WHY do YOU like EQ2?

mappam · 01-08-2012, 01:36 PM

We all play game for a reason - to escape or relax from Real Life or to Join our friends that we do not live close to etc.

Mostly because it is FUN!

So I was wondering WHY do YOU like EQ2 (over other games)?

Me - I like to craft and I LOVE to decorate my home(s). Sometimes I feel like adventuring, harvesting or Exploring (Questing) and sometimes I want the challange of creating a new kitchen in my home.

For ME - EQ2 offers the BEST housing and crafting of ANY game 'out there'! It offers me a choice of how I want to spend my time depending on my mood.

I am a 66 year old female (retired) so I like to relax when I play. I do not do "twitch" play well any longer so a relaxing hunt or day spent decorating is my FUN.

What is yours? I thought it might be interesting to read all about YOU!

mappam · 01-09-2012, 12:15 PM

So nobody has reasons for liking this game?

Crillus · 01-09-2012, 12:33 PM

mappam wrote:

So nobody has reasons for liking this game?

Har! No, just too busy playing it maybe?

Mostly I like the game due to it's community. I do like the game play too - it's challenging and there's a lot of content. With that, Tradeskills, Collecting, and Decorating all add to it as well.

A lot of reasons! SMILEY

Jovie · 01-09-2012, 12:49 PM

I like the variety the game gives me when i play my alt army. I have one of every class (adventure and tradeskill).

Sometimes it gets a bit overwhelming though since AoD because there are too many things to do. (with the addition of tradeskill apprentices and dungeonmaker)

I've also recently discovered that i hate questing and i now just like to pick a place and go there and just fight!

Oh, i like the houses too. Eq2 housing is probably the best in any mmo out there.

Zeedlana · 01-09-2012, 12:51 PM

Housing drew me in, being back in some EQ related place is probably going to keep me for a while.

I love to wander and explore - and the other game I'm also playing with friends & family penalizes you for just wanting to wander around. I already know I'm courting death closely if I take a lvl 20 toon into a lvl 50+ zone -- I don't need the game itself to punish me with mobs attacking me from twice the normal agro distance just because I want to find a new fishing hole or whatever wanderlust urge I've given into on any particular day.

Now if only that little halfling who gives us dishes didn't have to eat so darn much, it wouldn't take me as long to stock my half finished kitchen...

Vinyard · 01-09-2012, 01:07 PM

i have so many friends on ab

Jovie · 01-09-2012, 01:23 PM

Zeedlana wrote:

Housing drew me in, being back in some EQ related place is probably going to keep me for a while.
I love to wander and explore - and the other game I'm also playing with friends & family penalizes you for just wanting to wander around. I already know I'm courting death closely if I take a lvl 20 toon into a lvl 50+ zone -- I don't need the game itself to punish me with mobs attacking me from twice the normal agro distance just because I want to find a new fishing hole or whatever wanderlust urge I've given into on any particular day.
Now if only that little halfling who gives us dishes didn't have to eat so darn much, it wouldn't take me as long to stock my half finished kitchen...

I spy Lotro! SMILEY

Zeedlana · 01-09-2012, 01:29 PM

Yeup. I like it, just not quite as much anymore. At least with EQ I have all sorts of options for things to kill. And where I can wander and die.

But no one really wanted to come here with me (hence me ending up on a PvP server all by myself through a short bout of spousal confusion... /sigh)

That and I really really missed my old necro, but I've been away from EQ1 too long to want to go back and relearn everything.

Tyrsei · 01-09-2012, 01:45 PM

I like playing the many classes,dabbling with the housing here and there.The crafting and the fact I can just log in and find something fun to do,variety of choices is nice to have.

Senya · 01-09-2012, 01:54 PM

There's something for everyone. In most other games there's really only the one path. Level up and raid. In EQ2 there's so much more. There's raiding, group play, solo play, crafting, decorating, dungeon making, collecting, role play and whatever else you can think of. I don't feel as though I'm on a very linear level/gear grind treadmill. I can play that way if I choose to, but when I don't, there's plenty of other things to keep me busy in game.

Enica · 01-09-2012, 02:03 PM

I like that there's just so much to do. I never log in and get bored. I'm not a raider, so I'm glad there's so much solo and small group content. I also like the housing, even though I can't decorate the way a lot of others do. And EQ1 was my first MMO, so I'm a fan of the world and the lore.

Neiloch · 01-09-2012, 02:26 PM

I like raiding that actually has a challenge. As much as EQ2 might get dumped on they still haven't made raiding so easy that top end raids can be done by dungeon finder and a few UI mods *cough*WoW*cough* Also I like the people in the guild I raid with. If the most I could hope for is to tolerate the people I raid with, I probably wouldn't even play this game.

