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Originally Posted by Shainaen
Umm EQ1 degraded into exactly what you are talking about here with this quote... It started with Velious and spiraled downward for a long time. Shadows of Luclin had a glimmer of hope but that was dashed to dust with POP and everything afterwards.
And you are asking SoE to do something different?  You should know better by now.
Vanguard may give you what you are asking for BUT remember, SoE has their claws already into it. I give it less then a year and they to exactly as they did to EQ1 and have begun doing to EQ2. Mark my words (and book mark this page). It'll happen. SoE doesn't know how to do anything else with the EQ line.
The Fae PC's pose no logical addition to the game. none. They are great to kill and that's about it. That will now be two goodly based races (frogs being the first, though yes i know they had always been planned) to be added to the game and none for the dark side. Ya ya... betrayal... blah blah... NOT the point. Though i am not sure what they would introduce as a counter-balance... and if someone begins to even think about typing Vampires, stick a fork in your eye.
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Good v Evil races?
What does it matter. Race has very little non-RP inpact on your character. Yeah, in the beginning you might get 5 or 10 more points here and 5 or 10 less there than some other race, and in the beginning that matters. But at the end game (and in most of the game thats NOT the very beginning) those 5-10 points don't really do much at all. In fact, the max soft cap is independent of your race at 510 for L70s (490 for your 70 levels plus a base 20). Contrary to popular belief, the cap is not race-based but instead 510 max at L70 for everyone / every-race.
Races just add more RP and 'fun' into the game. There is nothing wrong with them whatsoever (besides maybe the fact that theres more models).
Classes is a whole 'nother story. But they're not adding any of those (and nor do they plan to ever, pretty much, and why should they, IMHO?).
To the OP/OT, I like the addition of Fae and the fact that it might make EQ2 more mainstream (especially in the female sector). It'll bring new people, some that like the game / genre and stay and become valuable assets to the community, and some that don't like it and will stop playing.
But there will still be those that get into the game because of it, which is a good thing IMHO. The only downside is that it will bring people in with perhaps the wrong expectations for the game, and those people will realize that its not all Fae
