Life better in EQ in 1999 or in p1999?

fuji · #1 09-20-2010, 04:13 PM

1999 - 16 years of age and could grind all night. Homework was easy or didnt care to do it. Could fly on an airplane without being cavity searched before a flight. EQ was new and fresh, awesome DX6 graphics on my voodoo3 card.

p1999 - wife, kids, job, mortgage, dog, bills, out of shape. No monthly subscription. Know how to level faster, smarter, same awesome DX6 graphics.

Has its pros and cons, but I still cant decide.

Retan · #2 09-20-2010, 04:20 PM

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. ~Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953
I prefer now.

oldhead · #3 09-21-2010, 01:58 AM

Then...

having the time and freedom to waste away day after day in EQ was great.

I cant even join a raid guild atm cus of my life needs so im missing out on that whole aspect of the game =(

RKromwell · #4 09-21-2010, 02:16 AM

My daughter was less than a year old when I started in 99. If she started screaming, I had to take care of it. Now I just tell her brother to leave her alone.

Lucrio40 · #5 09-21-2010, 03:08 AM

Then without question. Even if it was somehow possible to get the original client, mechanics, database, ect. P1999 can never recreate that same sense of wonder from playing EQ the first time.

Taluvill · #6 09-21-2010, 03:11 AM

you cant recreate not knowing. Thats the biggest issue and the largest draw for a new mmo

Cyph · #7 09-21-2010, 03:14 AM

Then. It was all new, the world, the MMO experience, the graphics, it was bleeding edge. And I had more time.

Now, I've been there, there are others, the graphics have aged and it's nothing new. And I have less time. It's still fun though.

Fawqueue · #8 09-21-2010, 03:46 AM

Then hands down. Back in '99, on my first toon (ranger) I was able to: put all my starting points into wisdom, die and lose my corpse for good, waste countless hours running from Freeport to Qeynos Hills and then turning around when I discovered Pzjin wasn't up and headed back to Freeport, and a dozen other totally stupid, noobish things. And all the while, I had a blast doing it. Even the boat rides were fun!

Now, I get pissed off if I camp a rare drop and don't see it in an days effort. I'm too power-game now, all that first-timer wonder is gone.

Omnimorph · #9 09-21-2010, 05:18 AM

Then of course, but replaying eq here beats any experience I had on other mmo's I've tried since 1999. So still good!!

Puyen · #10 09-21-2010, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Omnimorph

Then of course, but replaying eq here beats any experience I had on other mmo's I've tried since 1999. So still good!!

Agreed!