Well I heard SOE is shutting down all eqoa servers for good. Well John Smedley all I can say is SHAME on you for milking the final people that stayed until the end to try and keep this wonderful game alive. To all the people that played the Hodstock server it was an awesome time. I hope we all can meet and tell our stories together about eqoa in EQ Next. Fres
Man that sucks. Reading some of the posts in the official thread about, it's clear to see how much this game meant to its subscribers, the veterans and new players alike.
@Fresjr66 I played Marr's Fist, & had a 50 rogue on Ferrans also at 1 point... but hodstock.com was a great source of info for me when cms came out and I was planning my path to Slayer on my SK :P
I'm still amazed that SOE found a way to fit this enormous game onto a single DVD without having to make use of that ill-fated PS2 hard drive. This game was (and still is) truly massive.
@SuperXero89 indeed. I'm pleased to know that EQ Next supposedly will be more focused on the World built in the game than EQ 1 or 2 PC, and more seamless (no zone loading) like EQOA was. i remember finding so many neat places & middle of nowhere quests exploring EQOA it was a true adventure ... this was just something I read though, that they want to explore the social elements and focus on the world they create and the immersion in the next EQ game to come out
Nothing quite like the magic of your first mmorpg. I remember picking up Frontiers in the bargain bin at gamestop for $10, I had no real idea what "Ever Quest" was but it seemed interesting. Stepping into that massive world for the first time, sharing an epic adventure with thousands of other players, was such an amazing experience. EQOA held me for years, and I'm still playing mmorpgs to this very day and my career now revolves around them.
man... time flys, i remember this being like 2 years ago in my mind and it's been 9! i play forsaken world now, it took me YEARS to find a game that held my attention 10% as well as this did! I find myself the only person over the age 25 in every guild im in, no one knows wtf EQOA is and they all like crappy Music! it truly sucks growing old! These memories are precious to me!
A few friends and I, are planning on returning to the game to recreate our characters, hopefully before the new year. If anyone is interested in having a chance of reliving EQOA with a few like minded players, feel free to contact me via Youtube for more information.
I remember playing this game for a long time and even played WoW for a while too after i was done with EQOA....and nothing has ever yet come close to the amount of good times that EQOA provided!
Yes, EQOA was great, because you had to put a lot of time in to advance your character(s), almost always with the help of other players via groups and guilds. This kept the playerbase close, and it kept you striving to achieve your goals, even if it was something as simple as 'reach level xx', or acquiring a cool spell. Things like 'The Luck', and the damned pickclaw invasion enabled players to power-level so fast, often by themselves, that it effectively destroyed the community.
@Managasm Yes I agree the luck and picklaws was the beginning of the end for EQOA in terms of power leveling. But you have to admit the luck at the time of it coming out was the hottest item. I think it was SOE's last ditch attempt to attract more people to the game. I remember buying the luck in auction and never useing it. lol. Then boon came out and the rest is history.
@Managasm I agree, even some of the traditional and even more creative power level methods we used before all of that, like pet-powerleveling which i did with my nec for a friend's a monk and another friend of ours' alt, or the 'aoe' powerleveling hich i did with a couple of other boxers for a couple of our alts, still had us playing together lol. but I do miss the grind the most sometimes in each new game I play.EQOA made us play Together, not just together solo on the same server
just had a question, is there any difference between the origional eqoa and the frontiers version or is just an add on onto the origional game and same servers and stuff or totally different? Im still on the origional version name; stree 41 Delf warrior CLW server, still love playing it :)
If I recall correctly, there are quite a few important differences; a lot of the armor and character/npc models change, the level cap goes from 50 to 60, you gain access to the 'Class Mastery' system, and a bunch of new zones open up to you. Not to mention a new playable race, Ogres, and a new class, Alchemist, which was/is extremely powerful (kind of like smashing a Wizard and a Ranger together).
@Managasm I know the origional used to be at 50, but it jumped up to 60 since i started plating it again. Havent gotten on it in a while needed a new disk that got all scratched up,.so deleted accounts for a few years.. Getting back up there on a new character heh. Yeah think thats probably the only difference is the new races and classes,.. looks like the ole version still has the same ole ones.
