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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gnarlo" data-source="post: 8366674" data-attributes="member: 2995">Everquest. Yeah, it’s not a TTRPG but it’s the closest thing to online D&D I ever experienced. The chief founder Brad McQuaid said he based the world and lore on his old D&D campaign and everything about it in the early days was D&D with the serial numbers filed off <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Classes, races, spells, abilities…Made many a friend playing the game, a good half dozen of which I’m still friends with 22 years later. We enjoyed playing the hell out of it for a good 5 years or so, until the developers began listening to the hard-core end-raid guilds, and then all the expansions and new content coming out were 90%+ for the end game “elites”, whom the devs themselves eventually admitted were less than 5% of the player base… More and more non raiding, frustrated players on the forums they refused to listen to because they were the 800 pound gorilla—until WoW came out. The exodus was amazing; most of our guild left within 2 weeks. I tried it for a couple months, but it just wasn’t what I was looking for. EQ’s devs woke up and realized at last that it was the rank and file subscribers that paid their salaries, not the handful of L33t raiders, and started making low and mid level content again, but it was too late, most of us had left.I have an emulator server I boot up a couple times a year and wander around in god mode through the old zones I played in and remember incredible nights of fun <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> But one of the biggest heartbreaks is that almost all the raiding guilds that basically killed the game for everyone else all left enmasse for WoW as well. Hell, the most vocal of the “end game all the time” guild leaders got a job with Blizzard as a raid developer after killing our fun… sigh…Edit to add went to look up if he was still there, and found he is one of the Blizzard folks in the lawsuit charged with abuse and harassment of female employees and players… doesn’t that just fit…</blockquote>

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