I was all about to jump in here and applaud you, until I read your post. EQ has a lot of problems, but you're being whiny.
EQ's GUI is about the best of any game. It is ENTIRELY user customizable. I mean, completely. There are people who have skinned their windows with porn. Using XML (or by downloading one of the THOUSANDS of user made UIs on google) you can create your perfect UI. Many people convert their buff list to a 8 font size list of the buff names and stick it in a corner instead of the bulky icons.
The game has built in autorun. Tap the numlock and you're good to go. Because you don't actually rely on skill or movement in gameplay, needing 00b3r fps controls is unneccessary. Frankly, I never even switched to wasd movement because it prevents you from typing while strafing.
Also, first person view is about the worst to play in. Truly skilled players use 3rd person to keep tabs on everything (I've been complimented by other eq players in real life, "The way you handle the camera makes me want to vomit.")
The areas of complaint are:
Sony only wants to make money from eq. It doesn't care about anything else. Expansions are not finished -9 months after being released.- The game is currently balanced worse than Diablo 1.10. Gameplay is boring. The things that made it interesting in the beginning (hugely scary world to slowly explore) are gone, replaced with "you can buy loot for 50pp in the bazaar that is better than anything that existed in the first 2 1/2 years."
Anybody who has played longer than 6 months plays for 2 reasons: Itamz, or to keep in touch with the friends they made. That's the only reason. Or they're super casual players and for some reason still have fun playing their lvl28 ranger.
This summer I flew to seattle to meet 9 folks I've known in EQ and attend one of them's wedding. Not many games have the same result.
EQ is like smoking, people either do it socially and habitually, or because they're dumbasses and want to look cool (get phat lewt.)
Oh yeah, EQ's updated #$%&tastic graphic engine which was implimented when the moon was released ruined the game. Runs like #$%& on the best computers.
edit: Computer problems and RL have kept me out of game since july or august sometime. I am a member of one of my server's uberguilds but only give a damn about the friends I've made.
EQ's GUI is about the best of any game. It is ENTIRELY user customizable. I mean, completely. There are people who have skinned their windows with porn. Using XML (or by downloading one of the THOUSANDS of user made UIs on google) you can create your perfect UI. Many people convert their buff list to a 8 font size list of the buff names and stick it in a corner instead of the bulky icons.
The game has built in autorun. Tap the numlock and you're good to go. Because you don't actually rely on skill or movement in gameplay, needing 00b3r fps controls is unneccessary. Frankly, I never even switched to wasd movement because it prevents you from typing while strafing.
Also, first person view is about the worst to play in. Truly skilled players use 3rd person to keep tabs on everything (I've been complimented by other eq players in real life, "The way you handle the camera makes me want to vomit.")
The areas of complaint are:
Sony only wants to make money from eq. It doesn't care about anything else. Expansions are not finished -9 months after being released.- The game is currently balanced worse than Diablo 1.10. Gameplay is boring. The things that made it interesting in the beginning (hugely scary world to slowly explore) are gone, replaced with "you can buy loot for 50pp in the bazaar that is better than anything that existed in the first 2 1/2 years."
Anybody who has played longer than 6 months plays for 2 reasons: Itamz, or to keep in touch with the friends they made. That's the only reason. Or they're super casual players and for some reason still have fun playing their lvl28 ranger.
This summer I flew to seattle to meet 9 folks I've known in EQ and attend one of them's wedding. Not many games have the same result.
EQ is like smoking, people either do it socially and habitually, or because they're dumbasses and want to look cool (get phat lewt.)
Oh yeah, EQ's updated #$%&tastic graphic engine which was implimented when the moon was released ruined the game. Runs like #$%& on the best computers.
edit: Computer problems and RL have kept me out of game since july or august sometime. I am a member of one of my server's uberguilds but only give a damn about the friends I've made.
*Pren_LL-AB
USEast HC
Dark_Mutterings (Necromancer)
Doug_Winger (Wearbear)
Heroic career and 1.10 aspirations cut tragically short because NOBODY CAN DO ANYTHING WITH A 22.2K CONNECTION WHY DOES GOD HATE ME.
USEast HC
Dark_Mutterings (Necromancer)
Doug_Winger (Wearbear)
Heroic career and 1.10 aspirations cut tragically short because NOBODY CAN DO ANYTHING WITH A 22.2K CONNECTION WHY DOES GOD HATE ME.