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Originally Posted by jarshale
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Paludal emptied out every other zone in the same level range. It was terrible.
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Yay, someone mentioned Paludal and how it killed every other zone in its level range. There was no real reason to go anywhere else, so nobody did. The old dungeons became ghost towns.
AAs did its part to that too, oddly; fewer alts means less populated lower level zones. EQ is a game that is tremendously dependent on well populated zones as a rule, so the game became more top heavy and the lower level game got weaker as a result.
Add the nexus and the bazaar to that and it becomes more obvious why this is the turning point for a lot of people. Luclin was the expansion that fundamentally changed a lot of how EQ felt. You could like or dislike that change but it was a change. All through Velious the old axioms were still in place.