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Any day one (march 16th 1999) vets still playing? or coming back?
Kungaloosh1
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I would be interested to see how many from the very beginning are still playing, or if they aren't would they come back for the ten year.
I can kick myself for rolling a cleric on March 16th 99. I never could figure out how to memorize spells, couldn't melee worth a danm so i deleted the next day and rolled a paladin. Now my born on day shows March 17th 
I've been out of eq1 for a few years now but with the new server coming up, i have the itch to play again. Never has there been such an engrossing mmo, never again will there be one on this scale.
Hats off to Everquest!
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I created an inky ShadowKnight on day one and played him for about a week before deciding I didn't like it. Then I rolled up a human warrior who followed Innoruuk. Everybody thought I was an idiot (at that time there wasn't really anyone mix/maxxing) for choosing Innoruuk as a deity for a human, but it made my toon unique. I played him for years and loved being the cornerstone of every group I was in.
What new server are you talking about? I haven't been keeping up.
I went back about 1.5 years ago to see how EQ compared to more current MMOs and the reason I didn't stick with it was because of the hardcore nature of the game. When the game launched, I was much younger w/ few obligations. Nowadays I just can't spend that kind of time leveling a new character in a game as harsh as EQ. Mind you... if I had the time I'd LOVE to do it all over again. I remember spending like a week of non-stop grinding in The Overthere and having some of the most memorable days of my gaming career.
Good times, man. Good times indeed. Damn... I really DO miss EQ. /swoon
No godless person can comprehend those minute distinctions
in doctrine that provide true believers excuse for mayhem.
-Glen Cook
It's the new progression server they are currently voting on, probably end up being the same as combine/sleeper servers before with the choices ppl have been given, nothing as radical as some and myself where hoping for.
I'm not a day one player as I only discovered EQ1 back in Sept 1999 in the UK. I would be going back to EQ1 if the new server was going for longer timers on unlocks for expacs, so as it is I'l be playing something else, shame really as I really enjoyed my years with EQ1 and then EQ2.
My lone beef is that soloing is reletively impossible in the upper tiers. (wouldn't be such a big deal but groups are not always feasable)
Wow! I was expecting more replies to this topic. I guess the EQ forums on mmorpg.com aren't very active. Oh well...
No godless person can comprehend those minute distinctions
in doctrine that provide true believers excuse for mayhem.
-Glen Cook
Back in the Day my first toon was a HE Bard. Loved everything about that game and that toon but like always good things must come to an end. This is my Fav. MMO of all time there is absolutely noting quite like it but i couldnt spend the time now playing it waay to busy.
I started March 16th,1999 on Solusek Ro.
I really don't think I'll ever be back to the game though. I've been gone for 3 years or so. My girlfriend and I raided hardcore (Was in number 1-2 guild in the game for awhile) But just burnt out...I really loved the game and more or less all my best MMO memories are from EQ1. I started an Enchanter and played that solid for 3 years...but over time Chanter Mez,Stuns just didn't do anything for raids so switched to a Rogue.
We did quit the game and started back up several times over around 7 years time frame...The last time we joined back up to Hard Core raiding the passion for it just wasn't there anymore. And over time a lot of the people were turning mean and bitter.
March 21 here... I had to wait until the weekend to load up and play the game
I left in 2004, and rejoined in November 2008... Have been having fun (almost all soloing) so far.
It is still the best MMO, by a long long LONG way.
Hey Aeth... what class are you playing that you're able to effectively solo? Aside from the first couple of levels soloing was nasty-nasty for most classes, even when played well.
No godless person can comprehend those minute distinctions
in doctrine that provide true believers excuse for mayhem.
