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Originally Posted by Keza
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Anyway, you know what EQ was on release? A bunch of fat guys playing female characters and calling each other 'hun' and 'dear' and 'sweetie'. I was there. I know.
It didn't make the cOmMuNiTy any better, it was just a different kind of weird.
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This isn't accurate at all. Early EQ was tons of people actually roleplaying (at least sometimes, for
fun), as if they were playing a large scale D&D game - which is what EQ is supposed to be. Regardless of the roleplaying aspect, people were constantly experimenting and exploring and discovering new things. Zones were filled with players who wanted to have fun, or help each other out, or contest camps via actually fighting for it, and unexpected things would constantly happen. It was enthralling.
P99 was never going to recreate 1999 exactly, but it could have gotten much closer. Instead it's just a braindead pixel farm box. I would only want to play if there was a group of dedicated friends that wanted to just experience the game world, go on random adventures, dungeon crawls, see how much a single group can accomplish.
It's very hard to set that up, but maybe there could be thread on the forums for people who do want that kind of gameplay, where they can list their playtimes and find a playgroup, maybe using this format to sign up:
1. Enchanter
2. Healer
3. Tank
4. DPS (no repeat Enchanter)
5. DPS
6. Utility