Some valid points. Mostly nostalgia. My EQ Ranger had 168 days played before I quit the ever crack. However compared to other games. EQ1 was just mean and brutal. Having a mob jump out and loose hours of time is not fun. Loosing a corpse and all the gear that took the last 2 years to acquire is not fun. Non instanced dungeons that had each mob camped regardless if it dropped gear or not is not fun. Dying and loosing 10% of your xp that you spent the last 2 hours getting, not fun. You dont have 1000aa points so you cant join the raid is not fun.

Level 15 in Oasis and hearing the stomp of a Sand Giant was scary. Getting 1 shot by anything 10 levels higher than you was scary. The quest system while flawed was very cool. Having to talk to npc's and figure out key words was cool. Learning to keybind auto attack off of the A key was fun. Nothing like typing out "hail" and the merchant one punches you in the face, when press the 'A' key.

Wasn't it Kunark or the one after that had the sleeper zone boss and once he was killed he never spawned again? Ahh the good old days.


Im enjoying wow far more than I ever did eq. I like that it doesnt require 40h a week. It used to, but im glad blizzard changed it to the more casual scene it is today. Also I get to enjoy and see the game, something I never got to do in EQ because It took 2 hours to run from Qeynos to Freeport, then another 30 min to get to Unrest.