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You will lose money on this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 25
Date: April 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Good game, lots of potential, really bad customer service. This is not a role playing game. This game is a first person shooter.

I've been playing EQ for a year now and am seriously addicted to the group of online friends I made in game, much as one would get addicted to a chat board.

Verant and Sony seem to take a very perverse pleasure in torturing their customers. They constantly make the game far more difficult to play. If you didn't win the race to be the first level 50, the game became twice as hard. if you like to do things like roleplay, the game is far more difficult. If you want this game to be anything more than Quake, a first person shooter, you're looking at the wrong game. Power levelers and cool dudes are rewarded while role-players are consistantly punished.

These people sold the Kunark expansion pack to thousands of people online. They took money and sent no products, then lost many orders. They do not answer their customer service phone. It takes them at least 2 weeks to answer email. Then they don't give you answers. They respond by saying you didn't give them enough information and refer you to the telephone line that they don't answer. And they do not tell you what information is missing.

If this review board had a zero rating, that's what I'd give here.

Game Fine Ruined by Poor Customer Service

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 18
Date: April 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game is nice. The potential enjoyment will be ruined by poor network service and absolutely horrendous Customer Service. You will get dumped regularly from the game servers. You will have billing problems. You will call for help and be endlessly referred to numbers no one answers. And if you are lucky, as I have been, you will be told "If you don't like our service, just quit the game. We are not making you stay!"

do NOT buy this game as a gift!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 15
Date: December 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Don't buy this game (the orginal or any add-ons) as a gift to anyone you truly care about. This game is addictive and time-consuming, and it can destroy people's lives, relationships and careers. Ulimately it is an empty time-waster designed to make money at the expense of people's time, exploiting human tendencies to egoism and procrastination. Verant make money from monthly subscriptions to the game, so it is in their interests to make it compulsive. The game is designed so that you will not enjoy it unless you spend substantial amounts of time playing. There are people who play up to 18 hours a day 7 days a week, which doesn't leave much time for Real Life. You have been warned!

EQ vs AC

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 17
Date: May 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Hello, I have been playing Asheron's Call for the last 6 months. Lately I have been itching for a change of scenery so I decided to pick up a copy of Everquest + its expansion. I thought to myself, "If this many people are playing this game, it has to be good" Well, I was definetly wrong. This game should be called Ever-wait. It takes a very long time to just log in,( One time I a recieved a message "servers are too busy, try again later" once in the game you are constantly bombarded by "zones" in which you must wait and download the next region, when you die you have to wait again to respawn, and finally there is even a 30 second count down ticker just to log off. The down-time is not the only thing that turned me off. The graphics and animations leave something to be desired. The game interface is terrible, definetly not user-friendly, and the online community seemed non-existent. You also have very little control over how your character evolves other than choosing your base character class. If I had to choose between Asheron's Call or Everquest, it would be AC hands down. AC is user friendly, no zones, A++ graphics, great online community (ie monarch system), and the game's storyline changes every month with FREE updates which include new quests, creatures, spells and cities (yes, there is a monthly fee as in EQ, but you don't have to buy an expansion pack). So if you are interested in joining a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game)I recommend playing Asheron's Call over Everquest. And if you are currently an AC player, don't lower your standards and play this game, it will only lead to frustation and disappointment.

Extremely lucky I even gave it one star.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: July 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Well, where do I start? We all know about the basics.......the lack of tech support, the missing roleplaying element, and the incredible lag. But it isn't these things that make this game so horrid to play. One can wing it without tech support........and I have on MANY occasions, out of necessity........I can also wait out lag or just reconnect. I missed the "Quest" part of Everquest.....but still managed to get some enjoyment out of the graphics. Now.....here's the REAL reason why you shouldn't get EverQuest. After around level 15 or so (if you are a talented soloist), you are FORCED to group to gain levels. That's right folks. You have NO choice in the matter. Guess what this means? This means you have to group with 5 other vicious, backstabbing whining, complaining 13 year olds that have absolutely no respect and little if any regard for you. I'd much rather put my trust in a rabid pit bull than trust the life of my character to a cleric who plays like a wizard.

Enough said. You will probably buy this game.....and probably think back on this review and say "Well, he was right after all". And I have only one thing to say to that.........I TOLD YOU SO.

