The EQ character spends most of his life trying not to get killed while traveling the EQ world. That's why travel was purposely designed to be challenging. The introduction of things like the books of knowledge and the minimap urinated in the face of what made EQ worth wasting our time on.
And by the way, Time Warner introduced high speed cable internet in 1996, so yeah, cable internet is almost as old as the cell phone. Which means it has probably been in existence longer than many of these people who whine for features that aren't classic.
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