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MMORPG.com EverQuest II Correspondent Vernon Reich writes this overview of the races available in SOE's EverQuest II. In this part of his article, Vernon looks at the Evil aligned races.

EQ2 has nineteen races for players to choose from, and evil is the largest chunk of that, weighing in with seven races. The evil races of EQ2 are a diverse bunch, with reptiles, dark elves, fae folk, ogres and trolls. They also have the best range of starting locations, able to pick their hometown from three very different cities.

Here's the rundown of the Evil races.

Freeport is the primary evil city, with the most developed content and range of quests. Freeport has four quarters, racial slums for each race except Sarnaks and Arasai, and almost all of them have housing and quests. For the new player, if you take the ship instead of levelling up on the Outpost of the Overlord, you'll find quests levelling you up fairly well, and giving you a racial history lesson as well. If you instead let the evil newbie island wet your feet, You'll get a decent set of equipment and a fairly fun time levelling up to about sixth, along with three collection quests.

Read more on Races of EQII: The Bad

Geez, how about taking some screens of the new character models. Those look awful.

Is this the kind of crap that passes for advertising for SOE? Some editor of a magazine barfing up lame information about a 4+ year old game that everyone who has ever played this game already knows? Blizzard justhired Ozzy Osbourne and Little Steven Van Zandt to do television commercials for them. SOE gets some unheard of editor to rehash old information as if new players are going to rush right out and buy EQ2 just because he describes it in such wonderful detail??

WoW sold 2.8 MILLION copies of their new expansion in less than 24 hours...Just to put that in perspective that is about 30 times the estimated number of subscriptions SOE has for the entire eq2 title. Why does SOE insist in trying to try to take market share from Blizzard by making their game a clone of WoW? Why instead don't they use some imagination and create their own game? Probably because they don't have the money to hire people with real imaginations. Instead they steal ideas from other game, use concepts from their other games (anyone remember LDoN from EQ1? well their "new" expansion is taken directly from that) and reuse old content from original EQ2 and earlier expansions. There is nothing new...tnad there hasn't been a lot new for a long time. I can only ssume that his means they have no true developers working on EQ2. it's easy to cut and paste, a monkey could do it...

Originally posted by ohreally

Is this the kind of crap that passes for advertising for SOE? Some editor of a magazine barfing up lame information about a 4+ year old game that everyone who has ever played this game already knows? Blizzard justhired Ozzy Osbourne and Little Steven Van Zandt to do television commercials for them. SOE gets some unheard of editor to rehash old information as if new players are going to rush right out and buy EQ2 just because he describes it in such wonderful detail??

 

WoW sold 2.8 MILLION copies of their new expansion in less than 24 hours...Just to put that in perspective that is about 30 times the estimated number of subscriptions SOE has for the entire eq2 title. Why does SOE insist in trying to try to take market share from Blizzard by making their game a clone of WoW? Why instead don't they use some imagination and create their own game? Probably because they don't have the money to hire people with real imaginations. Instead they steal ideas from other game, use concepts from their other games (anyone remember LDoN from EQ1? well their "new" expansion is taken directly from that) and reuse old content from original EQ2 and earlier expansions. There is nothing new...tnad there hasn't been a lot new for a long time. I can only ssume that his means they have no true developers working on EQ2. it's easy to cut and paste, a monkey could do it...

Ohreally,

EverQuest 2 has still roughly 250k subs. 2,8 millon is not 30 times 250k to my estimated calculations.

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I enjoy eq2 far more than WoW, I just can not lose myself in WoW like i can with eq2, different strokes for different folks I guess.

 I suppose the feller 3 posts up isnt into the eq2 lore, the world went into a shattering of epic proportions, lands were ripped apart and eq2 is placed in the future of eq1 and the people are starting to reawaken to try to explore and are finding these places all over again, yeah a lot of places are revamped from eq1 but i suppose if you dont get into the lore and understand why these places are resurfacing and such it would appear that it is meerly rehashed content from eq1 with no purpose.

Originally posted by TinkerGnome

Geez, how about taking some screens of the new character models. Those look awful.

Some prefer these models, and others prefer the alternative models. I know plenty who prefer the original models.

The bad as a title made me chuckle though

EQ2 is way more complex than wow. Wow is so special because of its simplicity. But only because EQ2 is to complicated for the most people doesnt make it a bad game )

Originally posted by Guillermo197

Originally posted by ohreally

Is this the kind of crap that passes for advertising for SOE? Some editor of a magazine barfing up lame information about a 4+ year old game that everyone who has ever played this game already knows? Blizzard justhired Ozzy Osbourne and Little Steven Van Zandt to do television commercials for them. SOE gets some unheard of editor to rehash old information as if new players are going to rush right out and buy EQ2 just because he describes it in such wonderful detail??

 

WoW sold 2.8 MILLION copies of their new expansion in less than 24 hours...Just to put that in perspective that is about 30 times the estimated number of subscriptions SOE has for the entire eq2 title. Why does SOE insist in trying to try to take market share from Blizzard by making their game a clone of WoW? Why instead don't they use some imagination and create their own game? Probably because they don't have the money to hire people with real imaginations. Instead they steal ideas from other game, use concepts from their other games (anyone remember LDoN from EQ1? well their "new" expansion is taken directly from that) and reuse old content from original EQ2 and earlier expansions. There is nothing new...tnad there hasn't been a lot new for a long time. I can only ssume that his means they have no true developers working on EQ2. it's easy to cut and paste, a monkey could do it...

Ohreally,

EverQuest 2 has still roughly 250k subs.  2,8 millon is not 30 times 250k to my estimated calculations.

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Nice try but WRONG.  100k ACTIVE subscriptions is the number BUT even if there were 250K   2.8 million is the number of expansions sold in 24 hours. I am sure not every WoW player went out on release day and bought the expansion. therefore 2.8 million is an estimate. a LOW estimate...Eitehr way WoW out numbers EQ2 by a HUGE margin...you fanboys who still cling to SOE are going to get a rude awakening when Blizzard BUYS SOE because they aren't profitable. I am going to laugh my ass off.

Just joined the forum. Thought it would be a good thing, since I also just subscribed to EQ2 yesterday. Played the trial, and enjoyed most of the experience quite a bit (except for the loose PVP; need to watch which server I create my character on). After reading the thead, I've two comments to make:

1) the race selection is wonderful, quite varied. From other games I've played, race selection changes how the game reacts to you, giving a new experience each time. Should be interesting to see if this holds true in EQ2. And the designs are pretty decent as well. 

2) based on some references I read here about killing over and over, it appears that some of us have missed the whole point of a role-playing game. Life isn't just about killing, it's about the struggle to advance yourself and the pleasure you derive from achieving it. EQ2 is complex enough that, if I play the game the way it was meant to be played (i.e., don't cap your xp in favour of achievement points), then each ability advance, each new skill learned, each newl