You knew you were addicted to EQ when...

**Telin** · #1 11-12-2013, 11:37 PM

I want to hear your sad stories of the height of your addiction, if ever.

Mine would be in 2000. I was in 8th grade and I used to print out the complete spell list and bring it to school and dream about reaching those levels. I also used to get up an hour early to play from 6-7am before class. It was also the first time I stayed up all night to play.

I even installed EQ in my journalism class and played during downtime and got classmates to play. Lol. I was obsessed and it was sad lol.

Cecily · #2 11-12-2013, 11:38 PM

/played

Somekid123 · #3 11-12-2013, 11:39 PM

I remember being at my grandma's sleeping on couch [This was age 12 or something] and telling myself that 20+ is going to be really slow for exp but all my friends had to do it, I know I can!!

Raavak · #4 11-13-2013, 02:43 PM

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/played

This is almost embarrassing to look at now and realize whole years of my life were spent playing, when added up. But it was fun. And I'm here now.

diplo · #5 11-13-2013, 04:34 PM

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This is almost embarrassing to look at now and realize whole years of my life were spent playing, when added up. But it was fun. And I'm here now.

if you think about it, i think other people have spent countless days/months watching tv, playing an xbox or any other game console or even doing some weird shit such as geocaching. entertainment is still entertainment regardless of whatever medium you use [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

fadetree · #6 11-13-2013, 05:10 PM

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if you think about it, i think other people have spent countless days/months watching tv, playing an xbox or any other game console or even doing some weird shit such as geocaching. entertainment is still entertainment regardless of whatever medium you use [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This ^ is really true...

I am ahem an older person lets say and sometimes I get funny looks when I tell people I play everquest...then they go off and do dumb shit like PAY to chase a little white ball around ALL DAY LONG.

Skittlez · #7 11-12-2013, 11:45 PM

I remember when I stopped talking to my dad for 2 weeks when he shut off his account. ***** I was pissed.

Ereni · #8 11-12-2013, 11:49 PM

Day 1 of logging into EQ I left the good old counter strike and tribes 1 behind. Anyone remember those games? Each one addicting in their own right...

Anyways, I first made a high elf enchanter and after an hour or so of figuring out how to get things going my first target was a real life player, some dwarf. I assumed he was just another NPC I could kill but NOPE. It shocked me how fast I died. He put me in my place pretty quickly. After I got cursed out from him in tells, I made a dark elf and never looked back <evil grin>.

Skittlez · #9 11-12-2013, 11:55 PM

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Day 1 of logging into EQ I left the good old counter strike and tribes 1 behind. Anyone remember those games? Each one addicting in their own right...

Anyways, I first made a high elf enchanter and after an hour or so of figuring out how to get things going my first target was a real life player, some dwarf. I assumed he was just another NPC I could kill but NOPE. It shocked me how fast I died. He put me in my place pretty quickly. After I got cursed out from him in tells, I made a dark elf and never looked back <evil grin>.

CS 1.6 is pretty fun still. Lots of people still play it.

Tribes on the other hand.. Jesus fucking christ was that game good. I still play Tribes 2 and Tribes Ascend. That shit is amazing.

Ereni · #10 11-13-2013, 12:05 AM

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CS 1.6 is pretty fun still. Lots of people still play it.

Tribes on the other hand.. Jesus fucking christ was that game good. I still play Tribes 2 and Tribes Ascend. That shit is amazing.

Wow that's surprising. I checked out Ascend but it just wasn't the same. I want to say that I disliked Tribes 2 but it could just be because I was addicted to EQ [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] That's super cool that people still play though, I'm impressed.

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I knew I was addicted the first night I played. Couldn't unglue myself until 4am when I heard one of my parents walking through the house and jumped in bed to avoid getting in trouble.

I can one up you on that! I didn't have a computer in my room. I would sneak in just before my parents would lock up the computer room for the night (this is how addicted I was) and I'd unlock the window without them knowing. When they went to sleep I would jump out of my bedroom window from the second story and then break into my own house via computer room window and play all night. If I ever heard commotion near the doorway at night I'd sprint to the closet and hide...they never caught me! Haha, good times. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Why am I proud of this? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]