EverQuest

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Customer Reviews:

Commiting suicide has never been easeir! [Posted on 2003-04-26]
This game is unexplicably fun, it drives you insane when your character dies, it makes you go into tears when you acquire your spells. THIS GAME IS EVIL...First off you do one thing, kill, kill, and kill. Sure there are quests and of course tradeskills, but those two things are only possible by killing, and get boring and pointless. SO then you just end up killing everything, you keep going and going until it sucks your brain dry. DON'T buy this game...

Don't Waste your money! [Posted on 2004-01-25]
I'm thankful I was given this game as a gift, because I would be seriously upset if I had paid money for this. First off, Sony was too cheap to actually give you all the discs you need to install this software and you have to spend hours downloading the rest of the program from their website. Second, you have to pay $12.95 per month to have the honor to play this game, NOT a small fee. And when you finally get to the point when you can play the game, it lacks direction and has akward controls. But don't worry, you'll be disconnected every fifteen minutes so you won't have to waste your time on this game.

What I don't understand is how Sony expects people to buy this game when you can purchase many other similar games (Diablo 2, Baldur's Gate) that you can play online for no additional cost (or play wihtout having to log on at all). Spend your money on something else.

ever quest rocks [Posted on 2005-09-08]
everquest is the ultimate game!!!!!!I play it around 5 hours a week.Dont consider it buy it!!!!there are ssoo many zones to go in and endless explorations. Im currently a lv22 Iskar necromancer named Jortiz Shadowgaurd .Hope you enjoy it!!!!

Many many bugs in this boring game [Posted on 2005-09-11]
I played this game for several hours and I have ran into a multiple number of problems with the game.

How fun is this game?

Not very fun at all. This is nothing but a hack and slash game where no tactics are required. It is also very frustrating. You die quite often and when you do you lose all of your possessions until you recollect your possessions from your corpse. This means that you need to find your corpse which can take a lot of time. It takes a lot of time because it takes several minutes for your character to travel from one location to another because everything is needlessly placed several minutes apart. There is an instance where I go to my corpse and everything I had was now gone!! This is a bug in the game that the designers are probably aware of.
In order to recover your ability to cast spells, you simply have your character sit down and just wait and wait and wait. I was playing this game and reading a book at the same time because there was so much waiting for my character to recover.
Other examples of programming bugs are dialogue mistakes with NPC characters. YOu are supposed to type in phrases from a predetermined list to interact with some NPC's but half the time, it doesn't work! Not only that but the actual NPC dialogue was obviously written by people with little English skills but the sentences were very confusing and hard to understand. It would have been nice if Sony hired an English speaking American to write the dialogue.

If you like a game with lots of waiting, bugs, frustration, and a monthly fee for a game you already bought, then this is the gamne for you. I wish I could return the game but its already opened.

Excellent game - can be frustrating though [Posted on 2005-10-20]
I purchased this game when it was first released in February of 1999. It is very addictive and the game has gone through numerous expansions and changes since its enception. Although the play dynamics were very boring when the game first came out it has improved greatly. It has a group based play system, which means you have to combine your character skills with other character's skills to accomplish a goal to defeat a creature or MoB as they are called in game. Some MoB bosses requiring up to 60 or more players to defeat. After a kill the the player or players earn experience and collect any items or coin that drop. Some characters classes are soloable but most aren't.

Other things players can do is learn a trade skill, which requires lots of coin or platinum pieces. The higher the skill level of a player, the more likely they are to produce items that will sell for a nice profit.

Player run guilds are also an option for players to join. To join a guild often requires a long trial period before the guild leaders decide if a character is suitable or not. Ten players are required and some form of organizational documentation for GMs to allow a player to start a guild. Many guilds have their own websites and forums.

Usually the game doesn't start getting interesting until a character gets past level 25 or so. The upper levels, 60+, provides the highest opportunity in the game and the most enjoyment. Be prepared to die alot in all levels.

With the game being six years old, starting a new character maybe somewhat difficult since most players are 60+ and grouping has a 10 level spread. There are low level characters in the game, they just have to be found.

The game has many more features. I have only mentioned the most prevelant ones.

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