The death of EQ in my mind happened through "raid force softening" by Gates of Discord because it was so damn difficult, and there was far too little in the way of diverse content. If I never have to kill another damn blue golem again, I'll be happy. That expansion was SUCH a meat grinder.
The death knell though was the combination of Omens release and WoW coming out (maybe it was beta still, but I was enamored with WoW at the time when it was hella new.)
We had just made it through the grinder that was GoD and Omens came out to sucker punch us again with another level grind and more super difficult raiding. I just couldn't stomach working that hard again when WoW was fresh and new and had all that promise. Our raid guild, Silent Tempest on Drinal, finally decided to call it quits because not enough people were motivated to log in and field a proper raid force.
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