I feel that "Matt Burch Everquest Junkie" is totally right. Look at what happened with Diablo? Why would you want to play that game online when you can easily download a trainer that alters Diablo's memory space and makes your character a god?
The thing that I love about everquest is that your character becomes more and more "powerful". You can be began to possess items that are more rare and vauluable.
Its the same thing that appealed to me with Zelda and Rygar on the Nintendo, except now there is the whole teamwork and social aspect thrown in.
There are items in the game that are worth hundreds of dollars on eBAY. It's a game. I play it to enjoy it, and when I stop enjoying it I put it down for a couple of days.
People who take advantage of the game (and people like me who aren't cheating or farming the items) will just ruin it for us. Verant, Sony, and Everquest are commercial entities. They exist to make money, and this was an economic decision and still is. If I, like many others, cease to have fun with the game because of this, I will stop playing, and Verant will stop getting our money.
I was one of the 83% who agreed with the scanning. I don't run ShowEQ, and I never would. I'm proud of what of I have in the game, that I have earned it, and I didn't get things by cheating or having them given to me.
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I feel that "Matt Burch Everquest Junkie" is totally right. Look at what happened with Diablo? Why would you want to play that game online when you can easily download a trainer that alters Diablo's memory space and makes your character a god?
The thing that I love about everquest is that your character becomes more and more "powerful". You can be began to possess items that are more rare and vauluable.
Its the same thing that appealed to me with Zelda and Rygar on the Nintendo, except now there is the whole teamwork and social aspect thrown in.
There are items in the game that are worth hundreds of dollars on eBAY. It's a game. I play it to enjoy it, and when I stop enjoying it I put it down for a couple of days.
People who take advantage of the game (and people like me who aren't cheating or farming the items) will just ruin it for us. Verant, Sony, and Everquest are commercial entities. They exist to make money, and this was an economic decision and still is. If I, like many others, cease to have fun with the game because of this, I will stop playing, and Verant will stop getting our money.
I was one of the 83% who agreed with the scanning. I don't run ShowEQ, and I never would. I'm proud of what of I have in the game, that I have earned it, and I didn't get things by cheating or having them given to me.
On the News page:
Oct 24,1999
Added source and README to web site. (Found a bit more disk space)
I guess that couple of k from zipping the readme really helped.
On the News page:
Oct 24,1999
Added source and README to web site. (Found a bit more disk space)
I guess that couple of k from zipping the readme really zip.
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ','.
Ironic, eh?
just wondering...
how much money does slashdot pull in off from the ads?