EQ2 Pre-Order! Only $89

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » July 23, 2004, 1:17 am

WTF!..... How many people are actually buying this?...

http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?pro ... d=B645384A

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » July 23, 2004, 1:35 am

$90? how the fuck are they fooling?

Karae · Post by **Karae** » July 23, 2004, 6:59 am

Calm down sucka!

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/222723.asp

That's the collector's edition!!!

Llaffer · Post by **Llaffer** » July 23, 2004, 8:38 am

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/222723.asp

Shows it at $50.

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/243366.asp

That is the $90 version, a "collector's edition".

What the difference is, from ebGames web site:

EBGames wrote:The Everquest II Collector's Edition includes: "Spell book" DVD holder, bonus DVD with exclusive video assets, exclusive art book, cloth map and collectible coin with velvet pouch.

Is it worth $40, doubt it.

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » July 23, 2004, 10:22 am

Not touching it unless I get into the beta or something.

Siji · Post by **Siji** » July 23, 2004, 11:26 am

But, but, but.. the special disc lets you create your character before the game launches!!11!!!

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » July 23, 2004, 11:59 am

Introducing new limited edition Ultimate Collectors pack! Includes
-Storyboards!
-Behind the scenes movies!
-Spell book DVD holder!
-3 Everquest character figuerines!
-Silk/Cotten Blend Map of zones you will never see!
-Character creator tool, create your character before the game releases!
-Special 3 year subscription slot reservation! Reserve a slot for a 3 year subscription plan!
-Phone numbers of nonimportant people in SOE to harrass instead of us!
-Exclusive level creator(TM). Make your character, then make his level, skills, class, and equipment, and etc! Make your character yours!

This amazing set comes at the phenomenal price of $1499.99!

Sabek · Post by **Sabek** » July 23, 2004, 12:12 pm

Siji wrote:But, but, but.. the special disc lets you create your character before the game launches!!11!!!

That you can already get off of bittorent from what I hear.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 23, 2004, 12:17 pm

I'm liking the Spellbook DVD holder.

WTF is that?

For just about everyone, the only thing you want to see that's EQ related is on your screen.

OEM version please!

archeiron · Post by **archeiron** » July 23, 2004, 12:43 pm

Sabek wrote:
Siji wrote:But, but, but.. the special disc lets you create your character before the game launches!!11!!!
That you can already get off of bittorent from what I hear.

I have it now - from BitTorrent. Creating eleventy billion unique characters is fucking addictive; I spent several hours last night making different characters.

EDIT: Hell, my wife even helped out to make an incredibly sexy wood elf and an only slightly less sexy high elf.

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » July 23, 2004, 12:55 pm

I have to try that. Where do I get BitTorrent?

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 23, 2004, 1:31 pm

archeiron wrote:
Sabek wrote:
Siji wrote:But, but, but.. the special disc lets you create your character before the game launches!!11!!!
That you can already get off of bittorent from what I hear.
I have it now - from BitTorrent. Creating eleventy billion unique characters is fucking addictive; I spent several hours last night making different characters.

EDIT: Hell, my wife even helped out to make an incredibly sexy wood elf and an only slightly less sexy high elf.

Nice : ) I'll have to look for it on the newsgroups. What's the size of the file? 600mb or so?

Sabek · Post by **Sabek** » July 23, 2004, 1:45 pm

I have it as well. It's a single CD.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 23, 2004, 1:49 pm

People that have it already:

What is your opinion of the character generation process, detail and models?

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » July 23, 2004, 1:57 pm

Not buying it.

Pre-Release
ETA: 11/15/04

That's less than 4 months. And the open beta hasn't even started from what I gather. Sounds like another quality SOE product in the making,

archeiron · Post by **archeiron** » July 23, 2004, 2:16 pm

Winnow wrote:People that have it already:

What is your opinion of the character generation process, detail and models?

