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Snore...Not another expansion!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 62
Date: October 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Seriously, how many more monsters do you need to kill before you get totally bored with this whole genre? All these games are nothing more than a extrmely slow First person shooter. You and your "team/party/clan/guild" fight the Monster/other party so you can get new weapons/armor/magic items to go and fight more powerful monsters/party and so on and so on. A lot of reviewers after me will probably flame this review say there is more to it than that and I ask you what? Interaction with other characters? Why not just join a chat room? It sure is a lot cheaper. There hasn't been any real new inovation since Everquest came out, and no realm vs realm isn't an inovation its just a variation of race war on Everquest PVP servers. I mean "real" innovation, like the abillity to actually affect the game, like if you kill the big bad dragon/monster/god that it dosen't respawn 15/30/60 minutes later with the same items and the same location it spawns. Instead of offering new lands with new monsters to kill why not add some new features like the abillity to become a king or queen of the land and the abillity to control NPC's that own a shop or something to that effect. Until then it's just filler to make more money, Really so now your a 70th lvl wizard with the most powerful DD spell in the land where does that truly get you, can you do anything new other than fight a more powerful monster? I don't know maybe I'm asking for too much but we are paying a monthly charge after all. And belive me I love the idea of the MMORPG and I really want it to work but I think that we have a long way to go. Maybe when the hardware becomes more powerful we can expect more content to the game.

P.S. Just so you know I have played EQ,DaoC,Ultima Online and all my characters made it to at least 40th lvl before becoming totally bored with doing the same thing over and over and over and over.

Waste of Time and Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: November 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Another Expansion? What the heck they just came out with one about what 5 months ago geez i think the word Greedy comes into play . Come on I mean 1st they bring out a Expansion that requires you to upgrade your computer in order for it to work.... then they jack up the subscription Fee and now this . Save your money Folks for Star Wars Galaxies or World of Warcraft

Big...Huge waste of money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: November 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The recent nerfs have taken a significant amount of fun out of the game. This includes nerfs to the wizards, monks and mod rods. This game is a pitiful way for Sony to suck more money out of you. It offers nothing more than more time sinks, which in turn adds more money to line Sony/Verants pocket books. I play a 60 wiz and have purchased this game, and have played in the the new "planes", Dont waist your time, and money folks. This game has become more of a frustration than anything.

EQ soon to be replaced by EQ 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Planes of Power isn't bad, its nice to see Verant has addressed some travel time constraints with potports. Used to be you'd spend several hours if you wanted to get someplace, waiting on boats etc. Verant took their complaints seriously and three and a half years later we have PoP. If you're not high level, there's nothing in the Planes for you. If you are high level you've probably heard what you need about it from your guild.

If you're thinking of starting Everquest, don't bother. Verant will be coming out with EQ 2 soon enough and even then with their habit of nerfing classes (monk class was made into gimps with most recent nerf), I'm in no hurry to play EQ2. Star Wars maybe. Though expect to see jedi knights nerfed three years down the line.

I'd rate 0 if it allowed it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: November 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Sony Online Entertainment has once again released yet another incomplete expansion full of bugs, character imbalance, stupid time sinks and VERY FEW working quests (strange considering the NAME of the game)...You pay close to [cost] US for this game PER MONTH, shouldnt they at least answer customer service issues? Purchase this game at your own risk, 2 thumbs down once again for Sony Online Entertainment and Everquest.

Don't waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've played EverQuest for almost 2 years now. Planes of Power has nothing in it for a character unless that character is almost level 60. Even then, Sony/Verant is slowly but surely destroying this game. One example would be the recent nerfs (class wimping) of the Monk class and the Wizard and Mage classes. Also Sony/Verant's customer service is notoriously bad. This expansion is not worth it.

PoP - the "uber" expansion

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: January 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you belong to a guild who can field 40 lvl 65 players for the hours on end to get "flagged" PoP is for you. If you are a casual player you will never see 50% of the expansion in its current state.

PoP is generally thought of by the player base as unfinished upon release. Players were promised an end to mindnumbing timesinks that made up the Velious expansion and instead you have an expansion that is made up of nothing but timesinks.

In numerous surveys conducted on class boards more than 50%-80% of the players responding had serious problems with PoP be it the flagging methods, loot distribution, etc.

