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Everquest 2 vs. World of Warcraft Comparison
GinoMGG writes "My Guy Games has an interesting EverQuest II vs. World of Warcraft series that includes an interview with a level 50 EQII player and a level 60 WoW character. The series also has a side by side shootout between the two biggest MMORPG releases in November."
Well so far I think I like WOW better.
I'm in the open beta for WOW and bought EQII. At level 9 I'm already feeling like EQII is a bit of a grind. WOW just seems to flow better.
That said, I'll be playing EQ2 until WOW is released and who knows. Maybe something will change my mind.
One should not theorize before one has data. -Sherlock Holmes-
if the interviewees were capable of making coherent replies to the questions asked. I was expecting them to switch to 1337 at any moment. The WoW interview was the more painful, a sentence would contradict the one before and after it.
This is not a flame or troll, RTFA. There's valuable information in the interviews but these gamers lack the ability to express themselves and transmit the information...
I've been in since April, and I can't think of anything the rabbits would drop that crafting requires. And if you weren't catching any fish, I'm guessing you were fishing in to high of an area for your skill level. It levels pretty smoothly in the right area. Though there are NO crafts that require fishing to level up with, so I have no idea why everyone felt they had to fish instead of trying to buy it from the auction house and didn't just go out and kill things.
I don't know what kind of person WANTS to wander all over Dwarf-Land looking for +2 Balls of Twine but from talking to the Diablo and Warcraft fans I met at that LAN party, it doesn't seem like much of Blizzard's fan base is going to appreciate the final WoW product.
Firstly, all crafting is voluntary and for fun. If you don't enjoy it, don't do it - there isn't anything crafting gets you that is required to progress that you couldn't buy off someone willing to spend the time. Secondly, the servers being overloaded from 500,000 trying to constantly play suggest you may have a very small sampling of Blizzard's fan base that doesn't scale to do projections very well.
The fact remains that MMORPG's are not for everyone, including some fans of previous Blizzard games. The general rule of thumb is if you wouldn't want to play a regular paper & pencil RPG, you probably won't like a Massive Online version either. It definitely sounds like the group you were watching is not the target audience, and the is nothing wrong with that on either side.
R: That voice. Where have I heard that voice before? B: In about 365 other episodes. But I don't know who it is either.
Trying to powerlevel is missing the point of WoW, IMO. I know I got stuck in the "this sucks, im just doing what everyone else is doing" mood too, with my first character. So I started a second one, determined NOT to do what everyone else was doing. So instead of going to random caves in search of random quest items, I just go wherever the hell I want to. If that means wandering 10 miles off into the distance because I saw a really cool looking cliff, then i'll do it. I'll temporarilly abandon a quest in mid hunt, just to swim up a river and see where it comes from. I'll chase critters around the plains and skin their hides simply because I can. I'll jump off waterfalls for fun, swim along the coast until I find the perfect peacful fishing spot. I ran around a forest the other day for hours on end solely because I wanted a bear for a pet (and I found one too). I'll randomly group up with people just to do whatever they're doing for quests (as opposed to what I "should" be doing). I'm just exploring and soaking up the universe now. And let me tell you, the game is SO much more fun that way. Rather than trying to "win" the game, i'm just basking in it. Its the freakin World of Warcraft after all! I've wanted to run around in it since I played Warcraft 1! Why treat it like some ordinary hack'n'slash when there is SO much to see and do? Its not a game of numbers - its a work of art. Thats the beauty of WoW IMO. And thats why i'll be subscribing. :)