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    12:18 AM

    In reply to Aion Speeds Things Up With Double XP Weekends
    That Aion is a recent localisation of a game released in South Korea over a year ago may suggest that Korean fans are much more tolerant of xp grind than we are.

    Now I'll only have to kill ~500 critters to get my three level 22 characters to the Training Grounds instead of 1,000.

    Zzzzzzzz....
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    12/15/09

    In reply to EverQuest Launches Its Sixteenth Expansion
    Good to see the old beast is still chugging along.
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    12/15/09

    In reply to EverQuest Launches Its Sixteenth Expansion
    The original EQ was like a great undiscovered indie band: raw, inspired, loads of potential just begging to be tapped...

    ...only to sell out to Sony and start producing power pop.
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    12/15/09

    In reply to Aion Speeds Things Up With Double XP Weekends
    It is too little too late for me at least. Maybe if they did this at launch I would have considered putting up with the bot spam and stuck around longer than the first month.

    I know the bot spam probably got better and if I were in a guild that ran things then the game isn't that bad. But the reality is most people aren't in well organized guilds in mmorgps.

    Even in WOW, the king of mmorpgs pubs groups are frustrating, not fun and generally hated.

    The core part of Aion is the abyss, it is a shame that in order to get to the real game you have go through an annoying grind and then find out your reward is an even more annoying grind.
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    Image of Telecinision Telecinision
    12/15/09

    In reply to Aion Speeds Things Up With Double XP Weekends
    Funny thing is, the game doesn't get all that grindy until level 35. Go figure. People who take advantage of this will be in for a rude awakening once you hit 35 and have to run Mist Mane a hundred times.
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    12/15/09

    @Telecinision: Yo dude... the most fanatical hard core leveler I knew in WoW gave up on that game because of how grindy it is at lvl 35. Apparently you just straight up run out of quests... ? What is that! O_o
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    Image of MugiMugi MugiMugi
    12/15/09

    @holidays! cat: There is quests, but quests won't cover 100% of the XP of the level above that point, but there is so many more things to do to get XP anyway, like go and run an instance run good XP eg. At 37 there is many group quests who gonna take quite a while and overall to finnish them you get a few levels to.

    However after 40+ specially 45+ your not going to see very many quests, but there is still quite a lot of things to do. 45 you have like 4 instances to run and have fun with.

    But the average MMO player want all gear everything within the first hour they play an MMO, they want it served and reached end game at once.
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    12/15/09

    @holidays! cat: I'm pretty much out of quests around 40, apparently it picks up from 40-45 because the Steel Rake instance gives good xp, but then the last five levels are just terrible.
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    12/15/09

    In reply to Massive Free Realms Update Brings Tiny Dinosaurs
    Wonder if the PS3 version is still on.
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    Image of PvtWeaksauce PvtWeaksauce
    12/15/09

    In reply to EverQuest Launches Its Sixteenth Expansion
    So did the EQ userbase just deny the fact that Everquest 2 ever existed?
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    12/15/09

    @PvtWeaksauce: well...TECHNICALLY theyre 2 different timelines, so in a sense, yes.
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    12/15/09

    @PvtWeaksauce: Yes, we did.
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    12/15/09

    In reply to EverQuest Launches Its Sixteenth Expansion
    I wonder if World of Warcraft is going to get 16 expansions? I kind of miss playing EQ because I only got to level 18 on my highest toon back in the day. I wonder how much it costs just to buy all of those xpacs wow.
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    12/15/09

    @SpearXXI:

    Blizzard's never been too 'big' on expansion packs, I don't think. Warcraft II had one, and I don't think that that one was even a standalone edition. Warcraft III had one, Starcraft had one, Diablo II had one ... Diablo 1? Is Hellfire a Blizzard expansion?

    If World of Warcraft gets sixteen expansions (considering it hasn't even gotten its third yet), that will probably take a game life of ... wow. Even longer than EverQuest has been around, that's for sure ...
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    Image of Grimskull89 Grimskull89
    12/15/09

    @dracosummoner: Well in roughly the same amount of time, Eq2 has gotten 5 expansions (and soon a 6th expansion). WoW has barely cranked out 2, with a 3rd on the way.

