EQ2 - Time to Cash In My Chips

[Kosmos]

Well Guys,


Unfortunately I have a short attention span, and I've gotten extremely bored with the game already. Nothing at all wrong with the game, I love it. I'm just bored. It feels very repetitive at the moment, and has for some time now. I felt this way just before entering Thundering Steeps, but getting to where I could run around there, seemed to help the boredom, until I got bored there. I though getting access to Zek and The Enchanted Lands would help, but it hasn't. The scenery is beautiful, but the underlying game play just doesn't feel any different below the surface. The faces change, but the mobs stay the same, so to speak. To date, the game I have liked best, and played the most was Starcraft. So, I am going to start looking in the direction of other games similar to that. I've gotten as much, or perhaps more enjoyment from working on the mods for EQ2 as I have in the game! In a way I hate to leave, but, I'm not having fun, and that is the main reason you play a game right? If I'm not playing, I'm sure you understand my motivation to develop mods for the game go away also.
I may change my mind, I can be fickle at times, but the game just feels like too much work to be fun. They are trying to make things easier for the casual player, which is nice, but it's still just not where it needs to be for me. I want to find a game that I can spend more time playing, instead of it taking a hour of my play time to find a group, to only have 10 minutes left to play. In my case this is probably going to mean not playing a MMOG.

The really sad issue, is that I feel the game as a whole, is really being hurt by the drive to make it more casual gamer friendly. I never played EQ1, but I know much of what hardcore gamers loved about that game, is now gone in EQ2. Gamers like me, that can't devote that kind of time to a game, can simply go find another game, there are tons of them out there, and more every day. Where do the hardcore gamers go though? It's not like there is really any alternative game to go to, and now EQ2 isn't even going to provide them the challenge that EQ1 did. On top of that Station Exchange is a slap in the face to that hardcore gamer base, that stuck around for 5+ years in EQ1. I understand that it's a smart business move, and I think SOE is going to grab a huge piece of that market share of the virtual goods market. Knowing how corporations work in America I can honestly say that I don't believe the game developers had any say in that decision.

Anyway, this letter was way longer than I wanted it to be.

So, anyway that being said, I don't see myself continuing with any UI projects. As far as support for them or any changes, I would feel comfortable sharing my login information with Laffs, or Ger is you guys want it.

Sincerely,

Kosmos

EDIT: I hate to leave things unfinished so I still plan to finish up a couple of things if I can.