Should You play Everquest?
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- Should you play Everquest in 2022? The stalwart MMO that launched a new era of the genre? The MMO that inspired games like World of Warcraft, FFXIV, and Star Wars the Old Republic. Should you play Everquest isn’t as simple a question as it might seem. There are three distinct ways to play Everquest in 2022: Everquest live, Everquest progression servers, and Everquest Project 1999. Each offers its own positives and negatives.
And with Everquest announcing its new expansion, Night of Shadows, this might be a great time to delve into the differences between these styles and why Everquest might just be your MMO of choice this year. It may not be the best MMO to everyone, but it could be your favorite MMORPG.
What do you think? Do you want to play Everquest? If so would you play on Live, Progression, or P99?
0:00 Introduction
0:46 3 ways to play Everquest
1:30 New Everquest Expansion 2022
2:24 What is Everquest Live?
5:32 What are Everquest Progression Servers?
9:28 What is P99 (Project 1999)?
11:38 Should you play Everquest?
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EverQuest was the most happiest moment in my life when i was 14. It was the only game ever, ever, where i played literally everyday after i got home from school to when it was time to go to school, i slept during classes and such. It was wonderful, it gives me happpy but mostly sad moments now. Because it was my teenage “Child” hood fun. It did bad things to me mentally, but also good things. It’s a love hate thing. It will always hold a place in my soul
I think your story is similar to a lot of us. For me it helped me socialize when socializing with others was too much and caused too much anxiety but also had some detrimental effects to my development as I grew up. Definitely that love/hate thing but when I went back as an adult from 2016-2020 for Phinigel I was able to truly appreciate the game and honestly probably wouldn't be out here making content without that experience!
Same here! I started EQ at 15 and had many good years playing it. In group, raids or even solo as I was playing a wizard called Ticaster. As a French boy, It also helped me sooo much to learn English. Love your tee shirt and big fan of Pantheon!!! Can’t wait for it even if we might still be years away from the release.
Me too man... I was a pretty well socialized kid and had a lot of buddies, but EQ shut my social life down for about 1.5 years... I ground out to a level 53 barbarian warrior then--thankfully--let my "buddy" use my account and he shilled all my gear. That was the catalyst that I needed to quit playing... For me I have mixed feelings about EQ, but it will always hold a place of fondness--mingled with regret. I started playing when the game was first released and played through the ice expansion (the one after Kunark).
@@js5584 lol thats what my brother did he played until he had to go to Iraq, i took the account. Took his gear and got better gear with it. Haha
@@timothytoler9065 LOL. You did him a favor. I remember playing on Prexus server... Man it is all coming back now... I have a really good friend that I met at church after university and he told me he played Everquest as a kid. I asked him how far he progressed... He had a level 65 bard with the Bard "epic quest" weapons during Kunark/Velius expansions... I was like "dude, there are not many people on the entire planet that got that far, that early on in the game..." He literally could have sold his character for 20K on Ebay back on the day... So random... lol
The sense of fear of loss, exploration, plus community and having to rely on others is what made EverQuest such memorable experience early on
fear of loss, what do you mean ?
@@Microphunktv-jb3kj losing your corpse/items, experience, etc
no shit waking up hung over and msgin people , where was i ..... last night in everquest
@@im_b4k yeah that "depth" has taken out of modern games....
tahts whjy i played eve online.. and play hardcore path of exile :D
i dont mind losing xp when u die... in mmos. i would prefer open world pvp be default mode in mmo games.. with half-loot drop on death... as in u lose the stuff ur carrying, but not what you are equiped with... and death could damage ur gear... with u have to repair...
i remember another mmo WoW... gold becoming completely meaningless at some point.... currencies in videogames are meaningless if they have no value...
i didnt mind at all that u have to buff all the time, buy all kinds of potions.. after raid wipe fix ur gear wich cost gold... specially when u were tank, ur gear was pretty fcked after few wipes and there was "tanking taxes" , other gather-raids people paid tanks their gear rep costs lol :D and bought mobile repair kits..
i dont play mmos anymore because they have dumbed down so much, that i feel losing braincells playing so dumbed down games.... been busty lately, i played few days everquest tho.. but i had problems with my computer, gpu crashed all the time.. have new pc now... will try some mmos out again soon probably, i actually liked visually how characters looked in EQ1, i used some shader mods or smt... always having weapons out annoyed me, and enviorements felt super outdated obviously... i played some dungeons and dragons online too few days... the game actually felt way better than i remember back from the day, when i played few days but quit... since everyone was obsessed with WoW..
game modders communities should band together and create mmo engine, so people could collectively make their own mmo....
these companies these days have to fcking idea what makes a good game anymore, because people run the companies, who dont even consume their own products or even play videogames..
