I'm here because of nostalgia as well as a game that I don't seem to get burnt out on after a week of playing. I have a group of friends as well that have played EQ in the past and loved it but a lot of them can't get past the dated graphics. They enjoy the nostalgia/difficulty part of the game but to them the graphics are just dated. I've tired to get them to try out the server and a couple have but none of them stick with it and the only reasons I get are the graphics. Yea they complain about not having a map and it takes forever to level but that's not why they stopped playing. I believe a new game could be designed with difficulty introduced back into the industry and still do very well depending on how you sold it. With all the different methods to pay in today's gaming environment you can have a great game but ruin it with payment method as well. I personally am a fan of subscription style games as opposed to F2P with special in game markets based around RL currency. I have not seen 1 game do an in game market well where the people buying crap from the markets don't get things otherwise inaccessible in the game. I would rather pay a subscription to a game and get all content even if that would require a monthly subscription to the game of $30/month. All subscription based games never seem to go past about 15 a month and with inflation since 1999 how can that be expected. I'd gladly pay double that for a newly created EQ with updated graphics and I have a large group of friends that would too as long as something dumb like an in game market doesn't ruin it.
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