Winter is coming

[wycca]

Yea, EQ's population really took a nose dive mid-GoD. GoD's difficulty plus bugs, sorta capped the WoW-exodus period.

I'd peg the peak sometime in there. Coincidentally, GoD was the last expansion with the classic zone graphics and engine.

[Pringles]

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

Yea, EQ's population really took a nose dive mid-GoD. GoD's difficulty plus bugs, sorta capped the WoW-exodus period.

I'd peg the peak sometime in there. Coincidentally, GoD was the last expansion with the classic zone graphics and engine.

90% of my guild pulled out for WoW for sure. GoD was OK but WoW definitely sealed EQs fate. Too bad WoW didnt learn from EQ and also bloated up the game. Vanilla was great, the monstrosity that is WoW now..... not so much.

[wycca]

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

90% of my guild pulled out for WoW for sure. GoD was OK but WoW definitely sealed EQs fate. Too bad WoW didnt learn from EQ and also bloated up the game. Vanilla was great, the monstrosity that is WoW now..... not so much.

I didn't see anywhere close to that sort of exodus, although it was a bit rough in a mid-tier guild.

GoD was under-appreciated, it was a bit too brutal on the group side, and a bit too buggy on the raid side. It got polished later and ended up one of their best expansions - but it never really overcame the problematic thematical issues (not that they fixed that in OoW really - DoDH did though).

I did appreciate vanilla wow when I got to play through it. They did quite a few things right, but I always sorta disliked how all these games get muddled down so that soloing Timmy with no social skills can be uber. TBC wasn't a bad expansion, had alot of neat stuff. Think that was about the end though.