The fact that old old games are still played all the time, shows how shit modern games are.. . they might look "pretty" , but there's no substance...
Absolutely love your content. I'm 49 years old and been a gamer since I was old enough to hold an Atari controller. Without a doubt, my original EQ experience was the best gaming time of my entire life. I can't even put into words what I mean but I think most of us here on this channel know what I'm getting at. I made some of the best friends and would easily spend 25 hours a day playing if possible... and trust me, I came close. To this day, I've been searching for a game that captures that feeling but nothing comes close. I've played on P99 a few times but it's just not the same thing. Times were different then, dial-up internet, no social media, no voice chat, hand drawn maps, the list goes on and on. If the same EQ were to launch today, I doubt it would have had the impact on gaming and more specifically the MMO genre. WoW definitely wouldn't have been such a hit and I think it's why EQ2 failed in comparison. I'd love to go back in time and play with those old guildies, the fun times we had. I semi-retired at the end of the PoP expansion after we completed the final content. I came back briefly when GoD launched but immediately retired officially. I've looked back over my shoulder since then wanting to go back. Unfortunately, those good times will have to remain a beautiful memory.
Same here Charles. 49 myself and grew up on atari, c64 spectrum etc and have always gamed. Started EQ just before kunark on vallon zek the old school pvp teams server and played it more hours than I worked from memory lol. Shame alot of guys these days arent old enough to have remembered when EQ was at its peak which was back at that time, its an era that will never be repeated sadly.
Same here my man, I started in 99 at launch and still have 4box 115 toons, love this game and everyone should just try it.
This looks like I wrote this. Everything is the exact same for me, except that I am 50.
Definitely. Most original WoW devs were EQ players, from the top of my head I recall Jeff Kaplan the infamous 'Tigole' who a really mouthy kid back then ranting around about how stupid devs are on legacyofsteel website named after his guild, he was behind the design of quests and raiding things in wow, then Alex Afrasiabi who was basically Senior Creative Designer or whatever in WoW, Rob Pardo that was the lead designer of Warcraft 3 and the guild leader of legacyofsteel, he brought Kaplan into WoW team. John Staats who made basically almost all dungeons in WoW was an EQ fun. I mean yeah, it was THE time. When people who played, dreamed, lived those magical worlds were making them, and the tech limitation of the time and small communities only made it better
I spent 7 years in the world of Norrath starting in 1999. Nothing will recapture that magic. WoW briefly gave me that feel again but by the first expansion it was gone.
I will always remember my time in EQ fondly (ages 16-23). It will always be a great and wonderful memory to me.
Nothing else has ever come close to the way that game made me feel.
Edit: my greatest memory was competing for best of the best on Prexus server.
One of my best memories was just *watching* a best of the best for Shadowknights in the Commonlands on Brell Serilis! I still remember it was an Ogre Shadowknight with their epic who won.
@@Redbeardflynn I was in the rangers botb on Prexus. No one had an epic that I recall. The winner was using Tantor’s Tusk, and I can’t believe I remember this, which was a slow but high damage weapon.
I was on a top raid team, I started with game launch. Some of the content I’ve seen still blows my mind.
@@debralight2145 what guild?
I began on Prexus in Infinitus Vindicat, we all moved to Maelin Starpyre when it opened and renamed Infinite Vision. Prexus was overcrowded and SoE was opening new servers to decrease pops. We were one of the top guilds on our server.
I’ll never forget the day I was no longer addicted to the game. It happened overnight like a light switch. We were beating our heads against Uqua in gates of discord and I had started replaying some old snes classics (chrono trigger, ff6)
I got on to raid one day….and I just wanted to play my Nintendo more.
This was after a total played time in game of almost 18000 hours.
I spent the next year trying to recapture my feel for the game. But it was just gone.
Redbeardflynn!!! Thanks for the shout out! With a static group playing P99 is amazing and yes you got the Pros and Cons right! :)
Thank you so much Bountycode! Appreciate the tip and the consistent reminders of p99s existence ;) I had to cover it eventually but wanted to do it justice!
I have been a total fan of eqemu servers for almost two decades.
I love all the snippets in and around 7:00 where you are falling off kelethin and dying, getting swarmed by gnolls and dying, etc. Reminds me a lot of my experience back in the day. Part of the true OG EQ experience I say lol
I'm glad you enjoyed, and absolutely part of the original eq experience for sure. I think the equivalent for me was leaving Nektulos as a dark elf and dying over and over again to Sergeant Slate.
