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Originally Posted by starkind
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Honestly think only about 75 players on this project actually played in 99.
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I was one of the few who was fortunate enough to get to play it....
I had been wanting to play Ultimate Online since I first saw it in a Rollings Stone magazine... it sounded amazing.. there was one kid at school who played it... the rest of us couldn’t convince their parents to let them...
Well one day my best friend was excited because EverQuest was supposed to come in the mail.. he pre ordered it from the mall... I was confused because I never heard of it. When he explained it was like Ultima... I was like IDK it sounds dumb...
Well, once he got it he just stopped playing Starcraft altogether... which annoyed me. I spent the night with him, and watched him play this game and I thought it was the dumbest game I had ever seen in my entire life. He was running around a swamp killing tadpoles over and over again and I didn’t get it... it felt like a really shitty “multiplayer” game...
I just played Starcraft all night while he played EQ, then he finally passed out so I decided to try EQ... I was immediately fascinated by the different races, classes, religions etc. I didn’t understand what a Cleric was but it sounded super boring. I thought Monks were Catholic monks too.. and wondered why anyone would play either of these stupid classes.
I ultimately made a rogue because I didn’t know what abilities like dodge and pick pocket and backstab would do... I thought I could actually backstab my friends or pick pocket their loot or press dodge to dodge spells.... ended up staying up all night making new characters...
One thing I think people forget is that EQ graphics at the time were groundbreaking.. it felt like real life compared to other games of that time period, especially with thunder and night time...
My parents still wouldn’t let me get the game until my dad was watching his stock channel and one of the analysts on there mentioned the game on the show, and he rushed out and got me the game got really into watching me play and would get me the latest expacs and buy me new computers over time as new expacs launched and I needed better hardware.
I wasn’t high level in 1999 though. I had a level 36 rogue before Kunark came out and I don’t even remember what zones I leveled in to get that high in retro..
But I spent many hours playing the game at a much higher level from 2000-2004 and always remember charm being that ability that when it worked was amazing, but never being reliable. Everyone knew Enchanters used charisma though, that’s why they always had a crude stein and ishva robe lol...
I also remember as a rogue/monk player getting destroyed by my own dual wield frequently... I’ve never experienced or witnessed this on p99 or TLP ... can remember being a bitter rogue getting out DPSd by warriors who had wurmslayers while my hip got deleted as I did less damage but swung 5-6x as often