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Originally Posted by Peener
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My theory is that in the past 10 years or so, gamers (particularly MMORPGers) have degenerated into self-entitled pricks with an exaggerated sense of their own importance. This post is a great example of that.
I didn't realize it at the time, but in retrospect I think one of the things that made EQ great was that its devs and admins really didn't give two shits about their playerbase. They not only force fed us updates and expansions full of bugs, but the original game, by accident or by design, took an entirely hands-off approach to moderating content. No instancing meant that servers had to make their own rules for everything from camps to raid mob rotations. If someone trained you or ninja'd your mob, you didn't petition it like a little bitch - you took it to the server forums and the person who did it would be held accountable. As a result, there was a sense of community in pre-Luclin EQ that's not nearly as prevalent in most modern games.
I'm not sure if it was the introduction of instancing or something else entirely that brought about all of this whining, but the number of "this isn't fair to me, I want admins to level the playing field" type posts on these forums is disgusting and doesn't belong in Everquest. If you want a game with a shitload of arbitrary rules that are over-enforced, go play World of Warcraft.
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Could it be that it was all so simple then, or has time rewritten every line?
And if we could all do it over again, tell me....
Would we?
Could we?
Memories, may be beautiful, and yet,
what's too painful to remember, we choose to forget.
So it's the laughter
we will remember
whenever we remember
The way...... we were