Why do you play 1999 instead of EQ free?

[dg_w]

Sorry, new player here, why do people play the 1999 server, when EQ free is available?
I am just looking into everything before rolling my first character in 15 odd yeas .. just curious, is it due to restriction on the EQ free accounts?
This is in no way meant as a flame, just your typical neub question :)

Thank you

[Khatilly]

For me it was characters that I can't play. Created a ranger while I was gold can't play her now because I'm silver again. That and the constant advertisements about upgrading to gold just killed it for me.

[pliny the elder]

Come here to play the game you grew to love. Play there to grind aa's and skip 15 years of expansions. The choice is yours!

[captnamazing]

I started here for nostalgia, I stayed for friends. and pixels.

[Mistle]

Kunark era EQ is way better than modern EQ.

[Deadmantis]

The "free" version of EQ Live has changed way too much for my liking. The old world zones just don't look the same. If changing Freeport wasn't bad enough, Ocean of Tears is now an abomination.

Everything there up to about lvl 70 is a cakewalk with mercenaries and defiant gear, anything past that requires 3 boxing or if you're lucky, a pickup group.

Bottom line for me though is nostalgia. P1999 is the closest thing to how it used to be.

[Speedi]

I stopped playing live like 5 months ago to come here. To me it's more fun cause of the community. What makes MMO's great are people. And live has gotten so big, you don't have that social experience as much anymore.

[Ziggy]

mercs totally ruined eq, and pay to win made it unbearable

[applesauce25r624]

BAN

[Clark]

This servers always been good. Even in it's lesser times it remains a fun place to play.

[Paleman]

because its not the game I started playing in the first place. also SOE devs make alot of promises and never follow through.

[Tankdan]

Because on Test server they stopped giving expansions for free. Im not going to shell out 3 figures to play EQ Live.

[Spud]

Because this is classic

[kaev]

I started here for nostalgia, I stayed for friends. and pixels.

Yeah. Not only are the pixels here are far higher quality than those crummy mass-market SOE pixels, but they're friendlier too. I simply can't imaging living without my p99 pixel pals. I get by with a little help from my friends.

[Skillslam]

cause live and WoW are too hard for me

[korzek]

P99:
-Cons: 1 button for most classes, huge death penalties, long run and down times.
-Pros: Nostalgia, get to do the things you never did in classic like get wear a fungy or use a manastone. Easy to find a group (Love that part).

Live:
-Cons: Very hard to find a group, mostly soloing/moloing till last 10-15 levels. All old school content pretty much a ghost town except last 2-3 expansions. Have to pay $ to see end game.
-Pros: Melee classes have evolved to have a lot more abilities and utility. A lot of AAs, augs, and achievement to keep progressing your character that'll keep you having something to do for months even at end game.

In the end EQ is really about community which you'll need in both versions of EQ to keep having fun. P99 to relive the old days of gaming or Live to pay money and play with more things to click on.

[kunarking]

I started here for nostalgia, I stayed for friends. and pixels.

^^nailed it

[myriverse]

Live EQ has mercs, boxing, power bloat or whatever you want to call it (seriously, I look at the stats of even some mid-range items and my mind melts), and lot of other things that just seem unappealing to me.

EQ had become less desirable to me by 2004. I probably would have continued to play, but City of Heroes came along. I'd probably stay here if they decided to progress into even GoD... unless that City of Titans thing ever launches.

[Confit]

When I started playing in 1999 I was 13 years old with the attention span of a fork. I did some raiding here and there but didn't seriously stick with one character until around Luclin/PoP. So it's nice to do this content again with a set main and one alt.

Plus the nostalgia factor. This is the game I fell in love with as a kid and love it even more as an adult.

[Swish]

posting in a troll thread - very subtle op ;)

[eqgmrdbz]

Only reason i tried logging into Live was to see my old pixels, I would love to play with them again, but the game is not the same, everything is given to you, or you have the option of paying to win. Also for some reason when i was playing my characters i would get dropped constantly. Fact is P99 is EQ like it was designed from the beginning, hard and vast. We have issues with being stuck in Kunark, but does that make the game less fun? at least not to me, i'm still logging on and playing.