Chronus1 · 01-09-2012, 02:26 PM

Casual raiding, friends, phat procs and the ease of choosing how hard or difficult you can make something. Having raid zones capable of being done by casual pugs and still having some that are amazingly tough is great

Jovie · 01-09-2012, 04:58 PM

Zeedlana wrote:

Yeup. I like it, just not quite as much anymore. At least with EQ I have all sorts of options for things to kill. And where I can wander and die.
But no one really wanted to come here with me (hence me ending up on a PvP server all by myself through a short bout of spousal confusion... /sigh)
That and I really really missed my old necro, but I've been away from EQ1 too long to want to go back and relearn everything.

Yeah, for me Isengard was a complete let down. Hastilly put together, no real sense of it fitting in with the rest of the world.

/sigh

Oh, and i miss playing music. Loved just sitting places while the group is taking a break and playing some tunes!

Seidhkona · 01-09-2012, 05:26 PM

I love the immersion into the character I am playing first and foremost. That was what brought me into the game.

Once I discovered crafting I was hooked. It's a lovely way to relax, as is harvesting.

Then I found out about house decorating. THAT hooks into my 3-D arts and I have spent lots of time decorating the homes of my characters.

I love that there are always more quests. I have a ton of alts, and while I usually always do the heritage quests with each, I have managed to always find new quests at low levels that I missed on prior characters, and of course new quests turn up at end game as well.

I think it's FABULOUS that I can solo if I am feeling antisocial, no matter what character I am playing. I also like grouping when my friends are on. And I love raiding, because coordinating a bunch of people to kill hard stuff is a rush.

When SOE was down due to the hacking not to long back, I tried scads of other games. None came close to EQ2. Some had prettier graphics, or more character customization, but nothing offered the richness and scope of EQ2.

Lasai · 01-09-2012, 06:33 PM

I still play this, as there is always something to do that I can do solo.

I live somewhat vicariously through the game, I'm a bit disabled.

Still, I am feeling left behind by decisions that don't appeal to me or actually make it harder for me to play. We got totally stonewalled on simple requests for slower mounts. (as a retired professional horse trainer.. this really rankles. I would have sent these crazed runaway psychos to the first auction)

I love crafting, and it is to me, appalling that the last pass of Crafted itemization was rushed, incomplete, broken, and is still not being addressed. I hate that crafting has become a questing profession over actual crafting.

Really hate the "new" freeport and the concept that a series of pretty trivial quests was deemed worthy of destroying so many living options.

But, I still play. Something to do, but I am incrementally losing a lot of the things that kept me coming back.

Lilflier · 01-10-2012, 01:40 AM

Sadly, I no longer play.

Now that its free, I log in every once in a while and wander around my home for a few minutes... but the story has left this game.

I used to love my characters. I still do... but their souls are gone.

I started playing not long after launch. I'd never played an MMO before. I barely grouped with anyone for the first few months. Everytime my character would die, I would delete her, and start over. I was obssesed with becoming an assassin without dying, and back then, starting on refuge isle, becoming a citizen of freeport, progressing to predator, finally graduating to assassin. It was such an engaging story.

And I had a taylor. All she did was make stuff for each newborn character I would make.

Around the time when Kingdom of Sky was about to come out, I was starting to get tired of the game. I was never into raiding, or even grouping really, and I had not made it to 50 before sinking sands came out. I made it to 60 the night before Kingdom of Sky was released. I can't remember the dungeon I went to the next day, but i do remember not having fun. I was in a "grinding" group and just following along... Numb.

I made a character on the pvp server the next day. Having fun working up as an armorer, to prepare a character for the world. It was so much fun. Sneaking around the commonlands, Antonica, sneaking into Queynos. Now the story felt alive. This is what it was supposed to be all along. Queynos against Freeport. I could finally truly hate those self-rightous qs. I loved the story. I found a great roleplaying guild, completely by chance. I happened along two of them speaking in character in Longshadow Alley.

Slowly Sony pulled all the good elements from the story. Rangers came to live in freeport, and Shadowknights moved to Queynos.

Journeyman's boots quest is pointless now. Superfast Horses, flying griffons... /sigh..

I played for the Story

Rijacki · 01-10-2012, 02:23 AM

I still love EQ2 because of the variety of gameplay available.

Shawnyve · 01-10-2012, 02:56 AM

Housing. Love the Housing.

