Everquest I and II Slated For Expansions

GinoMGG writes "Talk about a quick release. Hot on the tail of Desert of Flames SOE is acting fast to give those at the 60 cap something to do. WhoDigs has news from Ubisoft Germany on the Everquest 2 expansion, 'Kingdom of Sky'." Gamespot has word on both the EQLive and EQ2 expansions, while Mobhunter has a closer look at Everquest's 11th expansion - The Prophecy of Ro. From the Gamespot article: "The second expansion for EQII, Kingdom of Sky, will add an all-new structured skill and ability achievement system and will raise the level cap for adventurer and artisans to level 70 and guilds to level 50. It will add 10 new zones, 25 new monsters, and 'troves' of new items. Its plot will concern the Overrealm, a new realm of floating islands suspended at high altitudes, as well as a plot by ancient foes of Norrath to wreak havoc."

FP?

[Saiyine]

Never having played Everquest, I had a look at the wikipedia entry [wikipedia.org] and looks cool... and has TEN expansions to date not counting this one!

Talk about sequels... at least it doesn't have a prequel, does it?.

Re:FP?

[Corbu Mulak]

It was cool...7 years ago. Now it is dated and boring, and the expansion is a horrid piece of crap. I should know, because I played it all of 2 days. Therefore, I am acutely aware of all the inner workings of the game. By magic. Magically. In all seriousness, pick up WoW or EVE or a hammer and smash your face in before going to EQ one or two.

I'm not made of money!

[Dachannien]

Everquest's 11th expansion

And this is why I don't play EQ anymore.

Re:I'm not made of money!

[Dachannien]

And the irony is that I was the one here who got modded troll.

Anyway, there are two issues with the expansions. One is that there are so many of them that it costs too much over and above the subscription cost to continue buying the expansions. And two is that buying the expansions is pretty much required if you want to play the game at all, because of the rampant equipment inflation that occurs with each release - that is, if you want to continue upgrading your gear, you have to look toward the next expa

Re:I'm not made of money!

[chrish]

Similarly, Cryptic's excellent City of Heroes [cityofheroes.com] hasn't had a single expansion (unless you're one of those folks who consider City of Villains [cityofvillains.com] to be an expansion) since release, although it has had six major updates released for free. New power sets, new archetypes (like classes in most regular MMOGs), new zones, new graphics, etc.

Re:you left off something very important!

[LeeItson]

It will....but this has not been stated as coming out with the expansion.

An expansion for EQ? Unreal!

[garylian]

Honestly, I am flabbergasted that they would do this. The server population is so low, that most servers have been combined with others at least twice, if not more often.

A friend of mine recently took Sony up on their offer for a free 21 day trial to an All Station Pass, and updated and logged into EQ. A virtual ghost town was what greeting him. Even the bazaar was mostly empty. And yet Sony put development resources into an expansion.

As for EQ2, an expansion for that is not a surprise, but PvP is. It

Re:An expansion for EQ? Unreal!

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

I missed the PvP part. I didn't play EQ2 for long, but one of the saving graces that I felt it had was that there didnt' seem to be a danger of them falling into the "nerf everyone so that PvP will be 'ballanced'" trap.

Glad I didn't re-subscribe during the last couple months when I've been bored with WoW...

Re:An expansion for EQ? Unreal!

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

the first sentence should read "I missed the part of the story mentioning the addition of PvP to EQ2".

I post too quickly.

BTW, why does waiting between postings "allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment."? It's not like Joe Bob can't post when I do because I'm hogging the pencil.

Why not have the message just say "We don't want people posting with automated scripts and flooding the thread" and be clear about it?

Re:An expansion for EQ? Unreal!

[Breakfast Pants]

Why don't you just get an automated script to queue your posts, that's what the rest of us do.

Re:An expansion for EQ? Unreal!

[Bobsledboy]

Care to elaborate? :)

Re:An expansion for EQ? Unreal!

[JDAustin]

Honestly, I am flabbergasted that they would do this. The server population is so low, that most servers have been combined with others at least twice, if not more often.

This is not true. Back in May 2005, servers were merged on a 2 to 1 basis, the excpetion being the PvP servers which went from 4 to 1. And thats all the mergers that have happened.

Re:To be fair

[Taulin]

Curious. Expansions in EQ1/2 is starting to mean more vastness that will not be filled. Meanwhile, WoW is getting an expansion, and people are confused. Now...when D&DO comes out, expansions 'should' have a different meaning since D&D type P&P games live on from expansions. I am curious what fealing will be different. I think the mindset toward D&DO is different than other MMOs simply because of its heritage. After finally stopping my WoW habit, I am interested in trying out EQ2 or D

Re:To be fair

[sgant]

Again, to be fair, this will be Blizzards first expansion to WoW and will offer many new things to many people....new and old....to the game.

I should warn you about EQ2 and D&DO. If you like seeing a loading screen every time you go into a new zone, then you may love these two games. D&DO is the worse though. I recently played the beta and a huge amount of the time was taken up just watching a loading screen. I mean, you hit a loading screen just entering a tavern!

I think Blizzard has been great tho

Re:To be fair

[will_die]

I kind of think DDO will be kind of like EQ2 with the way it handles additional content.
EQ2 has 3 types the free stuff which tends to come out monthly, adventure packs which so far have cost $5-$7 and are self contained dungeons and story lines. Then you have expansion packs which are huge and have many story lines in addition to new levels. All 3 are done by seperate groups so if adventure packs do not profit then no additional ones will be added, same with expansion packs.

As for zoning it is not bad,

*spit take*

[Guppy06]

"Everquest's 11th expansion"

That's obviously more than one a year. Why not, instead of monthly subscriptions, simply roll a yearly subscription into the price of all these frequent expansions?

Seriously, is anybody still playing EQ without any expansions?

Re:*spit take*

[stanmann]

Well since Platinum/Titanium are $19US, why wouldn't you own most expansions?

Ee Cue Two

[ClamIAm]

So..anybody play? I thought it might be cool, but the "trial of the isle" demo was a ghetto noob-land and wasn't really fun at all.

Outlands

[endx7]

From the summary:

Its plot will concern the Overrealm, a new realm of floating islands suspended at high altitudes, as well as a plot by ancient foes of Norrath to wreak havoc.

That sounds an awfully lot like the WoW expansion, except it's Outlands, and it's a plot by the burning legion to destroy everything.

Re:Outlands

[slashrogue]

It's a game expansion. They're all basically the same. New land with new enemies that want to blow up the world. Big friggin' deal.

ok guys

[groovy_daemon]

First off, companies are out to make money, not give away new content that cost them to make. Welcome to the real world of capitalism. Second off, I play eq2 and welcome any new content. Although I don't have a lvl 50 character yet, I was assume that if you get bored with your maxed out lvl character, start a new character. That's the reason you are given more than one character slot. This game, is far beyond WoW, especially graphically. I played WoW for a few weeks, and found it to be really really boring.

/gu

[Why's_This_Fish_So_B]

Woody of gucomics.com has some bright things to say about the EQ1 expansion, namely that once again the whole nature of the game is being changed. (EQ1 will now feature "Spheres of Influence" within which game rules will change).

As such, as with some recent EQ1 expansions, this isn't really an optional expansion but required if one wishes to participate with others.

I don't mind when MMOGs expand, but theoretically an expansion is something you ought to want when you've finished up with what you've already