by Arlos » Wed Dec 15, 2004 4:23 am
I quit, officially, last March or so. That was going on a year after I had mostly hit the final burnout stage, but was still playing cause of Legacy of Steel and killing Big Stuff. Almost left over the summer, ended up playing a lot with a friend and that kept me around til December or so. Come December, I moved, and it literally took about 8 weeks to get broadband in, and with just 1 phone line in the place, I couldn't be tying it up to play EQ all the time. During that forced time off, I lost the habit of logging in nightly and playing every day. Finally got DSL in, and by then GoD was released. I made it to like 3 GoD raids, and hated them with an absolute passion. Finally couldn't deal with it any more, completely went postal in the monk/raid-pull channel, tore someone a new asshole, gated and logged. Next day I logged in, gave away my only good droppable, Holgresh beads, said goodbye to people, then hit the cancel button.
At this point, I think I'd rather have my nuts chewed off by rabid lemmings than play EQ1 again. Pretty much almost all of the people I was actually good friends with in EQ and in LOS no longer play, I hated XP grouping anyway, and the raids sucked... Given how long I played, officially quitting was easier than I ever thought it would be. I considered selling the character, but by the time I decided to check on it, I was far enough behind the gear curve, and played a class no one wanted, so I would've gotten shit for him. I didn't delete, I didn't park him anywhere odd (I think he's in PoTranquil, at the PoTime entrance), but I doubt very very much that the Arlos character will ever show up in EQ again.
WOW, on the other hand...
-Arlos