This is worth bumping. This STILL interests me. Now, I did try EQ2 ~3 years ago. I didn't like hte mainstream features. Especially hated the map system showing everything. BUT the game still has some flavor. There's a LOT of content.
I wanted to do old content, but it was messy. Nobody would realistically help you in old content. You'd be alone. And since a lot of players haven't played hte old content in a long time, they can't always answer questions. Also players level up so fast there's no necessity to level up the normal way anyway! And you don't know where the old content is either, since you can travel by accident to ANY expansion. So trying to ONLY do old content on live servers was tricky.
They also enabled the old tutorial where you start on a boat. They didn't plan on dong it originally because they didn't think it would work. They gave the job to a guy and said "IF you can't do X in 3 hours then we won't do it." He did it!
If you haven't played it try it. There's some fun to be had in it, especially on the progression server.
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