"Purest" Everquest Start

[t0lkien]

What you want is a different game. These are the things that I and others like about EQ - no kidding, we like them. You (say you) don't, but if you dislike them so much, why are you here? There must be something you like. If you changed these things, you'd simultaneously remove the very things that make this game what it is. If not, you'd be somewhere else - there are literally scores of games that do what you are saying you want. If the result of those changes is so good, why aren't you there?

I beta-ed GW2 and played it from release for a few weeks, and then just couldn't be bothered playing it longer. I have very little to say about that game that you would like. I disagree with almost every single thing they did design-wise. I didn't like the art direction at all either, though it was a beautifully executed piece of work in that regard.

P.S. re. twinking, other games have locked it out by design and then implemented an entirely new system that then allowed it (e.g. heirlooms). If that isn't the ultimate irony and absurdity, I don't know what is.