In general, casual players are cancelling accounts and many are blaming PoP.

Probably the worst thought out Expansion to date

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: January 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is quite possibly the worst thought out expansion to the game to date. The addition of character flags has effectively cut off 80 percent of the players from even accessing the upper planes. Come play our game with your friends! Oh wait you can't because you can't get into the same zone with them..so sorry!
This addition and the relative decimating of older zones in the game by the additions of higher levels, overbalanced players and spells, and bad experience modifiers has cause this game to become even more elitist than it previously was. Add to that the rediculous twinking and destruction of game balance in general through overpowered drops useable by anyone, and rampant exploits/powerleveling and you have a wonderful game to be enjoyed by any 10 year old haxxor who has no regard for others.

Know what you're getting

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Looks like it could be an okay expansion. You can fight the "gods," so time will tell. Still, some notes. The box screenshots show Luclin graphics -- if you play the game straight out of the box you'll get old graphics. Not a big deal, but buyers should be told and they're not. Also, you can't go beyond the first zone in Planes if you're not high level. Nowhere on the box is this mentioned. Transportion issues should have been settled via a patch rather than an expansion.

First Of The Post-Verant Letdowns

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: August 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

"EverQuest: Planes Of Power" was obviously designed to cater to "Uber-Guilds," an expression used in the EverQuest online community to denote player guilds which are rather advanced in skills and prior experience, and large in numbers. The single adventurer, as well as the casual gamer or relative newcomer, will find little to no content whatsoever which is available to them in this expansion pack (past a certain point). It is all about groups and large scale raids. Solo gameplay in the "Planes of Power" zones is next to impossible, and that is appparently by design. In fact, several player class abilities were "nerfed" by Sony just prior to the release of this expansion, ostensibly to "better balance the classes." It is far more likely that those "nerfs" were enacted to prevent any possibility of traditional solo classes (such as Wizards and Druids) from being able to do any effective soloing in the new zones.

Another problematic feature of this add-on is the overpowered "gear" that one can obtain from the high-end encounters featured in "PoP." Introducing too much "uber gear" to an MMORPG game is precisely what ultimately ruined "Diablo 2" when the "Lord of Destruction" expansion was released. For many gamers, the focus becomes shifted away from roleplaying and game content, and instead toward greed for items which they can strut and show off to other players. It also tends to make player characters who *can* manage to obtain those items a bit too powerful, which hardly seems to fit in with Sony's highly questionable assertions... that several prior ability nerfs were done to "better balance the classes." If anything is true about "Planes of Power," it's that it is decidely UN-balanced in the extreme.

Painfully short on game content, all too few and sloppily written quests, overly lengthy encounters and a generally poor payoff in the "Plane of Time" endzone are what one can expect from this mediocre expansion pack. Whilst it is a "must have" for all EverQuest players, it hardly stacks up well against prior expansions such as "Scars Of Velious" or "Shadows Of Luclin" so far as actual depth, atmosphere and overall content is concerned. This is also the first EverQuest expansion set which the original game designers (Verant International) had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with, and it shows. Moreover, "Planes Of Power" is an expansion pack which 99% of all players will never see the bulk of, due to their being unable to assemble the "muscle" required to fully explore the additional zones and adversaries. Not being able to see three quarters of a game you pay for is rather disappointing (to say the least), so unless you already belong to a highly-skilled player guild, do not expect to progress past a very superficial point in this add-on to EverQuest.

Lastly, "The Planes Of Power" tends to look and play more like a Sony PlayStation 2 game than an add-on for a classic PC based MMORPG. Storyline depth and roleplaying content has been replaced in favour of eye candy, overpowered enemies, and ridiculously and unnecessarily overpowered items designed to appeal to player egos. "PoP" is not entirely without merit, but depending on what you look for in a roleplaying game, you may be disappointed overall. Defenders of this add-on have often said to me "Well, Sony knows what sells, that's why PoP is the way it is, and that's the bottom line." Naturally, I have no problem with manufacturers of PC games making a profit on their merchandise, but I see no reason why profits and product integrity need be mutually exclusive concepts.

Thumbs down overall, but a necessary add-on for all EverQuest players.

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