Pantheon will probably never be released so I don't think it will have much impact.
Even if it is released though, I don't think it fills the same space as EQ. EQ is a warm blanket, a place we are all familiar with and comfortable. We play it because of nostalgia and because it conjures up echoes of the feelings we had when we played it the first time around, when we had no idea how huge an online world could be.
I hope Pantheon is released and is everything we all hope it will be, but in the meantime I am not getting my hopes up.
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