Everquest isn't hard or difficult. It takes a lot of time and commitment maybe, but EQ is basically tank and spank, at least the first six or so expansions.
Let's be honest - in most raids, 50% of the People spent their time facing a wall and clicking one button. I remember Rathe Council as a bard mezzing a mob for 2 hours. I actually went taking showers during the fight or made some delicious Spaghetti. The fact that they included /gems later on and the fact that people were able to multibox whole Groups or even raids tells you, that it wasn't/isn't a hard game.
The big difference to newer games is, EQ takes huge amounts of time to level up. And one can consider this hard, but one can also consider it boring due to the fact that you often spend this time at one place killing the same mob over and over again.
The main reason to still Play EQ is nostalgia. And to create a new game for the nostalgia-people would be a very horrible Investment.
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