Syrie Cinders
Dalayan Beginner
Hail and well met to the SoD community!
I was elated to find this site, via a recent EQ discussion in the Penny Arcade forums.
Long have I wished for a chance to play EQ again, in a non [$OE/Verant] environment.
I started EQ the day Emarr server went live (~May 5, 1999) and played for almost 5 years.
When GoD launched in Feb. 2004, i'd finally had enough of the blatant timesinks and repetative end-game "key/flag" material that was constantly fed us and labaled as 'new'.
Doing quests to get X key for Y zone just to camp again for 3-day timer rare-spawn mobs for rare-drop components to assemble Y key for your entire guild... became positively maddening.
Forming 30, 40, and 50 person raids that lasted upwards of 10 hours was unacceptable.
Even though I was in one of the foremost 'uber-guilds' of the entire EQ community, the game just became a job... which is exactly the opposite reason I play MMO's.
So what was left in EQ for a player like me?
I bailed, and bounced from MMO to MMO looking for the same fun I had in EQ during the 'Original' and 'Kunark' days.
AO, DAoC, WoW, D2, EVE, CoH, they all lasted a few months, and became boring for reasons I couldn't fully explain.
I always told my friends that i'd have paid $30 or $40 a month, to play on a 'Classic' or 'Classic+Kunark' server only.
Most of them agreed with me... that after Kunark, things just started on a downhill run.
I'd even forefit the graphics and UI enhancements... the old game just had 'it' to keep us entertained.
At any rate, finding this server for players, by players was the next best thing... and i'm sure might prove to be even better after a few weeks of play. Provided my first month as a part of SoD is everything i know it can be, i'll be happily clicking that donate button... something like this is simply too good to lose over such a trivial thing like money.
So cheers to the server admins, the content writers, the artists, and the players that make SoD available for lost MMO souls like myself.
I am looking forward to meeting you folks in game, making new friendships, exploring new content, and feeling those wonderful little senses of accomplishment that I knew back in the glory days of EQ.
-Syrie
I was elated to find this site, via a recent EQ discussion in the Penny Arcade forums.
Long have I wished for a chance to play EQ again, in a non [$OE/Verant] environment.
I started EQ the day Emarr server went live (~May 5, 1999) and played for almost 5 years.
When GoD launched in Feb. 2004, i'd finally had enough of the blatant timesinks and repetative end-game "key/flag" material that was constantly fed us and labaled as 'new'.
Doing quests to get X key for Y zone just to camp again for 3-day timer rare-spawn mobs for rare-drop components to assemble Y key for your entire guild... became positively maddening.
Forming 30, 40, and 50 person raids that lasted upwards of 10 hours was unacceptable.
Even though I was in one of the foremost 'uber-guilds' of the entire EQ community, the game just became a job... which is exactly the opposite reason I play MMO's.
So what was left in EQ for a player like me?
I bailed, and bounced from MMO to MMO looking for the same fun I had in EQ during the 'Original' and 'Kunark' days.
AO, DAoC, WoW, D2, EVE, CoH, they all lasted a few months, and became boring for reasons I couldn't fully explain.
I always told my friends that i'd have paid $30 or $40 a month, to play on a 'Classic' or 'Classic+Kunark' server only.
Most of them agreed with me... that after Kunark, things just started on a downhill run.
I'd even forefit the graphics and UI enhancements... the old game just had 'it' to keep us entertained.
At any rate, finding this server for players, by players was the next best thing... and i'm sure might prove to be even better after a few weeks of play. Provided my first month as a part of SoD is everything i know it can be, i'll be happily clicking that donate button... something like this is simply too good to lose over such a trivial thing like money.
So cheers to the server admins, the content writers, the artists, and the players that make SoD available for lost MMO souls like myself.
I am looking forward to meeting you folks in game, making new friendships, exploring new content, and feeling those wonderful little senses of accomplishment that I knew back in the glory days of EQ.
-Syrie