-Glen Cook
I played back in 99....and actually beta tested the game before that...I played for like a year then quit for awhile but always coming back off and on. I came back when the last progressive server came out played upto PoP but hten everyone in my guild jumped ship...lots went to vanguard which totally sucked...Then I went back to EQ2 played that for awhile but got stale as well after awhile..haven't tried that new expansion....I am looking forward too enjoying the game again when Progressive server launches....I have had a long history of trying just about every MMO....Everquest being the only one I have went back to over and over....I love it and I hate it....lol I do miss those old days...those memories never go, and each time I go back I wish to experience them again, the last progressive was the closest I came to enjoying the OLD EQ...for awhile but even that progressed too fast for my tastes...I think this time around though I might stick around and experience the game....and actually just grow as the server grows, but who knows what I will do...I tend to get bored after awhile or Play so much I get burnt out...Always trying to rekindle those old memories and experiences....I think truely EQ lives on in our memories and none of us ever truely relive them...although we keep paying SOE too try....I don't know they can't just launch a classic server that progresses upto Velious and maybe Luclin....and atleast keep it at that point till enough people cry out that they want something new....The people want it...atleast that is what I have heard from watching the boards...the thing is..I think SOE knows that if they give that too the people, they won't get us back ever again once they allow that available for everyone, people will burn out.....and cancel subs and never come back...knowing that they can never experience what they once did....and SOE knows this...and they are all about the $$$ too big a risk for them...they like to keep us coming back off and on taking our money and giving us a little piece of memories but knowing they can't ever reallyb ring back the past....just my 2 cents....
im not a day ONEr but i did join at the one year mark for EQ. I started a human shadow knight in which i had no idea what i was doing and ended up abadonning that class and moved over to Gnome Cleric. Now im a Drakkin Ranger and i enjoy the game but leveling in the game has gotten retarded in my opinion. Not that i dont want to level i just feel now that EQ is about AA's and each few hundred tiers of AA's the exp slows down so i feel that normal exp for the toon to level should be faster much faster. you can be 85 in this game but have no AA's and u will get pwned in every 85 zone instantly.
For the people asking about soloing, the addition of hireable NPCs ("mercenaries") to the game has helped the soloist immensely
I briefly played EQ when it first came out - started on day 2, but only stayed with EQ until Asheron's Call came out, which I played for 2 years+. After the disaster that was AC2 I went back to EQ and played it for about 4 years. Got burned out and had had enough of raiding.
Since then have gone through half a dozen or so other MMO's, but for the past 6 months have not touched a single one, don't even have any installed on computer any more. After 10 years of elves and orcs (and their clones) I am just burned out totally on fantasy MMO's.
Not likely that I would come back to EQ even if it was free, just don't have the time or ambition anymore. I might consider some type of totally new MMO, but I see nothing currently in production that interests me. The only one at this point that I would ever consider going back to is EVE Online.
I was there on day 1. I also was in the beta up to day 1.Man I knew that game was going to be a huge hit. I remember talking to the devs in game during beta and them saying that they hoped to just get at least 5k players and they would be happy. I laughed and told them they were going to be overwhelmed with all the players coming to the game and that it was going to be a huge hit and sure enough, it was! My first few days were spent fishing because everytime I tried to get into combat, I kept getting dropped from the server (anyone from day 1 remembers the fiasco of not enough bandwidth to handle everyone). I played up to the second expansion and my highest char never made it past 54. Came back a year later and played for a few months with a friend, we duo'd till we got level 30 and quit. Once every 2 or 3 years I seem to reactivate for a few days and then leave again the last time I reactivated (before 2 days ago :evilgrin) I remember logging in my level 30 druid which I left in Firone Vie (sp?) Imagine my surprise that the entire town had turned evil and was killed twice (was also bound there LOL) trying to get out.
I did just reactivate my acount 2 days ago. Been having those urges to play it again. I was extremely saddened to see that you can't even start a character in the old zones. It always starts you out in that tutorial. I did manage to get back to the old zones and found nobody there. I was the sole person in every zone I went into. I am trying to figure out why they even have them running if nobody ever uses them anymore.
