I actually used to hang out at a "card shop" close to my middle school, played a lot of magic the gathering (I know, but like nerdin out on eq is any better). The shop had set up 8 computers set up by a lan and then everquest came out and they were offering to set up an account if you just payed the monthly fee (and payed to play on their computers). Eventually I talked the parents in to a home computer and then it was on like donkey kong!

I was about 26 when Kunark came out. Long ago, before there was this interwebs thing I played the old D&D games on a Commodore 128 and one of the races in those games were Lizardmen. When I saw a playable race just like it in Everquest, Iksar, I was sold.

I was sold further when I saw they had a wide open free for all PvP server where there was a price tag attached to talking shit to people: getting whacked and losing something. Oftentimes repeatedly until said punkass logged out in a fit of nerd-rage lol. It removed some of the anonymous bravery people feel when hiding behind a monitor, added another element of fun, and made one feel like they could have some level of vengeance for asshattery :mad:

I was about 15, friends in High School started playing and were talking about it. One of them let me try it out on his account. I was hooked.

i was 12 years old, and i snapped my femur in a wrestling match and was in a leg cast for a gross amount of time. I couldn't do anything, and the doctors told me I wouldnt be walking again for at least 6-9 months. My older brother played the game and was obsessed, I always made fun of him for it because i was like lol nerd, and then i started playing...

Made my troll warrior on Veeshan at first, joined some cool pals in a guild called Celestial Tomb and was on my way to glory. Then i was nerd raging that I couldn't kill this mean necro that was stealing my spiders in guktop. I rolled on rallos zek after that and never looked back

I was a few weeks shy of 30. It was great to play in a world, where many of the other characters running around weren't computer controlled.

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I was 12 in 2000, my stepdad and his dad played. Both of whom I recently got on this server :D

I had just turned 13 and bought eq with my birthday money. I was burnt out on Diablo 2 so i decided to pick up a box with the most interesting cover art. I started playing on the Seventh Hammer. I proceded to make a High Elf paladin and put all my stat points into agi named Laliden. I then joined a RP guild called Elven Crusade. This char still exist and is level 76 with a 1.5 epic and is Anguish geared XD.

I was 22 and my boyfriend, all our friends and I had been playing Gemstone 3, a text mud. When I heard about Everquest it was talk about the release of Kunark and so my BF and I bough a copy to share, and that lasted about a week :) We bough another copy and flipped a coin to see who had to make a new char and I won the original copy we had.

What I loved best was the feeling of a permanent world. In GS3 you could forget there was a river in the room description. In EQ you could not forget about the terrain, it existed. Exploring felt like exploring, not just looking for keywords to move to the next set of descriptions.

I also loved that EQ made you be good at your class. It didn't hold your hand when things started to go wrong, it kicked you in the head. The bar for average was set very high, and exceptional players could turn a good group into a great one. Casters had to learn to trust the melee, sit down blind, and med if they wanted to be useful. Melee had to learn how to pick targets and control target movement. Everyone had to learn panic kills, always.

i was 10 and my friends from class convinced me to convince my mom to get it for me.

the draw of eq from a young age is the same draw that made pokemon red and blue so great


as a kid, all your life you've been told what you can or can't do, forced to do things and go places you didn't want to and treated, well... like a kid. everquest was an escape from that, with all its immerse aspects, it said, "here's another world where, whether you're 10 years old or 40 years old, everyone has equal potential. go where ever you want, whenever you want and do whatever you want, the only thing holding you back is your own abilities. you're finally in control."

Same to me. So I guess we one of the elders :-) Two years ago I played Meridian 59 so EQ was my second MMO.