I think implementation wise it is the best MMO out right now. it has tons of awesome things that are implemented in a far better way than even newer MMOs. trade skills. Player housing. Guild advancement. Faction advancement, etc.

I played for a couple months at release and it wasn't great. But it's tons better now. If you haven't played it in a while you should check it out. Don't delete your old toons though. They grandfathered it so old timers can play any race or class as long is it was created before free to play.

 

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I've been looking for a new game for abit. Gonna try it out. There a server lots of posters play?

 

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I played it a month ago and while the servers were stable the framerate was not. For an eight year old game you'd think any modern system could run it flawlessly, but it was running choppy at best on mine. A Google search told me this was a common issue, as the game was apparently designed to take advantage of hardware that will be introduced after the coming enslavement of earth by aliens untold years more advanced than us.

 

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prob quickest dl/install ever.

 

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Unlike you.

 

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For what it is it's good. But what it is is still a super dated MMO in a lot of ways.

It has a fundamental flaw: no PVP.

(yes there are 2 super mangled ruleset servers with it, beside the point)


Mind you the old graphics engine when I played was so sluggish and badly optmized even on modern rigs because:

It barely used the graphics card, did the rendering in software. (true story)
Beyond retarded for a game released at that time.

That's what they mean by the BS "oh guys it's super advanced tech that's gonna look awesome in 2056".
Meaning it's gonna look naff even when running on highly efficient 16-core 8Ghz CPUs, just barely at nominal speed.

EQ2's story is essentially: "we tried getting an EQ successor out, then WOW came with a similar game and stole the show so we crashed and burned. boo hoo."

 

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DAOC is still better than most MMOs out there too, if only they would
revamp controls and UI...I would play it even with old graphics
that most people find ugly

 

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I remember when people thought it would beat Wow lol

Sony screwed things up by making their games have so many pointless and evil time sinks. EQ 1 was pure torture the things they made the player go through like corpse runs and more

 

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EQ2 is way less hardcore than EQ1. I think its problem was actually that it straddled the line and pleased no one. The hardcore EQ1 fans stuck with EQ1, and the casual folks turned off by EQ1 went to wow instead. So it ended up without much of a natural demographic.

Also so much of the compelling content is only compelling if you played EQ1. So you miss like 75% of the fun if you never played EQ1. And the rest of the compelling low level content is all group stuff and the population of low level characters is so low that you rarely get to experience that either any more without going way out of your way for it.