I'll just leave this here - it's something I wrote years ago after logging out of EQ Live for the last time, updated with a preamble:
Goodbye to the Bard
p99 maintains an experience that has yet to be recaptured by the multi-billion dollar industry EverQuest spawned. My feeling is it and other portals like it are more relevant to modern MMOs and the industry than many understand, and may yet be a catalyst for change. At least, that's my hope.