We will got around 100 posts and aside from I think 2 comments opposing a change that are mostly just trolling for reactions, everyone seems to agree a change is need. So.....it seems we have reached a consensus. Devs, time for you to act.
I'm at this point and have to say it's making me want to quit until Velious. Seriously poor over site on an expansion phase that only lasts 8 weeks. 2 weeks to hit lvl 60, a week for epic. 5 weeks to try to get your entire guild and everyone else on this server a key?
Would be nice to see changes to this on future TLPs if Kunark is going to be so short.. I did it on Lockjaw and felt like the experience was much worse this go round on Yelinak. Could just be burnout from doing it again.
I dont play on TLPs anymore and don't plan to for quite a while. But I support improving the quest for 2 reasons. Reason 1 I'm tired of seeing forum threads whining about it. Reason 2 clearly it's what most players want, and would facilitate more players enjoying the content while it's still relevant. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
Someone once upon a time suggested having the AoC not require keys and only needing to do the quest for OW. That way anyone who wants to go experience it in era w/o any toxicity can and anyone who wants to do the quest can and go collect the bonus loot. The casuals can be casual and the people who batphone for raid mobs and that think their world records on Phinny 5.0 mean anything can fight amongst themselves to do that. Everybody wins.
it's not even a casual thing. even if you accept the toxicity as part of the experience and being "hardcore". the quest is too long for an 8-week Kurnark
VP is less than a speed bump. Play EQ past the worst eras (classic-LDoN). Solved. I will never understand the rush to get into VP. It's one of the worst raids around and the loot is pretty bad. DPG should just key everyone so it becomes less 'a thing'. Granted there's like no raid content in Kunark but that goes to the above.
Honestly? Its something to do. Trying to keep a guild together and motivated til we get a solid few days a week of content in Velious and beyond is a job. I am just trying to give people stuff to do.
No disagreement from me. I think they should just launch in Velious. The forum warriors always cry for that classic experience and Yelinak actually got this time period extended from the original plan, from my understanding.
If I'm totally honest, Classic is my favorite era, if for no other reason than just nostalgia because I love reliving that world as it was when it first launched. But even despite that, I wouldn't be against a TLP launch that started with Classic through Velious and lasted for a few months before we got Luclin. But what would be even better is if they fixed this quest on a launch like that! Even though a lot of people would probably skip this quest, but there are completionists like me that will want the Traveler and Conquerer achievements for the zone haha.
I'm confused about this post. You may think the worst eras are classic-LDON, however, a lot of the TLP and EQ player base in general seem to disagree. Anyone who says these were bad eras is simply lying to themselves. Everquest gained its notoriety through these eras that you proclaim are so terrible. People fell in love with the game and thousands continue to play it for these expansions alone. I am sure live and the expansions leading up to it have some great content. I enjoyed quite a lot of later expansions. However for me personally, they lost the feel of the EQ era's that you despise and I enjoy. I can agree that most of VP has some bad loot, but I think its a cool zone nonetheless. Players should be able to experience it without keying for weeks when they are already in an accelerated (2 month) Kunark. Just because you don't enjoy something doesn't mean other people don't.
And just because lots enjoy something doesn’t make it good. I mean…just look at pop music. That aside, VP should be more accessible to people playing in the era and it doesn’t matter that the loot is mostly trash. People just wanna roll through with their homies and kill some dragons. They should be able to do that without enduring absurdly toxic and tedious quests. This shouldn’t be such an issue.
Just because people show up year after year to play the same expansions with their friends while providing DPG with their biggest revenue source doesn't mean the early expansions are "good". In fact, that must mean they are bad! Just look at pop music! Got it.
There’s a combination of reasons people keep returning to the same xpacs year after year. Reason 1 is nostalgia. It’s an itch I’ve felt compelled to scratch myself Reason 2 is kronolording. The itemization of early xpacs is the perfect recipe for it. Reason 3 is hype mongers. Usually each group of friends has at least 1 hype monger in it that convinces the group to go to the server that’s new and shiny. Reason 4 is familiarity. Many people left the game when WoW and other games came out, or when the hot mess that was GoD was released. So the EQ they’re familiar with is the one that existed before they left. Everything that happened in EQ after that is scary, unfamiliar territory to them. Reason 5 is the lvl 70 slog era that exists between OOW and PoR. It’s a really rough patch of the game that causes many that want to stick it out on TLPs to burn out, and by the time they feel like playing again a new server is releasing. This era serves as a major hurdle between classic era and the juicier content beyond TSS. This combination of reasons not only breathes life into new servers, but also increases the attrition of older TLPs. It has little to do with the content being “good.” Lots of people say they like it (despite clamoring on ForumQuest to change almost everything about it), and that’s fine. Nobody’s saying you can’t like it. But people liking it (or saying they do) doesn’t make it good.
This response would've irritated me in the past. But dealing with my 13 year old who thinks he's way more clever than he is, on a daily basis, has me pretty well tempered to this type of behavior. Regardless, I still hope you get the changes to the quest that you're advocating for.
This quest is really stupid for how short Kunark is, not to mention if you don't cheat you have a near zero chance of getting the Ancient Jarsath because people flock to it as soon as it spawns and you don't even get to see it