Honestly though, I played the All Access (Station Access before that) so I had EQ2 for ground, and the 3D space battles in SWG. With SWG gone, I've lost a lot of what I enjoyed about MMO's. TOR is ok, tried the stress tests, my wife has an account I've played around on. Just can't get into it for some reason.

Not sure what to make of all the new changes. Trying out a beastlord. Trying to get my guild up to 30 so I can get a guildhall and some amenities. Crafting has changed so many times I don't know what to make of it anymore, but it's something I do want to get my characters doing.

The new dungeon maker looks promising. If they would bring over the chronicle code from SWG it could turn into something epic.

And if I get bored I can hop over to EQ or Vanguard for a spin. May even pick up DC online to give that a try.

One subscription, a bunch of different kinds of games. Yeah, I wish they would finish some and show a bit more love here and there, but no MMO I've played has ever been perfect. Hell, most of 'em can't hold a candle to a good MUD.

TwistedFaith · 01-10-2012, 03:57 AM

I only play now because of the guild I am in and raiding. The game has changed since I first begain playing when it was released. It used to be full of danger and everything was difficult and a geuniue challenge. These days the only challenge is from raiding, and that is dying because the itemisation is so insanely awful it's simply not worth the time.

I predict pretty soon the game will merge in with the likes of LOTRO and D&D, they all seem to similar, all of them seem to have been made from a cookier cutter MMO machine. Where's the danger, challenge, the spectacle. I remember QH being packed with people running around, seeing highend raiders in amazing armor. These days it's like you are playing a single player game with a chat box.

I honestly feel the days of EQ and early EQ2 style MMOs is over. People don't seem to want that style anymore, they want insant rewards. I don't want to travel, I want to click a button and be there now. I don't want to work on my character, I want to be max level now etc. It's sad really, the only hope for the EQ style of MMOs is with indie gamedevelopers.

Darkwing · 01-10-2012, 04:25 AM

I love the housing in this game, as well as the mounts. They don't look as cartoony as the ones in a certain eyesore of an MMO that's at the top of the heap right now. Plus the variety of the races and classes make me glad I chose to play this game.

Griffildur · 01-10-2012, 10:39 AM

it's pretty boring atm, to be honest

Zhadowsee · 01-10-2012, 12:28 PM

Decorating -- it tickles my creative side, and seeing that I am going to school for a graphics design related career, it just keeps that part of me active when I'm not studying. I love to decorate!

Economics -- I play the broker game more than I level. I don't just mean trying to find new ways to make plat by tradeskilling. I enjoy watching the trends, the shift of quantities supplied and demanded. Every time there is an update to the game, I watch the fluxuations on the market. Example: when Beastlord came out, I could not keep Katars stocked. As soon as i put them up for sale, they were completely gone within 24 hours.

Social Sciences -- People's behavior are drastically different than they are in the real world. Behavior fascinates me, and watching how people interact with each other is fun. I like noting the differences in how people conduct themselves in a channel versus a forum; I like studying how people Role Play and find how the imaginary persona differs from the player's online persona, and wonder how that itself is different than the personality of the person when he conducts his daily business at work or with family.

A bit unorthodox, I know, and to some it may be disturbing. These are the top three reasons why I play.

Oh yes...and I really enjoy Scout classes. Those are fun too.

Cakeny · 01-10-2012, 12:57 PM

Because I can't afford to play EQ1.

Valonia · 01-10-2012, 01:00 PM

Tigers!

There might be other reason, but I'm quite sure I would've left for longer periods if there had been no Tiger forms/illusions for druids/monks!

Now if only SoE would reverse the change to the model that came with AoD. The added fur around the nack/cheeks might be neat in theory, but ingame they really look like glued and rather rigid scraps of paper -> Not Tigress approved! BOO! Wantz old, cuddly model back!

Eliohia · 01-10-2012, 01:04 PM

Lasai wrote:

I live somewhat vicariously through the game, I'm a bit disabled.

This is also one of my reasons for playing. I started in january of 1999 with eq1 and have played off and on ever since then (wow 13yrs!!!)

I love decorating (wanted to do it in rl just never got to) so i can do just about anything in game again living vicariously lol.

