EQOA @ E3Follow

E3 started today and I have been hearing that SOE was gonna have EQOA there. Was anyone there and get to see what EQOA will have next or hear anything?

what is E3?

I think there is something new, nice that is going to happen for eqoa! :)

nothing new was released for EQOA... but EQ2 is getting not 1, but 2 expansions by the end of this year..

http://www.e3insider.com/images/?type=screenpax&articleID=49PRMUM90B

it kinda gets me pissed off that the PC guys get all this content and we are stuck with (what seems to be) a few guys working weekends on updates...

Why not switch to EQ for the PC?
Well, I did try a new demo I got for the PC before, and I just couldn't find myself using a keyboard to control my character..
And for the fact that I got over 3 years devoted into EQOA, it just dont seem to make sense to switch to another game.

I mean come on guys.. excuse my language... but this is ********* We are playing a 3 year old game.. its time for a damn update.

It doesnt even take long to think about what we need... Give us an expansion for the PS3.. make it like 3 times bigger than our world now.. Make it for PS3/PC.. The game will thrive, not just survive if we got PC player included. And of course let all of us "loyal" and "faithful" frontiers players move our characters over to it.. it is an expansion.. whats it going to hurt if less than 10,000 players get a little head start in a MMORG that will have well over 100,000 of players.. millions after a few years if its really good.

These are the numbers of players we will actually have in our game if PC players get involved with us.. not just a few thousand total that still play this game.

Well the only thing I can say now for an expansion for EQOA: Better luck next year.. if we're still here..

Edited, Sat May 13 12:46:44 2006 by DamianTC

That does make alot of sense... alot of the supposed changes (level cap and cm cap raised and new zone) are all things that will be added to the preexisting disk. I think that alot of the new changes; class balancing, wh qsts,60 epics and a new zone (i hope) are a way to keep us from leaving until they get around to a new game. If I remember correctly it took some time for the first EQ to come to ps. Id expect it to be that long before the we see a new EQ for PS3.

I can't remember where, but I read somewhere (I think on Gamespot.com) that the potential market for console gameing is WAY higher than the potential market for PC gameing. As in, if WoW to be on the PS2 it would have a way bigger market of potential customers than any PC MMO. It's just that SOE sucks, and doesn't know what they are doing. They had a GREAT MMO on the PS2 with serious potential for possibly haveing one million active players (or more!), but they just didn't handle it right. It's not that the PC MMO's have potentially more customers, it's that they do have more customers, and they pay more; they are a reliable fan base, that SOE knows how to suck the money out of.

PC's still have the most potential. People with pc's are more likley to have an ISP, I know a lot of people who had ps2's and no ISP. Yes I know people with pc's and no ISP, but the number is much smaller.

I was disappointed not to hear any news on EQOA at E3 either, but hey like mentioned above at least they are still working on it. If it was a dead horse it never would of been worked on in the first place.

Gaming is better on PC vs Console, but give me the ease of use and a level playing ground of the console any day.
Also for the Game to succeed they would need to do what FFXI did. Which is multiplatform launch. That is the only way for a game to truly succeed well beyond its years. I'm not knocking EQOA because I'm back and playing it but the fact is that sony will have to wait until the PS3 that includes the HDD in order to launch on there and most likely do the same as FFXI did which is make it available for all systems. Just my thoughts on it. As in transferring toons, I don't think that ever really would happen. Most likely they would relaunch and make a brand new EQOA2 for the PS3 and Xbox360 or just call it EQ2 or EQ3.

Just my thoughts on it. Of course this all based off my own opinions and most of this is not factual.

Thanks for the news Alla, glad to hear we havent been forgotten.

At least now you can get the game and cards from the main site but for how long who knows.

anyone want to bring up the subject of, will eqoa transfer to the ps3. I personally think the whole thing will be scrapped for the new system. With the competition on the ps3 for mmo's I think they will have to go above and beyond and could do just that.

How about an indestructable Blue ray disk, no load times and a slight improvements in graphics maybe?

the blue ray is going to be scratchless and my psp would have to be their best shot at launch hardware. Don't even start how perfect the x-box is CAUSE IT AIN"T,