Crazy that this game is still going on 24 years now. Every once in a while I’ll boot up P99, roll a new character and run around GFay, Freeport, Steamfont, or Misty Thicket 😂
This game is older than some of this channels audience (not many of them, but some of them!)
Oh the nostalgia. I remember playing the original EverQuest on dial up. No maps. I was too lazy to make them myself but being young I had a good memory and didn’t need them. It’s temping to play again.
I loved it, the community, especially the early days with Verant. GMs would often come in and hold impromptu RP events with unique rewards. Loved the lore, the gameplay, the class variety. Since quests and maps weren't spoon fed to you, there was a large community based around such things, I had a binder full of maps and quest highlights.
Most hardcore game I've ever played. Took me an entire summer to level from 55-57 playing 12 hours a day lol
Yeah those days were rough. Took me a month to get from 54-55 on my monk grouping every night and off day from work in Velks Labyrinth. Still fun times.
I tried my first TLP when thornblade started with the random/ free trade loot, and it has been so much fun. I missed out on all the raids back in the day, DoD just dropped this week and still putting up good numbers for raiders each week. I really feel like the special rule sets help give the servers some extra longevity, I'm excited to see what other idea they can come up with.
I never made it past PoP, but I really miss my Bard. Song twisting was an amazing versatile play-style. Grouping just wasn't really an option after I started sprinting along the knife edge of solo AE and charm kiting. Would do some INSANE swarm pulls that'd instakill getting caught by a single mistake, but over time I had it mastered. Hardest part was keeping on Song of Selo's and tapping NumLock so I could reply back to the guild chat. They'd get broken messages as I hit Enter and re-correct my path followed by, "Sorry. Kiting."
Never had such a rewarding play-style in an MMO.
The funny part is that this song twisting that is kinda a glitch in the game made it to the Everquest D20 rules 😂
I would say Live is a game-changer with the introduction of the J- 5 mercenaries at level one. It would help if you still had a box to get things done at low levels. You'll need all the loot; platinum runs your J - 5 crew. I gave life to another shot of live Everquest, and even though I was a twenty-two-year veteran, I was excited about being able to kill mobs that would eat me alive. I'm having so much fun. It is like a newbie excitement.
playing P99 now with my wife and son. Started playing back in 1999 when EQ first came out, and played through 2015 or so...taught my kids to play and now we are all playing again on P99 greens. so many great memories playing this game. Made some great friends that we still talk to. Met a lot of people over the years in real life. such a great experience!! Love everquest !!
How this man doesn't already have 1 million subs, I do not know but god damn your videos are so well refined. 👍
That's such a nice thing to say! Thank you so much! Made my week.
Redbeardflynn: "Would you play EverQuest? Right now? Today?"
Me: "Uhhh ... maybe?"
Hahah!
I see Everquest, I click.
I see my plan worked!
I see Red Beard Flynn. I click.
@@dupre7416 My other ploy has worked. I see a comment by Dupre, I click.
EverClick
@@Redbeardflynn could i play it in a chromebook? 🤔😅
Just started The Buried Sea today, having a blast playing content I've never done before
Awesome! I love seeing comments like these! It's exactly how I felt going through all the expansions on Phinigel. So many of the later expansions are really cool. I think House of Thule was my favorite.
Great video, earned a subscriber. Thank you.
Thank you so much!
Loving this channel…keep the good work lad👍
I prefer p99 because of no multi-boxing rule. I think multi-boxing completely ruins the game's social ecosystem and thus breaks it. EQ is not meant to be played multiboxing.
I can see that! I know a lot of people have pointed to boxing exacerbating the decline in social grouping which was probably the biggest part of EQ back in the early years.
Subbed or not, it's still fun as hell and will probably always be a touchstone "between games" game for me. The prog server rush is definitely one thing I'd like to do next year.
It's one hell of an experience. Even just the first few weeks seeing so many people playing.
I hate to say… but I started playing EQ back in 2000, had a lvl 60 wizard, 20 necro and a 50 cleric. In 2004 moved to EQ 2, played for a year and quit for good. After watching some UA-cam EQ videos, the urge of reliving the original game has been growing and started to play couple months ago with a lvl 15 necro. I just turned 60 years young last month and the feeling and appreciation of EQ has returned greatly, don’t play as I used to like in the beginning back in 2000, but is nice to feel the adventure flowing every time I log on…
You had a very similar run to me. I left EQ for Eq2 in 2004 as well, then slowly shifted over to WoW, eventually came back for progression servers in 2006, then again in 2015-2020 with tons of MMOs all in between.
eq is such a nice experience, even today. Im currently lvling a rogue and I was 35 at the begining of the week, I went to splitpaw lair. I joined a grp there with some nice ppl, and we would see each other every night this week since we are all lvling there atm. Its been super fun and I knew none of these ppl before. I play on p99 but im sure you can get this experience on other servers too!
