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[Worry]

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

EQ's death is misremembered. It didn't have to do with any internal expansion release. It died due to competition from the outside.

Another game released on November 23, 2004. That game appealed to the masses better than EQ ever will.

Exactly this. Luclin was seen as amazing on release, and still is. If there was a P99 quality server up to Luclin, I'd be willing to bet a huge chunk of the playerbase would go there. TAKP just wasn't it.

PoP had fantastic raid zones, but PoKnowledge unfortunately did absolutely ruin the original vibe of the game.

Always said a Luclin server that has PoPower zones scattered around the world (besides Tranquility and Knowledge) would be perfect.

[magnetaress]

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

Exactly this. Luclin was seen as amazing on release, and still is. If there was a P99 quality server up to Luclin, I'd be willing to bet a huge chunk of the playerbase would go there. TAKP just wasn't it.

PoP had fantastic raid zones, but PoKnowledge unfortunately did absolutely ruin the original vibe of the game.

Always said a Luclin server that has PoPower zones scattered around the world (besides Tranquility and Knowledge) would be perfect.

This. And yeah. Wow and eq2... ugh.


GoD was good once they launched OoW

[eqravenprince]

What was so great about Luclin, the new character models were horrible, that right there basically killed it for me. The bazaar killed EC. Cats on the moon, the lore was just outright strange and didn't fit. And I absolutely hated AA's, meant people just stayed at max level grinding out AA's instead of creating alts, killed the grouping 1-50 game considerably cause the grind was basically FOREVER to max out a character. What was left of grouping, all pooled into Paladul Caverns, leaving almost everything else 1-30 just empty zones. And as others have eluded to competition killed EQ, and it started with Dark Age of Camelot at first, then EQ2 and WoW was the death blow.

[Jimjam]

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

This. And yeah. Wow and eq2... ugh.


GoD was good once they launched OoW

Really enjoyed GoD as an expansion to go back to. When it was released it had nothing for me.

I loved OOW both as a casual and also as a raider.

[zelld52]

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

EQ's death is misremembered. It didn't have to do with any internal expansion release. It died due to competition from the outside.

Another game released on November 23, 2004. That game appealed to the masses better than EQ ever will.

It's also because EQ2 was released around the same time, so EQ had to compete with WoW AND EQ2

[Nostalgiabait]

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

EQ's death is misremembered. It didn't have to do with any internal expansion release. It died due to competition from the outside.

Another game released on November 23, 2004. That game appealed to the masses better than EQ ever will.

I remember it pretty well, given that I'd already quit EQ well before WoW hit the market. WoW did not kill EQ, EQ's own expansions did it. WoW simply dumped the already-cold corpse into the grave.

Shadows of Luclin release: December 2001
Planes of Power release: August 2002

Both expansions were thoroughly played out by the time of WoW release. EQ was already three expansions past PoP before WoW was released, with Omens of War being released two months prior.

SoL had quality control issues from hell and the design of Vex Thal was a blatant stalling tactic trying to prevent hardcore players from completing everything in a few months. PoP... I was playing a cleric main at the time and you may as well have deleted the class entirely given what PoP offered.

[silo32]

World of Warcraft will be the death of Ever Quest

[IzHaN80]

1600atm vs 1300 (Blue+Green) combined

[silo32]

Originally Posted by IzHaN80 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

1600atm vs 1300 (Blue+Green) combined

P99 15 years

Quarm... 4 days

Talk to me in a year. This post is gonna age well

[unsunghero]

Guessing a lot of quarm players will be p99 players with both open at once doing camps or chill farming or what not