EverQuest Next: SOE's next-generation, fully destructible, persistent MMO
EverQuest Next is a project so ambitious that the term "reboot" doesn't seem sufficient enough. SOE's vision is to make a world where everything is destructible, and every action is permanent and persistent.
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replyAndrew Yoon posted a new article, EverQuest Next: SOE's next-generation, fully destructible, persistent MMO.
EverQuest Next is a project so ambitious that the term "reboot" doesn't seem sufficient enough. SOE's vision is to make a world where everything is destructible, and every action is permanent and persistent.-
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I understand it might be a little annoying for web, but we broke it up because it's easier to consume when read on mobile and through our other syndication. Also, personally, I thought it important to make sure we highlight the difference between EQN and Landmark.
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Well, I'll certainly keep this feedback in mind for our next lengthy feature.
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scumbag website. bans users for crapflooding. crapfloods the front page.
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What the.
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Well, the question that immediately comes to my mind is: if this is an MMO with thousands of players on each server, in a world where "everything is destructible, and every action is permanent", how long before everything is destroyed and the "world" they've crafted is just a muddy sea of crumpled voxel ruins?
Because If they don't have any sort of system to counter thousands of players destroying everything willy-nilly I really don't understand how this is going to work long-term.-
It is definitely something I'm also curious about. I joked with Alice that they could embrace the "you break it, you buy it" model. It's free-to-play except when you break shit. That would be hilarious.
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"The world heals after a while." Looks like that's how they're going to address this.
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Yup if they are planning on making a MMO around player driven content then I expect it to be pretty horrible as most player made content is just horrible.
I'm hoping they just make a sandbox zone for people that want to do that stuff and then make use of the dynamic world to move the world through some actual planned and designed history with official events and such.-
I think that's why there's a separation between Landmark and the main game.
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Betcha there are "off limits" places where certain cities / areas cant be toyed with.
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"In EverQuest Next, a rallying call with periodically go out across an entire server; and for the next two months, every player can work together to build a permanent settlement. Along the way, there may be subquests or monster attacks, and construction may be delayed. But when it's all finished, it's very much permanent." -ign
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"Players will occasionally be prevented from destroying things, Georgeson says, because otherwise "player cities would become player parking lots." Monsters, however, can and will show up to wreak havoc, and left unchecked, they can do plenty of damage to player settlements. A dragon, for instance, may come in and knock a castle wall down, necessitating repairs."
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/08/02/everquest-next-is-real-and-its-amazing-
Saw that one coming. It'll be interesting to see how quick the terrain resets and things are.
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I'm guessing that in the game's final iteration it will be very expensive or very difficult to meaningfully modify the overworld except in specific pre-planned scenarios. If much of the content is going to be procedurally generated (i.e. instanced?) then it's really just how you'll play around with each encounter set.
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Ideally, for me, they'd just let the world go to shit. The players made their bed and they can sleep in it.
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Oh. Fuck. Yes.
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Listen. I am already prototyping a anatomically accurate statue of robin williams (nude). I will keep you updated. Godbless.
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SOE would do well to hire the Goon Squad as a beta-testing group to see what they would come up with.
Of course, knowing Goon Squad, all they'll do is take notes and rehearse for the moment the servers go live before they unleash their mayhem.
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Looks amazing so far. I cant wait to see all the stuff they haven't talked about - Raiding, open-dungeons, pvp, loot, building your own home in the actual game, auction house stuff.
I want to be able to mine and chop trees like in UO, create mats, and make cool armor. Or even better let someone else do it, PK them and loot away.-
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You know.... Vox and Nagafen come to mind here. When they were doing the lavastorm overview, I was half expecting that.
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This is starting to sound a lot like the game from Austin Grossman's "You".
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I love everything about it..almost. The graphic are stunning but the art style is the one place I feel they stumbled at. It smacks of WoW with oversized armor and cartoony exaggeration. I'm more then a little surprised they went this route art-wise.
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reminds me of Penny-Arcade ripping EQ2: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2005/02/28/eq2-looks-dumb (the pictures are dead, they can be viewed here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050305055252/http://www.penny-arcade.com/docs/eq2_screen.jpg
http://web.archive.org/web/20060403223132/http://www.penny-arcade.com/docs/eq2gif.gif
http://web.archive.org/web/20070217040316/http://www.penny-arcade.com/docs/wow_screen.jpg
basically, the EQ2 demon looks super uninspired (hooves, horns, yawn). Meanwhile the WoW demon.. rocks! glowy green! Now look at the EverQuest Next shot posted in the story haha -
Dunno if I've got mmo burnout, or if I'm just cranky this morning, but everything that I read just seemed to be the new catch phrases that we are going to hear until its release. Dynamic events anyone?
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