EQ2 Producer's Letter

Wait, is that Daybreak or Bethesda?

 

I like it!

Just wondering about what they are not telling us.

Still, I'm interested

Edit: Not a huge fan of the character wipes after a season. Not sure why they thought this was necessary or good.

 

All down to execution at this point.

 

The question is "Who do we execute?" I only want to execute the guilty ones at DBG... and not the innocent ones!

 

They mention seasons, but nothing says they're wiping after each season.

 

I just hope that any one considering participating in these new tle pvp or pve servers temper their expectations.

Be realistic and consider the history/implementation/broken promises etc. of the past tle/speciality servers.

After that, if you still want to give it a go, best wishes.

 

I'll likely wait until I can see player feedback. Sorry DBG, trust issues.

I do hope the feedback is good, though.

 

I trust DBG and their promises as if they were politicians...

 

...or used car salesmen.....or lawyers....

 

Ah.. I made a light-hearted joke in healer chat to other healers about the difficulty shaman were going to face healing back in beta and have been banned from discord ever since.

 

I confess to genuinely feeling a bit saddened for the dedicated PvPers, who got so excited about this new PvP server. The new concept isn't as they expected, and they are now very disappointed. But:

1. They knew from the get-go that it wasn't going to be a 'traditional' PvP server;
2. They also knew from the get-go that it was going to be a temporary, event-type server;
3. They were told several times that they (1 or 2 people in particular) should manage their expectations, given DBG's track record;
4. This beta test seems to me to be more a BR test in an EQ2 setting - can they truly not see that it's a Battle Royale trial?
5. Can they also not see that it is yet another cash-grab exercise (once it goes live)? Which I guess is not a truly unsurprising thing - DBG is a company, after all, and needs to come up with ways to increase it's cash-flow.

And while I do feel a bit for Siren's disappointment, I'm also aghast at the demanding, ungrateful pushiness that is becoming evident by some of the commentary on the OF. Now it seems that if the beta/live server isn't 'PvP-perfect' they don't want to know, won't play on it, and will walk away. Rather than temporary 'seasons', they now want a persistent/permanent server, or for the 'seasons' to last longer. They now want to have more the ability to have more than 1 character. They want immediate AAs, rather than waiting for their natural appearance in the right 'season'. They want factions, not the factionless concept that DBG has said it will be.

It's really tiring, you know?

 

I would feel sorry for some of them if they hadn't brought the disappointment on themselves.

 

That's why I'm only a BIT saddened, not a lot.

 

I quite admire DBG attempting something different tbh.

 

This new PvP event server is really starting to smell like a DB experiment to see if a BR will fly. Something really smells fishy here guys cant put my finger on it yet. but i can say this for sure this is for DB to test not for the die hard PvP EQ2 players.

 

A PvE server with all the changes so far on FG plus

no p2w mounts
no familiars
no BL or channeler until CoE
nothing but apperance items in the item shop
no krono so the economy doesn't go bonkers and botters leaves the server alone
small tweaks to early expansions raidboss auto attack damage because of no Chan.
small tweaks to make one or two heroic dungeons per expansion hard.

All on a 3 month expansion unlock.

That gives them 2 years (21 months) to get content in DoV and beyond ready instead of the bull they do now with small gear fixes 4 weeks into a rotation.

Just saying, this is exactly what most people wanted with FG and we constantly gets shafted weeks before DoV is supposed to be released instead.

Like, do they want the sub fee for people playing on these servers, they need to do it right from the day the server opens. I can't believe they cant see how good it would be for the playerbase. I have a hard time thinking people would want to start over for the 3rd time if they keep the same pay to win schemes on the new PvE server.

 

Woohoo! Aren't we lucky? We get to help fund the BR development while suffering to play a sub-par PvP server! Oh wait... I refuse to play that PvP server now. (Not that I was that eager to do so, but was willing to give it a try for a few days, since im still burning up my kronos while playing occasionally.)