I played everyday from server launch day, thru first day opt ins for teal, and then up to about two weeks before merge. I came back about a week after merge, I guess. I was pretty mortified upon hearing about the merge and was expecting the worst.
It’s not been as bad as the forums would have you believe. I’ve only met one person from the infamous guild of green who was an ahole. Surprisingly, several others have gone out of their way to toss me buffs, help me find things, pick me up for corpse runs, etc. granted my exposure to them is limited. My friends from teal are long gone, not logging in anymore, or just out leveled me. So I started a lowbie and am not in any direct competition with them or anyone else really, so it’s been pretty positive.
I guess that’s a lot of sentences to say that it doesn’t suck. Teal had this great sense of camaraderie in the beginning, especially among those who transferred early on. That to me felt like classic eq, irrelevant of server populations.
I should add though, I also haven’t bothered going to any of the high zem and over crowded parts yet. If a /who all can’t show me the name of every person there then I generally avoid it. Teal had those moments at prime time, but it had tapered down a lot. Greens combined population is wack in certain bottle necks.
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