Archangel has started a debate on the EQ2 forums - we wants to join a guild purely to buy a mount and then immediately disband.  He is being honest about it.

The conversation on the forums seems to be directed towards ‘would you let him do it?’  To me it is more of a question of ‘why would you want to do it?’

When myself and the other EQJunkies came back to EQ2 we had a major decision to make.  Do we join an existing guild of casual players or do we create our own - we chose the later for a few different reasons.

So, how do you feel?  Would you want to take the easy way out and join a guild for a quick mount?

Would you have any interest in letting someone leech of you?  Would you charge them?

There is a story running over at destructoid about a new FFXI boss that takes 18 hours to attempt.  That was not a mistype - the encounter takes 18 hours to attempt - simply insane.

Back in my EQ days when guild would spend up to 8 hours a night raiding - FFXI puts that to shame.  If you think about it, 8 hours does not even get you half way through this encounter.  What is not mentioned in the article is wether this encounter is actually difficult or if it merly a time sink.  If everyone is hitting the same buttons over and over for 18 hours…I imagine everyone would go insane.  Likewise, scripting 18 hours worth of an encounter seems unlikely from a developers standpoint.

Regardless of how the boss is setup, it was interesting to hear about this guild’s story.  People were vomiting and becoming physically ill after sitting there for so long.  The guild that attempted this, Beyond The Limitation, actually had to call the raid off after 18 hours; people simply were unable to physically endure it.  Can you imagine watching an 18 hour movie without ever getting up - this would be even more difficult.

This makes everything else just seem easy or maybe just sane…

I was on the EQ2 flames boards today and saw this post about the different types of people who claim Everquest will die.

I have to hand it to Jarreth - he summed up many of the different types of people and the claims they make against EQ.

The long and short of it is that people will keep playing EQ until the world (real) ends.  There will be no EQ killeer, hell, there won’t be any WoW killer, or even Sim City 1.0 killer.  There will always be some crazy nut who still plays games that are on the older side (I won’t go back to atari and Commadore64…but I’ll give you this link).  Not that I have anything against playing old games - I still contend that Jones in the Fast Lane is one of the best titles ever released.

Anyways, give his post a read - I enjoyed it if nothing else.