Other Emulator news: EQII Emu hits the wall

[kinshi]

http://www.eq2emulator.net/phpBB3/viewt ... f=2&t=2393

Sad to see that much work fall by the wayside due to lack of interest.

I think SWG is blessed by having so many knowledgeable coders that also happen to have a passion for SWG as the reality outside of SWG and other server emulators is pretty bleak. Developers are NOT a plentiful resource, even if you do rent them from India and finding developers who give a damn about a specific MMO are even harder to find. The fact that SWG has enough interested devs to fuel two emulator projects (or more) is pretty special.

sigh..if only the developers who worked for the original publishers had the same level of passion for he games they worked on, how much better the game would be. (never seemed like many of the SWG devs truly liked SWG did it? It was just another coding project to many of them, resume filler as they worked their way up the SOE food chain for a coveted spot on the EQ II dev team). Seemed the devs who did really have passion for the game were the ones that wound up leaving SOE all together.

[kinshi]

Breaking news....it looks like SOE has delivered the final kick in the crotch for the EQII Emu...SOE announced today that EQ II will be launching free-to-play service/servers in mid-August of this year.

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/load ... -MidAugust

[AmeN]

Yep. Not a big fan of the move to free to play. I started playing EQ2 again just last month actually lol. Find that it is a lot better to play then WoW is. Better graphics, better community, a ton more to do, everything.

Free to play games usually fail from what I have seen. However since they are keeping it split for now between the paid for servers and the free to play servers it might not be so bad.

[Xiox]

Yep. Not a big fan of the move to free to play. I started playing EQ2 again just last month actually lol. Find that it is a lot better to play then WoW is. Better graphics, better community, a ton more to do, everything.

Free to play games usually fail from what I have seen. However since they are keeping it split for now between the paid for servers and the free to play servers it might not be so bad.

then again you probably haven't seen a game like SWG with a fanbase with this level of passion for it. BTW, jw are graphics really a deciding factor to how you'll enjoy a game??

Didn't think the resolution of detail actually made a difference, afterall WoW looks like complete **** yet they have soooo many players