Anyone tried EQLive with its 50 expansions?

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It's just the result of massive mudflation. They have crammed so many features into a 15 year old engine that just wasn't designed to support it.

It's the same in WoW, honestly, which is on its 4th expansion pack and already feeling silly.

One thing EQ did right, I think, was keep the expansions relatively incremental - you didn't have massive gear resets every xpac, and ~tons~ of guilds were using new expansion power boosts to go raid older content they couldn't handle before. I know we used Omens of War & level 70 to get RZTW down and finally get into the EP.

And that was pretty fun. All raid content stayed relevant for a long time.

But it's time for an EQ3 - an EQ3 that captures the essence of EQ1 in a new engine and improves on it. Nostalgia is a very powerful sales driver - and IMO if they're smart they'll even try to recapture the cartoonish graphics from EQ1 rather than pursue the horrid plastic look they have in modern EQ and EQ2.

I mean how stoked would you be if you hopped into EQ3 and went to make an ogre/troll/dwarf/gnome/whatever and not only could you easily identify the EQ1 influence on the models, but they even had facial options that were similar to ones from EQ1?