"how many of us realy can pay for this "new" and "better" server?"

Most adults could easily pay that. $40 a month is nothing. Hell, my cable and cable-modem bill is three times that, and just about all I use the cable modem _for_ is EQ. =)

I might not consider it if I'd been playing for a while, but I took most of last year off from EQ and haven't made many friends yet on my new server. So, hey, sign me up -- it's worth it for the maps alone, IMO.

Verant, you ****.. increase payment monthly 3 folds and personally im here to play the goddamn game not to let people see my equipment online for ********* i can let someone inspect me in game if they wish.. /em maybe ill charge them to do that .. /shout HEY! you just inspected me, send me a check to 92374 walker st carolina.. nm anyways No this idea is crap woot! PAY 40 BUCKS A MONTH TO HAVE A QUEST NAMED AFTER ME????!!!!!!>???? i THIHNK NOT, LOL 40 BUCKS A MONTH TO HAVE MY CHAR'S GEAR UPDATED SO YOU GUYS CAN LOOK AT MY GEAR?!!? NO THANKS.. ***** THIS IDEA AND ***** vERANT FOR WAVEING A STICK IN ALL OUR FACES (A 1000FT POLE) AND DAREING US ALL TO SIT ON IT SO THE CAN GET THEIR JOLLIES OFF... DONT DO IT DONT PROMOTE THIS CRAP!!!!!!!!!

Man all the negative waves here.

I assure you I am not always a fan of Vi's customer service which is an oxymoron in my expierience. But, on the other hand, as an older player who enjoys playing insted of profiting, EQ's proposal does hold some attraction to me.

At first I thought this was an obsene increase for little gain in playability, but then I asked myself, "Would these additions make a game which, lets face it, I play habitulally already better? (no matter how frustrated I am with their unresponsive and insulting in game assistance.) The answer was an easy yes. The next question was could I afford it, and since I stopping collecting an allowance about 30 years ago, the answer was yes again.

I would love to participate in dynamic quests, react to threats to my main's ancestral home in Felwithe, and join a guild of people who publish a little more information about their play style then "Bonecrusher Bloodrinker 49th level warrior."

Is this worth $30 a month to me... I'm thinkin... yes. Am I stupid? Probably. Am I always happy with Vi? Nope.

But I do take exception with some of the arguments. Let's see, profitability... Is it wrong for a company to make a profit? Is it better or worse that Sony is making a killing here? If they saw the bottom line coming up would they abadndon us and sell this off in a hurry? Wishing that a company spends more money on customer service or that they give you more for the same price is like waiting for Russia to have a balanced economy... Nice thing to hope for, but not exactly the nature of things.

As maddening as the in game help is, I've found it universally rude, obnoxious and unresponsive... a level playing field that most people give up on trying to fool. That keeps the items and expieriance rewards from running away, and although farming is a major downside to EQ, at least they really have to kill the mobs with the occasional death from "Crap he broke mez!"

Hope I didn't torque off those who wanted this entire thread to be negative waves... Probably won't see you guys on the legends server.

I think that a couple of the things they are offering would be great to have. It's unfortunate that they feel this service is so costly. as if they aren't making enough money from the origional EQ already. The idea should have been to offer this service to ALL players for free. I've paid my dues Origional EQ $30 Kunark $20 Velius $20 Luclin $30 not to mention the 10 bucks a month I have been dumping into the membership and the $400 in computer upgrades just to run the thing. All of us have payed our dues and should not have to quadrouple our payments just to get the service we deserved in the first place.
Dont get me wrong, I've been playing since Beta and I will always love the game, but VIA is just getting greedy.

I'm really disappointed that they are going this way. It would have been much better for them to increase the price of the service ($15 max) and give us all this stuff that should have been in the original game in the first place. Most of these improvements are just fluff anyway. But I'm concerned that there are now two levels of EQ. I'm not sure where this is headed but I don't like it. Is it possible that before long if you have a problem you might hear something like, "Well, if you had EQ Legends, we could help you. But unforuntately, you are on one of the OLD (cheap) servers, so their isn't anything we can do."

