Poll: Battle of the ExpansionsFollow

I just want to say that I really loved you post Vesanus. It took me back to when I first started playing. It is just sad how much the game has changed and a lot of the places you talk about are no longer around or just no longer used by the new players. I hate seeing all the old great zones with no one in them. I found myself just running around to all my favorite place just to think back to the good times when the game was really really fun not just who has the best stuff or is more powerful. When team work is what happened all the time not just when you are with your guild or your good friends.

Again thanks for your post.

Your words, so very well written hit every chord of what i've loved, and is now missing from EQ.

I began playing in 2000, around the time Kunark came out.

I ceased playing from 2001-early 2007 when the system specs left me and my PC up a creek without a paddle.

The nature of most gamers has changed. So many are driven by numbers... the game is saturated with too many grand items that simply make the game not what it was!

I miss the days when i'd battle through Crushbone with a party of fellows... working first for our Shiny Brass Shields... toiling for the items to create a Screaming Mace... fighting for our chance to camp Trainers Hill... the Throne Room... or Emperor Crush & D'Vinn themselves!

Nothing beats running for the walls when somebody shouts 'TRAIN'

When i read posts on here that the items i love 'suck' in comparison to what a lvl 10 can get now it makes me sad.

Because the players of today, are not getting the experience that i 1st had...

But that's the fault of many playing themselves. Like you said, nobody talks in character, nobody roleplays... my Dwarven Pally would rather die than group with that Dark elf Necro... now it's the norm...

It's all about accumulation rather than immersing yourself in, and becoming part of the world.

I don't Twink... i don't buy from Bazaar... and convenience aside, nothing beats the boats!! Hearing the cry 'BOAT' when you're still a bend and a straight away from the Kaladim dock, then hoofing it as fast as your stumpy Dwarven legs will let you, is what EQ was about. The dock was a great place to meet new friends, cast a line and have a quick dip...

Here's to those days and to gamers as true as yourself! I've a mind to start a new toon on your server just to have the pleasure of meeting one such as you!

Thurquar Gimleteyed

Paladin of the Underfoot
Adventurer of 36 seasons

(anybody else got a main character born in 2000 that's only lvl 36? :-P)

Tallon Zek (now just Zek)

and yes i know this isnt an expansion and this is totally out of the subject but i am hoping it gets attention!

Na im an old school palyer and still go to a lot of the old zoned to do my thing there are a few of us on my server that still like going at it the old way.
But LoY was the worst and i guess for the new player just coming to EQ the TSS would be my number 2 pick

There was a time when undead would always aggro regardless of level. Many times I recall seeing players in their 40's pulling a train of low level undead that had no chance of really hurting them but they would aggro anyway. That was the risk you took entering any zone that had a high undead population. You could be swarmed with non-XP mobs and die.

My favorite is The Serpents Spine. Things just seem more beautiful, especially Stone Hive. Devs must have spent extra time creating this zone and it barely gets used. What a shame too.