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Originally Posted by Kich
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Typecasting the WoW playerbase as loot hungry min-maxers is a bit naive. Of the ~13 million users, 10 (or more) million of those players have little to no interest in raiding and the like. A good portion of that group is deeply in love with the story of the game, and a smaller portion of THAT portion intimately play on RP servers (I may be wrong about that demographic, I've never been on one, but I do know there are at least a few incredibly large and popular RP servers).
It sounds like you were probably in a hardcore raiding guild, or one that wanted to be, of which there are only about a dozen per server of the hundreds (perhaps thousandish) guilds per server.
(In other words, the hardcore min-maxing scene (which I'm absolutely a part of in that game) is actually very small.)
In regards to EQ, I can understand why he plays it over WoW. Especially in regards to the challenge and power an individual can attain in this game depending on the class. In WoW, there is no real challenge in the outside world, nor in dungeons. It only really hits in raids and even then a lot of it is actually pretty easy conceptually. EQ has a steep difficulty curve, not only that the mobs in the game drop interesting loot (something a game like WoW seriously lacks, their items are bound to stat budgets and level requirements and they're all basically the same thing with "change x to y" certain stat).
Understandably, at some point in the EQ timeline, gear starts becoming ridiculous and every piece of high end gear was just a massive increase to all stats and had no real flavor to it, but I don't think this server reaches that point.
However, Tol, you may have inspired me to make a Bard =P
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I was the guild leader of a guild that raided 5 nights a week, doing all the top end raids. I stopped playing maybe a few weeks before we did lich king, and handed leadership off to one of my officers. We were not competing for the top spots on the server, but we did well, and had a lot of respect.
I'm not trying to typecast WoW players, but the game is built to cater to min-maxers. EQ is also built to cater to min-maxers, but the game is 11 years old now, and anyone who is coming back here is probably coming back for nostalgia when min-max gameplay was not even heard of and not due to a min-max idea. Playing an 11 year old game is the opposite of the min-maxer mentality, especially given the culture that once surrounded EQ so many years ago.