It solely depends how much time you have to spend. Certainly those without "a life" will find it easier. I am currently playing EQ and WoW myself and still have an active EQ2 account as well. Of course, you can dedicate less time to the games you play that way but if you're not a hardcore player who has to be in a high-end guild and raiding every day it's IMO no big deal playing two or even three MMORPGs.

I will certainly give Warhammer Online a look, I've been waiting for it for years now.

People were saying the same thing before WoW and Lineage 2 and EQ2 came out... the market is saturated. Granted it's more true now, but there's always room for more niche games.

And who says you have to play two or more? Lots of people quit the one they're on to try something new.

I have to agree, they do look like WoW. I quit EQ and EQ2 for WoW so I know whereof I speak.

WoW has so many players they can't keep up with the demand, even after banning over 5,000 accounts for cheating (and suspending over 10,000 more). Last I heard, there are over 5 million people playing WoW. EQ was never that big (maybe a tenth of that), and you no longer see every EQ expansion on the "best-seller" lists from the gaming companies so that will tell you something about how many players are left (i.e. not too many).

WoW just does so many things right that EQ never did. Making 80 dairy spoons to skill-up in smithing so you can make banded armor that nobody wants? Not in WoW. In WoW I can tradeskill useful (as in I can wear it, or sell it to fellow players, and it is better than what I already have or what drops) stuff from the get-go.

There's a healthy player economy because almost everything has a required minimum level, and most used items can't be resold except to vendors. That means when you outgrow an item, it can't be passed on to a twink, or sold to another player, removing the item from the economy thus making room for a new item.

The minimum required levels mean that you don't have level 10 characters wearing full suits of rare armor making them nearly invulnerable; instead, they're wearing level-appropriate stuff and looking for upgrades as they level.

I haven't raved about a game like this since I started EQ five years ago, and I haven't raved about EQ in a very, very long time...


Edited, Thu Apr 13 05:40:38 2006