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I started on EQOA,but have no idea why I was drawn to the game you could say I guess.Played a year bam ps2 broke.I quit and tryed EQ for PC (and will never look back)

I have been playing for awhile lol. Almost too long heehe. My brother got me into it when I was only 7 or 8 years old. I never really got into actually developing a character until last year. I had a lvl 35 ranger then, I made a new account just recently and have a lvl 10 cleric hehe.

This is quite possibly the best summation I've heard of that "special something" that's so endearing about EQ.

I joined eHarmony and one of the matches it had for me, the guy's profile said he was an EverQuest Guild Leader. I asked one of my sons what was Everquest. He said on on-line game. I asked him what a Guild Leader was, and he said someone who takes the game entirely too seriously. lol lol

Anyway long story short, we met, dated, he taught me the game and took me into the world of EQ. We married and our entire family plays now. Just got back from Fan Faire and it was fantastic! A great bunch of people who know how to have fun!

Hmmmm....so now I think I also take it entirely too seriously it seems!! :P

Seamy

PS-I have often laughed and said he married me because he hated two boxing, he is a cleric and I am a paladin! The guildies nod in unison!!



Edited, Sun Apr 9 02:22:39 2006 by Rodth

I started EQ when my step-dad was playing it and had to run out, but was on a raid, so I took over. Well I had no idea what to do, but I loved the whole click button smash. It was fun, and was about 7 years ago. Well after getting a laptop of my own, I joined up EQ and have been playing for 6 years now, but now, I'm on a ******** laptop that can't play it and dieing for a fix. Made my BST up to level 65, but before luclin, I had a 65 Monk.

God, I need a computer to play EQ. *Rocks in corner*

1st MMORPG was Meridian 59 for about two mos on the free russian server. they shut it down. went into withdrawal. heard about this thing called EQ, did lots of research (which was hit and miss even though i was using sites like Alla and SOE's old boards), thought it looked interesting, hopped in at end of LDoN/pre-GoD era, and now a chronic.i like the wide array of options. it's my dime and my time and provided i stay within the playnice--which is no problem--i can do anything i like if i put forth the effort. which admittedly sometimes isn't a lot, but, that's fine as i still enjoy myself.

my objectives? enjoy myself and perform random acts of buffage, kindness, while hopefully imparting knowledge to folks--warder equipment thread for example. also, it's just plain NICE to escape reality for an hour or three--no paperwork, customers, seminars, classes, training sessions, etc and if i'm helping someone troubleshoot a problem, it's because i *want* to. >:-)well, my first toon was supposed to be my main, but, it wasn't a fit like my beast. however, main's(now banker alt) /played was something like 9 days before i started neko--whose /played is around 70 days.

edited for tags, and the typos i saw

Edited, Sun Apr 9 16:03:40 2006 by joev

I was introduced to EQ by a good friend of mine when I came home for a visit and it lead to the addiction which I now face.

I do my best to play on a semi regular basis but sometimes it will be a month or two gap here and there.

I play to relax and spend time not thinking about the real world for the most part. I am not a serious raider but I enjoy my time and spend it in the EQ world when I can.

Edited for sloppy typing

Edited, Mon Apr 10 13:56:47 2006 by Namblak

started playing end of 2004. i played more than a year straight. i took a break for about a year. now i'm back =)

A new mall opened up near us right around the time that the PS2 launched. We spent some Saturdays exploring the new stores and I would wander into the video game store to drool over the PS2. I planned on getting one as soon as Hubby received his bonus check the following month. I couldn't wait!

Across the aisle from the PS2s were the PC games and there in the middle was a bright green box with cool looking elves, dwarves, etc on it. I picked it up and read the description: "Everquest, Ruins of Kunark"? hmmm... sounds very interesting.

I didn't buy it that day, though. One of the blurbs on the inside cover said something like: "If you love your family, don't play this game! You'll never see them again!" Not an exact quote, but it did make me hesitate. My hubby wasn't too happy with the time I spent gaming as it was, so I didn't buy it.

I couldn't get it out of my mind, though. After 2 more trips to the mall, I finally gave in and bought it. I've been playing ever since. The funny part is that I got hooked so fast and completely, that I never did get that PS2. Bonus money went into buying a better computer.

Everquest is like a whole world. I can be anything I want and be just as good as the next person. I can meet people from all over the world. I can quest, tradeskill, grind exp, choose AAs, .... whatever I feel like doing. I can't imagine not playing Everquest. Some day, when they finally pull the plug on the last server... I'll be the last person booted out.

Well said!

When my wife and I met I had been playing single player games. She and her sis were playing Realm and she talked me into trying that - too boring. Next she gave me a copy of Diablo nd that was fun untill we finished it - then it was reroll and start over again - not! And the cow level was a real pain.

All this time she was trying to get me to play EQ - she and her sis had started in Beta. I looked at it and it seemed to me at the time that you had to be able to type really well to accomplish anything in the Game - particularly if you were grouped and needed to say something in a tight situation.

She bought me the game and account for a wedding present and said that since we would be sitting right beside each other while playing, I could just tell her what i wanted to say and she would type it for me. Well, when wife buys you a wedding present, you really hve no choice.

I started a Halfing Druid, and she and her Sis started new Halfling characters to play with me - my Druid was dead within 2 min because my gamma was messed up and I ran out of the tunnel that Halflings use to start in and fell into the water and was killed by a trout - very poor start. He is now 66 by the way.

That was in late 1999 and my wife and I are still playing - sis-in-law has quit. We have a total of 7 accounts, a ton of characters on The Rathe, and find that it beats sitting and watching TV and saying notheing to each other ans the mindless drivel rolls by on the TV screen.

We play about 3 hours each night as our other commitment allow and probably about 10 t0 12 hours over any week-end that we are in town.

We are obviously involved heavily in the game, but I wouldn't call us serious players. We are non-guiled by choice as we play for relaxation and as something to do together. We continue playing becase the game continues to be interesting - FUN - and, in my opinion, has created a very strong bond for our marriage.

WE both have players rangeing from level 1 (our bazaar mules) up to level 66 in pairs as we allways 2 box. Thus each of us has 2 level 66's and so on down.

It's a fantastic game that lets you play however you want. You can be causual, as we are, or you can go for the high end raiding guids if you want more adrenaline.

Ihad just bought a computer in 02 and a friend of mine at work we began talking about computer games etc. In 03 i came to work and said he had 7 day free trail of EQ for me.So he gave me his characters name and the server he was on. Aftera few hits and misses i figured out the ui.My first character wasa human warrior that i couldnt get past lvl 16,the second character i had made became my mine and is now 66. I tried SWG i still like that game also tried WoW. WoW i liked the original game but mmo WoW for me was not WOW I felt like i was in a cartoon. Then being challenged to duel by 17 people with in 2 mintutes of logging into the game kind of took the shine away.I tried EQ2 I Liked that game it is awesome.Someday when i have a computer powerful enough to run eq2 i will return to explore and continue with eq1.I too shall probably be the last one on my server when the the plug gets pulled.

Because the voices in my head told me to. Now, unfortunately, they won't tell me an easy way to get out of Cobalt Scar without gate potions. ...freakin voices