Where did EQ Live go wrong?

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Every server had the guy that was THE tunnel seller. We had one and when Bazaar hit, he quit, I think. That was pretty sad because everyone knew him.

Envino's post was a very good post. My previous post was a quick off the cuff response. I loved Pop even though it was hard as hell. Was the flagging idiotic? Sure at times. The screwed up projections that you had to hail and sometimes they were bugged and if you hailed them more than once you stole a flag chance from someone else. That sucked. I hated that, because you always had someone hailing them over and over and many times it was a backflagger from another guild. And they never stayed up for a very long time, either.

I hated instances. Yeah, they stopped all the ya ya-ing that we even have now on this server - When a warrior in one of the raid guilds declared Trak is FFA, the sever blew up. RnF went ballistic after that but it was funny and fun (for the ones not involved, maybe the ones involved didn't like it).

One thing my casual raid guild did was raid one expansion behind. Sure it was not as hard in anyway to be raiding stuff designed for characters 5 levels lower, but you didn't all have to be geared real high. I stayed for the friends. I didn't have a problem with AAs at first. You could have 200 or so and you had all the AAs you needed and you didn't need all the TS stuff and other weird AAs. But then it became a huge timesink to get all the AAs. Expansion after expansion. I didn't mind the time sink to level, but the added time sink to get the AAs wore me out. I was in a guild with a warrior who maxed his AAs and levels almost it seemed two weeks after the expansion was out. He did that for however many expansions all the way to Omens, I think, and then he finally quit. Kandraax on Lanys. He was one of the top warriors across all servers - for AAs. He always had all AAs and the total amount banked as well.

Anyway, AAs ruined it for me eventually.