My perception of Vanguard was always that it was bigger and badder than EQ. My brother told me it made him feel like the early days of EQ again, where you were nothing and the game didn't owe you anything, or care if you ever left the starter area.
I think that intimidated a lot of people who really got burnt out on the leveling treadmill that was EQ in the beginning.
I shied away from it due to the publicity that it was every bit as all-consuming in-your-face immersive as EQ and then some. With other companies making casual-friendly games that could be played productively for an hour at a time( not just WoW), it made it pretty unappealing to think Vanguard would require weeks of killing aggressive fauna to see any accomplishment.
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