There is an impressive amount of customization for each race.
Humanoids can alter eye brow shape, curvature, height, nose size and shape, lip size and shape, chin size and shape, skin tones, hair colouring, eye colouring, tatoos/woads/shrouds/runes/etc. It is almost a full game in itself to play with the character creation.
The customizations on the face need a little work because some race/sex combinations do not allow some of the sliders to make any significant alterations (e.g. troll and vah'shir brow sliders).
The hair colours do not offer enough shades. The brunettes do not have a wide enough range, and the blondes yield fake hair colouring. They should adopt the colour cone used for the skin/fur tones rather than the bars they have now.
The eye colour cone is fantastic.
The hair styles for many races do not offer enough "normal" hairstyles.
The human models need an overhaul to support better racial variations.
The rags that the models are crap - at all texture resolutions.
The animation of the figures while standing still gives a much greater sense of life than EQLive by having the models blink and shift subtly.
It should be possible to make the women's breasts smaller. Perky 32-34D cup 5'2 wood elves is a little excessive.
The aging texturing system for human, gnomes, and halflings needs a lot of work.
The Erudites look fantastic in my opinion.
Iksar males need some work, including scale pattern variations and allowing the sliders to really adjust the muzzle size a lot more.
Hair textures need to be significant reworked. I can do better in Photoshop just screwing around, without producing a huge file.
Halfling beards don't have enough "good" choices.
The accessories that certain races have are a nice touch.
The ability to adjust "size" is nice.
Skin tones offer good options for many races.
The freckles and blush on the faces is subtle, but enhances the faces.

I liked the following models:

Wood Elven males (most likely candidate for my main, Archeiron's grandson or whatever)
Wood Elven females (hawt!)
High Elven females
Iksar females
Vah'shir males
Barbarian males
Dwarven males
Ogre males
Ratonga
Erudites

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 23, 2004, 2:26 pm

Excellent post Arch! I know you didn't cut and paste because only a euro would use "colouring" : )

Rayquan · Post by **Rayquan** » July 23, 2004, 11:44 pm

I wpould like to see some screenshots (printscreen's) of this char creator, plz

Knibble · Post by **Knibble** » July 25, 2004, 8:49 am

Ya I have it also.Some of them are pretty cool,now if I can only decide to raise the cheek bones and make the nose skinny and can't seem to decide on the lips either./sigh

Shlamorel Starwrath · Post by **Shlamorel Starwrath** » August 1, 2004, 2:21 pm

Winnow wrote:People that have it already:

What is your opinion of the character generation process, detail and models?

I like it a lot. Theres plenty of variety with hair, skin color, the way your eyes nose and lips look. I also really enjoy the graphics. I know they aren't quite humanlike yet, almost there. But they are the best graphics out there so far that I've seen. I really reccomend just fooling around with it. You might find yourself spending hours toying with it

Shlamorel Starwrath · Post by **Shlamorel Starwrath** » August 1, 2004, 2:23 pm

Rayquan wrote:I wpould like to see some screenshots (printscreen's) of this char creator, plz

Don't know if you wanted a screenshot of the actual creation tools or not, but here's a screenshot of the Erudite Warden(Druid) I'll be playing.

P.S. Sorry for the double post, I don't know how to quote two people at once.

Syndaen Crystalthorn · Post by **Syndaen Crystalthorn** » August 1, 2004, 3:30 pm

Well, I took a couple minutes to take some screenies for you all.

All these scenes are animated in game and you can zoom, pan, tilt, rotate to your heart's content also.

This is the intial menu screen

This is the Race Selection Screen

The initial Character Creation Screen (Wood Elf)

Possible Syndaen Ver. 2.0 (High Elf Female)

Possible Cyrssi Ver. 2.0 (Wood Elf Female)

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » August 1, 2004, 7:24 pm

Hah - I wrote a walkthrough before I left to go see Harold and Kumar but the images wouldn't load properly on the server, I posted it before I saw that you did yours.

Go fig.

Mine is in the EQ section tho..