All make good points. There are way to many servers that do absolutly nothing, so you cant really bring people together to make a good community. There are a handful that visit this board reguarly but most just come and go.
There are not near the members involved as there was when I was here along time ago. Back then we were chasing LIVE and it was great, becuase the dev team was working and pumping out patchs right and left. Things were great, there were alot of servers, but each server had a good population on it. GW, WR to name a couple. But things have severly gone down hill.
I dont belive that lack of a dev team, lack of orginization and lack of other things here at the Emu are all to blame. If there was any way we could see active users still using EQ Live, you will see that number is very small now a days. The game just simply is outdated, and when sat side by side with current MMO's, it fails in comparison.
"But nothing matches the challenge of EQ" some may say. Vanguard is currently the closest to EQ in terms of difficulty. It is a grind intensive, wait and camp style, like the original EQ. But I think the kicker now is mostly the graphics and gameplay. Newer MMO's look great, and a big kicker for me is the combat system of the new ones. I dont like to just click attack and watch the health meters go down, I like to be involved in it. EQ has some options you can do while you battle, but you just click Bash, Kick, Slam ect... thats it. It was great at its time because of the sweet world that it was, but that was then.
Maybe I'm speaking for myself, maybe others share my views, but this is what I belive and what I feel. Eq was great to me for a long time, but I have my eyes set on the newer models now. I think others feel the same way.
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