At what age did you first start playing EverQuest, and what draws you in?

[nemethor]

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

I was 43 (in 2000) at the time. I was NOT into gaming of ANY sort. Two of my co-workers started to rave about this game. Telling me I HAD to try it and how insanely huge the world was and how you could even fish in this game and on and on omg shut UP already...

So I finally buy this thing and it sits on my shelf for a couple of months until one Saturday I am bored and decide to see what the game is about. I load it up and make a HIE wizzy and put all my points into CHA. I head out into Gfay and I think to myself "WOW what crappy graphics this has...". So I play for a bit and ding level 4. I decide to head on down the path and see where it leads. I crest a hill and see Kelethin in the trees and players everywhere with particle effects going off like mad and it is at this moment that it dawns on me that this is indeed a virtual world. After I have that epiphany, that is all she wrote - I am hooked.

hedbonker your avatar is hilarious. totally fell for it.

[fishingme]

Seems I have everyone beat, 7 in 99. Released 5 days before my B-day though so I suppose ill round up


Edit:

what draws me in, super youngin childhood nostalgia, love it.

[Anort]

I was 14 I think when I started playing. My friend told me about the game in study hall, I thought he was lying to me about this game at first , at the time I didn’t even own a computer. After him telling me about it for a few weeks and bringing in the booklet, my mom decided to buy me a computer plus the game and it was awesome! The computer was not awesome but it was a computer and it let me play.

[azeth]

I was 12 when EQ was introduced to me by 3 friends of mine. I was basically hooked the moment I saw the box because I knew it'd be the video game version of the borderline LARPing sort of fun we had every single day of every summer of my life prior to then.

[Bilyeh]

When I was 5, I made a Erudite Shadowknight on my dads account when he got the game and later played a halfling rogue. Of course I couldn't play the game to the fullest extent because of my age but I played it whenever I was over my father's house up until DoD and loved it enough to make me come back 11 years later. As my first video game I can say no other games I have played afterwords can compare to the greatness of EQ.

[StinkyGreenBud]

I was 17 back in 1999 and my older brother played it and he begged me to try it out. I was hooked on ultima online at the time and eventually i tried it and was doomed ever since.

[username17]

I was 18 or 19, I think.

My neighbor was talking about Everquest.
He let me play one of his toons (Sukkan, high elf mage. lol).
I was completely hooked. He even got his mom hooked.

So for his one account he played, I played, and his mom played.
Anyone remember 'Cheater log updated'? hehehe

He died on his enchanter and because we were playing on other toons, his corpse poofed. He made us all get our own account at that point.

I had a job, my own computer and own phone line (for internet). But my parents wouldn't let me use their Credit Card. My neighbor was kind enough to let me write her a check and she'd pay for my account.

I leveled a wood elf bard to the 20s, got almost a full set of lambent SOMEHOW.
I don't remember but I'm sure I harassed a lot of people to get it.

I ended up quitting because I was playing like 10+ hours a day.
My account is still out there, but I have no idea what the username or e-mail address is. The CD key is long gone and the payment wasn't even in my name.

But ever since my experience in Everquest, I compare all MMOs to it.
I come back every now and then, even tried Al'Kabor. But this is currently the best EQ Experience, imo.

[Sephrana]

I was 23 when I started playing. My husband at the time had bought the game and wanted me to play also so he had me start a character on his account. i eventually took that acct over with my bard. and it's the people that draw me in. also raiding. love both. <3

[Dannermax]

In 2000 at the age of 18 i worked as an intern in a computer store, and at my last day there, they told me i could pick any game as a thank you for my effort. I picked EverQuest, mostly because of the fantasy illustrations on the box, and because i wanted to try out this new supposedly RPG..

When i got home, i discovered that the game required a mothly fee and an internet connection. But i figured: what the hell, lets try this thing out. Like many others like you i was instantly hooked! The funny thing about this, is that i never knew anyone else who played it, and not even today (11 years later) have i met anyone who have had any experience with the game..! Possibly because i Live in Denmark, and by that time, online gaming was in its youth!

I gave up on the game around when Luclin was released. I felt that the original, simple and beautiful feel of the game had been lost. I started playing EQ again last year, but gave up because i felt the world had been too big and complex. It wasnt the EverQuest i had remembered.

But it fills my little gamer heart when i hear about the 1999 project. I just dont hope they plan on too many expansions.. but thats another discussion..

Thats my story! - Seeyou

[nilbog]

I was 18 at the time.. and graduated high school about 2 months after release.

3d fantasy graphics on my badass celeron 333 + voodoo2 drew me in :P Most other games at the time were ugly. i.e. Ultima was cool, but it was an overhead, weird 2d view.

Why I continued to play EQ.. and now develop is the feeling of an open world, in which you control your character.. instead of the game controlling you.