EQ2 Producer’s Letter from Dave SmokeJumper Georgeson
From Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson on the EQ2 Forums:
So, you’re probably curious how EQII will be growing and changing in 2011, right?
Well, it’s finally time to share. This year is all about content and entertainment and we intend to give you plenty of both. The following outlines some of the broad strokes to get you thinking about what’s coming…and possibly just a little excited, as well.
First of all, if you’re a “Destiny of Velious” owner, you’re going to be *extremely* happy that you made that purchase. Why? Because DoV is going to be the biggest, best expansion that has ever been made. We’ll be releasing content on a regular basis that continues to tell the “Age’s End Prophecy” saga, and the only price of admission is that you own DoV. The Age’s End story gets really big before it’s done and it’s going to take us a good chunk of time to tell it all, but we’ll do so by releasing chapters of it every few months and building the story a bit at a time. Velious is a big place, and so is this story. It’ll be a good ride.
Secondly, we’re going to revamp Freeport and make Evil an exciting place to be. Freeport (and next year, Qeynos) will become multi-level adventure hubs with instanced content at many levels. The city itself is also getting a facelift as Freeport reorganizes itself to retake its place as a driving power of the world. Additionally, it’s becoming a single zone (instead of many sub-divisions) and flyable. When we upgrade Qeynos, it will get the same visual upgrade and zone treatment, and will bring back the “Greater Good”.
The Gods of Norrath will be returning to once again directly muck about with the lives of mortals. Too long has the world of Norrath spun along on its own axis. It’s time again for it to feel the touch of the divine.
On the non-content side of things, we’re going to be working on a lot of stuff “under the hood” to make your gameplay better. We’re looking into ways to increase the speed of our game and graphics engine, some of which could be very significant, which would obviously make raids and public quests a lot more fun, as well as boosting smoothness of gameplay for everyone. We’re revamping the way that our terrain is created so that we can bring you content more quickly, but still with high quality, thus increasing how big the world can become.
And last but not least, we’re crafting a host of new features and fun ways to play the game. Some of our current ideas are way outside the box for an MMO and we’re pushing hard to bring you new experiences (more on these later!).
We’re already one of the best MMOs out there. This year we’re going to become even more unique and exciting. 2011 is a good year to be Norrathian.
— Dave “Smokejumper” Georgeson
P.S., A detailed feature list of the upcoming GU 60 will be announced soon, and more elements of the longer-ranged features will roll out in successive months. This letter is just to let you know the general direction of where we’re going and what to expect.
Tags: destiny of velious, freeport, game update 60, qeynos
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Comments (7)
Poster
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Happy to see they’re going to do something with Freeport and Qeynos. I suspected something was up when they didn’t allow people to start there anymore.
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B0lster
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When do you plan to start advertising?
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Lathain
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very very far from happy (so extremely happy ? they revert the stats consolidation to previous SF ?)
borring. DoV is Borring
say thanks to Stats consolidation for ruining our game.
and the “balance” with an atomic bomb everytime an item is balanced. Always go to : “too good to be true” after “balance” it’s become : “useless junk”
the destroying balance.
How many player have wasted adornment on item that got destroyed by balance ? i bet they are all very happy 😉
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tagwen
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Wish I had a Lathain translator that is definitely not English.
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Mr_Skyfish
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Some of our current ideas are way outside the box for an MMO?
Really?
So does this mean we’ll be seeing weapons in game the kind that shoot bullets? lol
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Steve
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Think that’s the same Lathain from the EQ2 forums. Same jive turkey that thinks people who have more than one account are basically exploiting or something.
Not really sure after reading that post that I can take anything else he says seriously.
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tagwen
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Malawk wow has bullets already so That’s not outside the box at all.
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