I would like to try Everquest 2 and LOTRO. However I really still can't decide because I'm still playing 2 other games and I dont know if I can handle it.
Heres how I played EQ2: I dont like to read quests..they bore the heck out of me....SO in EQ2 I just grab as many as I can find, start running through the nearby zone and mainly just start killing everything in sight...Often if it is a fetch quest or some other thing you can tell what to grab and I probably handled 75% of the quests this way....The game simply has way too many quests....Also I found the game to be a complete graveyard every time I ever tried it.
EQ2 is a second gen mmo from back around 2004. You can't fault them for making quest the way they did back then. Problem is mmos didn't evolve in the right direction after that, but turned into short, easy and cash shops..... So now we don't have anything.
EQ2 evolved but it was done in such a lazy direction, it's almost un-playable with it's hacked in expansions and upgrades like a bad jigsaw puzzle..... This is why it's a graveyard. Only the most nostalgic player TRYING to re-cap something that once was would TRY and stick around.
Once the nostalgic player hit the point where they would have to pay a cash shop they too would leave....... This is exactly how it works !
I actually remember doing that quest ten years ago to recover a chest from a wrecked ship in EQ2. Difficulty makes things memorable. In a modern MMO you forget the quest the moment you turn it in because you never read the quest text in the first place.
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EQ2 is a second gen mmo from back around 2004. You can't fault them for making quest the way they did back then. Problem is mmos didn't evolve in the right direction after that, but turned into short, easy and cash shops..... So now we don't have anything.
EQ2 evolved but it was done in such a lazy direction, it's almost un-playable with it's hacked in expansions and upgrades like a bad jigsaw puzzle..... This is why it's a graveyard. Only the most nostalgic player TRYING to re-cap something that once was would TRY and stick around.
Once the nostalgic player hit the point where they would have to pay a cash shop they too would leave....... This is exactly how it works !
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