I was 13 at the time. All my friends at school were trying to get me to play it for a couple of months before I finally gave it a try. I had played console RPG's a lot before I started, and I actually played Runescape and I really enjoyed it before I started EverQuest. I used to have a Runescape folder and all of that, with recipes and maps and stuff, same thing I later had for EverQuest. After a few months of nagging my mother to foot the bill (for both the game and monthly subscription) she finally bought it for me and I started playing.
There was about a full group of us at school that played, and we would log in and hang out together and kill stuff. The thing that drew me in was just the largeness of the world. My buddies and I had a fullsize virtual play land where we could do whatever we wanted, and at the time it was all so new and majestic. The world was so large, and the content so deep that it stayed that way for a couple of years for me and it was really fun. After a couple of years in the game though its rather unfortunate but it just starts to lose that feel. It becomes just another game where you know how to get everywhere, the majesticness had worn off, and I was just grinding and raiding in a world I already knew almost everything about. It was fun while it lasted though.
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