I love the social interaction as alot of times i dont go anywhere all day long and so I can talk and fight and goof around with people on the game and have fun. (yes i love to fuss with the trolls they are fun lol)

Crillus · 01-10-2012, 01:13 PM

Sigrdrifa@Lucan DLere wrote:

I love the immersion into the character I am playing first and foremost. That was what brought me into the game.
Once I discovered crafting I was hooked. It's a lovely way to relax, as is harvesting.
Then I found out about house decorating. THAT hooks into my 3-D arts and I have spent lots of time decorating the homes of my characters.
I love that there are always more quests. I have a ton of alts, and while I usually always do the heritage quests with each, I have managed to always find new quests at low levels that I missed on prior characters, and of course new quests turn up at end game as well.
I think it's FABULOUS that I can solo if I am feeling antisocial, no matter what character I am playing. I also like grouping when my friends are on. And I love raiding, because coordinating a bunch of people to kill hard stuff is a rush.
When SOE was down due to the hacking not to long back, I tried scads of other games. None came close to EQ2. Some had prettier graphics, or more character customization, but nothing offered the richness and scope of EQ2.

Indeed, that's well said. Most other games are FAR too Linear for me too.

Many of the other games make you feel like you are on a train track, jumping from station to station without any real choice in the matter. With EQ both 1 and 2, I've always felt pretty free to just do whatever I want.

RP, Decorating, and such add even more to that.

Gorpier · 01-10-2012, 01:17 PM

There are a lot of reasons and ways I like to play. I like this one because the story is huge, but I'm not forced to always eat, sleap, and play that story line. If I decide my assassin needs a drink in a pub, I can head into any of AB's rp tavern nights and weave a completely new story or participate in an ongoing one.

I love that if I don't want to RP, I can just hang out and chat with like-minded folks and enjoy our wonderful community, or I can head out into the 'wilderness' and slay bad guys/good guys depending on the character, or I can dungeon/raid hop, quest, craft...

In conclusion, I like that I don't have to be limited to one single thing, or a handfull of small things. I can go out into the world and enjoy everything I choose to enjoy and its ok.

thephantomposter · 01-10-2012, 02:14 PM

It has a lot of what other games have, questing and such but what I like that brings back from ie: Skyrim or Rift is

The amount of Quests and areas

The Broker System

The housing

My Guild/ the Community

fighting mechanics

I do like some of the station cash items BUT I really really wished that stuff went to tradeskillers.

Crillus · 01-10-2012, 02:36 PM

Lilflier wrote:

Sadly, I no longer play.
Now that its free, I log in every once in a while and wander around my home for a few minutes...    but the story has left this game.
I used to love my characters. I still do... but their souls are gone.
I started playing not long after launch. I'd never played an MMO before. I barely grouped with anyone for the first few months. Everytime my character would die, I would delete her, and start over. I was obssesed with becoming an assassin without dying, and back then, starting on refuge isle, becoming a citizen of freeport, progressing to predator, finally graduating to assassin. It was such an engaging story.
And I had a taylor. All she did was make stuff for each newborn character I would make.
Around the time when Kingdom of Sky was about to come out, I was starting to get tired of the game. I was never into raiding, or even grouping really, and I had not made it to 50 before sinking sands came out. I made it to 60 the night before Kingdom of Sky was released. I can't remember the dungeon I went to the next day, but i do remember not having fun. I was in a "grinding" group and just following along... Numb.
I made a character on the pvp server the next day.   Having fun working up as an armorer, to prepare a character for the world. It was so much fun. Sneaking around the commonlands, Antonica, sneaking into Queynos.   Now the story felt alive. This is what it was supposed to be all along. Queynos against Freeport. I could finally truly hate those self-rightous qs. I loved the story. I found a great roleplaying guild, completely by chance.   I happened along two of them speaking in character in Longshadow Alley.
Slowly Sony pulled all the good elements from the story. Rangers came to live in freeport, and Shadowknights moved to Queynos.
Journeyman's boots quest is pointless now. Superfast Horses, flying griffons...      /sigh..
I played for the Story

So you should play on AB - the amount of RP there is staggering. Doesn't matter that Sony's story can be weak, that gap is made up for and then some by the RP community on AB.

01-09-2012, 12:33 PM	#3
Crillus Server: Antonia Bayle Guild: Ashen Dawn Rank: Spark Loremaster Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 150	mappam wrote: So nobody has reasons for liking this game? Har! No, just too busy playing it maybe? Mostly I like the game due to it's community. I do like the game play too - it's challenging and there's a lot of content. With that, Tradeskills, Collecting, and Decorating all add to it as well. A lot of reasons!

