Well, that's another expansion for my addicted-to-the-game-like-heroin friends to latch onto. Sony, you took all my friends you bastards!

Parallax Abstraction
Technical Consultant, Hardcore Modern and Retro Gamer, Video Game Historian
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

They can really get away with $29.99? Take the release date MSRPs of EQ and all its expansions, top it off with $10 a month for something like (rough guess) 50 months, and you've got freaks who've paid somewhere in the vicinity of one thousand dollars for this game.

I'm just wondering, how much HD space does EQ with all the expansions installed take up?

I can only imagine......

Game is so huge now, I bet you can go for days in the game without seeing another soul. I left the game after like the 2nd expansion pack and moved on to other things.

Is if ya ever have to reinstall it.

Everquest 1 CD
Ruins of Kunark 1 CD
Scars of Velious 1 CD
Shadows of Luclin 3 CD
Planes of Power 2 CD
Legacy of Ykesha 1 CD (think)
Lost Dungeons of Norrath 1 CD (think)
Gates of Discord 1 CD (again I think been awhile scince I reinstalled any of this and don't plan on playing anytime soon)
And now this expansion. Last time I looked I think it was close to 7 gigs of install space, including the rextured "Classic" textures of Kunark, EQ, and Velious.

This comment was edited on May 6, 14:15.

7 GB??? Did you forget to delete the now obsolete .txc files? Mine takes about 2,4 GB without GoD.

nope as I said I don't have it installed anymore.
I'm rather sick and tired of elfs/dwarfs/orcs etc in MMORPG games.

I guess at this point the marketing team's biggest challenge is consistently naming all these things so that their initials won't be confused with one another. They almost dropped the ball early on with SoV and SoL, but it must be easier to come up with more distinct acronyms while you're rolling around in ever more mountainous piles of money. GoD: nice touch.

The solution to the problem with so many discs is to just toss them all into the trash. They won't be good for much once EQ2's come around.

Milk that cow!

player cap is level 70...if they've raised it every expansion (I don't know if they have), what was it before? 65? does anyone CARE?

A couple hundred thousand care probably.

They can really get away with $29.99? Take the release date MSRPs of EQ and all its expansions, top it off with $10 a month for something like (rough guess) 50 months, and you've got freaks who've paid somewhere in the vicinity of one thousand dollars for this game.

50 months would be just over 4 years. So that's $250/year. About 21 bucks a month. $5 a month. For a game some people are playing 30 hours + a week. Cheap - have you seen the price of a whore who'll (a) kiss and (b) swallow. Trust me, EQ = cheap.

Sony's just trying to appease the power-players, who've been leaving in droves. City of Heroes is temporarily grabbing some of the more casual players away, and with EQ2 and WoW on the way, Sony's got to keep the revenue rolling in on EQ for a while longer.

"50 months would be just over 4 years. So that's $250/year. About 21 bucks a month. $5 a month. For a game some people are playing 30 hours + a week. Cheap - have you seen the price of a whore who'll (a) kiss and (b) swallow. Trust me, EQ = cheap."


Your reasoning is almost at the 2nd grade level!! Congratulations!

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Give me slack. Or kill me.

For christ sake, EQ is getting ridiculous. STOP FEEDING THE CORPORATE CASH MACHINE

Well if people have the money to spend and get enjoyment out of it who am I to complain?

And honestly I have a feeling that EQ will do just fine once EQ2 comes out ala Diablo 1 and 2, as people will not have the system to run EQ2 or they don't want to start over, or enjoy EQ1. EQ2 is not just EQ1 with new graphics as they are revamping things and changing things, so my guess is the biggest flame wars will be around "screw this I'm going back to EQ1".

The true price people pay for games like this is not measured in dollars.

you know it and I know it, but that ability has been under attack since time immemorial... and especially in the last century

i think the dawn of dead has already come to pass

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Give me slack. Or kill me.

I have the game and all expansions installed.

2.8 Gig

That includes a bunch of non-game local files in sub directories. Not sure where you are getting 7 Gig from.

Derek French
Producer, Live Team
BioWare Corp.

Folk can do whatever they want with their time and money, as long as they're not fucking with anyone else, but reasonable people can agree that derelict EQ junkies are nonetheless worthy of redicule regarding their "lifestyle choice" (or could they be born that way?).

Trust me, EQ = cheap.

Relative to various other forms of entertainment, OK, but we're not talking about hookers, skybox seating or a trip into orbit on a Russian rocket. Specifically relative to video games, there's never really been another game that's come close to costing so much. But there also aren't many games that have kept so many hooked for years, so as long as the juice still flows from the bottomless udders of Sony's hopeless fans, more power to 'em.

STOP FEEDING THE CORPORATE CASH MACHINE

Says Tacomodo as he sits at his manufactured desk, in his manufactured chair, looking at a monitor/flat panel displaying information coming from his computer and fed to it from his broadband connection.

Probably he's sipping an orange juice from some company which he brought at the local chain supermarket.


So pray tell how we should all stop feeding the corporate machine?

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