Why do you play 1999 instead of EQ free?
 

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

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.

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!

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

Kunark era EQ is way better than modern EQ.

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.

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.

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

BAN

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