Longing for the Old Days of P1999, Yet Grateful for the Journey

[Treefall]

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

I feel like I should of jumped on the Quarm train, but I put too many years into EQ private servers. At this point in my life Green only worked for me because I was working remote most of the time I played. The sad truth is the game has fundamentally changed to a job in my mind for 90% of my playtime. Since leaving remote work the last 2 years I realized it is significantly harder for me to play this game. It's a wonderful MMO, but the time sacrifice is absolutely insane, and of course, thats the catch 22 of what makes it great. So in my mind, it's a really great game especially with the right social network, outside of that its a relic.

The only thing it's really missing is scheduled raid times for every raid mob.

You can literally work full time and raid a few hours a few nights a week and do pretty well for yourself. Yeah, you won't be geared quickly but you'll get geared...throw in some harder-core weekends periodically or days off being on call and you can still move up pretty quickly.

Up to 50, especially on an alt with gear, I can easily do a level every evening or two. 50+ it slows down, but it's not like it isn't something I can casually do and make progress.

I am rambling but ultimately saying I disagree with you completely. In a game like WoW I feel obligated to be super active all the time and progressing. Here I can fiddle-fart around and be on one camp peacefully for weeks very casually.