Old player wondering what happened?Follow

sorry if it comes off ranty, but where did everyone go? i finally got back into the game and logged into my old server E marr and itsa ghost town, the pok is empty and the server used to be teeming, is it like this on the other servers as well? i used to play back when the gates of discord expansion was first launched, and now.......its like everquest died............

Aye i'm on AB as well, good population, and i have alts of all levels if you ever need a group :)

wuvarien

Biggest thing I see in todays EQ is social. People aren't as friendly as they use to be. I guess society as a whole though has become indifferent and rude due to cell phones and the internet. I buff toons all the time, most times they don't even acknowledge you are there. A lot peps have given up on pickup groups due to negative experiences in the past. Most toons just keep to their small circle of friends and rarely leave the circle.

Everyone's mileage varies but I buff players and get lots of positive feedback. I make a point of trying to form pickup groups and rarely run into problems; in fact, it's usually a pleasant experience and I've had friendships continue well after the initial pickup group contact.

You get out what you put into something, especially when it involves people. I think as a rule those who make friends quickly in a social game like EQ are those that freely help others, give free ports or even just free advice, buff others without expectation of compensation and just generally act NICELY.

How often do you hear a noob or a new returnee ask a question in general chat and NOBODY responds? I always try to but so many times the player asking the question gets NO RESPONSE. Hey, that works well to make him/her feel welcomed, eh?

Not to pick on one server, but since it's PVP, what the heck! What amazed me about the Zek server, when I used to play there, was that not only does nobody buff for free, back then it was the ONLY server that I ever played on where the buffing classes would specify the PRICE of their buffs AND EXPECT PAYMENT UP FRONT! Of course, I admit that was a few year's back but I haven't played on Zek since so I have no idea if that's changed. But I could see where any noob foolish enough to start on Zek in those days would think that nobody nice plays EQ. ;)


Edited, Jun 26th 2009 2:03pm by Sippin

that really makes me sad, i remember when eq was still friendly, yeah you had your idiots that gaffed people off, and of course there will always be noobs, but back then there were so many people on it diddnt matter , i guess i was kinda thrown for a loop when i got on expecting the same bustleing comunity just to find an almost post apocolyptic amount of survivors, i honestly panicked a bit when i tried to find people from my old guild, Knights Desires, i had at least hopped to find some remnants, but i couldnt get a hold of Heffery, Tenera, or Berttoh, but i guess they left with the others, for now i guess ill haunt AB, e marr is holds to many fond memories for me to bear playing on its corpse of its former self...

[raises a glass of blood wine] To the old days