01-09-2012, 12:51 PM	#5
Zeedlana Augur Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 131	Housing drew me in, being back in some EQ related place is probably going to keep me for a while. I love to wander and explore - and the other game I'm also playing with friends & family penalizes you for just wanting to wander around. I already know I'm courting death closely if I take a lvl 20 toon into a lvl 50+ zone -- I don't need the game itself to punish me with mobs attacking me from twice the normal agro distance just because I want to find a new fishing hole or whatever wanderlust urge I've given into on any particular day. Now if only that little halfling who gives us dishes didn't have to eat so darn much, it wouldn't take me as long to stock my half finished kitchen... __________________ Is that a badger in your bed or are you just happy to see me? Antonia Bayle - Orpiment - Iskar Necro - Decorator junkie lizard -- Meat Pie Emporium -- Honeymoon in Neriak

01-09-2012, 01:23 PM	#7
Jovie Server: Guk Can't decide... Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 880	Zeedlana wrote: Housing drew me in, being back in some EQ related place is probably going to keep me for a while. I love to wander and explore - and the other game I'm also playing with friends & family penalizes you for just wanting to wander around. I already know I'm courting death closely if I take a lvl 20 toon into a lvl 50+ zone -- I don't need the game itself to punish me with mobs attacking me from twice the normal agro distance just because I want to find a new fishing hole or whatever wanderlust urge I've given into on any particular day. Now if only that little halfling who gives us dishes didn't have to eat so darn much, it wouldn't take me as long to stock my half finished kitchen... I spy Lotro!

01-09-2012, 01:29 PM	#8
Zeedlana Augur Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 131	Yeup. I like it, just not quite as much anymore. At least with EQ I have all sorts of options for things to kill. And where I can wander and die. But no one really wanted to come here with me (hence me ending up on a PvP server all by myself through a short bout of spousal confusion... /sigh) That and I really really missed my old necro, but I've been away from EQ1 too long to want to go back and relearn everything. __________________ Is that a badger in your bed or are you just happy to see me? Antonia Bayle - Orpiment - Iskar Necro - Decorator junkie lizard -- Meat Pie Emporium -- Honeymoon in Neriak

01-09-2012, 01:54 PM	#10
Senya Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Ironforge Exchange Posts: 1,754	There's something for everyone. In most other games there's really only the one path. Level up and raid. In EQ2 there's so much more. There's raiding, group play, solo play, crafting, decorating, dungeon making, collecting, role play and whatever else you can think of. I don't feel as though I'm on a very linear level/gear grind treadmill. I can play that way if I choose to, but when I don't, there's plenty of other things to keep me busy in game. __________________ Click image for a list of my completed projects.

01-08-2012, 01:36 PM	#1
mappam Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Central Florida Posts: 432	We all play game for a reason - to escape or relax from Real Life or to Join our friends that we do not live close to etc. Mostly because it is FUN! So I was wondering WHY do YOU like EQ2 (over other games)? Me - I like to craft and I LOVE to decorate my home(s). Sometimes I feel like adventuring, harvesting or Exploring (Questing) and sometimes I want the challange of creating a new kitchen in my home. For ME - EQ2 offers the BEST housing and crafting of ANY game 'out there'! It offers me a choice of how I want to spend my time depending on my mood. I am a 66 year old female (retired) so I like to relax when I play. I do not do "twitch" play well any longer so a relaxing hunt or day spent decorating is my FUN. What is yours? I thought it might be interesting to read all about YOU!

01-09-2012, 12:15 PM	#2
mappam Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Central Florida Posts: 432	So nobody has reasons for liking this game?

01-09-2012, 12:49 PM	#4
Jovie Server: Guk Can't decide... Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 880	I like the variety the game gives me when i play my alt army. I have one of every class (adventure and tradeskill). Sometimes it gets a bit overwhelming though since AoD because there are too many things to do. (with the addition of tradeskill apprentices and dungeonmaker) I've also recently discovered that i hate questing and i now just like to pick a place and go there and just fight! Oh, i like the houses too. Eq2 housing is probably the best in any mmo out there.

01-09-2012, 01:07 PM	#6
Vinyard Server: Antonia Bayle Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 690	i have so many friends on ab

01-09-2012, 01:45 PM	#9
Tyrsei Historian Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Freeport Posts: 27	I like playing the many classes,dabbling with the housing here and there.The crafting and the fact I can just log in and find something fun to do,variety of choices is nice to have.

01-09-2012, 02:03 PM	#11
Enica Server: Everfrost Guild: Casual Alliance Rank: Distinguished Member Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 513	I like that there's just so much to do. I never log in and get bored. I'm not a raider, so I'm glad there's so much solo and small group content. I also like the housing, even though I can't decorate the way a lot of others do. And EQ1 was my first MMO, so I'm a fan of the world and the lore.

