That moment when you decided to quit EQ live

[Whiggly]

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

I left for good when they enabled Wood Elves to become Beastlords - with a damn shrubbery as a pet...

Imo then the introduction of the option for Frogloks to be Monks was even worse ...

[Trelaboon]

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

I left for good when they enabled Wood Elves to become Beastlords - with a damn shrubbery as a pet...

Wait....what? I apparently quit before this happened, wtf

[myriverse]

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

Wait....what? I apparently quit before this happened, wtf

They get like a baby treant or something. Started a little over a year ago. There was an online contest to pick one new race/class combo. Wood Elf BST won... I suspect shadiness. They beat out Dark Elf Ranger!!! WTF?

https://www.everquest.com/news/race-...o-clash-winner

[milsorgen]

Catmen were pretty bad but they frogs showed they didn't know what they were doing any more.

[iruinedyourday]

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

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I know the guild management, bank slots, and armor dyes were nice additions, but I could not stand seeing Frogloks as playable races. Kicking the trolls out of Grobb and sending them to live with the Dark Elves? A few new crappy zones? I began to lose interest in the game, and could not bring myself to log in anymore. WoW was released not long after LoY dropped, and started playing there for many years.

When was the moment you decided to stop playing EQ live?

You were never able to play as a froglok on live... You were however able to play as that abomination in the ss that was literately the only thing uglier than cats from the moon.

[jarshale]

LDoN is what did it for me. Instanced group straight line dungeons? It was awful.

[SamwiseRed]

the idea of ldon was cool (more dungeons in old world) too bad they made them instances.

[Pscottdai]

After Veil of Alaris in 2012. Was a long haul of playing/raiding from '99 until then while maintaining my family/work life. In the end just got tired of the expansion churn.

[wormed]

I quit at Ykesha. I don't think it was because I particularly disliked the direction the game was going, I just didn't have any time to play any more. I think WoW vanilla came out, etc, which ironically, made me play as much as I used to with EQ back in the day. WoW vanilla was good. It just turned to shit. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I was that guy who played with old models because I refused to look at the ugly abominations that Luclin vomited on everyone. I didn't get the ride any mounts, but fuck it, I had Run 3, it didn't even matter.

[kaev]

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

I was that guy who played with old models because I refused to look at the ugly abominations that Luclin vomited on everyone. I didn't get the ride any mounts, but fuck it, I had Run 3, it didn't even matter.

Game moved on, I didn't. Played on and off until GoD, occasionally starting over on a new server. I was very casual on live, never raided at all, and starting with Velious EQ focused more and more away from the casual player (most of my friends quit within a couple months of Velious launch.) They tried with LDoN, but it was such a cheap and cheesy implementation that the shiny wore off after a month or so.

I remember people talking about some promotional deal where you could start out at L62 with 50 AAs several years (?5) back, so I logged in to the SoE website for the first time in years and checked my highest level character and sure enough he was L62 with 50 AAs. I didn't bother logging into the game itself.