Comments on: Today’s “Big News” Press Leak Postponed

By: Glenolas

Glenolas — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:39:27 +0000

From Feldon:

“We know Eqnext will be f2p with a cash shop just as I know water is wet.
It will have less than 24 classes.
It will be built with PvP in mind.
Other than that it’s a mystery.”

You could add “will work with a playstation console, and maybe even your Iphone”.

SOE reports directly to Playstation, who has over 100x the playerbase of SOE and always needs new games. I’d bet rain stopping permanently worldwide before I’d bet EQ Next won’t be built for it as well as the PC market.

By: Lempo of Everfrost

Lempo of Everfrost — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:48:48 +0000

Makes me want to vomit.
I wonder if this feature would have my character actually bend over and puke out a huge puddle of the tripe that is filling the SC shop.

By: Seggen

Seggen — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:40:31 +0000

Here is more:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/01/soemote-implants-your-facial-expressions-movement-and-voice-onto-your-eq2-avatar/

By: Seggen

Seggen — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:37:17 +0000

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/06/01/soemote-tech-brings-live-facial-expressions-voice-to-everquest/

By: Anaogi

Anaogi — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:48:17 +0000

Dead Hills. Bank on it.

By: Feldon

Feldon — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:56:22 +0000

Most likely we’re looking at an expansion announcement… let’s go back to Luclin! Who cares if it’s in pieces?

It’s been stated that we’re not going to any EQ1 continent/area.

By: Revelin

Revelin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:49:12 +0000

Improved multithreading or GPU off-loading for the game’s engine would make my dreams come true. Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure they don’t have the resources to do that, with all the new cosmetic items they need to keep pumping out to the marketplace to make the game profitable. I doubt we’ll see shader 3.0 again anytime soon, seeing as how that turned out to be a complete waste.

Most likely we’re looking at an expansion announcement… let’s go back to Luclin! Who cares if it’s in pieces?

By: Murfalad

Murfalad — Thu, 31 May 2012 23:01:50 +0000

I’d like to believe its something significant in the graphics department myself, shader 3.0 showed when it worked how much better the existing art assets could be if rendered well.

In theory they could translate the current assets to be read in by their new engine (probably requiring a lot of rework though).

But I’d be shocked (in a nice way) if it actually was something like a graphics update, or some sort of game reset (in the style of WoW’s cataclysm) since at least for the last year or so they’ve done nothing that wasn’t focussing development for short term gain.

By: Seggen

Seggen — Thu, 31 May 2012 21:56:14 +0000

For some reason I think it will be graphics related; thats something that players would be excited about that is worthy of showing at E3.

By: Kwill

Kwill — Thu, 31 May 2012 21:14:42 +0000

I don’t know why their presence at E3 would be such a great hairy deal, anyway. There’s really nothing that dramatic, at least in my mind, that could be revealed at E3 about EQ2 that would be game changing.

Or would there …

Level cap raise? You can buy useful stuff with station cash (thus making all our fears come true)? The gnomes invented robot tanks, so you can pimp your ride? The introduction of firearms, used by beastlords, of course?

Or, more likely, they introduce yet another senior producer, or Smokejumper is back on EQ2 as senior producer, or some other personnel change. Perhaps Brasse is going to Germany to head up Alaplaya?

The speculations could be endless. These are just my wildest guesses!