I think you guys are sugarcoating the past. I played EQ1 for two years and while I was addicted, I can't imagine doing it again. You literally sat in one spot for hours doing the exact same thing in the exact same place to level, waiting hours for groups to form with precise combinations since soloing was much, much worse. It was more like meditation than playing a game. EQ1 was unforgiving and tedious. Accomplishments meant more because it was so much harder to get anything done. I enjoyed myself, to an extent, but it verged on masochism. Today's games, while they won't hold you in such a grip, are at least fun while they last.
I don't know if I'll ever play another game as much as I played EQ1, but I hold no illusions about its quality or content.
you hear that voice? that feeling? your sub conscious mind begging you to stop wasting your life? maybe you should stop ignoring that and stop blaming companies for not succeeding in providing you with a game that will take over your life and be grateful that they haven't.
ween off them by reading the forums for a bit. I haven't played an mmo in 2 months and I'm still reading this shit lol... that's how powerful this addiction is.
{snip} ...i am gutted that AoC isn't what i wanted it be. I am really disappointed with the MMO genre now and it is not going the way i had hoped. In my eyes MMO's have gone backwards since EQ1, that game was wonderful and exciting, full of adventure and amazing people that created a great community.
What was the community like in EQ the forth day in?
What was the community like in WoW 72-hours after launch?
The human brain really doesn't 'think' and it monumentally doesn't remember the way the lay person believes it does. It is an emotion machine not a fact machine. Your vision of WoW is tainted by all of the fun you had over the years of playing, you forget most of what you didn't like and replace much of the bordem with this vague 'fun' feeling. It is the fallacy of selective perception.
I can guarantee that you are not remembering WoW or EQ the way the game actually was at the time that it was being played. Age of Conan IS basically EQ/WoW with better graphics and more instances. But it is also far and away a better version of EQ/WoW and it is beyond either was at 72-hours post launch.
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I think you guys are sugarcoating the past. I played EQ1 for two years and while I was addicted, I can't imagine doing it again. You literally sat in one spot for hours doing the exact same thing in the exact same place to level, waiting hours for groups to form with precise combinations since soloing was much, much worse. It was more like meditation than playing a game. EQ1 was unforgiving and tedious. Accomplishments meant more because it was so much harder to get anything done. I enjoyed myself, to an extent, but it verged on masochism. Today's games, while they won't hold you in such a grip, are at least fun while they last.
I don't know if I'll ever play another game as much as I played EQ1, but I hold no illusions about its quality or content.
your expecting a bit much from a video game no?
you hear that voice? that feeling? your sub conscious mind begging you to stop wasting your life? maybe you should stop ignoring that and stop blaming companies for not succeeding in providing you with a game that will take over your life and be grateful that they haven't.
ween off them by reading the forums for a bit. I haven't played an mmo in 2 months and I'm still reading this shit lol... that's how powerful this addiction is.
I think most of the AoC community will start to develop over time like most MMO's
Espeically if grouping is needed to complete dungeons, then people are forced to be comrades
What was the community like in WoW 72-hours after launch?
The human brain really doesn't 'think' and it monumentally doesn't remember the way the lay person believes it does. It is an emotion machine not a fact machine. Your vision of WoW is tainted by all of the fun you had over the years of playing, you forget most of what you didn't like and replace much of the bordem with this vague 'fun' feeling. It is the fallacy of selective perception.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_perception
I can guarantee that you are not remembering WoW or EQ the way the game actually was at the time that it was being played. Age of Conan IS basically EQ/WoW with better graphics and more instances. But it is also far and away a better version of EQ/WoW and it is beyond either was at 72-hours post launch.
"The reality of the poor in America isn't the difference between The Haves and The Have Nots, it is the difference between The Haves and The Have Lots."
I disagree
I remember EQ on my server launch (Brell)
people didnt disappear into instances in the newbie areas
I remember seeing most the same people from levels 1-15 in the Qeynos yard/ Qeynos Hills/ WK
I like AOC but it doesnt grab me
I feel like im playing a mmorpg version of Neverwinter Nights RPG game
(I'm level 35 for reference)
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