re: MMORPG input please!

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A. EQNext will really happen and
B. That it will be what I keep hoping for out of an MMO

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I played EQ on a pvp server for years and whatever you think EQNext will offer pvp wise may be a let down. PVP in eq was great!

You could kill people and loot one of their items of gear that they wear and sell it or gear up your toon even more. My friends from school and I would group up and go gank people and it was epic fun. So PVP in the old days was extremely terrifying and made it fun to go kill people because you were rewarded with money and items.

Then they got rid of all that and the programmers stopped caring about balancing classes and it was crazy how overpowered classes were. Basically PVP became just a way to annoy people exping or farming and became more of an annoyance. Class balance just became laughable ... I had a Berserker who was the best pvper in the game and I could take out an entire group in a minute and still be alive! It was so overpowered that people see my toons name in a zone they would just log out of game...

EQ was possibly one of the greatest content, raiding, questing, etc. games that I have ever played. However, they completely gave up on all the pvp servers when they merged all of them onto one server and concentrated more upon the PVE of the game.

DAOC was a great game, however the rvr aspect got kind of old and boring. Warhammer Online was superb IMHO for RVR. However, class balance issues and the selling of the rights to another company led to the demise of that great concept.