Most of you are too young to remember this, but in classic EverQuest

[Izmael]

One of the big reasons classic EQ back then was different from our experience today on P99 is the hardware differences.

I think most of the people ran EQ in 800x600 back then, some probably did 640x480 because their 3D card was just too bad. 15" CRT was the norm, 17" was not really maintstream yet IIRC.

Most were using 28, 33, or 56kbps dialup. Some people played on 14,4 modems (I did), no doubt some played on 9600 or whatever. Today kids dont even know what I'm talking about. Basically uphill both ways in a snow storm.


15 FPS was a great framerate for EQ, in some Kunark outdoor zones with all the shitty trees, it often dropped down to like 3 FPS, if that.

Also we had no wiki (but had everlore, allakhazam and such).

For some reason, nonwithstanding said difficulties, we still were all playing like crazies, raids of 80+ people were no problem, all mobs always died.