EQ2Players is it worth it?

[Pravius]

Just an opinion from all of you guys.  Sorry if this forum is not the best for this topic but what do you think.  EQ2players.com worth the extra cash?

[Khanon]

I seem to be getting access for free, at least for now, and tried to make use of the signature part of it...thing...stuff.Personally? Far less than satisfied with its performance. As a simple example, my character hasn't been level 24 since last week...gear rarely, and on one character never, updates...*shrugs* Perhaps as a primarily solo quester for game style I'm not the kind of person that the feature was intended to cater to, either...

[Hellswrath]

If you are a guild leader or officer, or interested in the rankings at all, then yes.  Otherwise, it depends on the person currently.

[Kri]

<p>Currently, no.</p><p>Once they fix the site and the updates become constistent instead of sporadic, it might be worth it. But for most, the advanced features have limited use.</p>

[Dark_Grue]

<cite>Hellswrath@Blackburrow wrote:</cite><blockquote>If you are a guild leader or officer, or interested in the rankings at all, then yes.  Otherwise, it depends on the person currently.</blockquote><p>That's presupposing that the additional advanced features work as advertised, consistently, and that people can actually access them (also, consistently). Current public opinon indicates that they do not.</p><p>I know Hellswrath is one of several folks here in the community (which is one of my pet peeves, why is it the customers that are debugging and supporting the game they're paying to play) who have volunteered effort to try and bring these issues forward to get them noticed and resolved. Obviously, there's been extremely variable success with that, and how long something <i>stays</i> fixed or whether it's been fixed in all cases, rather than just one specific case... well...</p><p>I'd suggest the OP read through this forum a bit before making a purchasing decision, as there are manny reports posted that you might want to read. Objectively, the feature set has some appeal; however, I believe the implementation does not.</p>

[Brook]

No its not worth it for the advanced features.The <u>New Improved Design</u> has never worked, they update features and add even more broken stuff without fixing most of what they broke the time before.Its pretty much an ongoing process that never seems to end.You may get lucky and once a week, sometimes a month everything will work as intended for a day or two. If thats worth the extra money then its a great deal, I only pay for extra toon slots, to me its worth it for that reason.

[Zerebro]

Atm I'd say, not worth more than the 99 cents I already pay. No updates for over a week now. A suggestion is to wait (no one will give you an ETA on that) until at least the stuff updates regularly again, since you won't get a refund.

[Kaedi]

Atm the system only updates equipment worn, levels, aa's, status etc all haven't be updated on my characters for over a week now.  24hr turnaround is perfectly acceptable but 7 days? Craptastic.

[Xagoth]

The EQ2players "features" should be free anyways.They should be a marketing point to draw people in. Not something to make extra cash on.My characters have not updated since Thanksgiving.

[Pelda]

Definitely not worth it at the moment.  They don't update the information.  Maybe if they actually start doing that again it would be worth it.  Right now its just frustrating to see weeks old data.

[Vonotar]

<cite>Xagoth wrote:</cite><blockquote>The EQ2players "features" should be free anyways.They should be a marketing point to draw people in. Not something to make extra cash on.<b>My characters have not updated since Thanksgiving.</b></blockquote>Can you quantify what is not updating?I am signed up for the advanced player info feature simply so I can run checks on peoples alts etc.  As a guild leader it is invaluable information for those occations when you want to check if a potential recruit is really interested in our guild or just launching a spy mission for a rival (yes i've had people attempt that)I find that level information (adventure/tradeskill) is usually correct to within a day or two.  Guild ranks are usually correct as long as I promote people when they are online, offline promotions usually don't show on EQ2P until the character logs in again (+ the usual 1/2 days delay).I've never looked at gear information, as what people are wearing is usually of little interest to me.

[Xagoth]

