When did Everquest start to really decline in quality of experience?

[RecondoJoe]

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

I find that very interesting, I didn't even touch EQ 2 because at that point EQ 1 had evolved into such a joke, EQ 2 appeared to be a progression of that at a glance, as someone who quit during free trial a few years after it was out. Never met/knew someone who I played with on EQ that played EQ2. Definitely played WoW starting in TBC era after college.

A lot of people on my server, and real-life friends quit to play EQ 2 together. But also a lot of people kind of became adults while playing and seemed to have moved away from online gaming altogether. I don't know too many of my high school friends who still play games 20 years later, and even though there are a lot of 30-40 year olds I meet on WoW, meeting anyone who actually played EverQuest seems to be extraordinarily rare.

It feels surreal when you have self-proclaimed experts at MMO like Asmongold talk about how inferior EverQuest was despite having never played it. The first thing I realized when I played WoW classic last summer was how many WoW players would have loved EverQuest, but are completely oblivious. Like all of these kids want a more traditional, old school MMO, but few of them have actually experienced it or know how amazing it can be. When I play EQ and I hop into a dungeon or any zone, I'm completely drawn in and feel like I'm in that environment, and could die or be greatly rewarded at any time. I never get that same feeling from WoW or any other MMO I've played. Just a bunch of instanced grind for loot rewards that don't feel rewarding because they're flat-lined and handed out to everyone, and none of them are unique or interesting.

[Tsunami21k]

PoP would have been perfect if it didn’t have PoK or the Bazaar. Those were the first steps to depersonalizing the game. I thought that Ssra and VT were really fun zones. I’ll echo what others have said and say that PoP brought some of the magic back. One thing I would kill to have on P99 is AA points. It really opened up a lot of doors for classes that weren’t so well balanced pre luclin. On the flip side of that it also closed a lot of doors for people that casuals who couldn’t grind enough AA to get their foot in the door of certain guilds. All things being equal i stopped playing mid PoP, tried to come back in GoD but it didn’t seem fun anymore.

[Arteker]

Originally Posted by Tsunami21k [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

PoP would have been perfect if it didn’t have PoK or the Bazaar. Those were the first steps to depersonalizing the game. I thought that Ssra and VT were really fun zones. I’ll echo what others have said and say that PoP brought some of the magic back. One thing I would kill to have on P99 is AA points. It really opened up a lot of doors for classes that weren’t so well balanced pre luclin. On the flip side of that it also closed a lot of doors for people that casuals who couldn’t grind enough AA to get their foot in the door of certain guilds. All things being equal i stopped playing mid PoP, tried to come back in GoD but it didn’t seem fun anymore.

VT fun? it was probably the worst raid ever designed , i could go take a pop with a newspaper and come back and blobs would be still alive

[ScottBerta]

After Kunark.

[Tunabros]

game literally died when legacy of ykesha came out

[Foxplay]

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

game literally died when legacy of ykesha came out

You know an expansion is shit when it's released and nobody goes there except maybe to get the lizard mount drums.... I remember exploring LoY on my monk right after it released. Nobody went there at all

[Swish]

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

You know an expansion is shit when it's released and nobody goes there except maybe to get the lizard mount drums.... I remember exploring LoY on my monk right after it released. Nobody went there at all

LoY wasn't a full on expansion.

[Zyth]

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

You know an expansion is shit when it's released and nobody goes there except maybe to get the lizard mount drums.... I remember exploring LoY on my monk right after it released. Nobody went there at all

holy shit frog w/ a sword though bro sony take my money

[imperiouskitten]

were u even born then

[salimoneus]

the Nexus and the Bazaar killed EQ