Dammit SOE, you know you need to make an EQOA app for smart phones and the iPad. The game's PS2 console controls/menu format would only need to be tweaked a bit for a touch screen. The game is already developed. The graphics are acceptable for mobile devices. The CL server is already populated. It would be the most popular MMORPG application out there! The reason few of us play any more is because of the platform and because YOU stopped taking the game seriously. Just look at the nostalgia here.
Newb nostalgia is the best! I remember when I was level 12 Western Human in Qeynos, and I met up with 10 others running around looking at stuff; so we ran and went to the big cave, someone pulled Gertrude the big bear out and we all ran thinking we'd die. lol! Was my first funny experience in EQOA back in 2003. :-)
I remember when level 50 was highest level and we'd all hang out in Highpass chatting, trying to sell stuff, buy stuff and trade. Camping Tae Ew for Ruby! Those were the days!
@Northax lol when I got 50 the first thing I did was bank my tunar and suicide on highpass guards as a christening of sort... Sendiane a druid & Raiff a ranger helped me complete my SK epic... & Cera brought me to pre-loot Chard a bit before that. I rounded off the rest of the pinks to 50 at the Hill Giant camp with a couple of pals and we pwnd the camp until my ding. lol @ Gerty & Dumak b4 their buffs and xp caps per level.. I remember Crimson Knights my 1st guild good people MF 4ever
@Necronomnicon I remember a guy handing his guild down to me at a point ... The Dark Lords of the Sith ... I kept the name alive on some of my alts. He saw my SK Sidius and wanted to rest the name with a fan. Too many memories from this game... my very first online game & MMORPG. I still compare each new MMO I try to how I felt playing this game and the experiences I had with it, I haven't made as good of friends on most other games I've played, EQOA brought ppl together in design
I am glad to see that I am not the only one that embraced what Tunaria was in EQOA. I used sit at randomly located towers (Mostly on mountain sides or vast dunes) just to watch how much the wonderful landscapes differed at different times. It was truly magnificent. I have YET to play a game that can rival EQOA in terms of the game's realm.
Torpedo / Naroke here from CLW (Cosa Nostra). You said it almost perfectly. No games with ever compare to this one. I miss my huge PS2 controller with the keyboard in the middle so much. I could be in a group grinding for HOURS and just chat the whole time.
That was the only game I ever stayed awake for days at a time playing... I miss those days.
I dont know if I will ever get the joy from an mmo like i did with this one. It was just the first real mmo experience for me... and its also a dead style that just wont fly anymore. Its to bad really. I remember when I was like lvl 34 and so was some other ranger friend. We grinded to 37 on a long weekend(or something like that lol), and was so stoked for level 40. It seemed so darn high... 50 was out of the question lol. I will just never be excited about stuff like that anymore.
Just curious why'd you finally quit eqoa after all those years? I haven't been on eqoa since late 2008, what was the population like last year? I'm just wondering because I'm debating whether to go back or not. I sort of miss it but I don't want to go back if it's dead on there.
@BobSfan1 It's not completely dead, CLW anyway. My wife started quad boxing again. I quit because there was no new content and you can only kill Rallos Zek so many times before it becomes mundane! 1500 cm'd tank with all the best gear and 4 boxes full of 60's.... I loved EQoA for a long time.
@RonsonEQoA I only played it for 6 months. I was in a good guild but then they decided to merge with another guild and it wasn't so great after that. At the time I was also given an opportunity to buy a Xbox 360 console cheap from someone I know so that's another reason I left. I'm thinking of returning for the halloween event though and to just look to see if I run into any old faces. The halloween event was pretty fun from what I remember.
I miss the great times i had with this game and the people who played it. Grinding, Questing, Raiding, and just standing in towns messing around all great times.
Aww I will always miss EQOA. Sadly all good things must come to a end. I hope like hell there will be a version for PS3. Can bet money you will see Alya there :)
I finally understand what WoW and EQ2 and other MMO's are missing. In EQOA the bulk of the game was finding 3 like minded people and choosing 1 of 1000 camps to grind and chat for hours! Now it's all fast paced. Quest heavy and it lost that 'lets just chill and have fun vibe' eqoa has short comings but it more than makes up for it!
