Everquest Mysteries

uncognito said:

I remember during early Kunark, on the nameless server, there was a dark elf warrior(or sk?) named Etpo. Me and Etpo were bros and grouped all the time. We could not understand each other at all cause he was Asian as fuck. most of what he said was "~~~ la la~~ la~" But we still tried to communicate. We would log on and exp together nearly every day.

One day he looks at my awful gear, and is like "la~~~" and opens trade and gives me 3 pieces of cobalt armor(boots, helm, arms i think)which was all still Extremely rare only like 3 weeks(?) into Kunark. I was so goddamned happy, seriously like the happiest moment of my nerd life up to that point.

two days later the server message board erupts with accusations of him duping items, few days after that I saw him again and he gave me a bag of random Kunark armor and 10k gold. Said he was about to get banned. which he did. I kept all my phat loots and never told anyone where I got it. RIP Etpo I miss u friend~~~~~~

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TJT said:

So? Were you having fun exploring? I read something several years ago about how something like 5k+ quests in Everquest were never even completed by any player.

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Chukzombi said:

this happened to a lot of my guildies and myself included to some degree. you get in a high end raiding guild and you log in go to raid places then on the rare occasion the raid ends reasonably early, maybe you and some guildies run over to do a certain quest or just solo a little bit. you never see whats outside your guild and if you do then it looks like everyone else is a complete moron. and maybe they are or maybe you are just super fucking jaded because you are used to playing with people who raid the hardest hitters/nukers all day and night and have the absolutely best gear in the game to handle it.

i played EQ for 5 years and of those 5 years, i spent 4 years as a member of a high end raiding guild. i had seen it all, done it all and when i hung out in EC tunnel or at a wizard port waiting with the masses of regular players for the portal to activate i would get crowdd and spammed inspection because of the phat l00t i was pimping. inevitably i would get sent tells askingh for cash or buffs. i would put the /AFK tag on and hope they went away. it got so that when a raid was over i would just gate to bind point and log on one of my lesser geared twinks with /anon status so they couldnt tell that i was in the big guild, but after a while even my twinks had better gear than 90% of the server. i tried grouping with regular players on those twinks, but the groups i got in could see i was kitted out like crazy and would always look to me to save them every fucking time. i didnt mind taking the hits, i certainly did that enough on my shaman during raids, but it allowed these regular players to basically fuck off and not play their roles because i was powerleveling them. thats not to say there werent regular players who went above and beyond in their roles and i would ask them nonchalantly if they were in a guild and if they were happy there and maybe they would like to join a better guild and have more fun. i was a big recruiter when i found a good pick. but those times were few and far between.

when EQ started there was some level of dedication in the first players, because the game was targeted at dedicated gamers and RPers so we got a hardier bunch, plus it was kind of expensive with not too many people owning an EQ capable PC and a proper connection. the tech caught up in the 2000s, but for a time if you were in EQ you more or less had some money to play and had a PC background. i had my first PC by 92 or 93 and was already playing online games for 5 years before EQ went live so it was just the next logical step for me. the kiddies were still fucking with the consoles and internet was still silly expensive and not many would pay to look at shitty web sites. plus, the EQ learning curve was on HARD mode so it kept most people away from it.

Sean used to bitch all the time on IRC that games were too fucking easy and he only played EQ for the skill. he was right. before i had internet i was playing fucking hard Sierra games, goddamned Phantasmagoria took a giant shit on me for winning that game because it took so long to do it after dying many times and didnt get all the easter eggs. when i won Conquest of Camelot i swear the game said something like, you won, i guess, but your score sucks, you suck, kill yourself now!

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