When was your first experience with Everquest?

[Ocura]

About a month before the relase of Kunark. I recall vivadly my guildies alt group busting a gut when I ran like hell from the lizard that popped up in Crushbones castle. I had no clue about kunark coming out lol!

[Pend]

EQ ended up in the local newspaper because its launch congested the major internet backbones going into San Diego and caused a short outage for almost the entire city, if I remember correctly. I picked it up just as Velious was released because my brother had gotten into it and I was looking for a new RPG. To be honest, the thing that originally turned me off on buying it until then was the name--it sounded so corny and childish that I didn't consider it a "serious" RPG until I started playing it. Then I was instantly hooked. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Luclin so completely jumped the shark that it really kinda ruined the experience for me. I stayed on until the expansion after it, though, almost entirely because I got a partial CH healing spell on my druid with Luclin (seriously).

[Luthandrias]

Started back in June of 1999. Me and 5 other of my friends would pile into a small room with a slow computer (333mhz processor) and waste time hailing everything and talking to NPC's thinking they were real people. The horizon never seemed to end and the adventurous spirit of the game was amazingly magical. No maps, slow boats and long hold-overs made it so real. The game was so raw it felt authentic, the risks were so great that it really did feel like you were your character as you explored dangerous territory with your heart beating in your chest. Long live EQ.

[omegadot]

I started slightly before Kunark and really never got the chance to play consistently past the 20s due to funds/internet problems as I was 14 or 15 at the time when I started. This is a great chance to have that chance again.

[sadawe]

Started in Beta, rolled out a blind erudite magician then tried to get him to Qeynos via boat
now that was impossibility at the time since boats were broken, you actually had to run with the boat to the zone line or you would be fish food.

aahh those were the good old days..

[Zalora]

My first experience with EQ is with this server. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who hasn't been playing for decades.

When I don't know something about something in the game sometimes people get frustrated that I don't know about it or even think I'm trolling.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

my memory is, summer of 99, fiddlinjg around with the char creation, finally deciding on a dark elf, and spending my first day -- as in, probably 3-4 hours -- lost in Neriak, wondering what I was supposed to even do in this game. I was pure newb. I loved it. Being an old D&D player, I knew the gist, but I loved the fact I couldn't even find my way out of my home city. I was hailing guards, merchants, you name it. I never looked at any online sites for like 5-6 months. It was pure trial and error. Lots and lots of error.

And I loved it.

[Thaeryn]

I started on Tunare summer of 2000 just after RoK was released. I made a necro named Uaelin and a druid named Thaeryn. I was 20 at the time and until 2002 I spent the majority of my time in Norrath. I still don't know how I managed to finish school.

So many memories. Some great. Some not-so-great. I'm excited to get started again, and I'm hoping to reconnect with some old friends. Thank you to the devs for putting this all together.

[Grampy]

Started out sharing an account with a buddy who picked up the game shortly after it came out. We played on the Tunare server. I was an ogre shaman. When whispers of PvP servers started echoing through the playerbase I decided it was time to snag my own copy of the game. I started playing on the Tallon Zek server the day it went live and remained there until Sullon Zek launched. I waffled back and forth between the Tallon and Sullon until I quit playing around 2003 or so.

[Vaildez]

My Friend and his GF bought me EQ for my birthday back in 1999 and I had the game shelved for like 6 months since I was in High School with no income to pay the monthly till I took my parents CC eventually and started playing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. I started my first character a warrior named "Gafgoron" on Erollisi Marr and died in the pool in Halas within my first few min of playing.