@wolfmoon2682 Yep, I've played WoW for a few years after ending my EQOA account in around 2006 (I first started playing EQOA a couple weeks after it came out in 2003), and WoW is cool for what it is, but it does lack the ability to sit back, relax and grind xp with others when you want to do that. There should be options for both fast xp and slow grinding. That's what makes a good game: Cater to all kinds of tastes, not just one.
Best mmo ever made! Most people have no idea how much influance this had on WoW. Before this game all mmo's were twice as complex! This game simplified things for consoles and WoW used that formula to appeal to gamers of all ages! FACT!
Nice tribute :) Having all those zones, camps and shortcuts still mapped in my mind seems like yesterday lol. I have nostalgic memorys starting my main in Tethelin running around as a noob taking in the vast area and watching in aww at a level 60 toon standing at coach helping me out.
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EQOAnostalgia 3 days ago
Goodbye :-(
UlaughYouLose 3 days ago
Well I heard SOE is shutting down all eqoa servers for good. Well John Smedley all I can say is SHAME on you for milking the final people that stayed until the end to try and keep this wonderful game alive. To all the people that played the Hodstock server it was an awesome time. I hope we all can meet and tell our stories together about eqoa in EQ Next. Fres
Fresjr66 5 days ago
@Fresjr66
Man that sucks. Reading some of the posts in the official thread about, it's clear to see how much this game meant to its subscribers, the veterans and new players alike.
Managasm 4 days ago
@Fresjr66 I played Marr's Fist, & had a 50 rogue on Ferrans also at 1 point... but hodstock.com was a great source of info for me when cms came out and I was planning my path to Slayer on my SK :P
Necronomnicon 13 hours ago
I'm still amazed that SOE found a way to fit this enormous game onto a single DVD without having to make use of that ill-fated PS2 hard drive. This game was (and still is) truly massive.
SuperXero89 1 week ago
@SuperXero89 indeed. I'm pleased to know that EQ Next supposedly will be more focused on the World built in the game than EQ 1 or 2 PC, and more seamless (no zone loading) like EQOA was. i remember finding so many neat places & middle of nowhere quests exploring EQOA it was a true adventure ... this was just something I read though, that they want to explore the social elements and focus on the world they create and the immersion in the next EQ game to come out
Necronomnicon 13 hours ago
You just quit last year?! That's sad.
nintendonick 2 weeks ago
Nothing quite like the magic of your first mmorpg. I remember picking up Frontiers in the bargain bin at gamestop for $10, I had no real idea what "Ever Quest" was but it seemed interesting. Stepping into that massive world for the first time, sharing an epic adventure with thousands of other players, was such an amazing experience. EQOA held me for years, and I'm still playing mmorpgs to this very day and my career now revolves around them.
EQOA really changed my life, I miss the game.
williams348 3 weeks ago
EQOA FOR LIFE!
Zallus04 4 weeks ago
man... time flys, i remember this being like 2 years ago in my mind and it's been 9! i play forsaken world now, it took me YEARS to find a game that held my attention 10% as well as this did! I find myself the only person over the age 25 in every guild im in, no one knows wtf EQOA is and they all like crappy Music! it truly sucks growing old! These memories are precious to me!
wolfmoon2682 1 month ago
I want to get back on this game. Best MMO of all time. IDK what it is about the game but it beats out every other MMO.
drewbs22 2 months ago
A few friends and I, are planning on returning to the game to recreate our characters, hopefully before the new year. If anyone is interested in having a chance of reliving EQOA with a few like minded players, feel free to contact me via Youtube for more information.
Indica0024 2 months ago
wish i could still play i became the games best dueler, if anyone knows me im Urged, Highnec, Highpal, and Nukesta
MotivationZZable 2 months ago
I remember playing this game for a long time and even played WoW for a while too after i was done with EQOA....and nothing has ever yet come close to the amount of good times that EQOA provided!
sseasons 2 months ago
That was nearly painful to watch, but I'm glad I did and I'm glad you uploaded this. Thanks.
Managasm 2 months ago
@Managasm it is painful and i seriously need to stop watching these videos and move on! we really had a great thing back then didn't we?!
wolfmoon2682 1 month ago
Yes, EQOA was great, because you had to put a lot of time in to advance your character(s), almost always with the help of other players via groups and guilds. This kept the playerbase close, and it kept you striving to achieve your goals, even if it was something as simple as 'reach level xx', or acquiring a cool spell. Things like 'The Luck', and the damned pickclaw invasion enabled players to power-level so fast, often by themselves, that it effectively destroyed the community.
