They don't make games like EverQuest anymore

Hearing horror stories of people camping for a OTD for over 48 hours STRAIGHT scared me away from EQ

Daoc was my jam though and was a grind but it had pvp

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They don't make games like EverQuest anymore

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No, because it would flop.

It was too unforgiving, too hardcore, and too much of a grind. Don't get me wrong, I loved every second of it. I played from classic to SoL.

I think the advances, for better or worse, have ruined games like that to take hold. Rewards and progression come too quickly, quests literally hold your hand all the way through to completion. I myself have gotten caught up in it. I bought Torchlight 2 on sale this past weekend and beat the whole game without reading much of the text. I didn't have too. The map pretty much told me where I had to go and what I had to pick up, kill, etc.

EQ was a sandbox, no maps, quests weren't laid out and didn't assist you much. Heck, you even had to carry around food and water. If you died, especially at later levels, you lost a lot of xp unless you got a high lv cleric rez. Party and raid wipes sucked hard and were very punishing. I recall having to get a friends guild to come help rebreak Plane of Hate after our guild had a full raid wipe. That was a good 2 hours lost.

FYI, EQ is still going. Daybreak bought EQ from Sony Entertaimnet and every once in a while they'll do progression servers. Essentially these servers start from classic and add an expansion every 4-6 months depending on Raid boss kills and community voting. There are xp bonuses, but there is still a good bit of a grind. I've done one and had a good bit of fun before RL made me get too far behind. I'm hoping they start another server up within the next few months. There's a huge interest in these servers (super populated) up until around Plane of Power usually.

Only played through Velious but it was by far the best game I ever played. If there was a way to pick it up again on a Mac I absolutely would. Think I still have all the original discs as well.

Was on the Solusek Ro server when I played.