The original everquest, known as EQlive is the most profitable MMO in history. By maintaining a constant user base of 400,000 subscribers for a number of years, it remained the benchmark by which other MMORPGS were judged. Everquest 2 takes what many loved about EQlive, namely the world's stories, lore and history, treasure-hunting feel, great music, and gives it a casual-player friendly gameplay overhall. The result is a game that is fun to play for 5 hours a week, 50 hours a week. Some features, such as automatic corpse recovery after 3 real life days reward those who don't plan on playing everyday and want to log out after they die. EQlive on the other hand, forced you to stay in game after you died to recover your corpse, however many hours it took. Voices add a LOT to this game. Their intention is for every non-player character to have voice-acted dialog. A few hours into the game, you will run itno your first NPC still missing voice-over, but such NPCs are few and far between. It makes the story and quests much more interesting when they are voice acted. And really, just easier to get through when you don't have to read. EQ2 is more quest driven than the first. As quests give loot (treasure), xp, and often money. There are lots of quests to do. many of them include killing things which gives you additional xp and loot. EQ2 has a much larger team behind it than star wars galaxies did. When there is an issue, there are multiple programmers at their disposal they can get working on it fast. Combat itself is just plain fun. There are lots of satisfying BOOM and BAM type sounds for when you hit stuff. It just gives you a satisfying crunch to whack and nuke your enemies. But what are the limitations? There is and will not be player-versus-player in any form. The game is for mid-range systems and better. Think of a 2.0 ghz system with 512 megs of ram and a 150 dollar graphics card as the minimum to play this game enjoyably. crafting, although more fun than any crafting in any MMO I've played, is unfinished. All the voice over for crafting missions is missing, and during beta, me and other testers were unable to test the highest levels of crafting. There were just aspects of crafting that were missing up until the end of beta. Areas that are non-instanced and very crowded, such as the cities right now, are often laggy.
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