Why EQ?

[Mirakk82]

Ohyeah, and mobs that require more than casual facerolling to defeat. Can't forget that.

[JPMorgan]

Originally Posted by Mirakk82 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ohyeah, and mobs that require more than casual facerolling to defeat. Can't forget that.

Modern day PvE is for pussies: WoW killed open world exploration with mounts and flight paths.

Open world PvP is a thing of the past: WAR gave it their all, but in the end BG's won out.

Mirakka82 summed up the risk factor pretty well. Other games have harder raid content in terms of scripting, but no game punishes your inability to evaluate risk or think ahead like EQ does.

Returning to EQ classic has really brought to light how complacent modern day MMOs has made players in general. Stupid, avoidable deaths are rampant. No one notices when another player is getting trounced by a mob right in front of them. Camps aren't respected. No one thinks twice about managing their own threat while in a group, etc.

P99 is everything right with what EQ was. Meanwhile, everything right with EQ was watered down and smashed into baby food by modern MMOs.

[Kazi]

Nostalgia and the social element missing in other MMOs.

[baloen]

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

Nostalgia and the social element missing in other MMOs.

[Clark]

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

Nostalgia and the social element missing in other MMOs.

[Frug]

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

Nostalgia and the social element missing in other MMOs.

This was it for me. EQ was my first graphical MMO, and it has burned some synapses in my brain that cause all other MMOs to be... fun, but rarely for long, and never have that same feel.

DAoC came really close and I still have very fond memories of playing it, but nothing was EQ for me but EQ.

[Rhambuk]

The social aspect for me, i would hop on wow use the dungeon finder do it and be back in my home town without so much as having to talk to people to advance and progress in the game. lvl 1-85 and didn't know anyone, you can say its my fault but there are no people doing dungeons they all use the dungeon finder which uses people from all servers and chances are you will never see them again.

here you see the same people leveling up in the same spots you get to know them. Ill hop on eq just to chat to see what people are doing, I used to hop on wow and just stand their because i didn't want to group with a bunch of randoms and standing around the AH i didn't recognize anyone, just a faceless game.

[Aborath]

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

P99 is everything right with what EQ was. Meanwhile, everything right with EQ was watered down and smashed into baby food by modern MMOs.

This, exactly.