Biggest reason I returned is because the game offered 3 expansions for free (bought recent expansion) and converted to a 64 bit client and DX11. Even tried out origins last year. Game actually runs like you wish it did back in the 2000's, because this game's engine was (and still technically is) a duck taped unoptimized as fuck mess and ran so terribly even on top of the line single core CPU's in 04-05 that you had to play either on Medium-Low (vaseline settings) when grouping without it becoming single digit frame slideshow. Thankfully it can now circumvent most of it through sheer brute force especially without limiting to a 4gb RAM cap.
Didn't stop a lot of old timers moaning on the forums however over how that their relic PC from the 2000's was no longer capable of playing EQ2. Honestly more astonished they were still using a 32 bit PC in today's internet more then anything else.
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