Did you actually play on 99

[Neraphis]

I started in '99.
I knew it was coming out in the months leading up to release in March from following the hype etc, but all I was able to play was that Soandso demo )

Being from Oceania I ordered my copy of Everquest to be delivered from the US to my house since in those days 'worldwide release' dates weren't the norm yet. Games were sometimes up to 2-3 months behind US release. It took about 3-4weeks to arrive, and turned out local retailers were starting to stock EQ just before my copy was delivered.

It didn't matter, I was stoked to finally install it - albeit about a month after US release. I'd pre-arranged to use my parents credit card and reimburse them - which in those days was a big deal, credit cards and internet conned dubious to alot of people still.

Despite all apparent hurdles I was as happy as a dog on the beach to be able to make my Half-Elf Ranger on Quellious, learning the ways of the Glade and burrow. I'd pre-picked my class as Ranger from the awesome character description in the Verant literature. Truly a do-it all sounding barrel of fun. It wasn't till later levels that people started seeing them as abit gimped, but by then I'd moved on to other characters, and servers.

Played classic, kunark and abit of velious, with various breaks in between. My friends tried to get me back into it for luclin and subsequent expansions but somehow the world just got too big and it wasn't the same, so we parted ways.

P1999 is a perfect fit for my taste, a grand huzzah back to the glory days of Norrath - before all the 'newbification' that occurred attempting to make EQ more accessible. Screw them - there's plenty of outlets for that hand-holding style. Gimme race/hybrid exp, naked corpse runs, begging for ports and boxy graphics.

WB 1999, I still have the original box [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Ennoia]

I'm totally $medly IRL, that's why I voted liek that!

[Ennoia]

For reals though...high school in Conservation class (no clue what year...I think after Scars of Velious came out) this kid is reading a gaming magazine and CD is in a pouch on the front. I asked him WTF is was and he was like 'idk, I'm not gonna play it.' So, I paid him $5 for EverQuest.

[Britalia]

Started in Sept of '99. Played my necro on EMarr way more than I probably should have until about fall of 2003.

Started a chanter on p99 about a month ago.

From what I can tell a lot of the douche baggery regarding hogging camps and people being lame in general seems to still be going on...guess some things never change.

Regardless, having fun tooling around in classic EQ with my newbie char...for now at least.

[Nytewind TP]

I joined about two weeks after Kunark was released.

[Cars]

I was there on Day 1

[liquefiedvapor]

I was a late comer. Bought the original trilogy in Oct of 2001. Forever ago now, but late to the old schooler's. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[falkun]

I think I previewed my cousin playing his troll warrior during classic, but I didn't pick up the game until Kunark (I know because I have the EQ+RoK disc(s) still). He gave my fledgling WE warrior a full suit of bronze and it was too heavy for the tiny WE to hold along with the banded she was already wearing. So I vendored the bronze!

I eventually gave up on the warrior to make the pally in the signature. He got to 60 some time during Luclin (I remember leveling up in Velious still) and raided a bit. I quit some time after GoD came out in like summer '04.

[Reubin]

Started in April 2000 about 1 week before Kunark.

[Scroll]

I'll never forget my first time on. It was the summer of '99 and I made a Dark-Elf Wizard. I didn't have enough RAM and was stuck in a laggy Neriak.