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Do not buy, do not trust

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: November 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Everquest is a classic and was groundbreaking in many areas. If you're considering buying this game and starting from scratch, you're much better off to wait until Star Wars galaxies comes out or Everquest Two.

Everquest is repititive. You'll often do the same thing for hours. The exact same thing. EQ does not reward risk-taking. If you dare taking on a lower level "named" mob, without having researched it on a website, you'll risk a quick death. Even if this mob "cons" or ranks lower level than you, some mobs in everquest are not as equal as others. . . you will die and have, maybe, play three hours more to regain your body, equipment, and experience lost.

I agree with the rater who remarked about the large time sink and the unreliability of Sony and their development team and how they've nerfed monks and other classes. Their customer service is horrible. Their attitude is that they control their world and they'll make any changes they like, with little testing, without having played the game, and without recourse.

When you play Everquest you do put a lot of time into the game. The game is absorbing... and although it doesn't take a large skill element, it takes a lot of time. Two years down the line, Sony feels free to change everything, and you'll lose what you've worked to accomplish and gain. Characters don't transfer to EQ2, so this edition of EQ is doomed and you'll be getting into it on the tail-end.

incredible value, and a great way to play...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 16
Date: August 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Amazed at the price of this collectors tin! First off, all of the 'extras' you get are amazing. I cant believe the number of great toys you're getting.

If you've ever thought about getting a friend an everquest account, this is a great and inexpensive way to do it, with lots of goodies for yourself. Not to mention, if you're looking for a second account, this is the most inexpensive way to get it enabled for all expansions.

The only problem is the shipping date, for the first sets. Novemeber 5th is quite a few days past when Planes of Power will ship... so you cant just buy this, instead of planes of power... if you want to be on the expansion the day it goes live.

If you dont mind waiting a week though, this is the best way to get your copy of planes of power. :) Get them while they last!

The Game of Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: June 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In all the years of rpg gaming i have come to find that everquest is unique in many large and powerful categories. Everquest is the mother of all online games.

A warning to all potential Sony Online Entertainment custome

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 15
Date: November 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for a MMORPG game to play, I'd urge you to consider this warning before investing your time in any game produced by Sony Online Entertainment.

I am a veteran everquest player with 150 days of time played since just before the Kunark expansion was released. In the three years I have been playing this game, I have seen what I can honestly say is the worst level of customer service and respect for paying customers that I have ever witnessed, in any industry.

Sony is content to change the rules of the game, as well as the abilities of any class, on a whim. Their changes are seldom tested, almost never achieve the desired effect, and more often than not hurt the game and lessen the value of the considerable time investment that any MMORPG player makes in his character and his online friends. I am not exaggerating when I say that the bad changes outnumber the good changes by a ratio of 3 to 1. Sony will very, very rarely repeal a bad change, and only then if they are convinced that they will lose thousands of paying customers over it. Sony does not consult its customers about these changes, nor do they listen to their customers for information about the direction they would like the game to take in the future. Any attempt to reason with them about such changes is an exercise in futility.

On several occasions they have made changes to a class that has utterly broken that class. In such situations, large numbers of players leave the game, robbed of the hundreds of hours of time they invest in the character. Some players continune on playing a different character, only to have that character changed for the worse some time later. Sony does not respond to emails, they VERY rarely respond in any official fashion on the various class community bulletin boards that players have set up to share their knowledge about the game, and they have to this day not apologized once for any negative change they have made.

The most recent bout of bad changes came after Sony's first public apology for making several fundamental "mistakes" in the underlying design of their game. This led to an unprecedented number of fundamental changes to the game that has left several classes in an unplayable state. Sony will not acknowledge that this is a problem and continues blindly proclaiming that everything is "fixed" and "working as intended".

Sony is also content to willfully ignore several thousand paying customers demanding an explanation for these changes. If their constant meddling in the game was acceptable to some, their constant refusal to acknowledge the customers who's play experience was ruined (yes, ruined) by these changes most certainly is not. For that reason, and no other, I stopped playing Everquest.

If you would play a Sony game, understand that any powers, abilities, items, and roles for your class will be subject to change without notice, and that the company making these changes will not hear or act on your feedback about them. In other games, changing the rules of play after they have been set in stone is considered cheating. For Sony, it's simply business as usual. Take any of SOE's corporate announcements about how they are "changing for the better" with a grain of salt. They told everquest players for three years that they would be changing for the better. What they did instead was cut the development staff, release a few sub-par expansions and a great deal of broken content, discontinue the customer service and guide programs meant to help out players who had problems in the game, and turn a deaf ear to any suggestions and concerns voiced by the playerbase.

