These posts about people bouncing off the graphics are real sad
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] EQ definitely isn't the prettiest game but so many of the graphics are full of personality! Games like FFXIV and ESO allow for a ton of pretty princess dress up, but no character in those games has the personality of an Ogre with a goofy face, no monsters are like goblins and their godawful posture and their buttcracks... nothing in those games can make me laugh like a little gnome in a robe with a giant specter ready to fuck you up.
No doubt some of it is nostalgia, maybe even a lot of it, but I think EQ has personality that a lot of MMOS (old and modern) lack. I have friends who decided to check out the classic Anarchy Online server and DAoC server, and I've played both of those games, but holy shit your character is just bad looking. I remember thinking DAoC was cool for having cloaks but man I cannot imagine caring about my character in that game at all.