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  • Barefootsies
    Choice is an Illusion
    • Feb 2005
    • 42635

    #1

    Anyone Still Play Everquest?

    I have not played in years, but this morning had a flash back moment that had made me nostalgic for a second. Now I can only imagine the hours I wasted on the game instead of making money.

    Flashback Moment:
    Desert of Rho with the spectres. Everyone not fighting would sit on the dock healing, resting, looking for spells (speed, strength, etc.) or waiting for the boat and almost every 15 minutes like clockwork would come a huge troll, mummy, or spectre train on the dock. Typicically slaughtering almost everyone.

    Good times.
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  • TheDoc
    Too lazy to set a custom title
    • Jul 2001
    • 13827

    #2
    EQ was a great place to make money several years back, before they made selling things go underground. I did at the time and could have have made a decent stable business off of playing that game, if they didn't end up banning sales. Once I couldn't make decent money, it wasn't worth the time so I sold off the characters and quit.
    ~TheDoc - ICQ7765825
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    • Barefootsies
      Choice is an Illusion
      • Feb 2005
      • 42635

      #3
      I remember, before all of the expansions, you could barely go into any store in certain towns because there were so many players it would almost crash out your machine. The most popular towns names escape me now, but I remember you would be flying alone, get into that area and you would be in slow mo.

      You could go to those areas and get almost anything you wanted. When they opened up the moon/bazaar. That place was like that. Hundreds if not thousands of players all sitting there. You could get almost everything you needed in one place instead of having to travel the world.

      There were no longer any major meeting places in time, and those still playing could literally run though 3-5 zone with no players and monsters and giants chasing them. Once it would get to the point I could be in a zone(s) by myself, and actually have to seek out people. I stopped playing.

      Another favorite area was the one with the following.
      Ah he, Ah he, Ah he, Ah he. Hey Joe Font! Nananana....
      Last edited by Barefootsies; 08-20-2010, 07:45 AM.
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      • Doug of Montreal
        Confirmed User
        • Jul 2007
        • 1877

        #4
        Loved EQ! I still think of booting it up every so often, but somehow manage to stay clear. Haven't played WOW... but for some reason, EQ just seemed to look better to me.
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        • Blackamooka
          Confirmed User
          • Nov 2008
          • 495

          #5
          EQ2 just announced it's going free to play/
          The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

          - Voltaire

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          • ilnjscb
            Confirmed User
            • Jun 2009
            • 8972

            #6
            Originally posted by Barefootsies
            I have not played in years, but this morning had a flash back moment that had made me nostalgic for a second. Now I can only imagine the hours I wasted on the game instead of making money.

            Flashback Moment:
            Desert of Rho with the spectres. Everyone not fighting would sit on the dock healing, resting, looking for spells (speed, strength, etc.) or waiting for the boat and almost every 15 minutes like clockwork would come a huge troll, mummy, or spectre train on the dock. Typicically slaughtering almost everyone.

            Good times.
            Serendipitously, I got an email from them with this today:

            "Free Adventure Service
            Now Available!
            Released from deep within the dark and dangerous depths of Norrath, a new free adventure service emerges, EverQuest® II Extended! SOE has liberated portions of the critically acclaimed PC franchise, EverQuest II, including five plus years of impressive, award-winning content to online adventurers, free. EverQuest II Extended joins the highly successful EverQuest II live subscription service, and together, provide EQII players with a choice of either a subscription-based or free-to-play business model -- two distinct experiences operating in parallel, a first in the MMO industry! "

            So they are wisely moving to a free model with selling l3wts.

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            • Barefootsies
              Choice is an Illusion
              • Feb 2005
              • 42635

              #7
              Originally posted by ilnjscb
              So they are wisely moving to a free model with selling l3wts.
              Next thing you know they will break out a VCR, cloud and DeLorean time machine.
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              Enough Said.

              "Would you rather live like a king for a year or like a prince forever?"

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