by Normy » Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:14 pm
The other issue is, I can't really advertise for EQ. I enjoy it, but its more of a hard core game. You want that phat uber loot, you might have to sit there for a few days working for it. You want the highest level in the game, you have to make the grind all the way up, where its never really easy unless you can be twinked out by someone with money. You want to raid, try organizing 53 other people into one common goal, get everyone online at the same time, and figure out the event. You want to sell stuff you've earned, you have to sit online for days competeing against others looking to sell the same exact thing, but have alot more time than you.
Then there is WoW. You want lvl 60? Sign up and play a few days and you'll have it, sign up a friend and they can donate you levels entirely, making it twice as fast. You want to raid, fine, you need 24 others. What I laugh at is my friends try telling me how hard it is to fill a raid of 25 and keep everyone organized. Oh, and gold is hard to come by, I mean, you have to grind for like several hours to pick up some decent cash. You want to sell, then drop your stuff off at an auction house and check back in a few days to see if you have money waiting for you.
Most want the easy route, even if they don't admit thats why they want it.
I love my game, and once it closes I'm not likely to jump into WoW or some of the other things on the market right now, but I get the impression that EQ isn't working hard to make itself the empire it once was, or to draw more people back. They would have to really truncate the lower levels in the very least, maybe offer an introductory price for new accounts the first year, something like that. But I don't see it as likely.