Comment Aviaks, Giants and one huge game (Score 1) 420
Alright I usually dont' reply but I had to in this case. I have played EQ and am still playing EQ. Ever since its release when you had to buy one stackable item at a time... before Kunark. I played. Now this is my assumption and I could be totally wrong about this. I am under the impression EQ is one huge game with many many lines of code.
With that in mind. Verant doesn't cheat, Sony doesn't cheat. However there are a series of features in the game that make certain operations happen that are less than desirable. Whether it be Aviaks pounding on you from 40 feet or Giants hitting you through a house. These things happen as there were probably a few thousand lines of code that weren't thought about that could have dealth with these issues. However with player demand and expansion after expansion, what could have been fixed became unfixable. That is one theory.
The other could be simply to force the player to group or force the player to take strategic command instead of the standard hack and slash without care. (Casting too)
However there is a few important things one must remember when playing EQ, that it is merely a game. That and EQ is not democratic. You don't get the option to force equalization as you are playing Sony's game. In playing their game you must play by their rules just like any other game. Even if the rules seem a bit unfair to the player they are Sony's rules and you chose to play the game. The way you view EQ would be the same as if we were playing Monopoly and I got to put 20 hotels on Boardwalk because I could exploit the rules. So when you landed on it, you went bankrupt immediately. That and I could avoid all your plots of land so I didn't lose money for renting.
Frankly Sony has been quite nice to players in my whole experience playing regardless if NPC Wizards can backstab for over 150 and NPC snakes can bash. In fact they are the ones who added many player demanded features when they didn't have to. In return all they ask is not to cheat and obey the EULA. Not hard. Just for arguements sake, Druids didn't deserve the 75% heal they received. It was due to all the senseless Druid complaining that they got it because lvl 60 Druids couldn't get a group because in reality Druids have no place in any group. They are a solo class. But since they got a nice 75% back up heal, they have been revitalized. Sony didn't have to do this, they did. Because they wnated to be accomidating.
I think a little respect should be shown for playing a game you are not forced to play. Which is not democratic anyway in a individual/corporate relationship. And has many well known bugs because of its size and architecture.
With that in mind. Verant doesn't cheat, Sony doesn't cheat. However there are a series of features in the game that make certain operations happen that are less than desirable. Whether it be Aviaks pounding on you from 40 feet or Giants hitting you through a house. These things happen as there were probably a few thousand lines of code that weren't thought about that could have dealth with these issues. However with player demand and expansion after expansion, what could have been fixed became unfixable. That is one theory.
The other could be simply to force the player to group or force the player to take strategic command instead of the standard hack and slash without care. (Casting too)
However there is a few important things one must remember when playing EQ, that it is merely a game. That and EQ is not democratic. You don't get the option to force equalization as you are playing Sony's game. In playing their game you must play by their rules just like any other game. Even if the rules seem a bit unfair to the player they are Sony's rules and you chose to play the game. The way you view EQ would be the same as if we were playing Monopoly and I got to put 20 hotels on Boardwalk because I could exploit the rules. So when you landed on it, you went bankrupt immediately. That and I could avoid all your plots of land so I didn't lose money for renting.
Frankly Sony has been quite nice to players in my whole experience playing regardless if NPC Wizards can backstab for over 150 and NPC snakes can bash. In fact they are the ones who added many player demanded features when they didn't have to. In return all they ask is not to cheat and obey the EULA. Not hard. Just for arguements sake, Druids didn't deserve the 75% heal they received. It was due to all the senseless Druid complaining that they got it because lvl 60 Druids couldn't get a group because in reality Druids have no place in any group. They are a solo class. But since they got a nice 75% back up heal, they have been revitalized. Sony didn't have to do this, they did. Because they wnated to be accomidating.
I think a little respect should be shown for playing a game you are not forced to play. Which is not democratic anyway in a individual/corporate relationship. And has many well known bugs because of its size and architecture.
