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Originally Posted by LostCause
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Not sure why some ppl disliked Luclin. I liked EQ up until Epic 2.0s, imo.
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I'm not sure that many
do dislike Luclin. By the population numbers, EQ only got more and more popular after Velious ... until GoD (I think) when WoW came out.
However, two really important people (the people that make this emulator) feel that the game fundamentally changed in Luclin. I can't speak for them, but I'm pretty sure it's because of factors like ...
- one of the game's primary creators left (Brad Mcquaid, aka Aradune)
- the game embraced the "hell level" grind to a far, far greater extent (with AAs)
- the expansion left Norath, both visually (the new graphics and the alien world didn't look like EQ) ...
- ... and physically (Paludal Caverns made it so no one went to classic low-level zones, spires made it so people skipped zones they previously had to travel through, etc.)
Again, I think most players were ready for EQ to "evolve" ... but because of that evolution, it really was a big shift vs. Classic-Velious. People who just <3 classic EQ, like the P99 founders, weren't fans.