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Summary: My experience after purchasing Luclin
Review: You may want to considering purchasing another game if you are:1. If you are using an AMD processor, do not buy this game. Verant, the maker of Everquest is teaming up with Intel to optimize the game for P4 chips (...)There has been many bugs related to using the AMD processor. (...) In other words, too bad if you have the wrong chip, even through the chip is x86 compatible. 2. If you do not know EXACTLY the type of video card you are using. Only a few video cards are supported
(...) If you do not know the exact video card you are using, you will not be able to diagnose properly and the game will not start. 3. If you do not want to spend 3+ hours installing the game. It is not something where you can just pop in the CD and play. (...) Do you know what a driver is? Do you know how reach the maker of these drivers so you can get the newest version? If not, don't buy this game, because it won't work without the newest versions of your drivers. 4. If you do not have exactly 512 megs of RAM. If you have too much RAM (...), you will run into problems. If you have less than that, you will not be able to experience many of the features offered in Luclin. 5. If you do not enjoy crashes. There are so many abrupt crashes, that an entire discussion is based around it. Do you know what you did wrong? Well, neither do they!(...) This is pathetic, Quality Assurance should be done before a release, not after! 6. If you do not enjoy patches. The game is constantly being taken down and patched, that means you can't play when the servers are being patched. (...)Notice how they announce a patch the day before the patch, and a patch is scheduled almost every night! Overall, this game is not ready to be released. Do yourself a favor, and buy something else like Dark Age of Camelot. If you run into problems and can't figure out all the computer babel, you are out of luck. Their support line is ALWAYS busy, and your emails will just be ignored.
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Summary: Great, Great game, but the system requirements are way too..
Review: This is a great, great expansion. THat is, if you have a extremely good computer. Mine: 1.7ghz, 512 RDRAM, 64mb Ti500 card(i just got the computer). I have no problems. As soon as I got into the game I noticed extreme differences, in a good way.
I just feel terrible for the people that had not, before buying the game, known you needed a (dollar amount)+ computer to play it.(Thus, most likely, wasting 20 dollars and being unhappy. I'm a terrible writer, sorry for this pointless and unhelpful review.
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Summary: SOL is all about busty
Review: Apparently this person has never playid SOL because they give you the option of turning on either male or female models of every race, including horses and pets. The models are fine unless you are a tight wad. The models are geared towards the 95 percent of the male players not the 5 percent of women. Also, if you think that busty women are bad and killing other people and things is ok, you are messed up in the head.
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Summary: sad
Review: Obviously I am rather biased about this game since I like Asheron's Call better. But I have played them both and while they both have many of the same problems inherent to a MMORPG such as lag, and cheating and e-bay selling. But Everquest has some problems that Asheron's Call doesn't have. #1 All updates to Asheron's Call are free, all updates to EQ are not free and you need to go out and buy the latest version to get the fix, and be able to play with your friends again. #2 In comparison to the developer attention and responses to customer wants and needs, Asheron's Call's developer team seems to make a much larger effort to accomodate their customers as much as possible. The AC developers have a message board where they answer questions and make statements, and they release build notes every month on their updates, and they have a monthly live developer chat where you can ask your questions and get them answered right away, with the transcript of the chat being posted afterwards. EQ doesn't even come close to this, and seems to like having a wall between their devs and their customers. #3 Then there is game-play. My number one problem with this game is like myself, many people DO NOT like to *HAVE TO* fight and play in groups. A lot of people play RPG and adventure games for the atmosphere and people, but they also like to do things on their own. In EQ, you CANNOT fight and hunt solo. If you do you are monster food. In AC almost anyone can hunt solo and reap the rewards of solo hunting. Like I said this is a biased review, but everything I wrote here is true, think about it.
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Summary: Shadows of Luclin reveiw
Review: I loved this game from the second I loaded it on to my computer. This involves everything action, Adventure, Strategy! I think the cover matches up this game is VERY addicting and its so much FUN! (...)
