Just off the top of my head...
During classic warriors bitched about not having utility like the hybrid tanks. During kunark and beyond hybrid tanks bitched about not being able to tank raid content. And when the group exp penalty was realized and hybrids had a hard time getting group we bitched about that (I started an SK as my main during kunark). Hybrids in general complained about being hybrids with all of the compounding penalties on top of it. Yet, for some reason, you couldn't throw a rock without hitting a Pally or Ranger. I, personally, bitched about every ranger having some mispelled derivation of a name of one of the LOTR rangers. lol
SKs, in general, pretty much bitched that we were the redheaded stepchildren class, because we were....Always getting shafted with something at every turn and just got worse as time went on. Too many examples to list, but just to put it in perspective, when Luclin released we couldn't buy our spells from that expansion for weeks because the merchant was improperly flagged as a pathing npc or something and despite the whole world petitioning and posting on the forums, it was constantly answered with the usual "working as intended" horseshit they always spewed. Finally after a few weeks of no SKs with new spells one of the numbskulls at sony actually went and looked at it and they fixed it.
During classic wizzes bitched about mages being more desired by groups. Shamans bitched about Alchemy being broken which, also, was answered with the usual "working as intended" horseshit for literally close to a year before someone actually had a look at it and they realized it was, *gasp* broken. Barbarians bitched about shields they wore not being visible. Druids bitched about not having quest armor. Later, during kunark, they bitched about dots getting nerfed. Actually, you've never heard crying in EQ like when that happened.
As someone said, nerfs in general, got bitched about a lot.
When the necro best of the best event happened, on one server two necros twitched one another in protest of that being their job on raids. The point was made, but I think the two necros got suspended or banned for "disruption" of a GM event or something.
Bringing me to what the vast majority of us bitched about....Sony/Verant. They sucked. They made this great game, but they had the worst customer service and customer relations in general in any service, computer or gaming related or otherwise that I've ever paid for before or since. They had a basic phone company attitude with a passive aggressive "fuck you" tone to it at every turn. People talk about Brad McQuade around here like he is some kind of god and saint rolled into one....Which is evidence there are a lot fewer people around here that actually played live classic than some would have you believe. If you were there and payed attention, you hated those people. Great game, but if anything you liked about it got attention by Brad and crew, 9 times out of 10 it was about to turn to complete shit.
While I actually like Vanguard and hated to see it fail, the vindictive dick that I am, I, personally, chuckle when I think of the original verant team eating it the way they did. Karma is a bitch and he and his boys caught it good with that one. Most of them got fired in the parking lot. And I hope one of them was that fat fucking nerd Abashi, who was the gerbels of the original game. He was an asshole and, clearly, enjoyed every bit of it. To put a person like that in charge of community relations and to allow him to behave the way he did is inexuseable. He abused his position to harrass players, showed nothing but contempt for the playerbase in general and there were even examples of abuses towards the volunteer server guides. I hope he never got another job in gaming after that, because he didn't deserve a career after his behavior...Unless it was with Sigil and got canned in the parking lot with everyone else because that gives me warm fuzzies to consider. Fuck that asshole. Fuck all of them, frankly. When they were on top they chose to treat their customer base with nothing but contempt and I, personally, have no sympathy for any of them. Yes, it was that bad.
Since it comes up, I've been screwing around on live for the last week or so with a buddy.....Noticed on the forums that ole Brad McQuade was back on the EQ team for a while this past spring. And is now gone. Not sure what happened but found that interesting.
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