It was also a different generation of player back then. When Everquest first came out a large portion of their early community were old MUD players, as was Brad McQuiad. These hard core gamers and readers were used to playing games where the secret password to get into the last room of the final castle to defeat the boss was written on a slip of paper in a drawer in the first room you spawned into over a year ago.
I remember lots of books and slips of paper and all sorts of information spread all over Norrath, some even in other languages, that covered history, myths, all sorts of stuff that contained hints for various quests. As someone that was also forged on MUDs and now loves hard core ARGs where hours of research and speculation are required to solve the greatest challenges I returned to P99 because of that level of challenge. The modern gamers in general are simply not used to that level of challenge. Games like WoW and countless mindless add-ons that point on your map exactly where to go and what to do have changed the mentality of gamers in general. It is for that reason I believe that people have a hard time comprehending the effort that was so commonplace for many gamers in times past.
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