That was the fun back in the nineties, it was packed and you could always find a team.
I’ve played the original EQ. I felt so alone playing a half elf ranger. No one wanted me. But those who did became great friends. I made an high elf enchanter and those same friends helped power level me.
Very good clip man. Well done
I am excited to see what new TLP's are coming rule set wise. I popped on a few before, and I think Ragefire was where i spent the longest. Doing some raid content i never did back in the early 2000's. Was cool to finally do, and clear NToV. Was fun to finally drop Emperor Ssra, and to do Vex Thal. I just need to find a lul in FFXIV where I feel comfortable enough to do it again, and finally get a Plane of Time clear, and maybe a Sleepers. Wouldnt mind a Veeshans, but that might be a bit harder to convince people to do.
Redbeard holy shit dude. This is the best content created EQ vid I've ever seen. All the comedy attempts were Very funny stuff! My dood! You're great at this!
Thank you so so much! I really appreciate that!
Happiest moment on a computer.
2000s and with covid confinements.
But it is all behind now.
Still love EQ and from time to time I take a break but always come back. Started fresh on the FV server on live which is pretty active, always lots of people in PoK. Even if I quit completely one day, EQ will always have a special place in my heart.
^^^ This. For years I'd come back and just hop onto FV just to kind of be part of the world again. Then I found the Phinigel server and created all kinds of wonderful new memories. I don't think I'll ever do a progression server run like that again but those memories will always be there.
got a life time sub love it been on it for 20 plus years
I wish I would have pulled the trigger when they were offering those.
@@Redbeardflynn wish they would offer again
Think I'm gonna check it out in preparation for Ashes of Creation. Very well put together video!
Started playing when I was 7 haven’t stopped since, except for the occasional couple month breaks
I played from 1999 to 2006 on Xev. I came back two months ago, and am hooked again. I'm leveling a Necro and grinded to 88 so far. Leveling getting tough as any zones 80+ are still too tough for me. Dark Blues will drop me if I take a hit.
It definitely gets progressively tougher in later expansions. Are you using mercenaries? They'll make things much easier, especially the healer merc at higher levels.
Wow I also played on Xev from 1999 to...I wanna say...2004-ish? Can't remember exactly. You're the first person I've seen in an EQ video's comments who also played on Xev. I know it's a shot in the dark, but do you happen to remember a Gnome Necromancer (Hastefoot) or a Barbarian Warrior (Masala)? I wonder if we ever met. =P
@@stug3719 Doesn't ring a bell, but I'm sure we crossed paths. I was in the guilds Brotherhood United and then Dominion. My toons were Calibus and Subilac. My original name was Calibusganja Smoka lol but that got nerfed.
I'm still having fun on Green, actually, doing content that i didn't quite get a chance to do. Its like a new game but old game. Met some great people once again being back for only a few months.
The Takp server is also an option instead of p99. It goes through PoP and allows boxing up to 3.
Having played both for several years each, P99 is trash.
Honorable mention when you don't have hardcore amounts of time: Project Lazarus. Currently in OOW, many qol features, some out of era AAs and custom tweaks to make all classes feel viable, custom race/class combinations, a special currency that drops and can be converted into AA exp or vice versa and free trade for everything minus current endgame drops plus option to instance most zones for soloing, grouping or raiding for a plat fee and hardcore versions of many classic zones with custom loot. Basically a "cut the chores that waste your time and get to the fun stuff" server.
Very interesting.
Great video. I have been playing classic wow. But I’m the mood for going back to the real classics: ultima online and EverQuest.
I like the idea of progress server and then moving to live after. Can you transfer characters?
I love p99 even though I haven't had much time to play. I think my wizard has been sitting in lavastorm for 7 months now lol. Always a chill session whenever I log on though
been playing since 2000 love it still
Glad to hear it! It's an iconic game.
I'm in a raiding guild on Project 1999 Green and I love it.
I would never want to play live. EQ changed too much starting with Luclin and I much prefer Classic, Kunark, and Velious.
I'm glad you're having so much fun on p99 green!
I love playing on P99, but I can't wait to try out a TLP server in May 2023. I was late to Mischief and was advised to just wait for the next TLP.
The topic of leveling as fast as you can is a very interesting philosophical problem. I'm arguably right in the middle. Because I actively pumped the brakes but I also strive to be able to solo old raid content.
