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EQ-One In A Million

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing Everquest for the full 5 years and it has just been getting better. Agreed there are rude people and bossy people but there are thousands of others.. just move on don't let someone ruin your fun time. I have many lvl 65's and help "newbies" CONSTANTLY mostly in kelethin as most of my chars are woodelfs or highelfs. I give away pp and lots of armor. You just have to find the friendly people and many people get annoyed by beggers.. who wouldnt? Give it a try dont just assume, the monthly fee isnt bad. you get access 24 hours a day 7 days a week unless theres a patch...but thats a small price to playing for hours with fun people my friend's list is 200 people and growing :) Give it a shot and don't give up too easily thats about all anyone can say

Graphical MUD

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: January 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When Everquest first came out I saw the price for the game. $49.99 or $39.99, I can't remember which. Then I found out you had to pay a monthly fee. I said to myself, "People have to be crazy." Then I found Everquest: Evolution for $29.99 at Best Buy. I said to myself, "Ok. I think I will check this out."

IF you have ever played the Mirkwood MUD or Sojurn MUD back during the early days of the Internet then you already have a heads up on how to play Everquest. The difference is EQ has graphics and those other MUDs are text-based.

Evolutions is worth the price even if you have to pay $13 a month. I would have given it more stars, but I have only been playing it a week.

Love Hate Relationship

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I had a love hate relationship with this game. there were a lot of things I loved about this game and a lot of things I hated.first off the good things: 1 I loved the masiveness of this game it is huge. I played for 6 months and only covered about 1/3 of the game this playing around ten hours a day 6 days a week (I am retired) It is also very addictive. 2 I loved the freedom of this game you don't have a story line to stick to you basicly go where you want when you want, just like in real life. 3 I liked being able to stop and talk to people, it is a masive chat room. I met people from all around the world really neat. 4 the graphics are terrific very cool. 5 I loved the spells there are so many and the graphics for them are cool too. 6 I loved the dungons and dragons story line and it being set in midevil times very cool, I really like this type of game.Ok, now I will tell you what I hated about this game:1 grouping, this game is very hard and nerve racking in order to get to the top of your game you are forced to group at first you could solo but as they kept adding the expantions they started smerffing the charictors making them weaker so you would have to group. I liked to solo because for one thing I didn't have to share the spoils of war with anyone, also some players did't want to share with the group they wanted all the spoils for themselvs when I grouped I expected to share and did, but left groups very fast when they started to hog the spoils. The grouping its self was not bad it was kind of fun to talk and get to know other people it was the looting part of it I hated.2 this is a free market society you have to buy your weapons and armour of course the best stuff is the most expensive stuff that is where the spoils come in. In oreder to get the money you need you have to kill monsters and loot the spoils then either sell them to other players or to venders so when you get in a greedy group you don't get payed for your efforts and most of the groups are like that. Other games have elimanted this from their group games which makes grouping a lot more fair and more fun they just give all the members in the group the same rewards rather than making them loot a single item. 3 camping I hated having to camp first you had to find an area where a certain monster was that had a great piece of armor or a wepon or item that sold for a great price usally when you got there there were other players wating in line to camp. It took me 2 days to get one place and if you died others would take it from you or groups would root you out especally if you were soloing other games have elimanted this too to make theirs more enjoyable and fair. 4 the graphics with the first 3 games the charactors looked a lot better then in pop or sol for example the females in the first three they were very pretty and sexy but with pop and sol they turned very ugly their bodies looked like they were 65 yers old or so yuck!. 5 this game starts off easy but gets much harder as you go on there are 65 levels and then you have your inate levels that take as long to do as the regular levels I made it to 45 6 when you die you loose your hard fought experiance I really hated this you could die a couple of times and loose two days worth of work not only that but you had to go get your corpse in order to get your gear and weapons if you didn't you would lose them as well I have droped as much as 2 levels before just trying to get my corpse back 7 secrets most of the spells after level 45 for my charitor were with monsters that I had to fight for them however I could never find out which ones to fight or where they were. There I had worked hard to get to level 45 to get these really great spells and everything was a mystery no one knew. finally after waiting 2 days for a camp and dying with in 30 minutes coming back to find it taken over by a small group that would not let me have it back I had had enough I quit.In sumation this game is fasinating, fun, and huge but its also hard, nerveracking, agravating, and you must group to get anywhere. If you are not social and don't realy like to group than I would sugest finding a different game. I hope this helps

