live was rushed and buggy while expansions flew out of the machine. Party members always getting dropped, waiting for them to relog. Zones crashing around you. Broken boats dropping you into the middle of nowhere. Popular spots just way overcrowded. In comparison, UO was doing way better at the time, though had it's own issues. Getting off work, sometimes couldn't even play EQ, but UO was always there. EQ improved over time... well to a point of course.
The difference is just that the emu has had the time to work out problems. I was logging into PEQ over 10yrs ago when there were maybe a dozen people on the only server running in the list, and it was just to log in as there was hardly a game.
I thought discord was suppose to be green, but if there is another blue, here is to hoping it goes at half the release pace which will pretty much resolve all...most of the original problems on live.
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