Just watching now. I like the Pantheon shirt... Feeling like that game is vaporware at this point. RIP Brad.
I haven't played for a long time. Started when Kunark was launched and they released it as a bundle. Stopped playing when Vanguard was released. Played an Erudite Enchanter called Jontom Merrywether on Xegony. Loved the game
I played it 16 years it was the best game of that time for me . I worked myself through all expansions and really every corps run was worth the feeling when i achieved it which game does give you this today . it is a game that is still a challenge as newb and as champion you need your wits .
Watching that wood elf fall out of Kelethin just gave me some serious PTSD.
First thing I ever made in EQ was a wood elf druid, she fell out of kelethin, died, had orcs run over her corpse. I said nope, deleted, and re rolled as an Iksar Necromancer and never looked back.
I mean, you can't really go wrong with an Iksar necromancer. Or an Iksar anything...So I think that was EQ just prompting you to the right choice :) innate regen and necromancer? Hell yes.
@@Redbeardflynn My co-worker who talked me into playing the game was a wood elf druid, and talked it up like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread, so I wanted to try it. Glad I changed my mind. Iksar everything is a hell yea from me :D
Iksar are my #1 favorite race in the game. Followed by Vah Shir, then Frogloks. I just really liked each of their lore.
The Roses' hosted newb friendly events in Kelethin just after Kunark launched. We'd start at the druids guild, get them drunk on 2 or 3 short beers and ask them to race, drunk, to orc lift. Good times!
@@BubbleoniaRising Sounds like the drunken halfling races GMs used to host. Always fun times when your character has blur vision lol!
@@angsfeatheredfriends They'd get players drunk and make em' race through Kithicor Forest at night, right? I have a faint memory of an event there anyway. Cheers!
What server did you xfer from phiny or did you ride the merge to keep your names like I did ?
My biggest gripe with Live when I tried it was that it seemed to have just hidden away all the early classic content, and basically asking anyone what the correct way to level was you'd just get told to stay in some boring megazone for at least the first 25 levels.
When I first tried live I was hoping I was gonna start in the old zones with some added modern conveniences, and work my way through the newer content as I leveled, instead I got sent to Crescent Reach, and all the old content was just presented as outdated and that you'd essentially gimp yourself by trying to level that way.
I played classic when it first came out, and then switched to WoW in 2005, and never played eq until I heard about p99 back in 2011 or something I think it was.
When they released Serpent's Spine shortly after you went back to WoW (September 17th, 2006) that's when they kind of "remade" the level grind. Serpent's Spine is the last lvl 0-max at the time expansion and so you have the option as any class/race combo to start there.
It pulls players away whether they're alts or new players from older leveling zones and starting cities but I believe you can still select those cities, it's just sadly not the default option.
I hope so, because I'm giving it a shot.
I hope you have a great time! Let us know how it goes!
Back in the day when Ever Quest launched it was a new and amazing game with online interaction, also filled with a bunch of bugs (Not the bugs actually in the game). Would crash all the time. They got over those road bumps and made it the first really popular massive online role-playing game of It's time. I played it for about decade after launch. Seen many DLCs expansions. Maybe it's still for people, but for me I need a game that is not a time sink. Daybreak games could have invested a bit more into Every Quest next, but they just decided to bleed the game and leave players out to dry.
I think two of the biggest mistakes were launching Everquest 2 the same time as WoW and abandoning Everquest Next/Landmark. Granted most of the people who made those mistakes are no longer with Daybreak.
I have 200 days /played on Bertox from 99-04. I miss it at times, but I don't miss the spawn camps and leveling.
I first played it 20 years ago. I was a Troll and when I left my home city, it immediately got overthrown by the Frogloks. xD Good times playing this game, and 20 years later I was looking and found that it was actually free to play and could have played it a while ago. lol Since I had to stop playing before, since they had a subscription fee back then. Everquest is where MMORPGS REALLY got popular. It will always hold a special place in my heart. ^^
Could they make servers that wont update, but you can choose to proceed to next expansion? and when you do that, you can go back to the old one with character that you chose to proceed with so you can help friends etc
2 boxed chanter and cleric. such great fun.
EQ has been one of my fav MMO's of all time, i started about 6 months after release on a PvP Progression server known as Rallos Zek and loved it. Tried blue but could never get into the whole bluebie experience. The PvP was a bit clunky but fun, and the raiding was very hard and challenging with the RZ PvP server rule set but we loved it. I quit after the PoP expac reluctantly but RL had come calling wanting my attendance back. Great game, would love it if another custom rule PvP progression server came about with an actual "Population". I played again on P99 red briefly and enjoyed it with a few old pals from the original game but with my timezone (AU) and the low server pop i couldn't maintain an interest. EQ was meant to be played with other people which made the experience rich and entertaining with its high difficulty levels which is why im not really into the new game with Mercs and stuff..theres heaps of other MMO's i could play if i wanted that type of solo gameplay.