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Summary: Bleh, thnx for nothing
Review: So disappointing, in every way for me. Yes I can play it with 512 MBs DDR RAM, AMD 1.4, nvidia2 mx 400, yada yada. Bleh. I thought SoL was going to make EQ worth playing again, not hardly.
Get a clue VI, graphics are hardly what a RPG is about, and frankly, for the sys reqs to run this POS excuse for an upgrade, the graphics are way lacking. The spell effects at the very least should be way better than they were, they are not. The character models should be more than just buffed boobies and muscles straight out of a wanna-be DC comic book, they are not.
Ah, but you have the new "alternate advancement system" starting at lvl 51. Jeez, how lame does it get. Nevermind I have stuck with your game long enough to have more than one character lvl 51+ (try 2 years for 3 characters total), what about the poor SoBs who don't know any better cause they get there gaiming info at the K-Mart shelves. To think they have to endure months and months of your lvling treadmill to make a unique character built on an advancement system that is even more grueling then lvling was. For those of you who don't know what everquest is really about, SoL should will slap you in the face with the reality of it eventually: it's all about a gaming company stringing you along, sucking you dry, making promises they never intend to keep, and making things harder and harder for you in-game along the way.
Anything to keep you rreaching for the next lvl, the next spell, the next "alternate advancement" point...and then the next expansion that will make you feel better about the very real time you have wasted trying to get to the "next thing," Only to find out months down the road that it's just another chore. Sorry Verant, I am totally on to your real game. You suckered me into buying tis PoS expansion, but my account is closed forever...
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Summary: SUPER LAGG A LOPOGIS
Review: Crashes every ten seconds and everyone is running around naked! Whats up with that?
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Summary: A simple review to read
Review: Pro: Adds new elements to the game for characters above level 50. Horses can now be purchased which basically give faster travel speed or could be used for a symbol of status. More facial customization abilities. New beast lord class and vah shir race. Cons: Very slow on machines below 1.2 ghz 512 ram, features and viewing distance need to be reduced greatly for optimal performance. Long loading times, very laggy in crowded areas. Very laggy, very lagg, very slow, very choppy. The design of the engine was done very bad, no matter how good your system is, it will get slow the majority of the time. Do not underestimate the power of how bad this game handles memory, I yet to figure out why the game needs at least 512 ram. conclusion: so what's up with the 5 stars? Nothing will get you to stop playing except for when the server kicks you off or when your boss calls you when you've missed a week of work, that in it self deserves the credit for what we call everquest.
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Summary: The Luclin Bug
Review: Release Date Dec 4. On December 10 the 1 to 4 hour long daily technical maintenance patches continue. Required and recommended system requirements were 'upgraded' the day of shipment, invalidating the package labeling. As a regular player I sincerely wish the 'EQ team' had 'upgraded' in increments. DirectX 8.1, Upgraded Graphics and the Shadows of Luclin Expansion. Everquest *was* a great game. I hope it will be again.
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Summary: Buggy as heck
Review: The first couple of weeks, where the Monty H. effect is in full swing on the item drops and following nerf of those drops aside... This release is a nightmare. Folks typically waiting in tech support queues for 5+ hours at a time for the token advice to reinstall their drivers or get more memory or get a newer video card to run the game. In those cases I've seen the customer's system met or exceeded the requirements of the game (640mb of ram should be sufficient to run this game, yet just in the time I was in the queue I saw 3 seperate customers with these configs conplaining that the game process had eaten it up then crashed). With the new engine 'enhancements' things are currently running slower then ever and my personal problem is also memory related. 1Gig of ram and another 1.1Gig in virtual memory and 40min into playing the game I'm out of memory and the game crashes. I go on about the memory problem because it's affecting me, but there are many more bugs that in some cases keep a player outside the game altogether. Several people in the support queue have not been able to play the game at all since the game was updated in preparation of SoL's release a few weeks ago. I'm sure the company is working to fix this (the almost daily 6 hour outage for emergancy patching has to be working toward some resolution, right?). I can honestly say this will be a decent expansion when it's ready to be released, say January. As it stands though, their entire customer base has been turned into a beta test group that's paying for the opportunity to beta test this game.
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