How Did You Say Good-bye?

[Lady Shylah]

Nearly everyone in the guild has played EQ1. Some have told me that they've played EQ1 for 3-5 years! I've never played it

I hear it was a very, very time consuming game with many different elements. I cannot say if it's similar to eq2 or not.

I love the family I have with Tairise. I think I've made a lot of friendships here in the past year. I guess my biggest question is, how after 3-5 years of EQ1 did you say good-bye to play EQ2?

[tremens]

It was easy to leave the game, hard to leave the people. Because of the people I went back once but the magic was gone and I finally left for good.

[Alkanos]

Well, I only played EQ1 for a few months, and pretty much soloed the whole time. Didn't make any real friends there so leaving was easy!

However, I played FFXI for a year, and the last 6 months of that was with the same linkshell (FFXI semi-guild). It was hard leaving that, but a lot of people left around that time for EQ2 and WoW so I wasn't out of the ordinary. Three people left before I did, and I'd told people that I would probably be leaving so they all knew. So what I did was basically take all of my stuff, sold it in the week before leaving, and split it up and sent it to my closest friends in the guild (came to about 800k gil). So parting had a nice little bonus for them. ;D

[mismatik]

I moved over to EQ2 (the first time) with the guild and friends I played with in EQ1 so that was not a big issue for me. Plus the burn out on EQ1 helped with me not wanting to play EQ2 after the first free month.

[Saine]

I found it pretty easy too. I hadn't played EQ1 all that long, maybe about 6-8 months, but I was a little burned out on it. I ended up switching from that to EQOA for the PS2. Played that from release date right until EQ2 came out. Leaving that was easier than I thought, because by the end, it was full of a bunch of little kiddies trying to ruin the game for everyone. There was always so much drama, and no updates or anything, made it pretty easy to leave. Plus pretty much everyone I knew in game had already left for FFXI or EQ2 anyway.

[Illusen]

I debated replying to this or not because I typed it all out before anyone else replied and noticed it looked so hateful of me. I started playing EQ about a month or so after it came out and played up until about a year and a half ago. I was in a guild at the time, and I liked most all of the people. The week I left I sold everything I could, gave the money to two people, left the guild and quit without a goodbye to anyone. At the point that I left I was just fed up with so much drama that was going on, and people forgetting that it was still indeed a game. I left without goodbyes because I didnt want to be persuaded to come back, and I knew that I easily could of been. So after I quit I deleted my characters and uninstalled the game and that was that

[Lady Shylah]

I played one other roleplaying game online.. it was Lineage II. I was an officer in a guild, but it was steadily falling a part for many, many reasons. I also was with the game maybe 6 months? a year? I'm not sure. Either way, leaving was hard because of one good friend that was supposed to come to EQ2 but never did. He beat the addiction! yay! haha

Anyway, I simply left the game and never turned back.

[str8gamer]

I played several years. The early years the game was really great. Toward the end, players were more or less forced into raiding guilds, otherwise players couldn't get the gear required to be effective with end-game content. "In the end" players could spend hours a day and not get a group with exception of those few classes ie. clerics, chanter (for mezzes and mana regen) and/or shaman/Beastlord for slows on mobs. In the end you had to put in several hours a day in doing raids to get keys to those zones that had ubber loots off of better bosses. On top of that, You needed to spend hours upgrading gear for resists and improve hitpoints, etc.

There was something known as AA pts (alternate advancement). Most raiding guilds by the time I left required 300+ AA. That would take a year or more to get that much so forget about starting a new player.

With all this said, I missed the old eq1 days and I miss the people, the experience grinding, the dreams of getting the ubber loots, I miss the old zones, I miss the people who I shared all those experiences with. Yet I don't regret leaving when I did because in the end, it was the beginning of the end. My wish today is EQ2 will return some of that magic...

[Lady Shylah]

I hope so too Arthur

[Abbrah Kadabrah]

I had played EQ1 from pretty early on and through several expansions. I was fortunate enough to fall into a great guild (Very much like Tairise). I had become disenchanted with the game when the impending release of the moon expansion.. ( i still cant bring myself to like the idea of traveling to another planet in a Fantasy style game.. hehe thats more of a Sci-Fi thing)

My distaste for the games upcoming content was greater then my need to continue playing. I did however stay and contribute to the guild forums until a point where I couldnt follow the current game topics any longer. My total run in the game lasted 3-4 years i think. Since then ive tried AO, AC, AC2, Horizons, and WoW. I havent found any people or guilds that have been so great as Tairise has been!

Thanks

[Lady Shylah]

Aww! That's so nice Abbrah.. *sniffles*

Tairise wouldn't be as great without such great members

/group hug