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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!

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.

Good way to get into EQ

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 16
Date: October 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ah, Everquest. Also called EverCrack by some, I must warn you...

The world of Norrath will captivate you.
The world of Norrath will be a constant challenge.
The world of Norrath is a dangerous place.

And you will not be able to easily leave the world of Norrath once you've settled in.

You'll start out weak, with little equipment, and some food and drink. Enough to get you started.

You'll give your introduction note to your guildmaster who will give you a piece of armor.

You'll go out and kill weak animals, and go up a few levels. Then you'll move on, and kill more.

Then you'll find you don't want to stop.

Maybe then you'll try out some tradeskills.

You'll either love them or hate them. Either way, you'll continue to go out and kill stuff.

Maybe you'll join a guild, maybe not.

And then, you'll get addicted, and you won't mind. Some people get TOO addicted... but for the rest of us, it's a great way to kill some time.

If you buy this - remember this one golden rule: EQ is not a replacement for "real life". If you properly manage your time, EQ can be a very fun way to spend your evenings... but don't neglect your own life.

And if you're ever on the Zebuxoruk server, and see an Enchanter named Shingen Takeshi - Feel free to say "Hi" to him.

(...) promotion

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: October 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I think the first guy to post here works for Sony.
Get real!
Watch the reviews after this comes out.
I will be getting it just cause I only have the downloaded version of EQ and this is a way to save money.
The few minor extras are just a bonus.
These will never have any collectors value and since they are making 45,000 as per the EQ site they will never be rare.
Funny there are still lots of the first gold ed. still for sale.
Good deal if you don't have all the games.

uber

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: November 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this is an uber special if you want to be among the l337 buy EQ gold...

Fennin Ro,
ubersoldat

PvP is the way to go

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Cowards weaklings and general pacifists...pvp ain't for you. But if you've got big balls, an ego like a god, and the courage to back it up, play and join a Zek server. PvP adds a whole different view to the playing style and gives added strengths and weaknesses. Having a 'world' based on warfare type combat where darkies and uglies are teaming up against elves and men set the stage for a place a lot like true RP. It's tough and takes time to fully develop and hone your skills to become one like a god, but if you've got the wisdom and ambition to do it, you can become the most feared or loved hero in the world known as Norrath.
This release will help those newbs out there a lot since it contains all the available zones to obtain those strengths needed to become a true hero.

Good product bad delivery service

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is well worth the money! however Amozon was supposed to deliver to my house 2 days after the release and here it is three weeks after and still no PoP. Went out and bought from store. Now seems I will not get delivered for another two weeks.

C'mon guys whats up? If stores can keep on their shelves why cant you?

Ford Engelbrecht
San Diego, CA

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.

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.

finally got it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well after over a week after release amazon had still not shipped so I cancelled my order and got it cheaper at the store.
Now i see they dropped there price.
First off the box is over sized for what is in it.
Big piece of 2 inch foam inside.
The cloth maps are ok I guess but could be a little bigger so you can read the names that are printed on the contenents.
The comic book is about 4 inches by 6 inches and maybe a dozen pages. I have not read it yet but not very impresive.
The manuel seemed ok and the cover was made out of pleather.
5 discs in a cardboard container that folds out.
The pewter figurene is really cool and heavy but unfortunatley even though it comes in a bubble pack mine had a bent sword which really bummed me out.
I will have to contact them about a replacment since it is obvious that it was done at the factory.
The best part is if you don't already have the discs you save money.
If you are not a die hard EQ fan and have the discs don't waste the money.

I hope this helps.

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