Why did some EQ players dislike WoW?

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Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Honestly, most didn't. WoW was extremely popular among EQ players.



It decimated it.

SOE had stopped publishing population numbers by that point (very likely because they knew how embarrassing they would be), but ... let me put it this way. WoW came out in November 2004, and just a few months later 18 servers closed.

So WoW destoryed EQ's population, but to be fair it wasn't all WoW's fault: SOE shot themselves in the foot with the EQ 2 release also.

From my memory, I remember everyone on the forums really looking forward to EQ 2 and a lot of my friends quitting EQ in the months leading up to EQ 2 Launch.

I actually played WOW and EQ 2 at the same time, and I can honestly say that I preferred EQ 2 way more. The problem is, most of my friends didn't own computers that could even run EQ 2, and since WoW was so casual friendly, most of my friends were hooked on the game, so I found myself having to play WoW more just to play with them, even though I thought it was an inferior game at the time.

Like in EQ 2 it just felt like there was way more stuff to do, and that it had a lot more depth, the crafting system was really well done and I owned a mansion in the game, I did unique things like faction changes, farmed weird titles. WoW just felt really.... limited.

A lot of people don't remember this, but WOW Classic is not true the original state of the game. I remember hitting max level in WoW fairly early on and not having anything to do. The game felt really unfinished.

I've still been playing WoW off and on for 15+ years now, so I don't completely hate it, I just feel like it's a really dumbed down version of EQ. Whenever WoW Classic Launched and I played it and P99 back to back, I realized how much the two games had in common at one point. Something I didn't really think too much about in 2004 when the game launched.