMORPGs run by SOE/Verant.

There's many other MMORPGs out there. Spare yourself the headache and get one made by a company with a real passion for games.

Ugh!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: March 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Buying this was the worst mistake I ever made in my entire life. If you think this is fun, think again.

I was at level 20 for over two weeks, and when I did level up, I was hardly any stronger than I was before.

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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.

Horrible, I would not recommend it to anyone....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: December 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As the newest expansion pack came out, SOL (shadows of lucin or Sh!t outa luck), Verant inc forgot 1 thing. They forgot to put it through QA. If you have an "older" computer... forget EQ. Not only do the people who spent hundreds of dollars upgrading their computers to play EverQuest, but also the people with high end machines are all having much difficulties logging into the game. And if you are lucky enough to enter "Their World" after a 10+ hour patch which seems to happen on a daily basis, most likely you will lock up within 30 mins into the game.

If you survive all that a new set of problems occur. Frame rate issues are at the top of the list and lag issues come in a close 2nd. Most of the new spells in game do not work. The graphics and textures are bugged. To zone from place to place takes 5 or more mins. To log out of the game takes about 15 mins or you can reset your machine. Simply put, you need a computer that can handle world war 3 to play EQ without any problems.

Verant inc is trying a new product stratagy. They make YOU pay to beta test the game. Cool huh?

If you dont believe me then goto their own public tech support message boards. (...) Sad sad game. I do not recommend you getting stucked into their world....

If you still end up buying the game, good luck. May the EQ gods grant you the power to never need Customer Service. (...)

Fun at best, frustrating at worst

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Everquest
Pros:
Great graphics
Large game world
Intensive amount of detail to be learned

cons:
Large time sink doing the same thing over and over
Large time spend in non-productive activities (waiting for stuff, like boats, monsters, etc.).
ummm....alot of detail to be learned. A lot. You have to read a website to find out what spells do/maps/quests/monsters etc--or be prepared for an even larger time sink and many more deaths. On reason i didn't switch to Da0C was I already was familar with EQ's world and didn't wanna blow all this information away and start over.

At its best, everquest can be a challenging game that can while away eight hours easily. At its worst, its a terribly frustrating game with horrific customer service designed by a team that doesn't appear to play the game.
Unlike some games like Diablo where your character is more powerful than the monsters, in Everquest, your character is at a big disadvantage compared to monsters. Monsters can chain cast, cast while being hit, be resistant to spells, and just generally be able to beat you into a pulp (at least at times). This is because Verant wants players to group, but the problem lies it can take a long period of time to find a group of players. With so many zone regions now in EQ, most zones may only have a handful of players and if you're not one of Verant's priviledged classes, your class may not be wanted even if there's an opening in a group. To make matters worse, even as tough as it is for players, Verant will "nerf" classes (like monks) that destroy their grouping ability and make them less desirable for groups--although Verant received criticism and tons of email from monks about this, they arrogantly stick to wrong decisions for several years before attempting any fixes. Don't waste your time with Everquest. Wait for Everquest two or maybe Star Wars Galaxies. Or even better a game designed and supported by another company.

I don't think you should play everquest

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 20
Date: October 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Some people are worried that the computer game EverQuest is more than a hobby. Instead, it's being described as an addiction. One counsellor has even nicknamed the game "EverCrack."
There are more than 400,000 EverQuest players in North America, and twenty-five to thirty hours a week of playing appears common. A recent study of 2,000 EverQuest players shows 45 percent of them admit to being addicted.
In Hudson, Wisconsin, Liz Woolley has already seen the down side of EverQuest. She says her 21-year-old son Shawn became addicted to the game. He was diagnosed with depression and eventually killed himself with EverQuest still flickering on his screen. Woolley says the maker of EverQuest, Sony On-Line, has made a game so powerful, it's addictive, and she wants Sony to put warning labels on the game.

To learn more about this story, tune in to Marketplace Tuesday, October 15th at 8:30 pm (9:00 Nfld. and Labrador) on CBC's
main network.

Terrible... Expensive... Just bad!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: February 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because my friends recommended it to me... I wish they hadn't. You have to pay 10 bucks a month for something that is just not worth it. I'd enjoy it more if maybe they'd have put in a 1 player off-line version, but I still would have given this review 1 star. The gameplay is bad, and it's always the same old thing-- hit the monster with a stick, and keep moving. The worlds are vast, but with no challenge at all. No challenges, no mazes, the lands were slapped together all in about two minutes for each area/zone. The monsters are too simple to beat, the quests are easy, and there's no end to this game. For you parents out there, this game absorbs your children's lives. Basically, their grades in school will drop, they will never do what they're told, and if there are online restrictions in your house, they will play as much as possible behind your backs. One of my friends even waits until his parents to fall asleep to sneak downstairs and play Everquest. The game makers made a big mistake in making this game, and they should've quit while they were ahead.

The bottom line is: unless you want your life ruined and your money wrongly spent, DO NOT BUY EVERQUEST-- you could buy something a little more useful, or even a better game... but, I'm not going to stop you. You'll see what I mean if you buy it.

cant play it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

if you buy this game used be sur eyou find out if the CD key can be used. When I tried to play the game it told me the cd key was in use, no other options available. watch out.

Not what I thought it would be :-(

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: December 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

READ THIS REVIEW IT IS VERY HELPFUL

My friend got this game and he was saying stuff "you gotta get it, its so cool" I was so exited to get EQ trilogy. Finally I saved up enough money to pay for it for a few months. By the way thats a badthing, you have to pay $13 a monthly fee to play. Finally I started to play it and that weeks I played it every day. day 1, awesome.. day 2, awesome.. day 3, awesome, day 4 5 and 6, awesome... day 7, SUCKED! after a few days of playing it, not only it gets old, but you learn your way around the game and figure out that its really dissapointing. The graphics are pretty good. but thats about the only good part. its impossible to gain levels, it takes so long. After 5 days of gameplay, 3 hours each of nothing but fighting, training, fighting, training I was level 4. I didnt take one break, not a lunch break, NOTHING. Thats how hard it is. I didnt die once either. It is hard to find your way around. the 7th day before I got rid of it, it took me an hour to find the magic shop where you buy new spells to use. it is hard to use some spells, like hide. it never works. not many people are friendly. I only joined a group 1 time and that was with a friend my friend who I knew in real life. Even in the daytime, it seems kind of like it is still dark. It just barely lightens up. It is still about the same. You need a torch which doesnt help much. you can turn up your gamma and it will be easy to see but it will be like that the whole time even at night so it takes away the fun. It takes forever to get enough money to buy stuff unless you do a trade skill which is hard. It is nothing like the commercials, they say you go on challenging quests, fight dragons and other monsters, go on an adventure of a lifetime! YOUR KIDDING RIGHT? For crying out loud You have to stay in the same town until you are like level 20 which takes about a year, if youll leave in half a minute some monster will kill you. I can go on and on but I am getting tired.

SO......DO NOT BUY THIS GAME IT IS HORRIBLE!!!!! WAIST OF MONEY!!!!!!! WAIST OF TIME!!!!!!

Yuck!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Beautiful graphics (but if you have tech issues- forget it! (Sony loves to play the 'it's someone else's fault' game), some interesting features- but its the players that make this truly bad... Imagine a world of wizards and warriors all played by pushy, obnoxious 11 years olds, and you get a taste of EQ (or Ever Crack as some call it). Odd thing...Found the game very frustrating.

Staring at a wall might be a better use of time...

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