01-09-2012, 02:26 PM	#12
Neiloch Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Southern California Posts: 1,430	I like raiding that actually has a challenge. As much as EQ2 might get dumped on they still haven't made raiding so easy that top end raids can be done by dungeon finder and a few UI mods coughWoWcough Also I like the people in the guild I raid with. If the most I could hope for is to tolerate the people I raid with, I probably wouldn't even play this game. __________________

01-09-2012, 02:26 PM	#13
Chronus1 Loremaster Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 253	Casual raiding, friends, phat procs and the ease of choosing how hard or difficult you can make something. Having raid zones capable of being done by casual pugs and still having some that are amazingly tough is great __________________

01-09-2012, 04:58 PM	#14
Jovie Server: Guk Can't decide... Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 880	Zeedlana wrote: Yeup. I like it, just not quite as much anymore. At least with EQ I have all sorts of options for things to kill. And where I can wander and die. But no one really wanted to come here with me (hence me ending up on a PvP server all by myself through a short bout of spousal confusion... /sigh) That and I really really missed my old necro, but I've been away from EQ1 too long to want to go back and relearn everything. Yeah, for me Isengard was a complete let down. Hastilly put together, no real sense of it fitting in with the rest of the world. /sigh Oh, and i miss playing music. Loved just sitting places while the group is taking a break and playing some tunes!

01-09-2012, 05:26 PM	#15
Seidhkona Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 4,115	I love the immersion into the character I am playing first and foremost. That was what brought me into the game. Once I discovered crafting I was hooked. It's a lovely way to relax, as is harvesting. Then I found out about house decorating. THAT hooks into my 3-D arts and I have spent lots of time decorating the homes of my characters. I love that there are always more quests. I have a ton of alts, and while I usually always do the heritage quests with each, I have managed to always find new quests at low levels that I missed on prior characters, and of course new quests turn up at end game as well. I think it's FABULOUS that I can solo if I am feeling antisocial, no matter what character I am playing. I also like grouping when my friends are on. And I love raiding, because coordinating a bunch of people to kill hard stuff is a rush. When SOE was down due to the hacking not to long back, I tried scads of other games. None came close to EQ2. Some had prettier graphics, or more character customization, but nothing offered the richness and scope of EQ2. __________________

01-09-2012, 06:33 PM	#16
Lasai Loremaster Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: my own basement Posts: 1,295	I still play this, as there is always something to do that I can do solo. I live somewhat vicariously through the game, I'm a bit disabled. Still, I am feeling left behind by decisions that don't appeal to me or actually make it harder for me to play. We got totally stonewalled on simple requests for slower mounts. (as a retired professional horse trainer.. this really rankles. I would have sent these crazed runaway psychos to the first auction) I love crafting, and it is to me, appalling that the last pass of Crafted itemization was rushed, incomplete, broken, and is still not being addressed. I hate that crafting has become a questing profession over actual crafting. Really hate the "new" freeport and the concept that a series of pretty trivial quests was deemed worthy of destroying so many living options. But, I still play. Something to do, but I am incrementally losing a lot of the things that kept me coming back. __________________ Never try to teach a pig to whistle. It only frustrates you and annoys the pig.

01-10-2012, 01:40 AM	#17
Lilflier Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 139	Sadly, I no longer play. Now that its free, I log in every once in a while and wander around my home for a few minutes... but the story has left this game. I used to love my characters. I still do... but their souls are gone. I started playing not long after launch. I'd never played an MMO before. I barely grouped with anyone for the first few months. Everytime my character would die, I would delete her, and start over. I was obssesed with becoming an assassin without dying, and back then, starting on refuge isle, becoming a citizen of freeport, progressing to predator, finally graduating to assassin. It was such an engaging story. And I had a taylor. All she did was make stuff for each newborn character I would make. Around the time when Kingdom of Sky was about to come out, I was starting to get tired of the game. I was never into raiding, or even grouping really, and I had not made it to 50 before sinking sands came out. I made it to 60 the night before Kingdom of Sky was released. I can't remember the dungeon I went to the next day, but i do remember not having fun. I was in a "grinding" group and just following along... Numb. I made a character on the pvp server the next day. Having fun working up as an armorer, to prepare a character for the world. It was so much fun. Sneaking around the commonlands, Antonica, sneaking into Queynos. Now the story felt alive. This is what it was supposed to be all along. Queynos against Freeport. I could finally truly hate those self-rightous qs. I loved the story. I found a great roleplaying guild, completely by chance. I happened along two of them speaking in character in Longshadow Alley. Slowly Sony pulled all the good elements from the story. Rangers came to live in freeport, and Shadowknights moved to Queynos. Journeyman's boots quest is pointless now. Superfast Horses, flying griffons... /sigh.. I played for the Story