I really wish that the new server coming would be a classic server only. I dont even want any of the expansion packs. I hated the drop spells crap in the post 50 expansions. One of the worst ideas they ever implemented in my opinion. Personally, I would like to see the classic EQ revived and just get a huge graphics overhaul. Dont restructure the zones or anything, simply update everything to todays graphics and I would probably live there forever simply because the new games now a days suck in comparison. It would also give these new mmo players a true sense of pride in their characters because to survive classic EQ required a lot of patience and dedication. I have never had that since of pride in any character after EQ. The games today are to dumb downed and any idiot can get to 50 with no problems at all. It was an actual accomplishment to do that in classic EQ. I will never forget the first time I killed Vox in a raid group. man that was HUGE! I actually won the veil that had the see invis built onto it. I got tells for weeks from people trying to buy that thing off me LOL. Oh the stories I could tell. Hell, it would take me a year just to write up all the wonderful stuff that my characters saw and did. For the new games, it would only take a few hours. not very many huge accomplishments in those, or at least not worthy of writing about lol.
I go back every once in a while. I usually log in to my wizard and quad kite a few rounds at tables in PoFire. Then i'll TP to an old zone and do an old school run across antonica just to bring back all the memories. It usually ends with me getting depressed thinking about all the friends i made and lost contact with over those 7 years that i played.
Hmm now i want to log in .. I often wonder how long it would take me to regain my position as number 1 wizard on my server.
Make a difference!
I wasn't there on Day One. My account activation date is Sept. 12, 1999... But I'd be playing right this very moment if my husband didn't have such a passive-aggressive thing when it comes to me playing EQ since he quit. (He says it's ok if I play, but is a complete SOB if I actually do...)
I have played a bunch of different classes, but I am a SK at heart. (My very first character on my husband's account was a troll SK, back when they had exp penalties for race and hybrid class... Then I got my own account and started playing a human enchanter... But I've played multiple SKs of different races on different servers most of the time since then.)
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This is where I draw the line: __________________.
Everquest to me will always go down as the greatest MMO known to mankind. I am 19 years old and have been around since day one of this game, so I was rather young. I constantly remember watching my father play his character, a Dark Elf Shadowknight. I remember him getting his most exciting drop, the pre-nerfed CoS. Due to the happiness he made me an account and every since then a fiery passion for this game has burned within.
My first character created ever was a Human Mage. After so many years I still remember every character, I remember running out the gates of Freeport killing snakes with Burst of Flame. Shortly heading out to the Common Lands and venturing around the orc camps. I know I remember it, but the old way to vendor items was the EC tunnels, AGH do I yearn for those days. Heading into Befallen, and eventually heading over to qeynos to Blackburrow. All sorts of players killing the king, and just grinding through their levels.
Anyone remember camping the Fishbone Earing? I spent almost 2 weeks trying to get that earing, but honestly...It was worth every second. I got bored of the Mage and eventually created an Iksar Monk. This hands down was my favorite character in any game to date. The combat system of the monks, was astonishing yet honestly...no game has been able to imitate this class and perfect it as Everquest has. I took this character to level cap, and consistantly played him.
Expansions arose and alts had been made. I wandered into the world of rangers, and fell in love. Before I knew it the world of Norrath had changed immensely. Shadows of Luclin had released and soon we were off the moon. I remember on Saryrn the famous Doominator was quad boxing his characters and farming the Umbral Plains, constantly selling loot rights.
Before I knew it, my characters had been epic'ed. God, I miss this system. How many of you felt so satisified when you had completed your epic 1.0? Come on, give me a game to date that has something like this besides eq2? This quest alone, and the constant organization of raids had me so hooked and craving the next step. This quest alone kept you on the edge of your seat, and kept your emotions running high. The countless hours, and frustration paid off when you were running around with your epic.
I had made it to the planes, I remember when Plane of Hate was hard and killing gods had come into play. The race for getting time flagged and elemental geared. When I wasn't raiding I was playing my bard and constantly kiting. One of the only classes in the game besides root rot druids and fear kiting necro's able to solo. Solo song twisting and kiting Hill Giants to farm my money and offereing walk through guides and help with the Jboots quest for others.
There are so many memories, and so many great times had on this game. It is just terrible that it will never be back. I try to return constantly, to find nothing...I honestly fell insanely in love with this game. No game has ever been able to compare.