Only douchbags who weren't hugged as children play PvP in an RPG. Griefers who IRL join the marines and then become cops 😂😂
If course I could be wrong but I don't see how !
Your content reminds me of Cohh! A true gamers passion, and desire to play... not just to make content.
This is such a huge compliment to me because I've admired Cohh for years. Thank you so much!
THIS GAME IS SO ADDICTING MAN
The fact that I'm making videos about in in 2023 is a pretty big indication of that lol
I am tempted to play EQ. I am already playing EQ2, though I play on European servers. You can play alone, upgrading your mercenary, your spells to experience old content with capping your level, it's how I am experiencing the content. However it would be much better with people, on a "classic" or earlier version of the game.
This is funny because I was asking myself this same question in 2002 while standing in a Circuit City. In my hands were two things: a box containg EQ and some expansions, all I would need to play. In the other was Dragon Warrior 3 for GBC. I was a rare person my age (20 then) who worked full time so I could not sit and raid and port and sell stuff on EQ like a lot of my friends had been doing. I wanted to bad. I remember reading a feature in GamePro or somesuch rag about EQ before it came out and how it was going THIS and it was going to THAT and I KNEW I needed to play it. Never got around to it. Never had a PC that had the right specs at the time, didn't have the time, there were OTHER mmos out that I was playing but no EQ. Anyway, that day in Circuit City I went home with Dragon Warrior 3 and had a wonderful time. I still run through the game to this day every few years. But EQ...that will always elude me. I'll always watch old raid vids and become wistful for a place I never walked in, I'll always have a 2 1/2 hour video of Karanak Wizards gate or some such place on for ambience while I study, but I know I will never actually play EQ. To everyone that does, I salute you and I hope you're having fun. Keep it up and play a little for me, some one who wanted to fight alongside you when the battle was hot, and enjoy yourself. Play easy and well knowing that there is at least one person out there who envies you your pastime. Truly so.
I play on P99 blue, which is closest to live from what I remember. Truely great experience.
I wish they'd impliment a server with AA points on P99, i really miss those.
Last played EQ about 1 year before EQ2 was launched. After realizing Pantheon was a long way off, I tried EQ again in Jan23 and have been playing obsessively ever since. I went for Live because I wanted to have access to 23 years of content. With 80% of xp going to AA, I'm getting to enjoy all the old zones which I was playing in originally as well as plenty of new stuff.
This is awesome. I'm glad you're having such a good time in EQ.
@@Redbeardflynn Did you ever do streams of Landmark? I remember a dude with a red beard who did a stream from my plot (which was near his). I was making a huge red dragon sculpture coming out of the ground.
@@duncanwallace7760 I wish! I played Landmark but I dont think I even knew what content creation was back then.
@@Redbeardflynn That was a fun game, I hope it comes back one day!
Rolled a Barbarian Warrior on Rallos Zek back in '99 as my 1st character. I eventually switched to a gnome wizard because of it. 😆
If you want to play Everquest. Check out Imperium. Its a Solo/Duo server and is a ton of nostalgic fun.
I played at release to just after gates of discord. Tried to return a few times but it is difficult. Whenever I do return it's really just for fun to explore old zones and lore, not to try to level up much or gear up or anything. Lore and world is still unmatched, and dungeons are unmatched even today. Kunark I think is the best lore and dungeons, for me at least I don't need much else.
Hell yes!
EQ is too KR dependent on some servers. Like Mischief its have a ton of KR or get lucky on loot in a goof guild. FV seems a bit better but it was hard to get back into after being out for so long.
Hey man, who were you /what guild on Phinny? I was Naudee/Gingyr/Imbigga/Stephan on phinny in OGC from launch til GOD then came back during the Mayong stuff.
Axedat from Resolute!
I've never played EverQuest online I had some old disks given to me by a friend but I couldn't play at the time due to the need to pay back in the 00s but it had a demo for a first person almost graphic adventure version of the game. Was that EverQuest 1.0 where you had to type words to confirm quests. It reminded me of kings field
Yes! You used to have to type out certain words and stared with hailing them. Ultima online was like that too but went further where you needed to say things like "vendor buy"
when will they up the graphics?
Lol .... SALTY!! Ahhh the days of Everquest. Great memories!!
I've never heard of this mmo called "A Point of Preference". Where do I get to play it???
