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Originally Posted by Skekekke
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Make another toon? Twink it to hell and back? Get bored and quit,
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Twinking is one aspect that is always overlooked in threads like this. Of course it is the players choice, not the game developers, but to me twinking is definitely a factor which degrades the true experience of EQ or any game for that matter.
In my book, twinking is cheating. It is a blurry line indeed, but twinking your level 1 character with 10k worth of gear seems pretty disgraceful. I can admit I have done my share of twinking (and PLing, etc.), but looking back on all my EQ experiences, the best have ALWAYS been the FIRST characters on said servers.
I certainly know it is very difficult to resist the urge to transfer over just a few hundred plat for provisions, but the instant you do even that, the entire game changes. It's no longer about finding your way in the rough, collecting all the loot you can (and loving it), and steadily building a character you can be proud of. It leads you to overlook and bypass 90% of the things you would have been excited about if you were playing the game like it was meant to be played.
Over-twinking your young characters takes away everything there is to look forward to other than that next DING sound, and dramatically accelerates the gap of time before you run out of worthy content and get bored. Maybe that is the way some people like it. But to others, it's the surefire way to get burned out.
Anyway, I know this is not 100% on topic, but in my personal experience twinking and taking big shortcuts is definitely an aspect (which was directly accelerated by numerous expansion features) that contributed my past EQ experiences to go wrong.
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TL;DR: Blame it on the damned expansions!
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