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Originally Posted by Ooloo
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Honestly the main reason I didn't like WoW is because I *do* like the actual warcraft RTS franchise of games. WoW felt like they were just slapping that IP onto an incredibly lucrative model (everquest) for easy subs. Which is fine, that's their prerogative, but everquest's entire lore was created specifically to BE an mmo, so it feels much more authentic and has a genuine character.
Plus like most people who play here, I enjoy how brutally unforgiving EQ can be, because it makes your achievements feel significant.
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This gets us back, then, to our chief and central question.
Who is the enemy?
WoW was a known franchise with big bucks that could welcome one and all. You can't fight the low-minded. It is folly. EQ, meanwhile, was old already, old graphics, still even clunky. And, in their wisdom, EQ2 was released as the counter. Take that!
Summon the Rohirrim! And remember, when confronting an enemy superior in numbers, always divide your forces into two fun-sized bites than can be attacked piecemeal!
So is EQ2 the enemy? I would argue EQ2 was an act of mercy. EQ2 is the adrenaline injection at the end of Million Dollar Baby. *Some of us* had fun with that momentary rush. So EQ2 is not the enemy. If anything, the dagger had already been plunged into the spirit of the game by other, even more malignant forces.
What demon seed laid waste to Norrath? For it could not be defeated excepted from within. Wow's persistent toddler pen drew the usual suspects, including Failure Planedefiler, who smelt himself a chump payday deep in the asscracks of WoW management. EQ2, for it's part, was for the elite. They fucked not this up.
I see it! I see it! I see it! I see the evil! I will te....
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