Comments on: EQ: Do you PLAY EverQuest and also BLOG about it?

By: wilhelm2451

wilhelm2451 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:05:16 +0000

Yeah, I know what you mean… that big long list of blogs isn’t friendly and inviting either. I was just appalled to be labeled a WAR blog! heh!

By: Tipa

Tipa — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:32:44 +0000

I took them out. Mostly I just wanted to make it easy to use the blogroll to find other good blogs about stuff they were interested in. Once my blogroll was all EQ2, but that’s changed and now it’s impossible to quickly know which blogs would talk about EQ2 and which, Warhammer.

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The Search for EverQuest Blogs « The Ancient Gaming Noob — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:34:38 +0000

[...] when I read Tipa’s post on her EverQuest blog, West Karana, about her seeking player blogs about EverQuest, I thought there [...]

By: Tipa

Tipa — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:27:56 +0000

She’s also on the list as an EQ2 blog. But yeah, that division of blogs really doesn’t work for most blogs. Even WAR-centric blogs like Bildo’s and Keen’s sometimes talk about other things.

By: wilhelm2451

wilhelm2451 — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:45:16 +0000

“I wonder if this has anything to do with 22+ blogs on your roll discussing,,,Warhammer..”

Why am I on the list of Warhammer blogs on the side bar? And why is Stargrace? That would be like classifying West Karana as a “Wizard 101″ blog.

By: Loredena

Loredena — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:31:25 +0000

Well, Sisca and I do play EQ (though mostly EQ2) and we even blog about it on occasion. But we’re not exactly prolific bloggers by your or Stargrace’s standards! I do enjoy reading what I can find for EQ and EQ2 though — it seems first WoW, and now WAR are what all the easily-found blogs are about.

By: Openedge1

Openedge1 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:38:28 +0000

If I could find 22+ blogs discussing EverQuest, I would be loudly yelling about that to all the people who condemn EQ for being harsh and unfriendly, when it’s neither — in my opinion.

Yet, this is the issue.

All people are playing the new shiny. So, the 22+ blogs are about the new game.
I know they are enjoyable based on “how” they write. But, right now, the writing is all about the same thing.

But, I read them, as they are well written, and not much else available yet…even though I am searching.

Just like you.

More variety would help is all…I am not “condemning” these blogs, just stating the fact that the majority are all about the same.

I hope you have some success though..

Good luck

By: orlun

orlun — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:28:34 +0000

I’ve been off and on searching for EQ bloggers too. Just to remember the glory days and see how the old gal plays today. Hope you find some.

By: eddster

eddster — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:42:12 +0000

I love reading all the blogs i can – reading a blog that references things to EQ however makes me feel like i’m re-connecting with the part of me that loved EQ raiding, and loved every annoying nuance that made the game so great.
I still crave for that sense of how good my avatar is compared to others of the same class… of where my guild stands compared to all the other guilds on the server… of knowing that we got the tactics spot on, on the last raid… of knowing that one more evening of raiding means we can get one person (out of 70+) in the guild their epic…
EQ was so difficult, that it brought players together closer – like you say, no modern day MMO is willing to take the risk of making their game so difficult as to exclude paying customers.

Nothing comes close to re-igniting that enthusiasm for gaming i had in my EQ days, except reading about other peoples feelings about EQ.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:49:22 +0000

/shrug

The bloggers on my blog roll are not there because of what they write about, but how they write :) They are fun to read no matter what the topic. I don’t have any interest in Age of Conan, but I read every post you write. I doubt anyone else cares at all about Wizard 101, yet I hope what I write about it is interesting and fun to read even to people who don’t play it.

If I could find 22+ blogs discussing EverQuest, I would be loudly yelling about that to all the people who condemn EQ for being harsh and unfriendly, when it’s neither — in my opinion. When I read about people playing Warhammer explaining how wonderful it is that people do best by grouping, and that those groups are more or less exactly as they were in EverQuest, it makes me glad to see how the influence of my favorite MMO to this day is still being felt in even the latest game.

Scratch an old EQ player, and right after they explain how and why they left the game and how much better modern games are, they will go on to tell you amazing stories of their adventures, and a gleam will come to their eyes, and their voice will get excited, and they will tell you how sad they are that modern games don’t dare take the risks EQ took, that came together, somehow, with all its flaws, in a game that will never be forgotten.