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[madwilliamflint]

I hate to do this to you but...

you should go back and poke your head in. It's still worth playing ;-)

[Apoco]

Originally Posted by madwilliamflint

I hate to do this to you but...

you should go back and poke your head in. It's still worth playing ;-)

But I fear that it will be much like going back to your grandparents house. it just won't be as amazing as I remember it.

I played EQ during its golden years. There really wasn't any other competition (DAOC, EvE are the only ones I can think of) and so it was thoroughly saturated with players, the game was complex & punishing enough that the upper end players were almost always intelligent, and the game was in constant development. I played again when they hit their 10 year anniversary just for an afternoon and it felt so...I don't know...sepia toned. It wasn't the vibrant, lively EQ I had known. It had lost whatever the EQ quality was - whether that was the player base, my guild, the real life friends that I had that still played the game, the fact that I knew the game inside and out at the time, whatever.

TL;DR version: Time makes memories awesome until you go back and actually revisit it.
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[Brutus2600]

Originally Posted by madwilliamflint

I hate to do this to you but...

you should go back and poke your head in. It's still worth playing ;-)

I actually downloaded the free trial for EQ just to explore Qeynos and see if it might be fun to revisit, but they stuck you on a newbie island and the combat was so painful that I couldn't play it for more than 15 minutes. I did get a little shiver up my spine when I hit level two and had that *DING* sound play.

Ah, memories