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Originally Posted by Zuranthium
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That's not what was said. If you were actually reading EQ forums during classic era, it's apparent most people didn't know about MQing, definitely not to the same degree as now. Even when some people knew about MQ in certain instances, they were scared of doing a quest wrong and losing their items. It wasn't known that MQ always works for every quest. Also, if MQing really was well known during classic, all kinds of no-drop MQ items would have been getting constantly advertised and sold. That was not the case.
Interested to see these links you keep talking about.
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trexller and his secondary account don't have any actual information, they just mock information with inflammatory remarks.
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You are 100% correct though, the concept of MQ is not classic. Even if it existed, there simply were not the tools for the average person to know about it.
Even the forums at the time were for the "hardcore" players.
the forums were THE ONLY place where players met up outside the game. Discord, Twitter, Youtube, these didn't exist back then.
people basically met up to talk either inside Everquest or on the Forums.
It wasn't till the WoW era and teamspeak that people even started to do group-talk.
There simply was no method of conversation available for anyone to know that MQ was in the game or not.
To even further prove a point on this one.. most people didn't know of the popular quests we know of now. In that way, anyone claiming that you would "know what MQ is on your first bone turnin" assumes automatically that people knew there even was a bone turnin quest. There's an insurmountable difference between people doing turnin quests today, vs even knowing about them in 99. 1% maybe at best knew back then. I'm also assuming that the "extra messages" probably didn't exist in actual servers. This means that 1% of 1% probably knew of the various quests.
going even further than that, I'm sure that probably only 1% of 1% of the 1% probably even figured out that MQ was a thing.
We're talking maybe double digits at tops at this point. It would be a literal handful of people at best, if ANYONE knew about MQ back then.
compare that to now where hundreds to thousands are demanding it.. completely different society, completely different gameplay.