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Sony Slow To Reveal Mac EverQuest Code Freeze?

Posted by simoniker on from the several-months-later dept.

mpk writes "It seems Sony Online Entertainment has finally officially admitted (albeit only by an mail response to a user query which got posted into a web forum) that the Macintosh EverQuest server is to receive no further bug-fixing or development support, although the game is still available and playable online. The kicker is that this has actually been the case for eight months, following the Mac version's release in June 2003, yet SOE chose not to tell their customers about it. Inside Mac Games also has the story, and I've posted my thoughts as well. There's no mention of this policy on the EQ Mac home page and the game still appears to be being sold in the shops."

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  1. Re:Open Source MMO by Zero_Dogg · · Score: 5, Informative

    PlaneShift is a pretty nice open source MMORPG, it's still in development and I don't really know about the current userbase though. Check http://www.planeshift.it

    Eternal-Lands is also looking good and should be farily playable http://www.eternal-lands.com
    I don't really know about the current userbase but I'm about to try it again :)

    Also there is Arkanae https://arkanae.dev.java.net/- I don't really know anything about that one though.
    Then you have WorldForge which I really haven't had any luck with, and I don't really think it is in a playable state anyway (http://www.worldforge.org).
    In addition to those you have http://www.genecys.org/ - don't really know much about that one either.
    So theres a few going on :)

  2. Re:Cross platform compatibility by richcoder · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, that is personal prefernece. I'll take a keyboard and mouse over a console controller any day for the types of games I play. Namely, first person shooters. Also, most games look better on the PC.

  3. Re:Overreaction? I think so by raintype17 · · Score: 5, Informative
    The problem is that there are pre-existing minor bugs that make substantial portions of the game inaccessible.

    In particular, the final everquest expansion that was included in the game ("Planes of Power"), has only 5 of the 14 or so areas usable, although 2 of the 5 are non-fighting "travel" zones, and about 90% of the time working through the expansion is spent in the 9 areas we don't have access to -- so we payed for an expansion that is largely unusable.

    We're not talking "active development" meaning new expansions. We're talking being able to play context that exists (GM's have taken people there, so it does exist, you just cannot zone into it) that was advertised on the package.

    I don't think that's an overreaction to expect to be able to use the entire purchased product.

    In addition, up until the mentioned email was received from the Executive Director of CS, the Service Reps who were responding to questions on Sony's forum were stating that a patch was under development -- which is clearly not the case.