When EQ came out I had 3 male roommates, all active duty, stationed in boring-ass Jacksonville FL. 2 of them got into it pretty heavily, and when I used to watch them play the third made some jokes about how girls were bad at video games and made good cheerleaders for the guys. I immediately rolled my first toon, a troll SK (not ideal choice for a first toon in 1999, turns out, but I was trying to be hardcore with my limited understanding of how this game worked).
Not sure exactly when I got hooked, but I remember 2 conversations with the roommate whose computer/account I was using. The first was when he said something like, "um, so it used to be that you'd log off before I got home. Then you started logging off right when I got home. And now when I get home you promise you'll log off soon..." And I apologized and kept doing the same thing.
So the second conversation I remember was him coming home with a new copy of eq, some RAM and an updated video card for my comp and telling me I'd have to reroll a new toon but that he'd help me transfer my stuff.
"You... You bought me a game and upgrades?"
"Yeah, you owe me $200 but I'll take $40 off if you let me keep your old SK."
So I realized I was hooked and was introduced to RMT on the same day. :P
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