Is the raid scene really that bad?

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Verant, from 1999 to 2001, and SOE, from 2001 to 14 January 2004, issued formal statements giving some indications of the number of EverQuest subscriptions and peak numbers of players online at any given moment.[12] These records show more than 225,000 subscriptions on 1 November 1999,[citation needed] with an increase to more than 450,000 subscriptions by 25 September 2003.[citation needed]

I don't know if those numbers are correct, but Kunark came out April 2000, if it was around 250-300k subscribers that still isn't that bad. I know there was at least 2, maybe 3 guilds that did VP on our server before Velious. VP probably was closer to WoW's ratio of people who did Naxx before TBC, or people who did Sunwell before WotLK though. Before WotLK WoW also had only 1% of its population seeing the top end content.

Either way none of that really matters, current EQ and current WoW are both incredibly easy compared to what they used to be. Classic EQ had just as much of a raiding scene as classic WoW, and while it isn't as big as most MMO's that come out now, it still was a raiding scene.