New UI in 2023 we finaly go to a lighter version of EQ1. Come back to original graphics with new and smoother animations, good spell effects and possibility to everyone to have a 3 toon box maximum. Use money to control that the best you can.
I’ve never touched this game and this is my first ever video on it I got recommended it to me since I like playing a summoner like he romance is it good for a class like that?
Any kind of summoner I'd recommend a Mage, that's probably the most equivalent class.
I was trying to figure out weather to try 1,2 or 3 not sure the difference. can you link a video if you have made one on that
Between Everquest 1 and Everquest 2? (3 unfortunately never materialized as it was cancelled in 2016) or are you referring to Live Everquest, Progression Servers or P99?
Never played everquest might give live a fair try thanks for this video to give me a place to start
Glad you enjoyed the video!
I could never get warm with EQ but played UO for years (RP Freeshard). Either last year or the beginning of this one I tried EQ once more and again dropped it quickly but I don't remember which version (might have been EQ 1999), just that it felt very janky / laggy. But I'm interested in Pantheon, following it's development too (hinting at the T-Shirt).
Vanguard SOH also was a bit janky but still enjoyed Blood Mage gameplay and scope or the game.
Btw, I don't really know what I should think about Daybreak ever since EQ Next (was very interested in it) and Landmark got cancelled.
I actually left UO for EQ back in I believe 2000. Some of the UO free shards were great fun, though. Convinced some friends to play back in college and we had a great time.
Bloodmage in Vanguard was great, I was a ranger myself but I was always amazed at what my bloodmage friend could solo!
I've been following Pantheon for about 5 years now and I'm excited for the game but also tempering expectations, kind of the same thing I'm doing for Ashes of Creation though admittedly I'm following that less.
As for the whole Landmark EQ next debacle? I take some solace in that the people who were in charge during all of that are gone now. Cancelling EQ next I don't have as much trouble in because it was so early but landmark...people had paid and were playing that game and creating.
@@Redbeardflynn I was actually tempted to buy the Landmark access for like 50 bucks but gladly never did. Only got a alpha or beta invite once or twice and played it this way for a while.
Played EVERCRACK back in the day and then played VANGUARD. Loved the game even with the flaws. Nope, I will wait for Panteon.
As somebody who returned for mischief after not playing EQ since PoP I could not imagine a new or even returning player going into a live server.
Where WoW basically has "seasons" with the catch up mechanics each patch, you are expected to progress your EQ character through the multitude of systems each expansion added to be on par with others, and its just too much
Mischief was such a great experience and I'm glad I got to catch it when it launched, helped me experience all of PoP and even some GoD before I could put EQ away with some closure....at least for now!
progression servers are extremely inaccessible to new players and also require you to play to the exclusion of all other things to keep up. i don't think i could do it.
Fun thing, folks are still playing it and EQ2 to this day.
and they're still releasing expansions annually!
Kunark is when I left and I was so into it. 😅
Should try a week on Test Server 😁
Did Everquest have irk ads in 2001? My friend told me they did put ads in the game and it did work great as it was made so it fit the style of everquest.
Not that I remember outside of /pizza in eq2 which had a lot of promo materials using eq2 assets. But that was years later.
I would argue that one also has to consider multi-boxing as a play style choice. You could call it achievement grinding. I have different sets of alts doing different things.
It was a necessity back in Ultima Online because of the way the game was built, though the idea I think was to get people to play together.
P99 is far from the only emu server. It also has tons of custom content that detracts from a true "classic" everquest experience.
Oh I know! It's just the only one that had the official ok from darkpaw and its been requested quite a few times.
I actually played on hidden forest years ago and had a lot of fun.
I love P99 for the old school gameplay and their dedication, but I **hate** the old school UI.
I disliked SOL's impact upon EQ and the direction that the game was heading (quit before POP), but I will forever be grateful for the graphical update and especially UI update.
I can deal with old school graphics, and crave old school gameplay (why I still hold EQ dear to my heart all these decades later), yet I **cannot** tolerate old school UI.
I did play P99 in 2015/2016 but we were just starting a family, buying a house et al and I could no longer mitigate partner aggro
Now that my Little Man will be 7 this year, the lure of P99 once again is appealing - even if I cannot force myself away from a Kelethin start and/or Enchanter - the UI is a deal breaker
Give me SOL graphics and UI with non content beyond SOV and I'll play
BEAR PITS! Project 1999 is the most accurate bear pits simulation. That's what really matters.
I have a level 80 wizard on live but I just can’t seem to get into the live community. I’m basically a worthless noob playing a solo class. So I go p99 or progression.
