World of Warcraft is the true spiritual successor to EverQuest.

[Topgunben]

Should be an option for “bush burned the towers”

Now that I’m older, I understand why WOW defeated EQ handily. As a youngster, I could game for 10 hours straight on a Saturday or in the summer time. It didn’t bother me that I’d have to wait for an hour for a group to open up because I had all the time in the world.

Now I just want to jump in and play. I’m fine waiting for a couple minutes, but waiting an hour to get to the group I want to be in doesn’t work for me. EQ deaths probably are a little too punishing for the average casual. I don’t want to feel the need to do a CR before I go on a week long vacation because my corpse might pop.

Blizzard seemed to be able to tap into the best parts of EQ while dropping the worst parts. Admittedly taking away the punishing mechanics did take away some of the challenge and reward of achieving something, but I think Classic WOW was able to balance this as well as could reasonably been done.

Just my thoughts.