Evercrack

I first started playing EQ when it came out back in '99 and was owned by Verant (989 studios - a sub company of SOE, oddly enough) and it was awesome! I remember first creating a character on my friends account before I went out and bought one myself. I created a human monk and played him whenever I could. I had no idea that this was the start of my "crack addiction".

From here, I purchased the game for myself and upgraded my internet connection to a whopping 56k modem so that I could play EQ with "a lot less lag". Man, I thought I was rockin back then. I could zone within a couple minutes and I didn't lag out every 5 minutes (instead my ISP disconnected me every hour automatically). Anyways, I created a new character for myself on my account and placed him on the EC'I server. He was a new race, called iksar, and he was my previous class, a monk. My new characters name was Kasantitz, and yes, me being the lovely mature adult that I was at the time, made that name purposefully sound dirty.

From here, I worked my way up through the levels and did many a quest with my friends, finally peaking out at about level 52. This took me several years, mainly because I created a couple of alts to play with other friends.

In 2005, I decided that EQ was changing too much for me and that I wasn;t interested in it anymore ( I hadn't really been that interested after they came out with the Luclin expansion). So i cancelled my account and moved on with my life.....well, that is, until they came out with EQII.

I started playing EQ2, and to start with, it was a nice change. It was a fun game, had similarities with the previous EQ, and it most of, was the new hot thing. Eventually, I got tired of EQ2, just as I had EQ1, and ended up cancelling my account.

I swore off gaming completely up until a few months ago when my friend started playing EQ again. He said that they were doing this thing called Living Legacy, where all the old players could come back and play for free for a full month. I figured, eh, wth, I can play for a month and drop it, right? Wrong....i'll be damned if I didn't get sucked right back in!

I am now an 80th level monk (yes it is still good ol' Kasantitz), 200+ aa, and in a raiding guild on the Bertox server ( I switched servers to play with rl friends).

I didnt go into detail, but there were many times in between quitting that I went back and played EQ again for a couple of months, dropped it, went back, dropped it again.

It is definitely the most addictive game I have ever played, and it sadly has a place in my heart that will never be lost. There are so many things to see/do/explore/train/fight/quest in EQ that I assume it will take the downfall of the servers themselves to make me quit playing...and even by that point, I may have picked up an EQEMU server to play on...

Damn, you EverCrack!
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