Managasm 1 month ago
@Managasm Yes I agree the luck and picklaws was the beginning of the end for EQOA in terms of power leveling. But you have to admit the luck at the time of it coming out was the hottest item. I think it was SOE's last ditch attempt to attract more people to the game. I remember buying the luck in auction and never useing it. lol. Then boon came out and the rest is history.
Fresjr66 2 weeks ago
@Fresjr66 Lol i ran the Luck quest over and over endless when it was out
Necronomnicon 13 hours ago
@Managasm I agree, even some of the traditional and even more creative power level methods we used before all of that, like pet-powerleveling which i did with my nec for a friend's a monk and another friend of ours' alt, or the 'aoe' powerleveling hich i did with a couple of other boxers for a couple of our alts, still had us playing together lol. but I do miss the grind the most sometimes in each new game I play.EQOA made us play Together, not just together solo on the same server
Necronomnicon 13 hours ago
just had a question, is there any difference between the origional eqoa and the frontiers version or is just an add on onto the origional game and same servers and stuff or totally different? Im still on the origional version name; stree 41 Delf warrior CLW server, still love playing it :)
STreeMonkey 3 months ago
@STreeMonkey
If I recall correctly, there are quite a few important differences; a lot of the armor and character/npc models change, the level cap goes from 50 to 60, you gain access to the 'Class Mastery' system, and a bunch of new zones open up to you. Not to mention a new playable race, Ogres, and a new class, Alchemist, which was/is extremely powerful (kind of like smashing a Wizard and a Ranger together).
Managasm 2 months ago
@Managasm I know the origional used to be at 50, but it jumped up to 60 since i started plating it again. Havent gotten on it in a while needed a new disk that got all scratched up,.so deleted accounts for a few years.. Getting back up there on a new character heh. Yeah think thats probably the only difference is the new races and classes,.. looks like the ole version still has the same ole ones.
STreeMonkey 2 months ago
Dammit SOE, you know you need to make an EQOA app for smart phones and the iPad. The game's PS2 console controls/menu format would only need to be tweaked a bit for a touch screen. The game is already developed. The graphics are acceptable for mobile devices. The CL server is already populated. It would be the most popular MMORPG application out there! The reason few of us play any more is because of the platform and because YOU stopped taking the game seriously. Just look at the nostalgia here.
ElasticGiraffe 3 months ago 6
Newb nostalgia is the best! I remember when I was level 12 Western Human in Qeynos, and I met up with 10 others running around looking at stuff; so we ran and went to the big cave, someone pulled Gertrude the big bear out and we all ran thinking we'd die. lol! Was my first funny experience in EQOA back in 2003. :-)
I remember when level 50 was highest level and we'd all hang out in Highpass chatting, trying to sell stuff, buy stuff and trade. Camping Tae Ew for Ruby! Those were the days!
Northax 3 months ago 3
@Northax lol when I got 50 the first thing I did was bank my tunar and suicide on highpass guards as a christening of sort... Sendiane a druid & Raiff a ranger helped me complete my SK epic... & Cera brought me to pre-loot Chard a bit before that. I rounded off the rest of the pinks to 50 at the Hill Giant camp with a couple of pals and we pwnd the camp until my ding. lol @ Gerty & Dumak b4 their buffs and xp caps per level.. I remember Crimson Knights my 1st guild good people MF 4ever
Necronomnicon 13 hours ago
@Necronomnicon I remember a guy handing his guild down to me at a point ... The Dark Lords of the Sith ... I kept the name alive on some of my alts. He saw my SK Sidius and wanted to rest the name with a fan. Too many memories from this game... my very first online game & MMORPG. I still compare each new MMO I try to how I felt playing this game and the experiences I had with it, I haven't made as good of friends on most other games I've played, EQOA brought ppl together in design
Necronomnicon 13 hours ago
I am glad to see that I am not the only one that embraced what Tunaria was in EQOA. I used sit at randomly located towers (Mostly on mountain sides or vast dunes) just to watch how much the wonderful landscapes differed at different times. It was truly magnificent. I have YET to play a game that can rival EQOA in terms of the game's realm.