01-10-2012, 02:23 AM	#18
Rijacki Tester Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 7,842	I still love EQ2 because of the variety of gameplay available. __________________

01-10-2012, 02:56 AM	#19
Shawnyve Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 31	Housing. Love the Housing. Honestly though, I played the All Access (Station Access before that) so I had EQ2 for ground, and the 3D space battles in SWG. With SWG gone, I've lost a lot of what I enjoyed about MMO's. TOR is ok, tried the stress tests, my wife has an account I've played around on. Just can't get into it for some reason. Not sure what to make of all the new changes. Trying out a beastlord. Trying to get my guild up to 30 so I can get a guildhall and some amenities. Crafting has changed so many times I don't know what to make of it anymore, but it's something I do want to get my characters doing. The new dungeon maker looks promising. If they would bring over the chronicle code from SWG it could turn into something epic. And if I get bored I can hop over to EQ or Vanguard for a spin. May even pick up DC online to give that a try. One subscription, a bunch of different kinds of games. Yeah, I wish they would finish some and show a bit more love here and there, but no MMO I've played has ever been perfect. Hell, most of 'em can't hold a candle to a good MUD. __________________ Getting the Amulet of Yendor is one thing. Putting it on the right altar is another.

01-10-2012, 03:57 AM	#20
TwistedFaith Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 892	I only play now because of the guild I am in and raiding. The game has changed since I first begain playing when it was released. It used to be full of danger and everything was difficult and a geuniue challenge. These days the only challenge is from raiding, and that is dying because the itemisation is so insanely awful it's simply not worth the time. I predict pretty soon the game will merge in with the likes of LOTRO and D&D, they all seem to similar, all of them seem to have been made from a cookier cutter MMO machine. Where's the danger, challenge, the spectacle. I remember QH being packed with people running around, seeing highend raiders in amazing armor. These days it's like you are playing a single player game with a chat box. I honestly feel the days of EQ and early EQ2 style MMOs is over. People don't seem to want that style anymore, they want insant rewards. I don't want to travel, I want to click a button and be there now. I don't want to work on my character, I want to be max level now etc. It's sad really, the only hope for the EQ style of MMOs is with indie gamedevelopers.

01-10-2012, 04:25 AM	#21
Darkwing Lord Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 1	I love the housing in this game, as well as the mounts. They don't look as cartoony as the ones in a certain eyesore of an MMO that's at the top of the heap right now. Plus the variety of the races and classes make me glad I chose to play this game.

01-10-2012, 10:39 AM	#22
Griffildur Server: Antonia Bayle Guild: First Lords Rank: Peasant (0-100) Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,136	it's pretty boring atm, to be honest __________________

01-10-2012, 12:28 PM	#23
Zhadowsee Server: Antonia Bayle Guild: Keepers of Darklight Rank: Nobody Important Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 144	Decorating -- it tickles my creative side, and seeing that I am going to school for a graphics design related career, it just keeps that part of me active when I'm not studying. I love to decorate! Economics -- I play the broker game more than I level. I don't just mean trying to find new ways to make plat by tradeskilling. I enjoy watching the trends, the shift of quantities supplied and demanded. Every time there is an update to the game, I watch the fluxuations on the market. Example: when Beastlord came out, I could not keep Katars stocked. As soon as i put them up for sale, they were completely gone within 24 hours. Social Sciences -- People's behavior are drastically different than they are in the real world. Behavior fascinates me, and watching how people interact with each other is fun. I like noting the differences in how people conduct themselves in a channel versus a forum; I like studying how people Role Play and find how the imaginary persona differs from the player's online persona, and wonder how that itself is different than the personality of the person when he conducts his daily business at work or with family. A bit unorthodox, I know, and to some it may be disturbing. These are the top three reasons why I play. Oh yes...and I really enjoy Scout classes. Those are fun too.

01-10-2012, 12:57 PM	#24
Cakeny Lord Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 94	Because I can't afford to play EQ1.

01-10-2012, 01:00 PM	#25
Valonia Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 117	Tigers! There might be other reason, but I'm quite sure I would've left for longer periods if there had been no Tiger forms/illusions for druids/monks! Now if only SoE would reverse the change to the model that came with AoD. The added fur around the nack/cheeks might be neat in theory, but ingame they really look like glued and rather rigid scraps of paper -> Not Tigress approved! BOO! Wantz old, cuddly model back!

