Why did some EQ players dislike WoW?

[Ion Blaze]

Why did some EverQuest players dislike WoW when it came out? What were the reasons they gave? How did WoW affect EQ’s playerbase? Just trying to understand for academic purposes. Please keep this mature.

[red_demonman]

It was direct competition at the time and so a lot of players did not want to see the EQ community bleed out to WoW. On top of that, it kind of took the attention off EQ and shifted it to WoW as the main MMO at the time.

This is around the same time that Sony & Nintendo had big "fanboys" and a lot of the fanboy culture was also seen in the MMO area. It definitely did lower the EQ playerbase to some degree as players left for greener pastures, at least on the server I was on.

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[unsunghero]

1. Because it’s pve content was on rails

2. Because it’s pve content outside of raids was far too easy

3. Because the lack of significant consequences for dying removed a lot of excitement and sense of danger, especially in dungeons

Those are probably the big 3, if I had to pick. That being said, I liked EQ but loved WoW, but mostly WoW for the pvp

[unsunghero]

Oh shit this is Ion! Like your vids man, keep up the good work

[Reiwa]

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2. Because it’s pve content outside of raids was far too easy

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[Crawdad]

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

Why did some EverQuest players dislike WoW when it came out? What were the reasons they gave?

One of the big deal breakers I heard a lot back in 03-04 for WoW was graphics and storyline. Some people didn't care for the 'silly' or 'cartoony' look of WoW or the massive amount of topical humor in the game/world. EQ may not have been great looking but it made people feel like they were grounded in a fantasy setting. WoW is basically how can we jam as many pop culture reference in as game content/world building.

[loramin]

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

Why did some EverQuest players dislike WoW when it came out

Honestly, most didn't. WoW was extremely popular among EQ players.

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How did WoW affect EQ’s playerbase?

It decimated it.

SOE had stopped publishing population numbers by that point (very likely because they knew how embarrassing they would be), but ... let me put it this way. WoW came out in November 2004, and just a few months later 18 servers closed.

So WoW destoryed EQ's population, but to be fair it wasn't all WoW's fault: SOE shot themselves in the foot with the EQ 2 release also.

[teai]

Everquest and WoW duking it out while little AC was chugging along unknown to the masses ;w;



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[Sadre Spinegnawer]

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

Just trying to understand for academic purposes. Please keep this mature.

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Emperor Ferdinand the First wuffered from hydrowephaly, which is water on the brain, which Freddie Mercury was suspected to have had and that is what really killed him (that and no common sense, nothing left to believe in).



He is famous for a few things, but one of them is, during the 1848 Revolution he asked his trusted advisor / drool mopper Prince Metternich, why people were marching on his Palace, and Metternich replied dryly, "they are overthrowing the government," to which the unfortunate Ferdinand replied, "Ja, aber durfen's denn des?"


So that's academic. As to requesting maturity, I would ask the mods, if that is possible?