Its funny in a way because I have logged on maybe 1 hour in two months - the game just stopped being fun for me a long long time ago. No one could ever make it away from PvM to PvP but that enviroment (PvP) just wasn't made for EQ and all the changes were making it worse.
EQ to me - just lost its magic after the first 2 months of hard dedicated playing and every thing was 'work' and very little 'fun'. More often than not - it was an effort at frustration with exploits, rule changes, players, and ofcourse the spend 4 hours getting your corpse routine. I just could not handle killing another MoB - and PC's weren't much fun either since they would just run and then send endless /tells afterword.
No real improvements were made, classes were way too imbalanced, problems around since Beta are still here yet there is a sequal 'add-on' already coming out. *Nah* Ill pass - no more money to Verant from me. The game is still just kill mob/level/kill mob/level/attempt roleplay/kill mob. I have had enough, even the Racewar Server doesnt excite me, probably the complaints and long wait ruined its chances.
The sad thing is about all this - I thought maybe I was just missing something =P Since all those who started this game with me Holly, Amano, and Haldir still played - I was Cavelor the Barbarian then. So I said - I don't know why you guys still play but I don't think its fun anymore so I stopped (though I still have my account). And now your guys are leaving =(. Well, this game had a lot of potential and there were (and are) some very very good players but the game 'limits' a player based on levels. I don't want to get to 30th level dont want 50th - I just want to interact and fight but through the months friends seperated by levels and time drift away and the game slowly slowly loses its luster and in the end - I found a pretty rendered map with a chat bar attached. You can't just go out 'adventure' make your own path - you have to fight certain things, save money, fight fight fight mobs, until you can advance a little and repeat the process on a new set of MoBs in a new place. I was rich almost 1000 pp, Squirrel and I had almost every item in the game except some very very high Lore Items - been to every dungeon, been to every zone - I saw what was ahead and figured that its just the same as now.
Trade skills are useless, money is useless *heh*, everyone looks the same, can't buy houses or towers, where individual colors or clothes, Guilds are well - un-important. This is a game where everyone is a follower - no one a leader but thats the mechanics of the game. The only skill in being the most powerful in EQ is exactly equaled to hours spent logged on. I would constantly attack red characters and they would run from poor old Beeverz - blah blah. Sorry - just tired of it.
Anyway - so many players still love EQ and Im happy for those that do. I need more in a game (not frags!) more choices, more freedom, more excitement with players not the computer code - thats what Online worlds are about players and players - not Players and mobs, players and enviroment. Anyway - farewell - I hope our paths cross again in some other world. I may appear on RWS but I doubt it. Take care!
Player of Beeverz, Cavelor, and Reverend
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