Why did some EQ players dislike WoW?

[Garnaak]

I never played WoW.

I was mid 50's KC grinding Monk working on Whistling Fist robe when PoP came out. That is when my group of friends split up in-game. The hard cores joined raiding guilds and hit 65, leaving us more casual players to fend for ourselves. There was a group of 6-7 of us IRL that all started playing together originally.

So, PoP caused our real life group to fracture ingame and with WoW around the corner, it was just going to be another fracture on top of what we already experienced.

When I got back into things since that time, it has always been the emu scene. Did finally play WoW classic emu a couple years ago, just to see what fuss was about. It did seem easy mode after EQ, though it did have cleaner graphics.