Life better in EQ in 1999 or in p1999?

[knottyb0y]

I would say now,

Back in the day was great. I played starting the original EQ but i putzed around and just had fun being a lowbie and re-rolling almost every time i got to level 25-30ish until around the middle of the Velious (I <3 Velious best expansion IMO) stage where I finally found my character (Gagresh) and pushed to max level and found a whole new game awaiting me.

I say now because 10 years later I have different schedule (not in high school, have a more rigid schedule with kids but still get a couple hours a day). But mostly because my girlfriend plays with me. Its really fun to experience eq again when the person next to you is seeing it all for the first time and I get to play the grizzled vet (she actually listens to me when I tell her stuff bout eq!). Also I'm playing the one class (bard) that I had the least experience in so for me i'm seeing parts of EQ i never saw before. Not to mention my first computer back then sucked, my computers now run eq like a dream.

... I remember everything being so much darker and only seeing things by the glow of my infravision... crappy voodoo 2 video card i guess, thank god i upgraded around velious originally.