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#1 Dec 30 2006 at 1:42 AM Rating: Default
Ah..Yes... Old EQ... Back when you HATED running everywhere, but now that a zone is just a *click* away... we loved Running. Boats, Now we don't even have them. Ahh... Old EQ

I'm talking about the EQ that was fun. (still is, but you know what i mean)
IMO, EQ is more for the (We don't wanna play WOW, but still want a super easy game) The game has come very far from the addictive play style it once had. Very rare do I find games that are HARD, but still possible to play, and still making me come back for more and more and more..

Old EQ - Roleplaying?
Now people don't even roleplay... If someone "roleplays" and plays a Wood Elf, and won't buff, group, heal an ogre or troll... they are called newbs or maybe even a nerd?! What... Yes.. People don't roleplay on a roleplaying game... confusing..

This is just a Rant at 4:40 in the morning, but I remember the older days where Orc Highway was the PLACE, well after you fought and petitioned about CB being camped and people stealing your kills.

I really love just sittin around w/ friends and talkin about old groups, friends, guilds and stories of what went on... In the old days

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- Braelowe
#2 Dec 30 2006 at 7:33 AM Rating: Decent
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#3 Dec 30 2006 at 7:54 AM Rating: Decent
Yes I remember them well,, when taking the boat to Freeport took about 20 min in which time you could be afk or learn a langauge and when you were afk to long and missed the stop in Freeport and had to make another round trip to get back,, and when Crushbone was a hot zone and all the trains in there. The time when Jboots were the envy and the Flowing Black Robe was the ultimate in items.
Begging a Wizzy or Druid to port you some place, I dont recall ever having to pay for the ride in those days, I could go on and on, and running to Halas from the Felwithe area was about a day trip and didnt go without dieing a few to many times to get there*hehe*. Yes it was much harder game then but looking back it was just part of EQ and was a part of the challenge of the game. There were so many other things back then that looking back that were much harder and time comsuming, but thats what made EQ EQ and it drew a huge crowd of players.
Could go on forever but has great memories.
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#5 Dec 30 2006 at 6:26 PM Rating: Excellent
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Ah, ya can't go home again.

If nothing else, be happy that you got into MMORPGs during that period where a company could reasonably expect players to return to a world with long boat journies, extended downtime, forced grouping for some classes, overcrowded newbie zones, face to face trading and all the rest of it. With the success of "watered down" games like WoW, you probably won't ever see it happening again.

That's not to slur WoW or whatever but I think most people who played back in 1999-2002 or so have a certain nostalgia for what EQ once was, even if they'd never want to play it that way again.
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#6 Dec 31 2006 at 9:20 AM Rating: Decent
I'm having an EQ burn out atm because it has lost its feel, its no longer the EQ i remember and love
#7 Dec 31 2006 at 6:38 PM Rating: Decent
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That's not to slur WoW or whatever but I think most people who played back in 1999-2002 or so have a certain nostalgia for what EQ once was,
Everything except the boats, i HATE those freaking boats!
#8 Dec 31 2006 at 8:25 PM Rating: Good
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Everything except the boats, i HATE those freaking boats!


Kind of ironic, considering the source :) or maybe not...

One of my geatest EQ memories was the epic journey I took with my first puppet to join a guild. I was a Ranger in my early teens, and I had been playing a few weeks. I got a /tell from a player who I had grouped with in CB a day or two before, asking if I wanted to join his guild, but the stipulation was that I had to make it to the Freeport docks to attend an informal meeting. I had no idea where Freeport was, but he gave me instructions on how to get there. I had never been out Faydark, and it was an epic adventure getting to Freeport. I don't know how long it took me, but the boat ride was very exciting. By the time I got to the docks, I felt so far away from home, and it was exhilarating to have made it. It's one of the key moments that made me an addict.
#9 Jan 02 2007 at 3:01 AM Rating: Decent
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I've only been playing since '05, so "old" Eq to me, is actually having a good amount of people.

At 4PM the other day, I typed /w all 14 and saw that there were only 9 people and worse, they were all in bazaar.


What happened while I was gone?
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