Everquest. wtfz

[Masta M!ku]

ok i've heard all sorts of stuff about this goddamn game. wtf is it? i heard all sorts of bizzare stuff about it and i wanna know what's so cool about it in an opinion of someone who plays it.

[Odm]

Originally posted by Masta M!ku
ok i've heard all sorts of stuff about this goddamn game. wtf is it? i heard all sorts of bizzare stuff about it and i wanna know what's so cool about it in an opinion of someone who plays it. It's a MMORPG, a massively multiplayer online role playing game. Basically, you pay money every month, go into this land, and meet other people.

[Masta M!ku]

you have to pay ?


screw it lol

[RADiator]

Originally posted by Masta M!ku
you have to pay ? Well what did you expect. You have to pay in every MMORPG.

[Odm]

Originally posted by RADiator
Well what did you expect. You have to pay in every MMORPG. It would be nice if you didn't, but they would have to host your character for an indefinite amount of time... and they have to pay for the server. Is Planetside an MMOFPS?

[RADiator]

Originally posted by Odm
Is Planetside an MMOFPS? I think so.

[Yian]

I can't believe that there are people who don't know what EverQuest is... It has been there since forever...

[RADiator]

Originally posted by Yian
I can't believe that there are people who don't know what EverQuest is... It has been there since forever... Hehehe the world is big Yian:)

[future man]

Planetside is MMOFPS, it is probably the best game i have ever played in my friggin life too.

[sushi128]

u see, in my experience with MMORPGs, i was compelled to play A LOT, partly because of fun, but also because i wanted to get my money's worth. no sir, i won't be gettin planetside when it's out; my eyes would look shot every morning (actually, afternoon, cause i'd be playin til 7 AM then sleeping til 1PM).

[Yian]

It is really impossible to run a MMORPG without players' monthly payment. They have to make sure the server runs well, no one cheats (they try to prevent as much as they could...), handle people's issues.... It's feel just like a crew of people be the dungeon master but has thousands of people in a game, and runs tons of different maps at the same time.... all these take a lot of money to do, so if a game has no enough people playing, that MMORPG will just have to die...

But, then again, how does Blizzard manage to get their servers run for free...?? Are there really so many people buying brand new copies of their games everyday??? Well, maybe they are losing money, that's why they came up with the idea of World of Warcraft...

Age of Empires II doesn't need to pay, too. But it is Microsoft, you see... they could probably give every Windows user a free copy of that game and still makes money. MS has so much money to burn they still hasn't give up XBox yet, and thank god it is getting better and better on its sale everyday, because a normal console developer would have died long ago...

[RAY16]

EverCrack sucks.

[sushi128]

battle.net isn't a host. it acts as a portal (gateway?) for people to host on their own. when u connect to a game through battle net, you connect to another person's computer, but you're routed through battle.net. call it an index.

so it doesn't really cost all that much to run a giant hub, does it?

[Yian]

oh.... just like CS...

[sushi128]

wait....have you not PLAYED on battle.net before? or have u just forgotten the technicality. i'd be ashamed as a gamer if battle.net wasn't a large part of my life at one point....

[aphremen]

Wow future man, what happened to your love affair with HL2?

Yian:the advantage over CS is that on CS it takes approx. one year to list all the servers, whereas with battle.net you click play, and it lets you play in less than 30 seconds. The bad thing about battle.net is that there aren't any cute pictures of penguins next to people who have linux machines.

[future man]

Im still in love with HL2, but im having an affair with planetside.....shhhhh

[Yian]

Originally posted by sushi128
wait....have you not PLAYED on battle.net before? or have u just forgotten the technicality. i'd be ashamed as a gamer if battle.net wasn't a large part of my life at one point....
been there a lot for StarCraft, but I always thought those are games hosting on Blizzard's servers, never knew they were from individual servers out side...