What caused the decline of EQ as the #1 MMO?

[Nagash]

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

What caused the decline of EQ was WoW pretty much.

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

What caused the decline of EQ was WoW pretty much.

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

What caused the decline of EQ was WoW pretty much.

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

What caused the decline of EQ was WoW pretty much.

[Gwence]

Personally I've enjoyed everything in eqlive and still have 2 accounts on it, but to answer your question I would say World of Warcraft probably took the biggest chunk out of the game's population.

[Cogwell]

EQ steadily gained active users until Nov 2004.

[oldhead]

The games direction is what killed it for me. The development staff leaving and SoE changing the "vision"

But yeah if you look at numbers the herd didnt jump boat till there was greener grass. (wow)


Hell, i was happy when wow came out. Doac was dead for me and there wasnt much out that was good. Kinda like now. (besides p1999)
10 mins into beta I knew that this game was "it". Called my buddy and told him its the new EQ.
He didnt believe me until 6 months later. he is still playing that pos ;p

[Kinamur1999]

AA ruined the game, brought forth wizard manaburn groups. yay fun but pure bullshit sorry wizards theres no fucking way you should be able to 1 group a dragon for warrior epic drops.

AA that let hybrids solo dragons, yeah this was years after it became trivialized but still what the fuck.

aa made characters way to powerful for original game content, sure it was great in luclin and later expansions but it DESTROYED the original game

[guineapig]

If it wasn't for WoW, many of those players would still have been grinding it out in EQ for at least a few more years (possibly to this day since there's is nothing else that comes close to the popularity of either of those 2 games).

Regardless of how rediculous some of the content became it was still an extremely addictive product. Many ended up quiting in favor of a new addictive product because there was one available. They didn't just quit MMO's "cold turkey".

[girth]

Both times I quit playing EQ were because my raiding guild stopped raiding. Nothing to do with other games pulling me away.