I played live EQ from 1999 to about 2 years ago or so. I couldnt afford to play it anymore, but then I found Shards of Dalaya and I couldn't be happier with it so far. It improves on several faults in live EQ and the people are a lot nicer as well. I don't think I could ever go back to playing live, even if I had the extra dough. SoD FTW!