44 thoughts on “February 2016 Producer’s Letter

    1. Those are the orc models, my guess is new content will feature orcs… I doubt they are re-skinning anything… That’s potentially a fair amount of work yes? Skin, Skeletong, animations…. but…. I guess a simple texture reskin would be smaller..

    2. Not sure how it helped WoW. All my toons suddenly looked like they’d developed birth defects of some sort or another. Then I didscovered how to disable the new models and the world was right again.

          1. I’m sure the graphics are amazing — South Korea knows how to put out insane graphics — but is it the Western MMO we all want, or an Eastern MMO which rarely does well in the US? (PvP-centric, extremely grindy, extremely focused on the cash shop, punishingly difficult in raids, so obvious in its timesinks as to be comical, etc.)

          2. It’s pretty awesome man. It will never replace EQ2 and most of us will be back. We hate to love EQ2! But some of the key mechanics of the game are things we could only dream about in EQ2. The game will launch with over 10,000 quests and have the most extensive tradeskill and housing system of any MMO ever made.

          3. The bad:
            The classes are all VERY limiting.
            Bag space and weight limitations.
            There is no way to turn off OwPVP once you hit level 45. Can level lock at 44 by not finishing your class quest.
            No class dependency like we’re used to. The classes all blend and it sucks.
            There are only a handgul of end game raid encounters. The good ones are contested, the other ones are spawned with scrolls.
            Broker prices are sorta set in stone with a low and high sell price.
            Leveling is WAY too fast.
            The guild system forces you to give members contracts. You pay them.
            Power and “contribution points” seriously hinder your gameplay.

            The good:
            Amazing quality graphics and art. Wow, just wow. Much better than EQN and without that pastel chalk looking crap.
            The housing system, crafting system and quest system are all tied together. Very very cool how they did this.
            Mounts have 30 levels each and 8 tiers. You can breed them (they have babies) in your house.
            Pets give benefits, also breedable and have tiers.
            The auto run feature literally runs you to wherever you want to go! Click the map and hit T, off you go.
            Mercenaries craft and farm nodes for you. Tied into housing. Buy as many as you can house.
            Very, very extensive armor and weapon upgrade system.
            Almost everything you see is harvestable. Extensive fishing system.
            The game has been out for 2 years in Korea and Russia. Most bugs are gone. New content is already developed.
            There are over 10,000 quests already, more incoming.
            The PVE system is really fun. Some unique mechanics like climbing on top of a house to save a cat or pushing a wheelbarrow to another village. Most of it is typical but some is very creative.
            The combat system is pretty awesomesauce. I do miss my buttons tho.
            The “Knowledge System” in the game is amazing! Everything and everyone is tiered. The more you do the better you get.

            https://www.blackdesertonline.com/preorder/

          4. I think EQ could top this MMO if they wanted to. I played the BDO beta and loved it, everything except there is really no end game for pve, maybe BDO will put that in later I dont know. I dont pvp so not happening here I will do everything else in the game then thats pretty much it unless they add more pve content.

          5. Nice write up i only disagree with a couple of your “bads”,
            The bag and weight restrictions to me are a nice throw back to old EQ1 days, weight means something and has to be accounted for, just like the weather and night. This is not a gear tread mill game however they are adding raids and dungeons going forward, they actually already started adding them in the Valencia 2 update with several Dungeons all on the desert area. Totally agree about the leveling being to fast however once you hit 50 that changes drastically. I leveled 2 characters to 54 on KR server and let me tell you 1 level post 50 feels like it takes more exp than 1-50, I hope that stays in the NA version.

          1. I agree with you guys. EQN has ZERO class dependency, one toon is every class. The graphics look like crap. It’s a cartoon game. There are only 2 good things about EQN…. destructible environment and it’s a new EverQuest. I’m still in awe that it has taken them 50 years to launch EQ3. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Thank God Smedley is gone.

  1. also you will need new servers. Or at least one’s that work as well as the test server…..I really have to wonder if Eq2 is being phased out. this has many I know worried…and please hire some customer service.

  2. Could we get some hints/news/updates on some new content?
    such as new “fableds”

    Maybe throw in a raid quest also.

    such as clear this zone then kill 6 dragons and you get a new shiny weapon or armor.

  3. So I’m not a fan of the new ork models. The old orks looked…animalistic. Brutal. Big foreheads and muzzle like faces. I feel these orks should of take inspiration from the old orks a lot more, and gone for a more neanderthal look.

    The letter tells us very little besides what we already knew. New fabled zones and mergers.

    1. I agree, we were told ok we got an xpac headed our way, something that happens every year. Other than that I was kind of like meh. Also I thought why are we retooling the orcs, oh well I guess they want them to kind of look like wow orcs.

      Oh well at least I was not the only one who felt the letter lacked a whole lot of information.

    2. Lol what are you talking about? Orcs ARE brutal. In almost every fantasy fiction that has orcs, they have all been animalistic with a chaotic warrior sense that have evil intentions.

      Have you ever read anything from JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth such as LOTR, The Hobbit, or The Silmarillion? JRR Tolkien created the foundation of what is an Orc for all others to follow.

  4. Consider this a positive; that DBG is actually informing it’s customers about future plans. Instead of the ‘dead silence’ that was so common earlier.

    And a surprise:

    “The team … already being waist-deep on our next expansion, all coming this year.”
    Holly “Windstalker” Longdale

    The usual pattern of fall/winter expansions has been pushed back to next year/spring(?)/summer(?). Or perhaps a full year?

    “coming in this spring update”

    it is rather sad that DBG in general has no sense of history; i.e. Khan instead of say Eisenhower? Spring, at least at DBG, is March 20th. Having a talk on March 15th, the “Ides of March,” is something else all together.

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    “Beware the ides of March.”
    Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, 1599

  5. Rum came out last year at the end of April so this timeline is pretty similar although the EoF fabled dungeons were a bit later.

    Am I the only one that really wants a level increase and/or another AA tree in the next expac? Being locked at 100 the last 2 expacs is kinda boring and having levels and/or AAs to grind out to do something new is very appealing to me.

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