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Thinking about the old days, possibility of return?
Hi there!
My girlfriend and I played EQ back during retail release (March, 1999) all the way up through "Lost Dungeons of Norath" expansion. We left sometime shortly after that. We used to play on Rathe server but transferred with some friends over to Zebuxoruk server when the ability presented itself.
Anyways, our accounts have been inactive for years, but we've recently got an urge to try to log them in and see how the world has progressed. This, of course, opens up a few questions:
1.) Will our characters still be available for play on our accounts?
2.) Is the Zebuxoruk server still around?
3.) We were very well geared out in excellent end-game raiding gear for Planes of Power. How has the game progressed since this time?
4.) Are the old world cities, dungeons, and zones a ghost town or do players still populate them? Places like Befallen, Unrest, Freeport, etc?
5.) What would you recommend for very long time veterans returning to the game?
6.) Did they allow characters to keep very old items like the Guise of the Deceiver (the one that was usable by all)?
Thanks for any help you be able to provide!
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Hi There!,
This is my first post to go easy!!,
In my opinion i would advise you not to go back, i spent years playing EQ, and i loved every minute. Ive since played every MMO i could get my hands on spending 6 months here and another 6 months there, but nothing seemed to grab me like the good old EQ used to.
So recently i decided that i would go back and see if the game can be as great as i remember. I downloaded it from the SOE website and the million or so expansions that there are now, fired it up and was incredibly disappointed. The world is i suppose how i left it just unfortunately i have evolved with MMO's too. The graphics are awful, the user interface is awful. It just looks really dated. I lasted 10 minutes before i had to log out, and thats no joke.
Sometimes its best to let good memories stay as just that..... good memories.
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Well, you could have read the 200 other threads about this, but anyway lol.
No, those zones are dead. There will be 0 people there, in PoP there will be 0 people. In povalor, in postorms, in potactics, etc..there will be 0 people.
You will not find anyone to group with up until max lvl with little exceptions. And even at max lvl (LVL 80) it will be a challenge to find people willing to group.
It's really not worth playing EQ anymore, sorry.
Well, you could have read the 200 other threads about this, but anyway lol.
No, those zones are dead. There will be 0 people there, in PoP there will be 0 people. In povalor, in postorms, in potactics, etc..there will be 0 people.
You will not find anyone to group with up until max lvl with little exceptions. And even at max lvl (LVL 80) it will be a challenge to find people willing to group.
It's really not worth playing EQ anymore, sorry.
After reliving my EQ experiece these past 2 weeks I totally agree. Groups are just too rare. I've been in a total of 2 in 2 weeks, and that is constant LFG. I'm still going to play until WAR comes out, though.Its really a game close to death, though. Its no wonder they stopped making expansions every 6 mos. There is not many people left to fund the work. Only the diehard are left, and they are slowly leaving.
Well after my girlfriend and I installed the game and fired up the 21-day free play offer, we ran around just that evening. My mind was pretty much made up: Leave the memories as they are: perfect and unspoiled.
Running through the lands did take me back to very good memories, however, it just wasn't as I remembered it (nothing ever is). They've made some graphics changes to textures, like smoothing them out, but in the process the land lost some of the features I remembered. Of course the graphics are absolutely God-awful but we expected that, to an extent. However, the world was in fact a ghost town (for the expansions we had). Even the Bazaar was completely devoid of players or their vendors. It was sad and somewhat depressing to see the world dying such a slow and painful death.
I was a bit surprised and disappointed to see that SOE did not enhance the UI or features into the game, at all, since we left so many years ago. The UI was still clunky, there was still no minimap, you could only mem 8 spells, etc. I was actually shocked at the same old issues still within the game, after so many years and expansions - I guess I assumed that SOE would have fixed things along the way...my fault for assuming.
Most discouraging of all for me was a run through HighPass Hold. Running through there at level 65, I would have expected the very low level Orcs and Gnolls to have just left me alone, or fallen over after one swing of my weapon. To my dismay, my Paladin is exactly what frustrated me during the years I played: Totally ineffective in melee; even against a creature that is in the high teens, very low twenties. This just should not happen but it does.
These experiences brought up some very deep-rooted buried feelings that just were not good toward the game or the character I played for so many years - I didn't want that. All-in-all, we logged and said goodbye to the world, never to see it again. I could not continue because doing so would taint and possibly destroy all of those very good memories I had of this game. Perhaps those memories are delusionary but nonetheless they are mine to keep forever.
Thank you all that replied to this thread.
Wow .. this brings back memories.
EQ is my FIRST MMORPG (I did beta-test for UO and did not like it). I played in the beta and jumped in when it was first released. I played for 1-2 years before I left.
I wonder if my char is still around. I am mightily tempted, like you, to go back in and see if I can take my char for a spin through the world.