What exactly is Boxing?

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

By the same reckoning, are those who don't role play completely missing the point too?

Yeah, I think they are.

I lot of what made EQ fun back in the day was the people you met. Most weren’t hard core role players, but they would at least make some effort to act like they were in Norrath. Dwarves used to slam in-game alcohol, the high-elves would act uppity and snobbish, druids and rangers refused to kill animals, trolls and ogres used to talk in “fatty-speak”. Not everyone did this, but it was common enough. It added a lot of flavor and fun to the world.

You take that away, and this game is really just a slow paced version of whack-a-mole with a random number generator. The combat systems in EQ aren’t challenging. Auto-attack plus two hotkeys gets old fast. Sitting on your butt for 5 minutes to regen mana is boring.

The devs here have done a pretty good job at re-creating the world. Too bad they can’t attract more fun players, instead of the obsessive ones.