I agree with the poster above. WoW was MUCH more complex (as far as raiding goes) than EQ.
I think the reason so many people play P1999, is you get a chance to be something you could have never been in the same era. The top 5 or 10% in EQ used to have everything: the COF's, Epics, God lewt, etc.
Now 90% have it and it's actually kinda wierd to see a character sporting level appropriate gear( a caster with a flowing black robe, a melee with banded, etc)
I think once most folks reach 60 and get all the phat lewts here, the motivation to keep playing is pretty much gone. I know it is for me.
Somehow, WoW battlegrounds and PVP (especially on the classic servers) are still just as much fun as they ever were.
The problem with current WoW/EQ is that with every new expansion (or update, in the case of WoW) the gear gets more and more outrageous and the carrot on the stick gets further and further away. If I invest all my time, I want to be able to say I have the BIS or near for a few months, at a minimum.
That's probably why Kunark and Velious, collectively, were such good expansions. Velious didn't make all of Kunark obsolete.
The Burning Crusade didn't make all of WoW obsolete (maybe the high end gear), but you still spent ample time in Vanilla zones.
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