Today we see a different society of gamers. Games today have bred gamers under a carebear system of exclamation points and question marks. Add ons to guide you through the game, or websites to tell you everything to do. Classes that are mindlessly boring and horrible crafting systems. Quests that practically level you throughout the game solo, and instances that give you the best gear instantly without barely having to work. We see carebear players that aren't used to earning what is in their inventory.
To my fellow Everquest Kunark vets, I applaud you. I know I am young but I have been there since the beggining suprisingly. I know how hard it is to find a game that will compare. We are the old school world of gaming, where things weren't given to us within a few minutes of going after an item. Where the company producing the game holds your hand throughout the game via a "questing" system. I have hopes that one day this game will arise from the dead, and bring back the great times we've all shared in the world of Norrath.
I hope that I will see you all in the world soon enough, but I won't get my hopes up too much.
Nice post, but I should point out that classic EQs craft system was frikin horrible as well, and most people even then worked from web sites full of info...
Would I go back? Sure thing, for a classic server. I would even play a progression server if it had a ruleset that controlled the uber guilds, just to let my GF get a taste of the game I have spent so long telling her about. She is a pretty new MMOer, but funnily enough all her gripes with the current genre (no challenge, no death penalty, no group based co-op play, no achievement based play, no community, no longevity) would be solved by playing classic EQ. She also dosent give a rats snot about graphics.
I did go back fairly recently, but boy.. this wasnt the game I knew... I asked for a group, and the 3 people that bothered to answer all just said 'hire a merc'. Made me sad.
it's a shame that the 50/51 server is winning the poll.
I played eq from the launch. Its by far the best game of all time. You would think there is a person out there with a lot of cash & half a clue that would replicate EQ & name it something like QE - It would be a huge success. Anyway. Eq is long dead for me sadly.. If i were to go back it would be beating a dead horse. Im glad to see some are still havig fun with it.
I had a character from day one, but quite shortly after and have long since forgotten that login and PW info, don't even recall what the class was. I did not make a "real" character until late 2002, played for a few years on and off, but have not been back since 2007.
If I could find the info for my main chars from then I might give the 10 year thing a shot, but pretty burned out on MMO's in general - espeically fantasy MMO's.
I think that is what finally killed EQ and MMO's in general for me. In EQ it seemed like it was much more tightly knit, and when too many friends moved on to other games - and me too - it seemed like they were all pretty much throwaway friends, throwaway guilds.
High end raids in EQ kind of had that elite feeling to them, because EQ was first to do so many things, but after you do the same thing in a few other games it kind of loses any appeal. I still remember many of the people in EQ, that I last really raided in in 2006. But I have almost totally forgotten every one I played with in WOW, that I quit 4-5 months ago.
I have played many many MMORPGs, currently playing EVE.
I started on the "Gameless" Nameless Server, on day 1 - Oct 1999 for that server addition.
Things from the beginning:
I remember -
...getting "sow'd" in west karana, and yes I got lost in west karana and it was scary!
... thinking man I can't wait to solo "Elite Ledge" in Blackburrow
...seeing the first person in full bronze from "Sol b" and thinking man they are uber
...remember feeling shunned for being a rogue, so I started a rogue only guild called the Bloody Dagger Clan
...remember a noob called Tigole joining my guild as a young buck, and then he moved on to LOS, and on to a developer for WoW
...remember when travelling by boat was the only way, besides druids and wizz
...remember the Kunark expansion, and loving it
...remember yelling "SG to docks!!!" in oasis and running in fear
...remember how scary Kithcore forest was during the night
...camping the "Ass" in Lower Guk for the coveted Serrated Bone Dirk
...remeber how hard it was to get my epic ragebringer, the kithcore fight
...Can still remeber how to get to lower guk, live side (didnt they change guk though?)
and lots of other great moment in EQ. I have an active EQ2 account, and I plan on activating my EQ 1 account again in a couple months.
I don't care how many expansions they release I won't bad mouth EQ, truly was my favorite game - ever.
Hope I see some old friends in EQ1.
- Danarth Dagger "The Bloody Dagger Clan"
Level 70? i think... maybe 60..that I cant remeber!
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