When did Everquest start to really decline in quality of experience?

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Originally Posted by Naethyn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Luclin is classic everquest - everyone played it.

A lot of people played luclin. Its true. We played because we loved everquest but everyone I played with was mostly regretful of the changes to the game. We liked new content, and all the new stuff but we would sacrifice all the good it added in order to repair the bad.

You guys may notice that EQ basically ended when WOW came out. Maybe OOW was a last push to get people involved again at highest level and stick with the game and you can see that it worked for some of the active raiders here. I looked at WOW for five seconds and hated it immediately and after investigating about the PVP situation learning it was for softy babies with instances and no item loot I was not interested at all.

Omens of War a expansion I never played at all (LDON really did me in) I did get Gates of Discord for some reason like it allowed me to get an item or some shit I wanted but I didn't experience any of its content at all.

POP was weird because the POK was really the main hub of the game after that, Bazaar was no longer a hub for anyone except people shopping for items that were permanently available in merchant mode, so it split up the community further which was a really funny thing. Active players cruising no longer passed through the typical house of commerce anymore.

The classic player made economy was really a great feature of everquest, with no attempts to regulate. I do think that the slot machine style casino's added later to eliminate currency from the game were a really great way to combat inflation.

I'm 100% confident that I could have a ball of a time playing the next TLP LIVE server and blasting through the game, but I think I would be happier doing the same for Everquest 2 since I don't have any expectations of what EQ2 should be, versus EQ1 I'd be disappointed all the time.