01-10-2012, 01:04 PM	#26
Eliohia Guardian Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: texas Posts: 59	Lasai wrote: I live somewhat vicariously through the game, I'm a bit disabled. This is also one of my reasons for playing. I started in january of 1999 with eq1 and have played off and on ever since then (wow 13yrs!!!) I love decorating (wanted to do it in rl just never got to) so i can do just about anything in game again living vicariously lol. I love the social interaction as alot of times i dont go anywhere all day long and so I can talk and fight and goof around with people on the game and have fun. (yes i love to fuss with the trolls they are fun lol) __________________ Co-Leader in Guild Divinity Happy hunting!!

01-10-2012, 01:13 PM	#27
Crillus Server: Antonia Bayle Guild: Ashen Dawn Rank: Spark Loremaster Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 150	Sigrdrifa@Lucan DLere wrote: I love the immersion into the character I am playing first and foremost. That was what brought me into the game. Once I discovered crafting I was hooked. It's a lovely way to relax, as is harvesting. Then I found out about house decorating. THAT hooks into my 3-D arts and I have spent lots of time decorating the homes of my characters. I love that there are always more quests. I have a ton of alts, and while I usually always do the heritage quests with each, I have managed to always find new quests at low levels that I missed on prior characters, and of course new quests turn up at end game as well. I think it's FABULOUS that I can solo if I am feeling antisocial, no matter what character I am playing. I also like grouping when my friends are on. And I love raiding, because coordinating a bunch of people to kill hard stuff is a rush. When SOE was down due to the hacking not to long back, I tried scads of other games. None came close to EQ2. Some had prettier graphics, or more character customization, but nothing offered the richness and scope of EQ2. Indeed, that's well said. Most other games are FAR too Linear for me too. Many of the other games make you feel like you are on a train track, jumping from station to station without any real choice in the matter. With EQ both 1 and 2, I've always felt pretty free to just do whatever I want. RP, Decorating, and such add even more to that.

01-10-2012, 01:17 PM	#28
Gorpier Loremaster Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: USA Posts: 320	There are a lot of reasons and ways I like to play. I like this one because the story is huge, but I'm not forced to always eat, sleap, and play that story line. If I decide my assassin needs a drink in a pub, I can head into any of AB's rp tavern nights and weave a completely new story or participate in an ongoing one. I love that if I don't want to RP, I can just hang out and chat with like-minded folks and enjoy our wonderful community, or I can head out into the 'wilderness' and slay bad guys/good guys depending on the character, or I can dungeon/raid hop, quest, craft... In conclusion, I like that I don't have to be limited to one single thing, or a handfull of small things. I can go out into the world and enjoy everything I choose to enjoy and its ok. __________________

01-10-2012, 02:14 PM	#29
thephantomposter Loremaster Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 573	It has a lot of what other games have, questing and such but what I like that brings back from ie: Skyrim or Rift is The amount of Quests and areas The Broker System The housing My Guild/ the Community fighting mechanics I do like some of the station cash items BUT I really really wished that stuff went to tradeskillers.

01-10-2012, 02:36 PM	#30
Crillus Server: Antonia Bayle Guild: Ashen Dawn Rank: Spark Loremaster Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 150	Lilflier wrote: Sadly, I no longer play. Now that its free, I log in every once in a while and wander around my home for a few minutes... but the story has left this game. I used to love my characters. I still do... but their souls are gone. I started playing not long after launch. I'd never played an MMO before. I barely grouped with anyone for the first few months. Everytime my character would die, I would delete her, and start over. I was obssesed with becoming an assassin without dying, and back then, starting on refuge isle, becoming a citizen of freeport, progressing to predator, finally graduating to assassin. It was such an engaging story. And I had a taylor. All she did was make stuff for each newborn character I would make. Around the time when Kingdom of Sky was about to come out, I was starting to get tired of the game. I was never into raiding, or even grouping really, and I had not made it to 50 before sinking sands came out. I made it to 60 the night before Kingdom of Sky was released. I can't remember the dungeon I went to the next day, but i do remember not having fun. I was in a "grinding" group and just following along... Numb. I made a character on the pvp server the next day. Having fun working up as an armorer, to prepare a character for the world. It was so much fun. Sneaking around the commonlands, Antonica, sneaking into Queynos. Now the story felt alive. This is what it was supposed to be all along. Queynos against Freeport. I could finally truly hate those self-rightous qs. I loved the story. I found a great roleplaying guild, completely by chance. I happened along two of them speaking in character in Longshadow Alley. Slowly Sony pulled all the good elements from the story. Rangers came to live in freeport, and Shadowknights moved to Queynos. Journeyman's boots quest is pointless now. Superfast Horses, flying griffons... /sigh.. I played for the Story So you should play on AB - the amount of RP there is staggering. Doesn't matter that Sony's story can be weak, that gap is made up for and then some by the RP community on AB.