I still play EQ almost daily, started with the beta in late '98. Butt in all honesty EQ is too far gone for new players. It's so massive and very complicated now. Any new player needs a personal trainer to help them with hundreds of things that are now part of every char.
I've been hoping they'll consider a better new player experience for years now but they seem very attached to the tutorial zone. I'll be keeping my eyes out for the 2023 roadmap to see what they have to offer alongside the UI revamp.
I completely disagree. Unless you're talking about new players who weren't born before 9/11 and have never known anything but hand-holding in games. I have several friends from Shadowbane (WAY back when) currently playing with me on Test. They had never played EQ at all since PvP is relegated to virtual ghettos here. Now, they don't care about PvP (their kids have kids) so they were open to trying. We've been having a blast over the last 3 days. I'm currently showing them 'The Kunark Express' (LOIO ->FM->OT->DL) since they'd heard people ranting about it in years past. Mercs were familiar to them from Guild Wars 1 so the transition hasn't been TOO difficult. I think it comes down to the individual. "New players" are not a monolith or a collective. You're not going to get FFXIV numbers, sure, but a few thousand would be easy to get and support.
I started playing in 99 and I still play yearly but I always just roll a new toon on tlp and level till it gets to complex. I miss limited hotbars
@@Redbeardflynn I'd say if they are planning a new EQ that they'll just let this run as is and not do any large overhaul. Nothing they do will ever attract many new players that has never played EQ at some point. I'd love to see it packed and tons of groups running.
because of the themepark games that hit about the time of WoW spoiled all the mmo players
Not interested in EQ at all, I'm a WoW guy. Stumbled upon this vid by accident. Watched it till the end anyway. Great production quality!
This comment made my day, thank you so much! I plan to do more WoW content as well as I was an avid player for several years but that's the big behemoth of MMOs...one day!
I will never forget my dark elf necromancer Lord Getagrip Playthegame
Originally Tarew Marr server then merged to Durinal. I think those are right...
What do you think will happen on Yelinak after PoP? Maybe it will last to GoD?
When I played Phinny there was a big drop after PoP but it had a health commerce and raid scene through probably Underfoot. It began to die off more rapidly after that but there were still people raiding right up until it met live. Hopefully Yelinak will be similar.
Nothing beats Everquest for me, they launch it again with the same content but modern graphics.
Does eq play on consal like xbox or ps5 yet
i see you man, i agree 100% the OG game is still great
Thank you!
Account activity flagging would be nice. As in things like achievements for different people you group with, how many other accounts you help through content. Othere games toy with this and it can help handle issues of perma camping items by making entire accounts ban from looting the item anymore and tracking whos hoarding the kills. Also reward people for participating on Progressive servers even if their character goes to cold storage or perhaps gets transferred. They still get an account wide credit for having spent time in the game no matter what server they go on. Breath of the wild does an amazing job tracking everything you've done by literally drawing a line on everywhere you ran. EQ can see future progression servers that for example start in lost dungeons area and block out all non epic named spawns from older expansions.. because i think thats funny to see how people manage.
They had rewards for some of the event servers. Would be nice if they had some for other achievements, especially for helping others. I'd like to see recruit-a-friend things come back especially with true-boxing code already in.
I started right before Kunark. Morell Thule server…Reapers of Sorrow forever!!!!
I got into Everquest in 2017 in P99 blue.
Love DND, dont even know what made 19 year old me go through the process of setting up that whole annoying process (back when you had to use Daemon tools lite), but the second i logged in something about the game clicked with me like no mmo had.
Idk if it was the true Adnd aesthetic, the sense of nostalgia for games i never played, the incredibly tight friendly community, or the fact that a level 40 griffin roamed the starter zones (cause fork you), but i never put it down since.
what would you say is the most popular live server for a new player? I used to play when kunark came out and want to try live
Likely Firiona Vie - it also has a free trade ruleset, so you can buy normal no drop items in the bazaar to help you gear up faster
For a long time I would have said Firiona Vie but Bristlebane seems to have a health population, too. One way to get an idea is to check the status of the servers here: www.daybreakgames.com/status
You can sort by population. I recommend checking that around the times you personally plan to play. Just remember that with live there's a gap in the population with most at higher levels. If you want people a little closer to your level, progression server, especially at launch (yearly) might be the best way to go!
I have a pretty crappy laptop at till I get my regular PC mailed to me. So this is a game I'm looking into
The live servers can offer a lot of content for free before you feel any need to purchase a subscription
I'm going to give EQLive a try again after the UI revamp is done and UI scaling is supported.
I'm hoping we'll get an updated roadmap before too long so we can see how that migration is going and what they plan for the rest of the year + 2024.