Why EQ is better

[firesyde424]

So I was sitting on my cleric NFP today, trying to find something useful to make that would repay me the 400 plat I had sunk into my baking skill over the last several days, when I see several purple and blue sprites appear around my cleric and a brown boot surrounded by a blue background appear in my buff window.

Someone had SoW'ed me....

I didn't ask for it, didn't spam or beg or offer to donate. Someone just.. cast SoW on me. It wasn't a big deal. It's happened tons of times already just on P99 since I started playing, and more times than I can count while I played on live. So immersed and steeped into the EQ experience was I, that it didn't really register to me what had happened until I thought back to the several years of WoW that I played, trying to remember if that had ever happened to me in WoW.


Right then, it occurred to me that I couldn't remember another time in any of the other MMO's I had played, and I have played quite a few, that someone had just dropped a random buff on me. In fact, I had tried to remember a time in WoW when I had sat on my druid and just buffed random passersby. I must admit, I couldn't. And yet, earlier today, I had sat on my cleric in EC, buffing and healing newbies while I was working on my baking skill.

And it dawned on me, despite outdated graphics, tortuous(sometimes) gameplay, one of the harshest death penalties in any MMO, and sections of leveling that are quite literally labelled "Hell", Everquest is by far, the best MMO I've played.

What makes it great? The immersion and the community. We have the best community of people, people who will help each other out for no reason other than they want to. People who will stop on their way through EC to buff the newbies. And Immersion.... I created a necro again on this server and still felt the wonder and chills of walking into the Neriak Necro guild for the "first" time.

/salute EQ