The Truth...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok first ill start by giving a little backround on my knowledge of the game... I have been playing this game since the very beginning b4 their was any expansions with just the bare minimum... even when it first came out this "Game" is 100 times better than DAoC/Final fantasy online/ starwars/world of war craft.
Now after you read my threads your going to read some more reviews saying they dont like this game b/c graphics suck, or they dont like 3rd person view etc... well these people are either to young or just being ignorent, you can play in MULTIPLE VIEWS and you can even control the camera so you can look 360 around you with a click of your mouse button!!!! The graphics suck if you have a crappy computer, the graphics were upgraded with the expansions and are optional, u dont have to turn them on, but if you do i guaranty you that you will not be able to run the game unless you have a good video card and a 2.8 computer!
This game is not just a "game" it becomes part of your life, it is hard not to play everyday b/c it is suck a adictive game, it is hard to get the hang of it if you are new, just go to some of the sites available to you for free like, www.eqvault.com or eq.crgaming.com or [...](my favorit). i also like to have the guides so you can get a list of spells for all classes.
so the whole reason i posted this was to stop you from not buying this game b/c a fiew ppl under 12 played the game with their parents credit card and couldint understand how to play or use some of the game features and just decided to try and give a bad name to the greates online game ever.
This is a VERY good price for this game, i have payed more for them when they first came out and i would have loved to buy them at thsi price.

Unbelievable

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The ultimate game ever. This must be played. Yeah the graphics are kinda crummy (now they've improved though) and it can get boring at early levels. Then it gets fun. Its great when grouping because the group can support one another and get some major XP. It gets better when you are invited into a guild 'cos there can be some real nice people in it (or really boring ones). I personally play on the Povar server and am an officer so I can invite people into my guild (all hail Chaotic Vision). The guild is very nice so if you are looking for a guild send me a /tell and I'll come find ya! =)

WHAT DO YOU MAEAN BAD THIS IS GREAT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

don't listen to them this is the best MMORPG I've ever played my freinds and I love it ive had it for 6 months and its still awsome the monthly fee is worth it. bottem line ONE OF THE BEST

BEST ONLINE GAME EVER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this pack is going to be great! its 30 dollars and you cant beat that i know everquest trilogy was a ton of fun but this is going to blow you away its going to be a must for new people of everquest starting of the entire collection and saves you money you get all those packs in 1 for less the price i say Get it when it comes out!

everquest evolutions

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is beth, overrall it's probably a four star game it's not boring but it takes so long to get to level 65 heck my highest char is only level 40, she's a human monk but she's the best player i have, although i like emmaria my dark elf too. Anyway they have great gear but it took up some of my allowance, it's hard to earn lots of money unless u buy it.
The thing that is great about this game is that you can play with your friends, group, and be all sorts of races, if you don't have 50 k and good gear you're done for in the higher levels. The graphics are pretty good and going shopping in the bazaar rocks, I love my horse! Doing magic isn't my favorite thign to do, and it's more expensive. You have to buy new spells and get a wardrobe that gives you good mana. Fighters is where all the action is in my opinion, like the Warriors, Rogues, monks, paladins... if you really like doing magic pick the enchanters who can make themselves turn into pots and other races which is fun, or the wizards who can cast heavy damage, but if you want to be a shoewin to be chosen in the group, pick a CLERIC clerics are always invited in. The fighting doesn't have much gore, and looting is pretty fun. You develop online friends a lot of times so it's fun to chat with them. Another thing about evolutions is that you get legacies of ykesha (however you spell it) luclin, and plain old eq and traveling is always fun you can go into all these cool places but on the higher levels you have to stay in one place for a long time which gets boring :(. It's hard being a newb luckily my friend helped me out! I've played for 1 and a half years since i don't go on on schooldays only on weekends and summer break. I must admit it is a definitley Challenging game, i don't go on anymore really, cuz i've gotta concentrate on school more. It's probably not as good for kids like me becuz it's sort of addictive and obsessive, but it's a REALLY COOL game to do in ur spare time! Hope I helped all the newbies who might wanta try it out!

Sucks.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 21
Date: June 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have no idea why people like this game. Here is a list of bad things about it:

1. It has patheticly bad graphics.
2. You spend numerous hours farming off bats and rats.
3. You die very easily.
4. You don't see yourself attacking enemies.
5. I could go on, but I'm lazy.

Free Subscribtions? I don't think so...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 18
Date: February 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was always interested in trying it, but I like to play offline first. Well, I recieved this as a gift, tryed the 'free subscription' well lets just say its FREE IF YOU BUY ANOTHER SUBSCRIPTION.
I tryed the game didn't like the controls or the first person. So I canceled my subscription, and NO REFUNDS!!

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