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Originally Posted by smogo
Personal point of view : EQEMu is not EQ, technically, nor as per content. WR was a very custom server, and yet the most popular. This puts aside the second choice. As for the first (dev's capability), maybe give it a try, and result could be interesting.
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As a former WR player with years of EQ Live experience I'll give my two cents. It's true that WR (or any customized EQEmu) and EQ Live are not the same thing. I liken it to taking identical twins and splitting them up so they were raised by different families. When they grow up they will have a lot in common, those basic characteristics that they inherited which give away the fact that they are related, and yet they will still be different people in many ways. The latter part is the result of the influence of the ones who nurtured & cared for them, shaping their personalities as they grew.
WR was highly customized but at the end of the day it felt very much like early EQ. For me, it was like a time warp into the Kunark Era. Despite the content being unique (except the zones were the same, just renamed & connected differently) it still felt just like EQ Live in so many ways when I played back in the early days. I think that's what made WR so successful, nostalgia is a powerful feeling and through the years SOE made many players unhappy by making changes (and EQ is a living game after all, it does change over time).