Exercise Your Newfound Wings in Everquest II

Those 30 people they thanked... are they the last 30 people playing Everquest?

But is the Ninja Lizard a Ninja Wizard Lizard?

The fact that there are people still playing EQ2 really shouldn't be all that surprising to anyone. WOW came out right around the same time and obviously it's still being played.

You want to talk about "people still play that?!", just look at Ultima Online. That game came out in goddamn 1997 and still has at least 50,000 active players by conservative estimates.

This was pretty much me the entire time while watching that video. It was like two forces were at work in my brain; one that wanted desperately to understand wtf I was witnessing, the other that kept saying, "No, I don't want this.".. but I couldn't look away.

/skydance

Ugh, what did they do to Flight of the Valkyries? T_T That doesn't make me want to play the game and get wings at all!

@Duskwind: By "state-of-the-art" graphics, I assume they mean they bought a license for Poser. Because that's what the graphics have always looked like to me.

Back from late 2003 up until the game's release in late 2004, I was a volunteer editorialist and newsie for the EverQuest II Vault website on IGN. Our team was small, but we were really looking forward to this game, and would gobble up every bit of info released by the devs both for ourselves and to serve the fan community.

The devs would talk about how the graphics were state-of-the-art (by 2004 standards) and that the engine was built to accommodate future advances in graphics technology. In other words, the game would never look dated. In hindsight, I don't think any dev can really make that claim with a straight face. This new trailer just looks...sad.

The funny thing about EQ2, they built the game around the idea that we (technology) would be adopting quick single-core processors, so even if you have a i7 2600k, the game still chugs badly. Time has not been kind to this one.

Oh cool! I loved Everquest 1!

@Jawshua said:

It's like a bad looking Aion.

This is very correct.

Looks dreamcast era. I think they missed the train on this one

I haven't played EQ2 since it's release but I'm getting a Second Life vibe from this shit.

Even SOE's teaser trailers are low budged and hackneyed.

Not only are people still playing Everquest 2, people are still playing (and paying monthly fees for) Everquest 1, which apparently just had its 18th expansion pack released in November.

I played EQ1 up to about the fourth expansion, and I played a bit of EQ2 after I got tired of WoW. I actually had a lot of fun with it at the lower levels, and I only stopped playing because none of my friends played it. The game world is much more interesting and has a lot more atmosphere than WoW, which is full of generic fantasy junk that was made up solely to make Warcraft work as an MMO.

So yeah, the game is actually a lot better than you might think (or at least it was good when I played it). I'm surprised EQ doesn't get more respect, having pioneered aggro and crowd control and instances and almost everything else that is part of WoW's core gameplay, though I guess most people who play WoW haven't played EQ...

Few Questions.

1. What?

2. This game still exists?

3. What?

Wagner is rolling in his grave

this is the most hilarious, probably most desperate videogame trailer so far this year

I feel that dubstep might have helped this video.

To answer some questions and make some comments:

1. "Who is still playing this game?" - Enough that Sony continues to support it. In the MMO world, even having 50,000 subscribers makes you a success, depending on the scale of the game you are running.

2. "What the fuck is up with this video?" - The video was created by the community most likely, as the Special Thanks portion lists a ton of character names of players. In turn, it's not going to be some big, lavish production of a "commercial" or "trailer".

3."Isn't this game dead?" - Actually, The game recently went Free To Play, which has boosted it significantly since that occurred. Before that, the game was still very much populated.

This just reminds me of that annoying flying weasel in kinectimals xD

i love all the everquest2 is dead posts, eq2 is far far from dead. Make a toon on freeport server and see how dead it is

So everquest is basically a district of Second Life at this point?

I feel that dubstep might have helped this video.

@ZatGerman said:

@mavs said:

Special thanks to:

*the last thirty people playing this game*

My thoughts exactly. Haha.

I was just about to ask if the people they thanked were in the video or were the only ones still playing.

Whait what....the hell....was that

@mavs said:

Special thanks to:

*the last thirty people playing this game*

My thoughts exactly. Haha.

EQ 2 isn't that bad I played it a little last year and had some decent fun with it but that video was Shit.

Special thanks to:

*the last thirty people playing this game*

Oh wow. EverQuest II is still a thing. ...Holy god.

Amazing.

Once again the great minds at Sony have made us all go...

wft?

@Mr_Skeleton: my thoughts exactly

That music could only have been chosen by someone who realized that if they're gonna make a video full of crap, they might as well go balls out.

What in the hell. This looks like something out of Second Life.

I don't know why I had the urge to do it, but I installed this game again. Made a character, killed a couple bugs. Logged out and then uninstalled it. I think I am good on EQ2 for the rest of life now.

Jesus Christ Almighty!! The hell was that? I didn't know whether to laugh or cry

Now that it's F2P, I think I might try it out.

Of course, I say that with a lot of MMOs and never bother, but this time might be different, I am totally devoted to checking out Everqu....SQUIRREL!

don't let Kim Novak watch this. She'll scream "Rape!" at Wagner dubbed over with rubber bands....

Lol yiiiikes I dno about this one, SoE.

@GTCknight said:

Who the hell is still playing this game?!?!!?

I mean, the number of people still playing it can't be worth the amount of money needed to make this right?

Lots of people still play it, thank you very much :)

Also, now that it's fully F2P, population wise it shot up big time (like most transition games have done).

I feel the need to be like (almost) everyone else in the comments.

OMG THERE'S LIKE PEOPLE PLAYING THIS GAME ZOMGWTFBBQHAXZORSINMYTOMATOSOUP!!!!!

Not great, but not bad for a fan made video that SoE decided to use. It could be worse, see SWTOR.

This is pretty goofy. 
 
Anyway, whatever world pvp was left in this game is ruined now. Woop dee doo.

Wow, that looks goddamn awful. So much for dying quietly, I suppose.

Who the hell is still playing this game?!?!!?

I mean, the number of people still playing it can't be worth the amount of money needed to make this right?

wh...whaaaaa?....i don't mean to be harsh but this seemed like a legitimate joke, i guess lighthearted never hurt anybody. I think it was the butchered music that did it for me...maaaan.

Only crazy people still play it.

@FunExplosions said:

Oh, Flight Wings. As opposed to those other kinds of wings.

Red Bull wings. I'm rocking those right now, actually, they're the only thing keeping me afloat.

edit: DEAR GOD THAT VIDEO WAS TERRIBLE IN EVERY WAY IMAGINABLE.

people still play this?