It seems I was a total sucker. Maybe it was the high I was riding coming off of my first Halo 2 game.. but rest assured. I was high.

After 2 more days of EQ2, I can say.. I wont be paying for any monthly subscription. It sucks. It blows. Frankly.. its just not fun. Sure.. that first isle has promise… then the housing is cool. Yes it has some damn nice feautres. But before you know it, your stuck in cramped zones that you cannot render without the best machine on earth. Your spawn camping the same 5 sewer slimes as everyone else, and every damn monster you click on is in a group of 5.

IT SUCKS!

I am so sorry to you all for having such a positive outlook at first. I feel cheated. I feel I cheated you. If you bought it.. dont open it. Take it back. If you did buy it.. re-sell it. And dont pay any monthly charge.. Or..

burn it.

This will be the scene in a week or two.

Ok.. so what went right:
Looting is improved. Auto lotto rules.

The world does have real nice water.

The opening quest/intro is cool.

Housing IS really cool (thanks so much for giving EVERYONE a real house)

It doe shave that nostalgia flavor.

The UI is very nice.

Letterbox rules.

I never did crafting.. so I will be nice and assume its fun.

What went wrong:
Spawn camping… already at lvl 7 (and climbing). They try to mitigate it with instanced zones.. but this just makes it more confusing to meet up with your group.

Plastic world. The world graphics look like plastic. There is no detail. There is no “life”. Its all just crap.

Trains. They are alive and well. WTF. FIX IT SONY!

Death. ok.. they make you go to your spirit. You dont have to, but without it you lose some stats for a long while. Now lets say your recovering your body, and you die again. And perhaps a third time. By then you are so low on str.. that you are BURDENED!! NOW I CANNOT WALK QUICKLY TO MY FUCKING BODY!!! That is not fun.
The waypoint system.. nice try.. but in a windy zone, the path leads straight into walls. Ummm.. no.

The graphics. Besides being plastic.. they wanted to make an engine that will last several years. And they probably did. THe problem is, the game looks like shit on a NICE box. I made my wifes rig just for this game.. not top of the line.. but good stuff.. and she can barely play it. My machine is a bit better and even I have trouble in cities. I am forced to drop all quality to shit levels to play. And then it looks so bad.. why bother. WoW is always beautiful. Polygons and high res textures do not an awesome game make. (see: Doom 3 V. Half Life 2 … yeah.. ballsy prediction. but I know HL2 will blow away doom3 in my mind already ;p )

Dead world. I figure maybe its just the zones im in. Sewers, graveyard, ruins.. whatever. So I head to an open zone… the Commonlands. And there is nothing there but the wandering group of monsters. (sure its a desert, but its got no detail). No cactii. No rocks. No shrubs. Nothing. The mobs just wander about like in EQ1. Have they learned nothing? WoW has detail.. alwasy some interesting landmark around.. or a little campfire.. or nest.. or something to give the barest reason for why a mob might be in the world living its life.

Summary
In the end.. as I was playing EQ2. I was not having fun. I found that by lvl 10, I was already starting to think about finding a spot.. and lvl grinding my way up. GRINDING! IN WoW. I NEVER did that.. not once.. and I was high 20s. I was always finding a new place.. workign on a cool quest.. Discovering and interacting with the rich and beautiful world. EQ2 is dead, plastic, and all in all NOT FUN.

Fuck that game. It fooled me. And I tried so hard to like it.

Kiddos. I’m going WoW… I’m going WoW so hard that my fingers will bleed.. and so will every human and good elf I see. EQ2 can rot. I bet you it will be Sony’s biggest flop. Then again.. galaxys is still alive. Just goes to show you there are people out ther who will play anything (see: Russell)

p.s. I’m sorry again for my previous post. Oh and EQ2…