EQ was an awful game and there were no alternatives at the time worth a damn.The game was designed for someone who was willing to have almost unlimited patience in order to succeed. It was designed for the basement dweller. It's also why I think that even if an exact replica of Everquest came out today, with updated graphics that it would have a limited shelf life for many. Games are designed the way they are today because a vast majority do not have that kind of patience that you need for EQ. Even the old school who clamor for this type of game again, some in this very thread and in the EQN thread, I don't think would stick around for more than a month or two, tops. I just think the nostalgia and rose colored glass effect would wear off. I know I don't have that kind of patience anymore and loved EQ, there is never going to be another like it.
Shit I had forgotten about how much those sold for too , I wonder what the avg lifespan of a staff wielding skeleton was in those days......Making a beeline for the decaying skeleton cruising across the newbie zone wielding a cracked staff....
This is basically how I feel. The newness and the wow factor can never be replicated.EQ was an awful game and there were no alternatives at the time worth a damn.
I still think of it like the video game version of Woodstock. If you weren't around for EQ circa '99-'01 you missed out.
yeah but it didn't keep me pre-occupied... I played Kunark for 2 months, quit and came back for Velious, quit after a month, skipped Luclin and came back during PoP. Unfortunately everyone I knew was level 65 already and I was still 55 so people weren't too keen on helping me level since I'd been gone for almost 2 years at that point.The fact that it kept you preoccupied despite your never being part of the "cutting edge" means it was successful. EQ had a lot of ingenuity in its simplicity and there were nuances to the game that haven't been explored since. Developers should take some of their cues from EQ instead of making the same sterile mmos.
The ability to drop items/money on the ground was a really cool feature that (I think) most games have foregone. I remember going on my first Vox raid as a newb and following the path of copper coins so I wouldn't fall into the bear pits. I also remember finding a secluded spot in Freeport and dropping twink items on the ground for my alt to log on and grab.The mobs wielding their special loot as dgrabs mentioned was a nice little touch that isn't in MMOs anymore. I remember camping the Jester in Kurns and when that fucker spawned and he was holding the Iksar Berserker Club I felt a huge rush because I knew he had it so I HAD to kill him. And the loot scaled the mobs stats too if I remember correctly, which meant they were harder to kill when they had the good stuff.
Na, wisps memory for me (as a warrior) was taking the first swing and getting the message about it being invulnerable and needing a magical weapon to damage the mob. Then the wisp proceeds to beat the shit out of me while I could do nothing at all to damage him.What about that first wisp kill that dropped a whole plat ? Holy shit you were instantly rich at the early stages.
I got a couple of scammers banned for stealing those regen tunics from people (Edit- Ah, Ceremonial Iksar Chestplate, from Traks Teeth, that was it), so I guess that would be a risk/reward kinda thing.My buddy and I hustling people out of millions of plat at the nfp auction. I once convinced a guy that I had a 50 necro on another server that I was trying to trade and that we could talk about it over the phone if he gave me 5k. All he got was a fake number.
I was a real bastard when it came to economics at 15.
you sound like a faggotI got a couple of scammers banned for stealing those regen tunics from people, so I guess that would be a risk/reward kinda thing.
Even got a whiny tell from one of the first guys friends the next day saying "Why did you do that, scamming is part of the game." And like I told him, if thieves are part of the game then so are the cops.
I hear EQN will allow people to select ambiguous sexes for their characters.Faggots are part of the game!