Finally, the wait is over.

Now I can actually keep all the cool stuff I find

For the game and game/time cards?

The lowest price I have seen is $44.99 at Circuit City as I notied in AQFL: http://www.aqfl.net/?q=node/view/578#comment

I just hope they've fixed the spawning bugs from the beta. If so, this is gonna' be good!

Parallax Abstraction
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Bah! Blizzard and their poxy regional servers!

I live in the UK and wont get to play till next year!!1

boo hoo no fair...

Damn them for creating this great game and making us europeans wait until next year

I guess that is kinda like the US having to wait for Gothic and Gothic II.. except this is a MMO of course. heh Not quite so massive w/o Europe.

The honeymoon period begins, and the fans will rejoice.. until 2 weeks later they realise that WoW is just another treadmill MMO with a fancy interface, and they'll go back to playing CS.

I think I may pick this game up after I graduate this December. Video games and homework don't mix very well for me (homework always loses) which is why I've never picked up a MMORPG before. I get sucked into games enough when they've got much more limited content. Once I have a job, though, $15 isn't much and I think this would be a pretty good way to kill off a couple of hours after work each day.

I must be that 1 guy in 300 that likes EQ2 over WoW.
I played WoW through the whole closed and open beta. Tried lots of races and classes. The thing that I thought I would hate the most was the gfx, but I actually got to like it in time. It's got a nice feel to it even though it's grossly low poly. The thing is that Wow is just...too good, or maybe too easy is a better word. Everyone can get into WoW fast and become high lvl in a few weeks.

I just need a little more then WoW has to offer, so I have been playing EQ2 a few weeks now and I enjoy it alot more cause of it's complexity and it's gfx and other features.

Hope you guys will enjoy WoW, it's a great game.

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The honeymoon period begins, and the fans will rejoice.. until 2 weeks later they realise that WoW is just another treadmill MMO with a fancy interface, and they'll go back to playing CS.

I'd personally much rather play with 15 year old lifers in WoW than CS. At least in WoW, they can't team kill for fun.

Parallax Abstraction
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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I just need a little more then WoW has to offer, so I have been playing EQ2 a few weeks now and I enjoy it alot more cause of it's complexity and it's gfx and other features.

How is the frame rate for you? I've read several reviews that have been highly critical and how poorly the engine runs, especially considering it doesn't look nearly as good as other games that run better.

Parallax Abstraction
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Just got back from EB and they were sold out!

especially considering it doesn't look nearly as good as other games that run better.

Uhh, like what? It has every nifty graphical-whiz bang that any other game has at the moment.

You really have to see EQ2 in action to get a feel for the graphics. Let me tell you, they're damn impressive. Watching someone run through a field as they leave a wake of waving grass behind them is really nice. Or the rippling water as you run through it. And some of the spell effects are incredibly cool.

I'm running the game on the balanced setting and it runs fine. (considering I have a 2-year old system) There's plenty of eye candy even though some features are turned off. The great thing about the engine is that you can customize EVERYTHING. There are entire sections in the options menu for water, particles, textures, flora, etc. It's quite easy to make the game playable at the expense of a little eye candy.

here are my specs for reference:
AMD 2600
1 gig ram
9700 Pro

Just got back from EB and they were sold out!

Did they mention "You should have preordered"? If so, they weren't really sold out... they were just teaching you a lesson. I'm really only half joking; I've heard stories.

Not to rub it in, but I just grabbed the game at Fry's Electronics. I enjoyed the stress test enough but didn't have time to play in the open beta, so the game will still be rather fresh for me.

i want i want i want

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Well I got collector's edition. THank god I preordered. The guy infront of me was with his wife. He asked if they got the CE and they said sold out. I'm next up in line. Getting worried if the Preorder ones also went out the door because no more behind them where they had them. The cashier asks the boss guy and he says in the back, whispering to her. I get it and go home happy. Awesome game. Loving it. Had very bad lag issues when first started and overpopulation issues. Now that I'm out of those areas, no problems since. WooOOOoO!

"This my finest sword. If in your journey you should encounter God, God will be cut." -Hattori Hanzo ~Kill Bill

The honeymoon period begins, and the fans will rejoice.. until 2 weeks later they realise that WoW is just another treadmill MMO with a fancy interface, and they'll go back to playing CS.

I alllmost went with this one, even joined a Guild.

Then I remembered the phenomenal numbers of weekends I blew on the last MMOG I played. Never again.

EQ2 wins in every department. no contest, so no youre not the only one who likes EQ2 over WoW.

"How is the frame rate for you? I've read several reviews that have been highly critical and how poorly the engine runs, especially considering it doesn't look nearly as good as other games that run better."

EQ2 looks pretty impressive to me. I was having framerate issues when I first got into Qeynos. My PC had 512Megs, and I up it to 1gig and the problems went away (seemed liked the game was hammering the hard drive a lot until then).

I'm enjoying EQ2. Not terribly interested in WoW: Battle.Net was not the bastion of security, and, truthfully, I don't really trust Blizzard that much because of those problems.

Still, I'll see how WoW goes. But got too many games as it is.

Well, as was said, EQ2 has the best and biggest gfx settings ever seen in a game. You can configure absolutely everything. Everyone can get it to run smothly.

In my case, I got 3.4Ghz, 1024 DDR PC4000, GF FX 6800 U overclocked. I run normaly on High quality when I run around in the big cities and Very high quality when I'm outside in the open. Sometimes I even run Ultra high, but it's just for show(and a GREAT show it is!). It even says in the settings that no existing computer right now is able to run it. In some areas like very foggy swamp forests I need to set it down to Balanced, which is the recommended medium gfx quality overall.

But yes, for those with less then a stellar rig, they will not run this game with all the bells and whistles.

And to really appreciate the graphics you need to see it in motion. Screens dont do it justice.

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