How do you justify not paying for EverQuest?

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I did pay for EQ when the max level was I believe 110, on two accounts no less, so I believe it was either $20 or $30 a month at that point, for more than a year

Pro’s:

-FV is a cool server. Was fun to be able to farm pp and buy raid gear but had to buy the last “season’s”/tier stuff to avoid paying millions upon millions of pp

- Pet focus earrings were borked at the time so pet classes were borderline gods, so that’s what I played

- I never minded Mercs. I thought they were pretty cool and balanced pretty well. They were almost as good as a well geared player but not quite. Their programming wasn’t bad, for example, if they moved in range of a mob and were getting chunked they would take little side-steps to attempt to get out of range while still fulfilling their roles. And they were always ready and paying attention, unlike myself who was usually stoned trying to multibox 3 screens using alt-tab

Con’s

- Was never a fan of defiant gear. Crazy good stats that completely trivialized the early game and the idea of going for particular stats for particular classes. Why bother when a piece of defiant gear could drop off literally anything and have a fat stack of +all stats and + all resists. It did totally drop off near max level though. If you were near max level in defiant gear you would get clowned on by current content

- Being able to spend money to have permanent clarity and +exp pots from in game shop felt wrong to me

- Multiboxing to do current content wasn’t an option, it was a requirement

- EQ raiding is garbage compared to WoW raiding

- EQ pvp is garbage compared to WoW pvp

- I couldn’t justify spending $30/month for EQ when I could be spending $15/mo for wow

At work that’s all I can comment on atm