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EverQuest provided so much pain but I still love it
A fond look back at the horrors of the early MMO pioneer.
Sometimes, it wouldn't be so bad, but if your guild has just spent two hours clearing their way down to the bottom of a dungeon before wiping out and mostly dying, you'd have to redo all that just to get some bodies back to fight another day. These days, my attitude is that life is hard enough, I don't need games to punish me (although I'll dabble in Elden Ring and World of Warcraft Hardcore). But the moment the other day that I realised my EverQuest account details still worked, I suddenly felt very excited about being able to return to Halycona Pietas - the noble Troll Shaman with middling equipment which, disturbingly, I could still remember the names of.
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