[hedbonker]

I was 43 (in 2000) at the time. I was NOT into gaming of ANY sort. Two of my co-workers started to rave about this game. Telling me I HAD to try it and how insanely huge the world was and how you could even fish in this game and on and on omg shut UP already...

So I finally buy this thing and it sits on my shelf for a couple of months until one Saturday I am bored and decide to see what the game is about. I load it up and make a HIE wizzy and put all my points into CHA. I head out into Gfay and I think to myself "WOW what crappy graphics this has...". So I play for a bit and ding level 4. I decide to head on down the path and see where it leads. I crest a hill and see Kelethin in the trees and players everywhere with particle effects going off like mad and it is at this moment that it dawns on me that this is indeed a virtual world. After I have that epiphany, that is all she wrote - I am hooked.