Why eq was/is the best mmo ever (so far), that ive played at least

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EQ was tough, even when I started, which was PoP, but I always met cool people. Like, really cool people. Sure there were douches or idiots, but typically they were decent, rad, intelligent people. My thoughts on why other MMOs failed to hold me:

WoW: Too easy. Too boring. The story and sights were kind of interesting but... I could solo the whole game; so could everyone else. I think I grouped a handful of times during my entire time playing, and I played till lvl 40, this was before the first expansion (whatever the fuck that was).

EVE: I wanted so much to love this game. I am a sci-fi person heart and soul. The way they integrated pvp and carebears was just too damn good. It is actually so well put together its insane, pvp/carebear/tradeskilling/wtfever fits together in magical way. But it was just plain boring. I can't put my finger on why, it just made me fall asleep. Even the story was well thought out.

LotRo: This I thought had a lot of promise, but I realized quickly after I started that seeing the sights of LOTR, wasnt the same as experiencing them in the books. Nuff said.

EQ2: This was probably the only other MMO that held a candle to EQ, imo. I played a Defiler, which I thought was one of the most interesting classes in the game and was one of the most unique classes Ive ever played. And seeing everything felt magical, but the breakdown of the classes and the way they split it between good/evil into equal/opposite really left something to be desired. Still a good game (at least the last time I played, heard this isn't so atm).

EQ: What can I say, its the only game I ever fell into enough to make it to the really high end. Progressing from raiding Velious all the way through VT and into PoP (got about halfway through the progression I think?" and finally quit a few months after GoD. The people, the places, the everything about eq just grabbed me and held me until it got annoying. Sadly, every other game decided to follow the bad parts of eq and leave the great parts behind.

But I still remember what made it great.

Later guys!