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My experience after purchasing Luclin

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 15
Date: December 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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.

Buggy as heck

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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.

Bleh, thnx for nothing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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...

Shadows of Luclin / Released before it was ready

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As a loyal player of Everquest for more than a year-and-a-half, I rushed out on the release date to purchase Everquest: Shadows of Luclin. Geez, what a mistake.

First time I tried to install the software, crashed on locked files and and had to run the install program again. Loaded fine on the second try.

Finally got it loaded and set up after three hours of configuring and logged in. The graphics were a little better than the pre-Luclin EQ, but the clipping plane looked odd and the sky in the zone I was in (Greater Fay) was non-existent even though it was on.

Took my high level wizard (50's) to Nexus to zone into Shadow Haven to buy the new spells we were looking forward to, crash to desktop. Logged back in (and let me tell you folks, you will be twiddling thumbs waiting to log back in), crash again. Restarted computer, logged back in, crash again. Turns out, Shadows of Luclin has an issue with AMD K6-2 processor chips that Verant / Sony is in the process of trying to find a work around for. Anyone with this type of chip was getting locked up and crashed to desktop in certain zones and as of this date and four days after I installed the software, my wizard is still stuck in there with no fix in site. This is just one of the bugs.

Another issue was the promotion of a feature in which the "Bazaar" zone was supposed to have a feature where you can set up an unattended character to market items you were selling. Well, as of the release of the software that feature was not included and we just found out this week (after the release) that that feature was not implemented because there was not enough "time" to work out the code, so it will be added in at a later date. Please.

If you are using Windows 95, you will need to upgrade to Windows 98 or better because DirectX 8.1 which is required to run Luclin is not supported on Win95.

Expect slow frame rates, lag, long zone times. All being "fixed" according to the corporate tech site.

I understand that software releases in this day and age will have some issues, but if you haven't bought this yet I would wait for a month or two. Read the EQ websites for updates and let Verant / Sony get the major bugs in this thing worked out. I really like Everquest and I am sadly disappointed in this release. Its like someone really didnt care and rushed it out the door for Christmas.

Why did Everquest do this?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Everquest has put out Shadows of Lucin without warning us(the old playerbase) that major system modification would be required.
NOTE: this also comes right at christmas when most peoples hard earned cash is being spread thin already.
I have heard from some of my fellow players spending up to ($$$)to upgrade things like memory, video cards, and even new p.c.'s just to play at the old level.
As far as I am concerned this was uncalled for just to put in 1 minor feature that was not required for play.
Thos of us who chhose not to upgrade(or cannot afford to) or locked completely out of the game.

The Luclin Bug

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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.

Absolutely Pathetic

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

You figured the guys at Verant would have at least tested this buggy piece of garbage. But, as it is, their motto is "your in our world now." and I suppose the rest of that statement ought to read; "and if you don't like it, then tuff..." Horrible customer service and a condescending, and almost disdainful regard for their "customers", is par for the course for these clowns. I would strongly recommend this tittle for those with strong masochistic tendencies.

SUPER LAGG A LOPOGIS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: December 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Crashes every ten seconds and everyone is running around naked! Whats up with that?

Get a Clue!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Sony has managed to rune all the fun of EQ by releasing the Shadows of Luclin WAY before they were ready. Only a hand full of video cards can handle the game and even those are crashing at least twice and hour. The lag rates have doubled the link deads have tripled and I you think there Tech support is willing to help,,,, You dead wrong! Hands down the worst purchase of the year and I guarantee they will lose thousands of gamers as a result.

Don't buy this game!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: January 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Hello, I would have to say that on the order of 1-5 id give this game a neg 10. Why? Because it is unplayable. I own a mid range system, well over 1/2 GIG of ram, voodoo5 with 64megs. I found that swiming through molassas would be faster than trying to play in the new zones. Ive never seen such terriable frame rate/lag in 20 years of gameing on a puter. And for the record, Ive been a loyal EQ fan for 3+ years, paying in beta, and throught ever expansion release. Ive never seen such horrible performace. Sony/Verant has really done a backslide on their ability to present a playable module. Some might say it runs great on a P with a 1 gig+ processor, well to you i say, if you need a 1 gig proc, to run an app that is not server or DB related, somethings wrong... If you feel you have some twisted desire to own this module, send me an email, ill sell you mine.....

Rachan
retired 53 cleric
(and others)
CT server...

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