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Originally Posted by Slippy
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Players never really "asked" for instancing - it was introduced in the LDoN expansion as a test to see if EQ Live could move to that system as a fix for the open world problems.
EQ live had many issues, but after Planes of Powers, they had 3 expansions that were considered failures. LoY, LDoN, and Gates of Discord. GoD was a mess and by the time OoW came out to try and fix the issues from GoD, players had enough - Live lost a massive chunk of their player base (server mergers) and most never came back. WoW had a big following from their previous games, much easier to level and gear... overall it appealed to the masses.
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LoY, Ldon were the best! GoD was alright going back to it after oow, but it had a terrible colour palette and muddy details. I preferred the strong contrasting colours and clear boundaries in details of earlier eq.
I think they added instancing for Plane of Time too.
I don’t mind too much the raid system in p1999 - it is pretty cool to get an email inviting you to kill a boss at that moment. Someone said people that won’t try non-instance are missing out, but many of these players don’t play the game as a sport but as a narrative and they want to be able to play the story of going to the dragons lair with no one but their choice friend and saving the world from this terror.