EQ is a boring game if you play it in a legit way. It's extremly slow paced, and takes hours of work to do the most basic of things. It demands you to seek out lots of people for ridiculous sized raids that turn out only two to five good items. It devours time.
As I've said, I had a 60 warrior in EQ; and was part of an uber guild. I'm not making this up either, so no dumbass comments. I quit a few weeks before PoP was released, but I had raided just about every hot spot in Luclin, Kunark, and Velious. I had very good gear, but it wasn't the best.
I quit EQ simply because it demanded to much time, and too many people to do things. I joined everhacking server because of the word hack. If you force users to play under a ridiculous regiment of rules, many will turn away from it. I ( and I'm sure many others) just don't have time to play in a ridiculous on line enviroment which takes anywhere from 12 - 24 people to kill large monsters; OR not be able to solo because our class has no way of healing.
I quote one of the GM's I spoke to on everhacking today when he said, "EQemu is just playing EQ without paying." I think that is a very bad mentality that will lead to some form of a law suit. If the intent of EQemu is to steal the hard work of Verants development team totally; then that is kind of wrong.
I could understand the desire to create servers that are intended to allow users to have fun by throwing the boring rules of EQ out of the window, and letting players kill monsters they dreamed of killing in game by themselves (Bye Cheal Potion) or with a friend or two.
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