This is a major change to EQ and I hope they have really thought about what it will mean long-term to the entire player base to do this.

I don't know if I will consider moving or not. I will wait and see. But I really wish I didn't have to make the choice. To those of you considering doing this: Are the things they are describing above really going to increase your enjoyment of EQ?

sorry about the double everyone. LAG STORM!

Wow.. Ver, i swear you never cease to amaze me. I know that you are a company and looking to make a profit, but hello? have you looked on the web lately? You want Zone maps? O-Look there is allaks with you map and a priter to hardcopy it. o wait, and you can write spawns on that... You want dynamic quests?? how about this, Ghoul bane is up, Ghoul bane is down.. Gotta get the pices and wait till they fix it, and time it so you get in while its working!! thats dynamic enough!!! And a webpage on charactors?? ok i have a webpage, it has my friends who raid with me, and thats all i need for a web page. Come on people when you are LFG do you shout 49 pally with shield x, sword x str x and sta x? NO i do not think so. You shout 49 pally LFG. And lets not forget more GMs who you will propably cripple with stupid rules that you cripple them with now. (BTW most guides do want to help, however they are so limited by rules they are not allowed to, or so overworked they just do not care anymore.) So tell me again Veriant, what are you offering for $40 a month?

I think the whole thing is a bad idea...it sounds the the developers got tired of fixing the old problems,so they decided to create a bunch of new ones.I like playing EQ,but i would never pay for the game to be enhanced.it should make people WANT to play,not make them question...why the hell am i playing this.I have played for 2 yrs,i wanted to get a player high enough to go anywhere,I finally have a 56 pally,but i find that even at my level,some of the easy quests arent easy becouse you have to kill the same mob for hours to make a named one pop,then maybe it drops the item...i wonder how much more DYNAMIC that can be.They should make the game more fun to play,rather than keep making more of the same mistakes...just my 2cp...

/em folds.

Well, in this card game called EQ the stakes have become too high for me. I guess that must be the price that there cost analysts gave them to maximize their profit from the 8000 or so people who would be willing/able to pay that much, but as for me I'd have to say they'd make a much better profit over time at half that much b/c what I see happening is 8000 people signing up for a month with only 20 percent or so staying on for the second month. Forty dollars a month is a rather prohibitive cost for computer entertainment. Sure, you could equate it with the price of your cable bill and rightfully so b/c both are NEEDLESS entertainment, and both cost about the same. But just because the cable company overcharges for dumbing down the people all over the world (that's why they call it the 'idiot box') that doesn't mean that Verant should do the same. Two wrongs doesn't make a right.
Maybe they are telling the truth, maybe it will only be profitable to them to add all of this stuff at 40 dollars a month. If that truly is the case, then my answer is don't do it. EQ was just fine before these additions, for my taste anyway. If they do add it, I truly doubt that they are gonna go out of business if they run it for 20 dollars a month, and more people would be willing to pay that much. But at 40 dollars a month, they had better come up with more than that crappy list of improvements above. If I paid 40 bucks a month I'd at least want to be able to lvl 4 times as fast. =)
Well, I didn't mean for any of this to come off as griping, or possible even jealousy of the people that can/will pay 40 dollars a month, but I just wanted people to think about what they are subjecting themselves to. Next thing you know they will be making people pay more for the regular content. People who still pay 10 dollars a month will probably be moved to a server where you can't fight dragons or go to the planes b/c "Verant really couldn't afford to offer that content at 10 dollars a month anymore." If my argument seems unfair maybe it is. But then again, maybe it isn't. Maybe it isn't unfair at all.
/ponder

40$ for some new items, dynamic quests and features that should have been already included in regular game ?

Err no thank VI
Try to release some unbugged products instead .

Wait a second, so you pay an extra $30 or whatever a month? Or you replace your old fee with this new one and pay only the new fee? what if you have charachters on multiple servers, do they remain? Also ive never transfered a charachter to a diff server, does the equipment stay or go?

Shriaxit


Blue servers suck