Here is first google result I found, related to EQ2
https://www.wired.com/2008/09/study-gamers-no/
I agree that the game itself may attract people of a certain type, rather than cause people to become depressed, or whatever.
So, yeah, my quote is probably dumb.
The point is that we can see that EQ community is not the most healthy straight forward clear thinking group of logical geniuses. A lot of people here have various problems, and we are trying to make a decent gaming community built out of those people.
Folks that are drawn to what they may have played in 2001 and finding themselves here may be a particular type of person with a particular type of problems which may make it even harder to make a good community.
I base these assumptions off the absolutely heinous threads we see on blue forum about deep lawyerquesting and the way people are fighting over dragon pixels. It makes me very uncomfortable to see those kinda threads.
Which is why I think red99 is a healthier community. The posts are better. The way we can interact (kill) eachother makes the game better.
We have all seen people go off the immersion deep end and we know that too much EQ can be hard on people, for one reason or another. Certainly it degrades ones ability to do normal life stuff, just because the game can consume so much time.
But yeah, I'm just talking out of bristlebanes ass here.