At what age did you first start playing EverQuest, and what draws you in?

[Drieddead]

I had just turned 13 and bought eq with my birthday money. I was burnt out on Diablo 2 so i decided to pick up a box with the most interesting cover art. I started playing on the Seventh Hammer. I proceded to make a High Elf paladin and put all my stat points into agi named Laliden. I then joined a RP guild called Elven Crusade. This char still exist and is level 76 with a 1.5 epic and is Anguish geared XD.

[Taddare Plume]

I was 22 and my boyfriend, all our friends and I had been playing Gemstone 3, a text mud. When I heard about Everquest it was talk about the release of Kunark and so my BF and I bough a copy to share, and that lasted about a week [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] We bough another copy and flipped a coin to see who had to make a new char and I won the original copy we had.

What I loved best was the feeling of a permanent world. In GS3 you could forget there was a river in the room description. In EQ you could not forget about the terrain, it existed. Exploring felt like exploring, not just looking for keywords to move to the next set of descriptions.

I also loved that EQ made you be good at your class. It didn't hold your hand when things started to go wrong, it kicked you in the head. The bar for average was set very high, and exceptional players could turn a good group into a great one. Casters had to learn to trust the melee, sit down blind, and med if they wanted to be useful. Melee had to learn how to pick targets and control target movement. Everyone had to learn panic kills, always.

[Fenrisulfr]

Very nice! It's great that we have diversity on the server. I hope to group with you all soon.

[Humwawa]

My buddy Mike was a nut for computers in 1999, a CS major at Purdue University. I was an English/Philosophy major who had never owned a PC better than an IBM-PC that could barely run "Where In The World is Carmen Sandiego?".

After a night of drinking I stopped by his apartment to visit. His girlfriend had gone to bed (it was 2am) and he was up, as usual, fidgeting with his PC. Except this time he was playing EverQuest. I watched him for awhile, staring stupidly at his dark elf necromancer as he murdered snakes and bugs and such for no reason I could determine. When he logged out and decided I was probably too drunk to walk home, asked me if I'd like to play this game a bit. I agreed; he went to bed.

I understood none of it. I put points into dexterity because the number was green. I spent what felt like an hour, trying to pick a name (it was probably only 15 minutes), and settled on my favorite character in Gilgamesh's Epic - Humwawa. After loading in, I died at least 7 times.

Frustrated, I snuck out to the porch and smoked a jay. And suddenly the game made sense. The colors seemed to be some kind of mysterious, occult code of operation. I slew snakes with reckless abandon to the seductive caress of 16 bit green orbs of malign magic.

I was playing when the sun came up, and playing still that night when he got home after leaving to visit his girlfriend's parents.

I bought a PC soon after, and he gave me the account. And so I descended into Gamer Nerdery.

[Fenrisulfr]

Originally Posted by Humwawa

My buddy Mike was a nut for computers in 1999, a CS major at Purdue University. I was an English/Philosophy major who had never owned a PC better than an IBM-PC that could barely run "Where In The World is Carmen Sandiego?".

After a night of drinking I stopped by his apartment to visit. His girlfriend had gone to bed (it was 2am) and he was up, as usual, fidgeting with his PC. Except this time he was playing EverQuest. I watched him for awhile, staring stupidly at his dark elf necromancer as he murdered snakes and bugs and such for no reason I could determine. When he logged out and decided I was probably too drunk to walk home, asked me if I'd like to play this game a bit. I agreed; he went to bed.

I understood none of it. I put points into dexterity because the number was green. I spent what felt like an hour, trying to pick a name (it was probably only 15 minutes), and settled on my favorite character in Gilgamesh's Epic - Humwawa. After loading in, I died at least 7 times.

Frustrated, I snuck out to the porch and smoked a jay. And suddenly the game made sense. The colors seemed to be some kind of mysterious, occult code of operation. I slew snakes with reckless abandon to the seductive caress of 16 bit green orbs of malign magic.

I was playing when the sun came up, and playing still that night when he got home after leaving to visit his girlfriend's parents.

I bought a PC soon after, and he gave me the account. And so I descended into Gamer Nerdery.

Inspiring hahaha. Awesome!

[Valroth66]

I turned 10 the day EQ came out. About a week later my uncle sent the CD to my mom because he didn't like the game. It was all downhill from there.

[Foxx]

Originally Posted by Valroth66 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It was all downhill from there.

qft

[vossiewulf]

Me and the wife started playing when it came out at age 35. That means all of you damned kids can get the hell off my zone's lawn ;-)

[Mcbard]

Creepy old man!

[fischsemmel]

Started when I was 16, back just shortly after the release of Kunark. EQ was my first MMO.

As far as what drew me in? I don't really know. I clearly remember being immediately hooked on EQ just by watching my friend run around third gate on his level 1 dark elf. He wasn't even DOING anything, and I already was addicted to the game.

The most fun I ever had in EQ was definitely being an enchanter in full groups though. Wow, that was fun.