LordSterben
06-08-2013, 10:17 AM
I can't believe how excited I got when I realized that EQ was not still an option, but that I could play it as if it had been frozen in time back in the old days. I'll admit, I didn't pick up the game until right after the Kunark expansion launched, but I still consider myself an old player. =)
What I find most exciting is the return to the original experience that got me hooked in the first place. I continued to play EQ up until a few years ago (13 expansions in or so) and things changed so much that it was almost impossible to recognize the game. I missed having to ride boats, find wizards and druids for GG/TP. I missed sitting in NFP and watching the auction text scroll by. (On Mith Marr, the trading area was NFP...although it seems every other server had it in the Ro tunnel away from banks for some reason.) I missed the economy being balanced in such a way that I could make platinum as a new character by selling bat wings and CB belts in GFay. Heck...there was a lot that I missed. (I hated that tutorial level in the Kobold mines, for the record.)
I'm currently downloading the game, even though I have five different versions of EQ on my shelf, since my one Titanium edition copy has a huge scratch all the way around the first disc. After it's all done, I'm hoping to be in GFay for the rest of the afternoon getting kicked by grass snakes and laughing at skeleton noises.
My sordid past, the best that I can remember it:
67ish HE Cleric
65 Iksar Warrior
60 Dwarf Rogue
55 Human Monk
55 Dwarf Warrior
and about 1000 alts that never made it past 25.
What I find most exciting is the return to the original experience that got me hooked in the first place. I continued to play EQ up until a few years ago (13 expansions in or so) and things changed so much that it was almost impossible to recognize the game. I missed having to ride boats, find wizards and druids for GG/TP. I missed sitting in NFP and watching the auction text scroll by. (On Mith Marr, the trading area was NFP...although it seems every other server had it in the Ro tunnel away from banks for some reason.) I missed the economy being balanced in such a way that I could make platinum as a new character by selling bat wings and CB belts in GFay. Heck...there was a lot that I missed. (I hated that tutorial level in the Kobold mines, for the record.)
I'm currently downloading the game, even though I have five different versions of EQ on my shelf, since my one Titanium edition copy has a huge scratch all the way around the first disc. After it's all done, I'm hoping to be in GFay for the rest of the afternoon getting kicked by grass snakes and laughing at skeleton noises.
My sordid past, the best that I can remember it:
67ish HE Cleric
65 Iksar Warrior
60 Dwarf Rogue
55 Human Monk
55 Dwarf Warrior
and about 1000 alts that never made it past 25.