<cite>Banedon@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Xagoth wrote:</cite><blockquote>The EQ2players "features" should be free anyways.They should be a marketing point to draw people in. Not something to make extra cash on.<b>My characters have not updated since Thanksgiving.</b></blockquote>Can you quantify what is not updating?I am signed up for the advanced player info feature simply so I can run checks on peoples alts etc.  As a guild leader it is invaluable information for those occations when you want to check if a potential recruit is really interested in our guild or just launching a spy mission for a rival (yes i've had people attempt that)I find that level information (adventure/tradeskill) is usually correct to within a day or two.  Guild ranks are usually correct as long as I promote people when they are online, offline promotions usually don't show on EQ2P until the character logs in again (+ the usual 1/2 days delay).I've never looked at gear information, as what people are wearing is usually of little interest to me.</blockquote>If you look at my signature, not ONE THING has updated since Thanksgiving.I am level 34 adventure and level 35 tradeskill, currently (yes, I am a slow leveler...I take time to smell the roses so to speak). Items crafted, Quests and NPC Kills are also WAY off. They are probably current as of November 23rd, I would guess.So the signatures are WAY out of date.Now on my EQ2player.com profile, it shows last played on November 23rd. Well, I played last night as well as almost every night SINCE the 23rd. My level and tradeskill level are the same as in my signature, which as previously stated, is wrong.The only thing that is up to date is my equipment.

[Rqron]

I believe it depends what server you are on. On AB my all but one of my characters have not updated since Nov 16th and a character I made on LDL on Dec.2nd has not shown up.As to the guild leader who uses it to find "spies" you must feel really paranoid now don't ya?No guild with that amount of paranoia is worth joining. Trust must be earned and that goes both ways. J.C.

[Vonotar]

<cite>Rqron wrote:</cite><blockquote>I believe it depends what server you are on. On AB my all but one of my characters have not updated since Nov 16th and a character I made on LDL on Dec.2nd has not shown up.As to the guild leader who uses it to find "spies" you must feel really paranoid now don't ya?No guild with that amount of paranoia is worth joining. Trust must be earned and that goes both ways. J.C.</blockquote>Thank you for the sweeping comment on a guild you know nothing about. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/2786c5c8e1a8be796fb2f726cca5a0fe.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />During the time our guild was on Butcherblock (before we moved to AB) we had a new member join us, claim to be the alt of a certain guild master of another guild, ask a lot of questions about our guild bank (we have sensible precautions in place so no possibility of being raided) then mysteriously disappear overnight.I checked eq2players afterwards and discovered there was no way this person could be who they claimed to be unless the guild leader in question had two accounts (they had a full complement of alts so no room for this mysterious person).I found out later they had been hopping from small guild to small guild in a matter of a day or so, making different claims each time (one time claiming to be me!), taking items from those guild banks with no restrictions and then eventually deleted themselves to avoid being traced.I don't consider myself to be overly paranoid, just aware that (just like real life itself) not everybody has your best interests at heart.

[Hellswrath]

<cite>Rqron wrote:</cite><blockquote>I believe it depends what server you are on. On AB my all but one of my characters have not updated since Nov 16th and a character I made on LDL on Dec.2nd has not shown up.As to the guild leader who uses it to find "spies" you must feel really paranoid now don't ya?No guild with that amount of paranoia is worth joining. Trust must be earned and that goes both ways. J.C.</blockquote>As already stated by the person you needlessly attacked, people who are only out to cause trouble do exist.  Guilds who's leadership is unprepared to deal with the possibility of such people are the ones which are not worth joining.  That being said, please stay focused on the topic of the thread and leave inflammatory remarks to people in other forums where they belong.It isn't out of the realm of possibilities that this has some relation to which server you are on.  However, in order to prove that you should check a larger sample of people from your own server and post the results.  I have found that Blackburrow is not following a simple pattern.  Most of my data has been updated, but I have a guildy who hasn't even gotten his character name to show up in searches or on our guild roster (shows up as anonymous on the roster).  He started the toon months ago.  So my guess is that this is not server dependent.

[Vonotar]

<cite>Hellswrath@Blackburrow wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite></cite>I have found that Blackburrow is not following a simple pattern.  Most of my data has been updated, but I have a guildy who hasn't even gotten his character name to show up in searches or on our guild roster (shows up as anonymous on the roster).  He started the toon months ago.  So my guess is that this is not server dependent.</blockquote>Anonymous I can help you with, basically the player has restricted access to their profile (to the point that you can't even see their name).1. Ask them to log into eq2players.2. On the left-hand menu they should click 'Characters' under the 'Station Players' header.3. This will open up several more options, select 'Edit Preferences'.4. They should select the character in question from the drop-down list that appears in the right-hand panel.5. Tick the box next to 'Leaderboards*' and click 'Submit'Note that at the bottom of the page the * is described as follows:* If set Private, this will replace your character's name with "Anonymous" on the Leaderboards   (A change to Leaderboard Permissions can take up to 24 hours to take effect)

[Transen]

As EQ2players currently is, No... I can't recommend paying for it at this time.