It's absolutely classic.
For those of you who are newbs (which is most of you if you weren't around in Mar of 99) consider the EQ was launched without the concept of Lore items.
Lore was introduced just a few weeks after launch in an attempt to stop monopolization of, wait for it, the Polished Granite Tomahawk. It was actually the second attempt to do this, the first being increasing the weight to make it a severe stamina drain to dual wield.
You have to remember, there wasn't a single cleric capable or rezzing a player on any server so the concept of corpsing items didn't exist. Introducing the concept of Lore was intended to force players to get the item they were after and move on to something else.
So yes, at least the concept of trying to stop players or groups of players from monopolizing spawns was around right from the start.
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