Ooh dear ...

Posted 11:00 pst.

6pm pst, been two responses.....

Now on the one hand, I really liked the Vasty Deep zones. On the other hand, 1 zone with an 18 hour lockout; (Raid, 3 heroic difficulties, solo). Looks like the library one.

Anyway. Yay.

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This expansion could be the first in Eq2 History where as many new P2W crates as new Raidzones were introduced. Should we call it Evercrates 2 from now on ?
I am between 4-5 different crates put on the marketplace in this year.

 

GU yesterday, patch it tomorrow ... Server Downtime and Patch Notes - August 12, 2021 | EverQuest 2 Forums
Yay!

 

oh wow there is a new type of P2W crate

 

So I logged in just to check out the level 120 boost. All they did was take the old equipment that you got from using a previous boost and they copy/pasted the starting RoS gear stats onto it. It's named the same and looks the sameas previous iterations. Oh, and obviously they set the boost to level 120. That's it. There are no current adornments included with the claim. Every adornment you get, which is only a handful, is highly obsolete. So you would still have to know to go to the RoS starting gear crate to grab that equipment and pull the adornments off of it. And, I know that is a minor thing, but they didn't even bother to remove the infusable tag from the carryover gear. So RoS gear isn't supposed to be infusable (I think, could be wrong about this), but the new starting gear is infusable because they just copy/pasted over the stat block.

My newly level 120 Troubadour has 27m hp which is a sneeze from a trash mob in RoS. That many hp wouldn't even have cut it in PoP heroics from 3 expansions ago. So, to the extent that anyone who was thinking about a return tries this out, they are in for a rude awakening.

Edit - oh, one more benefit as someone on the OF just complained about - the boost also gives you profession spells at master quality. So that's actually a decent perk.

 

I'm still trying to figure out wtf they messed with that has caused quest items on merchants to suddenly acquire price tags of 5000 plat. I've just seen the third report of this in 3 days, all involving a different merchant. And as these are all old content quests who knows how many more there are that just haven't been found yet as that content isn't done so often now.

 

None of any of this surprises me. I finally got tired of EQ1 about 4-5 months ago after playing for 1.5 years straight. That's the longest stretch I've stayed back in game in years. I just finished the things I wanted to finish. I've had the urge to log back into Eq2 to just chill and craft but it leaves me rather quickly.

On another not, I have been playing Path of Exile again and recently the lead developer said, "My VISION for the game," and that gave me PTSD worthy flashbacks of McQuaid.

 

So, on the one hand we're bragging about Ongoing Server Upgrades | EverQuest 2 Forums while at the same time announcing: No Fix Planned - This account is in use... + /camp <character select> not working properly | Page 14 | EverQuest 2 Forums
Who are their favoured customers again?

 

Attack of the spaghetti code eh.

 

Probably a contributary factor, yes. Given the way it manifests in bursts I've always suspected that connectivity and performance issues play a part too. In which case if they actually do decent hardware upgrades it might help that problem as well.
I wouldn't mind betting that putting us back on the original 30s logout might help alleviate some of it. But, given the way the uninformed masses constantly scream about the 20s being too long and demanding it be shortened with no understanding of the potential consequences, I'd never dare suggest it.

 

Maybe they've decided that new hardware would be good, and EG7 decided to invest in a bunch of coders to rewrite the whole code base into 64bit.

Maybe

 

Silk purses and sow's ears or something like that.

 

There are rumors that they will invest a million dollars into a game with less than 10,000 active players for 64 bit client support? Really?

We all remember how it went when they last tried to add graphical fidelity to the engine right? months of work and code thrown right into the bin.