Everquest... Hm...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 15
Date: May 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm a fanatic about RPG's, from Asherons call to MUD (many user dungeon), and another MUD player told me to get Everquest. I installed it, and it took AGES to connect. It's the slowest game I've ever played, and you have to wait to go into another area. The bad thing about it is the speed. The graphics are not all that bad, but I don't recommed this. . . :(

If developers want to know what NOT to do, play this game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 16
Date: November 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Why, the lag, steep system requirements, and bad gameplay, and the fact that the gameplay is outdated and uncomprimising, makeing you play in one way, and that way ain't good. What way is that? The sit and kill way. Thats all you do. Fans will argue that its deeper than that, but that isn't true. Thats all you do, theres no reason to roleplay or do anything usefull. Besides the crapy gameplay the game suffers alot of other problems, the lag is one, when I played it was really bad, nearly everywhere. I never had anyfun when my game was running at one frame per second! Anyways, if you want a good, solid roleplaying experiance play Ultima Online, if you want an outdated (by ten years!!) game masked by pretty graphics, go ahead get on the Everquest band wagon.

Great game...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 14
Date: March 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

thats right... gre..at?..game. See?: You get into the game and get all excited in the character creation screen. Just then you realize that there is only about five faces per race... WTF?! It's horrible, thousands of people play this game and they all look the same! It's like Nazi Germany Verant-style! So anyway, then you get into the game and start in your home-maze err umm city yeah city (maze!) and spend hours trying to find your guildhouse. Sure the nice people from the guildhouse give you a note for directions, but can you follow these instructions?: Go north from Jackpotty's Inn then go west and POW there it is... isn't it obvious? NO!! What they don't tell you is that all the buildings look the same and who knows where the heck Jackpotty Inn is? Huh?! Once you've found your guild, you get to turn in those great directions and you recieve your guild-potato-sack-shirt. Yeah lets go battle evil now! Time to leave the maze (another hour wasted looking for the exit), but don't worry you know your way around now don't you? NO!!! (Just think, you get to find your guild again after you gain a level to train! Fun!). Now its time to go battle evil... or rats as it is. Ok now you've found your target (a large rat), you click on it and hit "A". Now its time for the entertaining part... you get to see yourself get beat by a rat. Oh no, you don't have to do a thing, just hit "A" and sit back and relax (if possible, but the feeling only lasts a few seconds after you realize that you will die and you must run from the rat, but the rat can out-run you, too bad). You've probably died now. You are reborn in a strange neck of the woods that you've never been to in your life. Time to find your corpse (disturbing isn't it?) so you can retrieve your precious, precious items. Having fun yet? Good. Anyway, after four levels of rats and the occasional snake, you get to move on to bigger and better things... ok they aren't really bigger or better. Just about then things get hard. After dying, you no longer get your items back automatically so if you lose your corpse (eww) you're done for because it's impossible to get items back in this game. Now its time to start a new character or in my case cancel your account (this will be the best thing you will ever do). Basically this game is not fun, its all about greedy people who want more and more items. It's all about the items. As far as gameplay, its EXTREMELY REPETITIVE!!! The only thing I found mildly entertaining was PvP combat, but since there is no skill involved in fighting, it wasn't too fun. Never heard a whiner before? Well there's about 10000 whiners in this game! Wahhhh you stole my rusted burnt broken effriti mask of the land (what the heck is that?!). One more thing, watch out for EQ loyalists. I could go on and on, but I'll stop, besides you've probably stopped reading this by now =P.

When you buy a game...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: April 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

...you in effect, buy the company behind it. And to be frank, these people seem to take great joy in abusing their customers. The game really has AMAZING potential, I just don't think it will ever realize that potential with the current crew at the helm. The friends you make online might keep you playing tho (which is what happened to many of us). If you don't already have EQ, I wouldn't spend the money on this expansion... wait a few months for some of the other MMORPG's that are coming down the pike. Verant has left such a bad taste in my mouth, that I won't be buying the Star Wars MMORPG that Lucas has teamed with them to make. NEVER another Verant game... EVER.

RavenWarrior of Prexus

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: May 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Let me start by saying this: Hello, my name is RavenWarrior, and I'm a RPG addict. Now that this is said, I'm officially kicking the EQ "habit". Which is exactly how EQ is tailored. It has the necessary "hooks" to keep you coming back for more, while taking your money and offering very little in return. The online gaming community in EQ is neither supportive, nor friendly......heck, I got yelled at for saying good morning to someone in ooc "out of character" chat. And, this isn't about Role Playing. This is about Leveling. Which makes one wonder why they call it EverQuest. It should be called Everlag, Everlevel, Evergripe.......you get my point. Trust me, from one RPG fanatic to another......Kick the habit before you lose too much more money.

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