Indica0024 3 months ago
Torpedo / Naroke here from CLW (Cosa Nostra). You said it almost perfectly. No games with ever compare to this one. I miss my huge PS2 controller with the keyboard in the middle so much. I could be in a group grinding for HOURS and just chat the whole time.
That was the only game I ever stayed awake for days at a time playing... I miss those days.
iSConman 4 months ago 2
it is that hard to get back into this game? i have a grp of 4 gamers and i think we would like to get back into this game
lo0nytnt 4 months ago
I dont know if I will ever get the joy from an mmo like i did with this one. It was just the first real mmo experience for me... and its also a dead style that just wont fly anymore. Its to bad really. I remember when I was like lvl 34 and so was some other ranger friend. We grinded to 37 on a long weekend(or something like that lol), and was so stoked for level 40. It seemed so darn high... 50 was out of the question lol. I will just never be excited about stuff like that anymore.
HipHopOTH 4 months ago
Just curious why'd you finally quit eqoa after all those years? I haven't been on eqoa since late 2008, what was the population like last year? I'm just wondering because I'm debating whether to go back or not. I sort of miss it but I don't want to go back if it's dead on there.
BobSfan1 4 months ago
@BobSfan1 It's not completely dead, CLW anyway. My wife started quad boxing again. I quit because there was no new content and you can only kill Rallos Zek so many times before it becomes mundane! 1500 cm'd tank with all the best gear and 4 boxes full of 60's.... I loved EQoA for a long time.
RonsonEQoA 4 months ago
@RonsonEQoA I only played it for 6 months. I was in a good guild but then they decided to merge with another guild and it wasn't so great after that. At the time I was also given an opportunity to buy a Xbox 360 console cheap from someone I know so that's another reason I left. I'm thinking of returning for the halloween event though and to just look to see if I run into any old faces. The halloween event was pretty fun from what I remember.
BobSfan1 4 months ago
I miss the great times i had with this game and the people who played it. Grinding, Questing, Raiding, and just standing in towns messing around all great times.
Mumbojumbo2123 4 months ago
Aww I will always miss EQOA. Sadly all good things must come to a end. I hope like hell there will be a version for PS3. Can bet money you will see Alya there :)
AlyaofCoES 4 months ago
I finally understand what WoW and EQ2 and other MMO's are missing. In EQOA the bulk of the game was finding 3 like minded people and choosing 1 of 1000 camps to grind and chat for hours! Now it's all fast paced. Quest heavy and it lost that 'lets just chill and have fun vibe' eqoa has short comings but it more than makes up for it!
wolfmoon2682 5 months ago 2
@wolfmoon2682 Yep, I've played WoW for a few years after ending my EQOA account in around 2006 (I first started playing EQOA a couple weeks after it came out in 2003), and WoW is cool for what it is, but it does lack the ability to sit back, relax and grind xp with others when you want to do that. There should be options for both fast xp and slow grinding. That's what makes a good game: Cater to all kinds of tastes, not just one.
Northax 3 months ago
What is this Ron? It looks like Runescape :P
Vulture7Gameplay 5 months ago
Best mmo ever made! Most people have no idea how much influance this had on WoW. Before this game all mmo's were twice as complex! This game simplified things for consoles and WoW used that formula to appeal to gamers of all ages! FACT!
wolfmoon2682 6 months ago
Nice tribute :) Having all those zones, camps and shortcuts still mapped in my mind seems like yesterday lol. I have nostalgic memorys starting my main in Tethelin running around as a noob taking in the vast area and watching in aww at a level 60 toon standing at coach helping me out.
Fresjr66 6 months ago
Hey man, awesome vid. I just registered for your forums but cannot post. User name is Amaru. Can you grant me permission?
Whatley187 6 months ago
@Whatley187 I'll check but as long as your registered you should be able to post, I think even guests can post!
RonsonEQoA 6 months ago
"Few games will ever compare to this one. For me anyway." Agreed, sir.
theaccidentalpoet 6 months ago
nice man i hit that like button baby if you got time can you check out my new video and please leave feed back it really helps(sorry for asking )
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xxboy12 6 months ago
I hope they make this for playstation 3
illahstrait1 6 months ago
@illahstrait1 I've got alot of info for EQ Next on my site eqoa,forumotion,com, I hope so too.
RonsonEQoA 6 months ago