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

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

TLDR:

EQ declined when I personally quit. Everything before I quit was perfection and everything after was irredeemable garbage.

Quit right before Velious launched, never set foot in any of its zones until they were released on blue. SoL was the only other expansion I played, albeit briefly, and even then only while leveling in old world zones which were more or less abandoned. Digging through some of the later content online, certain aspects seem in-line with the original vision but there's a lot of fat and gristle to cut away for any of that to be palatable imo.

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