Why did some EQ players dislike WoW?

[WokeCat]

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

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



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.

From my memory, I remember everyone on the forums really looking forward to EQ 2 and a lot of my friends quitting EQ in the months leading up to EQ 2 Launch.

I actually played WOW and EQ 2 at the same time, and I can honestly say that I preferred EQ 2 way more. The problem is, most of my friends didn't own computers that could even run EQ 2, and since WoW was so casual friendly, most of my friends were hooked on the game, so I found myself having to play WoW more just to play with them, even though I thought it was an inferior game at the time.

Like in EQ 2 it just felt like there was way more stuff to do, and that it had a lot more depth, the crafting system was really well done and I owned a mansion in the game, I did unique things like faction changes, farmed weird titles. WoW just felt really.... limited.

A lot of people don't remember this, but WOW Classic is not true the original state of the game. I remember hitting max level in WoW fairly early on and not having anything to do. The game felt really unfinished.

I've still been playing WoW off and on for 15+ years now, so I don't completely hate it, I just feel like it's a really dumbed down version of EQ. Whenever WoW Classic Launched and I played it and P99 back to back, I realized how much the two games had in common at one point. Something I didn't really think too much about in 2004 when the game launched.

[goblinmob]

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

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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?

Lol!

[unsunghero]

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

I remember hitting max level in WoW fairly early on and not having anything to do. The game felt really unfinished.

Now I forget, was the endgame of vanilla WoW blackrock mtn (LBRS, UBRS) or was molden core in the original launch?

Just checked and yea MC and Onyxia were in at launch. So that’s a decent end game, far more than many other more modern MMO’s launch with

The problem with MC was it was too large, requiring raiders to have to commit 3-6 hours on average depending on wipes of their time each run. And all the ridiculous amounts of trash pulls become incredibly boring once a guild had the raid on farm status

WoW raids had mechanics that EQ raids to my knowledge simply couldn’t match, though, in terms of complexity. But I wasn’t ever into raiding in EQ so I’m definitely not an authority on their raids

[Mblake1981]

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

The problem is, most of my friends didn't own computers that could even run EQ 2, and since WoW was so casual friendly

Took out a bank loan for my EQ computer. WoW was for pawnshop laptop players. I would never have taken a loan out for WoW. It was developed before Windows Vista, so it has that going for it at least.

[Patrece]

If you have to ask them lol

[Garnaak]

I never played WoW.

I was mid 50's KC grinding Monk working on Whistling Fist robe when PoP came out. That is when my group of friends split up in-game. The hard cores joined raiding guilds and hit 65, leaving us more casual players to fend for ourselves. There was a group of 6-7 of us IRL that all started playing together originally.

So, PoP caused our real life group to fracture ingame and with WoW around the corner, it was just going to be another fracture on top of what we already experienced.

When I got back into things since that time, it has always been the emu scene. Did finally play WoW classic emu a couple years ago, just to see what fuss was about. It did seem easy mode after EQ, though it did have cleaner graphics.

[magnetaress]

It was too easy at first and the community was full of scrubs.

It's a better game then EQ now. The populous idiots still mill about however.

[magnetaress]

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

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



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Baler? Mblake? That you?

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

EQ1 basically died mid 2000's.


Fan Faires are dominated by eq2 players, guilds, and content. In Atlanta in 2006 fan faire, there was one table that held the eq1 players during the main dinner.



The key to understand WoW is that it was both new and comfort food. Everyone had played Warcraft. Wow's success was nearly automatic.



People loyal to the eq brand moved to eq2. I can' remember anyone missing eq1 after they moved on. It was not yet this "thing" that people are still attached to even though it is long since over. I cannot figure such people out. Let it go!



Anyone who is still posting about original everquest in 2022 is insane.

[PlsNoBan]

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

EQ1 basically died mid 2000's.


Fan Faires are dominated by eq2 players, guilds, and content. In Atlanta in 2006 fan faire, there was one table that held the eq1 players during the main dinner.



The key to understand WoW is that it was both new and comfort food. Everyone had played Warcraft. Wow's success was nearly automatic.



People loyal to the eq brand moved to eq2. I can' remember anyone missing eq1 after they moved on. It was not yet this "thing" that people are still attached to even though it is long since over. I cannot figure such people out. Let it go!



Anyone who is still posting about original everquest in 2022 is insane.

Is this a troll post that went over my head? You have a join date of 2012 and 1310 posts. You posted 30+ times in 2022. Are you calling yourself insane? I'm very confused here