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With that in mind, Daybreak is effectively calling this next title a reboot of the original, with modern graphics, gameplay, and style, while still feeling familiar enough that fans immediately recognize the world. With that in mind, Chan is quick to point out that this new title isn’t even past the concept phase and that things can change as development moves into pre-production and prototyping.
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not even past the concept phase? how about putting out content for their existing title.

As learned from EQ2 - EQ1 players really enjoy EQ1.

Unless they planned on closing down EQ1 servers, I imagine a 3rd title or 3rd iteration of the game would just dilute their existing base further.

If their current "new UI engine" is any indication of what they're doing, talking about "modern graphics" seems ???

"modern gameplay" --- sounds like microtransactions - eq1 players are not about that life.
 
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not even past the concept phase? how about putting out content for their existing title.

As learned from EQ2 - EQ1 players really enjoy EQ1.

Unless they planned on closing down EQ1 servers, I imagine a 3rd title or 3rd iteration of the game would just dilute their existing base further.

If their current "new UI engine" is any indication of what they're doing, talking about "modern graphics" seems ???

"modern gameplay" --- sounds like microtransactions - eq1 players are not about that life.
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I'll be surprised if they even get this off the ground, given the limited budget they allocated for this. They said something like 25-30 Million for the entire game. I don't see how you pull together a quality MMO these days with that amount. They do pay peanuts, so maybe that helps. But I think EQ3 is just trying to build some PR hype for the brand; funny, they've gone from "EQ3 in concept phase" in 2023 to announcing in 2024, "EQ3 still in concept phase."
 
L8erGator said:
I'll be surprised if they even get this off the ground, given the limited budget they allocated for this. They said something like 25-30 Million for the entire game. I don't see how you pull together a quality MMO these days with that amount. They do pay peanuts, so maybe that helps. But I think EQ3 is just trying to build some PR hype for the brand; funny, they've gone from "EQ3 in concept phase" in 2023 to announcing in 2024, "EQ3 still in concept phase."
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TOB feels like "concept phase" lol
 
"reboot of the original, with modern graphics, gameplay, and style"

So, just like Star Wars and Marvel on Disney? Star Trek on Paramount Plus?
Or Bioware, CDPR and every other game design studio in existence?

What could possibly go wrong?

There is a reason why I pay to play a 25 year old game.
 
EQ is the greatest game of all time. But I have realized that a key ingredient is being in college, first time on my own, little responsibility, staying up late, skipping class, going out drinking and coming back to play drunk EQ, playing till 8 am and getting breakfast then sleeping all day. None of that will exist again in my life unless I end up in a badass nursing home some day.

While I just started with the RG/MQ stuff, the automated boxing is the closest I've come to being able to relive all of it. With all that said, if they are smart they will integrate boxing into the game and/or add private servers and/or add AI players to any future EQ.

I'll be surprised if they even get this off the ground, given the limited budget they allocated for this. They said something like 25-30 Million for the entire game.
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This is where the "remake" idea is pretty good. They could save a lot if they just made EQ with some modern improvements.
 
Rusang said:
Exciting, but I just wanna play EQ with RG software. Is that too much to ask? :)
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@Rusang wish granted, you can play EQ with RG but only as a troll paladin that can’t be healed or rezzed

I wish at @Rusang made wishes in the Paw post instead of other discussion threads


Thats Good Robert Deniro GIF
 
I wish they would just upgrade the current game with a modern graphics engine like Unreal.
Imagine all the current content and gameplay but with ray tracing, high-quality textures, etc.
And no zoning 🫠
 
That whole bit in the investor meetings of EG7 where they had a proposed budget of 30 mil for a new EQ game was sell job to try and entice investors. The problem is it doesn’t look like it worked because their stock is still in the toilet. They are also debt heavy. One reason they sold off the Planetside IP to get rid of some debt and generate capital. I just don’t see EG7 investing a lot into a major project as a new MMO for EQ.

I get it that discussions are underway and Jen revealed a little that her vision would be to keep the same world just with updated graphics and more intuitive controls and gameplay. Let’s not forget the disaster that was EQ Next and that was when they had a lot more available capital from Sony.

Oh and she said EQ has only 20 to 30 people working on it that is split between eq1 and eq2. There are art, sound, database, network server people. My geuss the actual people that write code is 5 to 6 and I just don’t see how it would be possible to create a modern MMO with so small a team in a decent time window.
 
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I wish they would just upgrade the current game with a modern graphics engine like Unreal.
Imagine all the current content and gameplay but with ray tracing, high-quality textures, etc.
And no zoning 🫠
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can't imagine the hardware required to run eq with all that.

performance sucks already (with old and new ui engine)
 
raw said:
I wish they would just upgrade the current game with a modern graphics engine like Unreal.
Imagine all the current content and gameplay but with ray tracing, high-quality textures, etc.
And no zoning 🫠
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when you hit the lottery and bankroll this, i'll be there to play
 
Sic said:
can't imagine the hardware required to run eq with all that.

performance sucks already (with old and new ui engine)
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That was exactly my thought process to the whole thing.

A "modern" EQ will require modern hardware. If the gaming industry as a whole is seen as an example the minimum specs will be a 4080 and 32gb of DDR.
I never played EQ because it had awesome graphics. As a product of the 80's I remember thinking Duke Nukem was amazingly detailed...

Kids are playing minecraft and enjoying the game completely made from cubes. Super realistic graphics should be a footnote on an MMO
 
Cybris said:
I get it that discussions are underway and Jen revealed a little that her vision would be to keep the same world just with updated graphics and more intuitive controls and gameplay. Let’s not forget the disaster that was EQ Next and that was when they had a lot more available capital from Sony.
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Jen and vision does not belong in the same sentence !
 
raw said:
I wish they would just upgrade the current game with a modern graphics engine like Unreal.
Imagine all the current content and gameplay but with ray tracing, high-quality textures, etc.
And no zoning 🫠
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With how old EverQuest's codebase is, updating everything to a game engine like Unreal would be a monumental undertaking.

I definitely agree that upgrading the current game to a modernized engine would be really sweet, but it makes a lot more sense for them to go for an entirely new solution.

That way they can drip feed us all the same content that the current game has for $40+ year after year with less effort, but it's a little bit shinier! :)
 
I'm not putting any thought into this for a long while. Not worth the disappointment that will likely happen.

arcreactorkc said:
Kids are playing minecraft and enjoying the game completely made from cubes. Super realistic graphics should be a footnote on an MMO
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Side note. I'm an adult playing Minecraft. The game is amazing especially Modded. Just saying lol. Also EverQuest on Minecraft was pretty cool!
 
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