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Everquest Reducing Server Capacity To Combat Performance issues
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Everquest Reducing Server Capacity To Combat Performance issues
In an update on their forums, the EverQuest team has announced some changes coming to the Aradune server.
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I knew it!
Expect que ues in a game with a very low pop,say what.
Reduce capacity is suppose to reduce degraded performance?Nothing here makes any sense at all.Yes because the game population that is nearly dead was causing the issues ...sigh.
I saw errors in the game that lasted 5+ years,SOE,whomever was in charge ,the producer idk who but somebody gonna get a hurt ,real bad,i think you know him.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Sadly i get the feeling the real issue might have been that EQ2 had a more harsh death penalty than sy Wow,so all the kiddies ran to the EASIER game.We actually lost our gear when died,lost xp had to make corpse runs,often no way to get back to our corpse.
I remember a steady stream of anger whenever a group died,players sad emo's,like dying in a video game is important in life.Oh well bad player base,bad coding,bad design decisions all equal to one thing.....Trump wins the election.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Trust me, they are doing quite well, obviously not shooting above their station, but they are doing well enough. They still pop out expansions on pretty much a yearly basis and every single TLP server has been PACKED. It is not just Aradun. The server / performance issues are actually game wide problems atm because they have been migrating servers to a new host recently due to their transition to a new studio. One thing to remember about EQ is that it peaked at about 300k. It is likely still around that at this point in terms of active players. 300k is pocket change compared to modern MMOs, but it doesn't matter since the game was not build to have as many people as modern MMOs in it.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
1 Modern Server should be able to do the work of at least 20 servers, as there is also increase in cpu speeds and memory available etc. I guess that is also me assuming is is running on a x86 platform and not something that is no longer manufactured or developed.
eq 2 had a lot flaws the deaths penalty was not what drove the majority of people away, it was the huge shift from eq one that made me and others go else were, on top of demanding graphics that look cheap and the armor that look like crap. wow just so happen to require less resources was more colorful and was new lore to explore.
also day one wow was not easy mode. it was harsh, try leveling a priest day one before wand buffs, hunters with no pets for 10 levels and a dead zone, no battle grounds and when WSG was released having to wait outside ashenvale to requeue for a match vs random questing. dungeons did require CC and you could get swarmed from adds if you did not use care. it was a lot of vast things to explore and everything was new, every zone was different with it own look. in EQ 2 everything started to look near the same with small changes in layout.
both eq 1 and 2 are still around and making new content so they still got fans an am happy for them but they did nothing to make themselves worth more then then the niche they became.
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