Heh... spending two hours trying to get your body out of a dungeon, to the point where you didn't even care if you lost several DAYS worth of leveling as long as you got your corpse back, that was fun... once. Maybe. Dying in a safe area wasn't so bad, until you realized that you had forgotten to bind nearby, and now you had a 40 minute run + boat ride + run just to get back to your corpse.

I see it the way Toned does- WOW is what happens when people who played EQ a lot decided to remake EQ without all of the stuff that made you want to drown yourself in a bucket of bleach. I think they've pushed it farther than they needed to, but I'd rather run heroics in 15 minutes for easy epic loot than get caught running through Kithicor forest on my level 25 and realize that it just turned to night time. EQ brings back some strong feelings of nostalgia, but that's because I don't have to suffer through it anymore.