Their track record speaks for itself. Any internet search on this topic will uncover thousands of disgruntled ex-everquest players. Do a search on the Monk, Necromancer, and Shadowknight classes if you would read the thoughts of those hit the hardest by Sony's lack of consideration.

Commitment to an online game is more serious than other games. In order to advance, you must invest a lot of time into your character. If, years down the road, the character is changed and is no longer effective or fun to play, one cannot simply start over, without investing a great deal of time catching up to where one used to be. When such lack of respect is shown to players with this much time invested, why would someone continue to play, knowing full well that it will happen again?

Some say that Sony's new games, Everquest 2 and Star Wars Galaxies, will not be plagued by these problems. They are designed by the exact same people, run by the exact same people, and the customer service is still handled by the same company. It is very reasonable to suspect that these new games will be plagued by the exact same problems. For this reason I will not be playing any future SOE games.

Consider yourself warned.

Find a better game company

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: November 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Although the game in of itself is ok, players depend on the company to run it well to enjoy the time spent playing it. Sony has perhaps made every mistake in the book and a few new ones managing this product. Customer support is almost non-existant, quality testing of game changes is a joke, and the rule set of the game appears to be written in disapearing ink. Pick the wrong class and you could find your character's abilities or equipment completely changed for the worse even after years of play. The latest high impact insult to loyal customers were of the Monk class, an excellent and fun class to play before recent changes. Monks are not the first nor will they be last to suffer from the horrid mismanagement of Everquest. I highly suggest you view the recent EQ player message boards before investing money or time into this product.

I wish I never bought previous versions

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: January 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Even cool cats like me play EQ. I wish I had never bought any other versions of EQ and just got this one. It has everything you need, all the expansions, and a tight tin container. If you're thinking about starting...get this one.

Surprisingly bad, for the gaming revolution it caused...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: December 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Love it or hate it, EverQuest is responsible for much of today's online gaming experience. With more subscribers than any other American MMOG, its tendrils are almost inescapable. Its 'economy' has been the focus of college theses. Its design has been copied and diluted by numerous imitators. But for a game that almost single-handedly revolutionized the genre, it's surprisingly...bad.

Even though most of the original designers have left, the core of their design...their 'Vision'...cannot be undone without a total rebuild. Forced grouping is rampant, and if you don't have three hours to spend finding a group, you may as well not log on. Though the experience has been improved recently for newbies, many fundamental flaws still remain at the very core.

Your equipment is as important as your level when it comes to your effectiveness, and with no level limit for much of the older equipment, 'twinking', the act of placing high-level gear on a low-level character, is rampant. Sony has a history of adversarial relationships with its players, ranging from the infamous Mystere fiasco to the Alchemy tradeskill for shamans.

All that said, the game does have occasional moments when it shines...mostly, however, those occur when you reach the 'real game' that is 50+. Total newbies to the genre would do best to avoid EverQuest, and instead play one of the many games that has improved upon its glaring flaws.

Everquest-

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: October 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Is the best game ever! I have it. Buy it!

As a Newbie...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: April 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As a new EverQuest player, talked into trying the game by friends, this was simply too over-whelming for me to enjoy. Had I had some background of EverQuest, had I actually ever SEEN or played it before, I might have felt differently. As it was, I should have started off with the Basic game, or perhaps the Trilogy set, to see what all the hoopla was about. This has four expansions within it, three of which you will not be able to play about in, until you're of a particular level. That could literally take a year to achieve. I would have saved a lot of money, had I known that, started out slower with the first (and now reasonably priced) expansions and package-bundles, then when I reached a level of accomplishment where I could and wanted to move on and up in the EverQuest world, by then the expansions I would be ready for, would be ready for me -- not to mention, in all liklihood, more affordable.

Alternately, though, if you already know that you love EverQuest, and you will play it to the exclusion of all other hobbies you formeraly enjoyed, then it would be worth the investment.

Game of the Millenium

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: September 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have played this game since its introduction. I have purchased the expansions individually as they have been released. This item is a nice addition to any everquest collectors collection. I plan on keeping this in its original packaging, and continue to use my old CD's until they look like my grandmothers old scratched up kitchen table. SKATERRRRR GNOME rules, see you all in the game.

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