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Originally Posted by greatdane
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I never understood why THJ was so popular. Tried it when it launched, and while the triple-class gimmick was briefly entertaining, the novelty wore off within a week. Then it was just a laughably trivial server where you could solo raids and get BIS gear with ridiculous ease, and no social aspect because everything was designed around soloing.
For that server to have become so absurdly popular says a lot about the gaming mentality of large portions of the EQ community. The triple-class concept was undermined by the fact that THJ didn't have even the slightest pretense of balance, so while the idea was interesting on paper, the result was effectively the same as using cheat codes in a single-player game.
Anyone who feels like THJ is the ideal way to play EQ should admit that they're a shitty player who can't succeed in the real version of the game.
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Nice gatekeeping holier than thou post. You may not like TLJ, but the reality is that it was a fresh breath of air in the formula for the game and even got some younger newcomers that never once played any other EQ game before to try it out. And that's something this franchise is in dire need of, which is cross generational appeal for those in their teens and 20's. Because you can't rely on a majority 40-60+ year old fandom that is slowly dwindling down year by year to maintain any sort of revitalized relevance.
That said, it's a shame TLJ mods blew it by asking for ingame perk purchases (conspiracies aside). Hoping this doesn't have repercussions on the already paper thin tolerance of the emu community.