    And with Blizzard's merge with Activision.. I would imagine they would try to pinch every nickel and dime out of their gaming base... so they might someday get to 16 expansions :/
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    12/15/09

    @dracosummoner:WC2: Beyond the Dark Portal. Also, they released a map pack... I believe it was calle "The Next 70 Levels". Just, you know, throwing that out there.
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    12/15/09

    @vleramus: @chris.babin:

    That's it. Thank you. I own the WCII Battle.Net edition, but I couldn't remember if "Beyond the Dark Portal" was always bundled with the original WCII (once the expansion came out, that is) or not.
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    12/15/09

    @Grimskull89:

    I did forget about the Activision factor.
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    12/15/09

    In reply to EverQuest Launches Its Sixteenth Expansion
    Anal [underfoot]
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    12/15/09

    In reply to EverQuest Launches Its Sixteenth Expansion
    This game is not the most attractive game. It does have a strong almost rabid following, however.

    Also, the devs working on this are very attentive to the players needs unlike some of the other MMO's out there, including other SOE MMO's.
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    12/15/09

    In reply to EverQuest Launches Its Sixteenth Expansion
    Man, I can't believe they continue to churn out expansions for the game. It must still have a decent player base.

    I played the game for 5 years and quit with planes of power, but sometimes I do wonder what it would be like to return to the world of Norrath.

    I did enjoy my time with the game.
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    Image of Josh Taylor Josh Taylor
    12/15/09

    In reply to EverQuest Launches Its Sixteenth Expansion
    I know graphics aren't everything..... But damn that game is ugly.....
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    Image of DigitalHero DigitalHero
    12/15/09

    @Josh Taylor:
    They are still using the original 10 year old engine. They have to for continuity and the keep the game working properly.
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    Image of Iarwain Iarwain
    12/15/09

    @DigitalHero: I've never played the game, so I might be missing out on something, but surely the game can still work properly with a new engine? Turbine have updated the engine for Lord of the Rings Online numerous times, nothing too major admittedly, but they upgraded it to benefit from DX10, and they're doing the same with DX11. It makes the game look a lot nicer than it did at launch.
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    12/15/09

    @Iarwain:
    The engines have been updated to support the later direct x versions but it's still basically the one used from the original. I do not believe its all new.
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    Image of Chubz Chubz
    12/15/09

    In reply to EverQuest Launches Its Sixteenth Expansion
    EverMilk. What a joke of a game.
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    Image of DigitalHero DigitalHero
    12/15/09

    @Chubz:
    Nothing wrong with expansion content and its amazing that the game is still going at 10 years of age.

    I'm sure the people who still subscribe will disagree you.
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    12/15/09

    @DigitalHero: Oh, I'm sure they will. Those with no lives are tough to convince otherwise.
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    Image of BallPtPenTheif BallPtPenTheif
    12/15/09

    In reply to EverQuest Launches Its Sixteenth Expansion
    "The never ending storyyyy ayyy ayyy ayayy..."
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    Image of DigitalHero DigitalHero
    12/15/09

    @BallPtPenTheif: Maybe they should call it FOR-EVERquest? I enjoyed this back in 1999. Good memories. (and bad...corpse hunting)
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    Image of BallPtPenTheif BallPtPenTheif
    12/15/09

    @DigitalHero: "Turn around - look at what you see.
    In her face the mirror of your dreams."
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    Image of Insomnia Bob Insomnia Bob
    12/15/09

    @BallPtPenTheif:
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    12/15/09

    @Insomnia Bob: Can you say "Neverendingquest"?

    I wonder if they could port EQ1 to the iphone?
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    Image of Zunnoab Zunnoab
    12/15/09

    @BallPtPenTheif: No definitely not. I often hear EQ1 uses more system resources to run than WoW. I have seen the RAM used pass 1GB in some of the newer zones.
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    09:50 AM

    @Zunnoab: What about the PS2 port of EQ1?

    At least give us some Ultima or Diablos styled pixel based MMO. I want loots on my i-phone.
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    Image of Zunnoab Zunnoab
    10:12 AM

    @BallPtPenTheif: There was no port of EQ1 off the PC aside from to Macs (and that one only has up to the PoP expansion. The PS2 thing is a totally different game.
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    12:15 PM

    @Zunnoab: Sure, but it might be the only iteration of the game capable of being played on the iphone.
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    12/14/09

    In reply to Age Of Conan Slightly Free Until 2010
    This was vaguely confusing for me at first. I read it and thought, 'AoC is dying in 2010? Already? Didn't they just announce an expansion?'

    I find it really odd that they're doing a 'forever' free trial on a limited sign-up basis. Is there a particular reason they're limiting it, I wonder? Do they just want to try and persuade new folks to try the game before the expansion comes out?

    Strange, anyhow.
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    12/14/09

    @ninjaDance: I read it that way as well and was like 'What the? AoC is ending??'

    I'm glad I read it to the end. I think I might actually take advantage of this :)
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