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Originally Posted by kendric
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Can anyone point on the most important differences between playing p1999 and starting a level 1 character on the official EQ servers?
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The largest difference I can point at is also quite subjective, but is why I have left EQ Live and play on p1999 exclusively now. That difference being that p1999 is not full of SOE bloat. For example, when I create a new toon on Live, I can level up faster and obtain gear within the first five levels that many playing on p1999 don't see even in the endgame. The SOE Live experience seems to me to be about getting a toon out of the newbie yard and into the end game as fast as possible. When it wasn't fast enough, they started selling heroic characters taking you to level 85 with about 5k AAs.
Here on p1999 it is the experience and challenge that I remember when I first starting playing EQ back in 2000. All the things I hated back then (e.g. corpse runs, hell levels, waiting on boats, etc.) turned out to be all the things that made the game fun for me.