First off, I agree that seeing twinks running around all over the place probably does ruin a newbies game. But well to tell you the truth Ive been playing since EQ1's first debue and ive found it increasingly harder and harder to entertain my self with this game. Quests are usually filled with major **** time consuming camps that in the end give you a crap item at the lvl you can solo the quest, when u could just go get a mob drop item that does nearly the same exact thing!
Quests are usually at least in my eyes unrewarding to the player and with the exception of some velious quests, give obsolete items. This waists time you could be having fun in RL.
The game itself does not reward your time and effort with lvling. Instead of being able to toss a green con creature aside when you first character hits lvl 50+, you get your **** almost kicked if your unprepaired and the creature just turned green. It takes armys of 30+ all in their high 40's to low 50's to do a vox raid, and even then she may still wipe everyone out. When in old storys it only takes a hand full of heroes to slay the mighty dragons of old.
It seems to me that the higher lvl you are, the more ease mobs have trashing you. Kinda makes you wonder, why am i working so hard just to get my **** kicked? This is the real reason i beleave people creat Twinks, Not because they are bored with the game, but because they want to feel all mighty and be god like ( wich they should for the ammount of time and money they put into this game )
Tourneys on Eq are a joke as well, There is no skill involved at all, and almost always at least on my server a tank will always win. ( this is because the GM's will limmit the spells a caster can cast )
All in all Eq1 is addictive, and fun for the first couple years. Unfortunatly i beleave EQ2 is not going to fair as well. If players cant twink they will get bored verry quickly of having to start from scratch every time they make a new character. To solve twinking i would have just made seperate Nontwink servers where these rules skill rules applie. This would make the newbies and roleplayers happy and the power starved player base all happy.
These are just my thoughts and i relize some of you may not agree with me, but that is your oppinion and it is your wright
Rumors Swirl on EQ2
In the recent EQ newsletter, Sony put in a puzzle that led to two websites: www.nektulos.com and www.wailingcaves.com. (Congratulations to the gang at the safehouse for solving the riddle). Each site brings up an image and the Nektulos one mentions an announcement coming up in May. May is of course when E3 is held. This is the biggest gaming convention of the year, and game companies typically try to save their biggest announcements for the large group of press that comes to E3 each year.
So what is Sony going to announce in May? It may be something like a single player game based upon Everquest, or the release of some new zones. However, do not be surprised if it is the launch of Everquest 2. I don't have any positive information on this and am really just speculating, but since they already announced the PS2 version of the game and the Planes of Power expansion, it seems logical that this is not related to either of them. Why make a teaser for something everyone already knows about? And they have never put this type of effort into announcing free content for the game. EQ2, however, would be a huge announcement. In addition, I have been told that the latest version of PC Gamer mentions EQ2 (I have not read it -- I'll try to track down a copy). Plus, Sony has had www.everquest2.com registered for quite a while. So the announcement Sony plans to make in May could well be that they are making EQ2. Or they could just be announcing another expansion or something related to the PS2 version of the game or even something completely unrelated to Everquest. We will be in Los Angeles for E3, so as soon as we find out more, we'll let you know.
In the meantime, some of our visitors managed to piece together the murky pictures you see in the two sites.
Wailing Caves Full Image
Nektulos Full Image
Feel free to throw in your own thoughts about what this means.
UPDATE (Again): Link already dead.