Everquest - Live Servers

Rajaah said:

What is a Breezeboot's Frigid Gnasher?

500,000 man-years have been spent playing this game, longer than all of known human history and pre-history.

Warrior being the most-played class kinda explains a lot. Like why so many people left for WoW.

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Pretty sure it's that velious bow with a knockback. Don't recall why it was removed.

BFG Right click ranger weapon that does knockback. I never could get the last thing to spawn in the frozen zone whatver it was. It wasn't removed they removed one item you needed to complete the quest. For a long time people kept trying to finish the quest.

Also have no idea what a Crono is.

My ranger is on the FV server, I transferred to it at one time. There was some rule is the reason I did. Maybe since stuff is tradeable. Not sure, can't transfer off but seems like it's not totally dead at least.

Should release how many players were killed when they hit A trying to hail an NPC and attacked instead. Or how many corpses were lost in the day. Eve online has been on 20 years and they released a number of players were created the first day still playing and a few of them have been subscribed every month since.

Masakari said:

Wow. Kind of morbid, but I wonder how many former players have passed away since EQ started.

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I wonder if those accounts are just subbed or they literally mean the characters created on that date are still logging in. I think my character on what was Solu Ro was made day 1 but once we moved to Lanys that December following release I haven't logged into any of my OG's. To me it reads those actual toons are still playing which isn't too surprising considering the size of some of the boxing squads you see some of the dedicated players use.

Would be interesting to hear a interview with a few of those people if they have legit played nonstop from day 1 - today.

They have to be pulling two metrics. Account creation date and currently subscribed. Can't imagine they are putting work into it like continuous login dates.

I am sure many of those are friends & family accounts that have life long subscriptions, and a handful are ones that played through when the lifetime All Access account models were offered.

I am halfway tempted to try to get my original account back to play my original monk now. Make it 85.

Koushirou said:

I could have sworn I hit up the lifelong sub, as I remember it getting advertised and thinking about it but maybe not. Was that what silver status is now, or is that something else?

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Lifetime sub was the top tier, so no EQ restrictions. Can't remember if it was all access or just EQ, though. Silver just means you subbed at one time but are no longer subbed.

Rajaah said:

I definitely regret missing out on getting a lifelong sub for $200 or whatever it was during the super-limited time it was for sale. Found out about it, was gonna get it, then poof no longer available.

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At the time (2018), it seemed like one last desperate cash grab by the company, with the plans of killing EQ a year or two later. But they had a string of TLPs (Selo, Mangler, Aradune, Mischief) that really breathed new life into the IP.

I wish I would have snagged a lifetime sub. I felt like I was giving $200 or whatever it was for a game that was going to be sold and/or shutdown in the not so distance future so I didn't jump on the deal.

I'm hoping they have a surprise in the near future about an EQ3 or remastering EQ. Just seems like an easy hit for them but it will take some investment for it to happen.

I contemplated lifetime subs when they offered them but was sure the game will sunset in 2 - 3 years so I passed.