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Topic	Thirty years of video games -- a transience retrospective.
azuarc 03/28/17 12:35:19 PM #355:	transience posted... Okay, 1999 isn't horrifically bad for most people. It's just me. It had some notable video games, especially in the PC space. Everquest is a major milestone for the world of MMOs. It still gets new expansions today! I just looked it up and it's on its 23rd expansion. Impressive! I've never totally understood what made Everquest tick when others did not. It's something I'd like to understand just from a history lesson perspective someday. Everquest was big amongst my circle of friends in the late 90s/early 2000s. My hours spent playing EverQuest may very well trump the number of hours anyone here has spent playing any particular game. It's not that EQ is really all that good, but it was the first of it's kind (unless you prefer Asheron's Call) and it filled a void I really needed at that point in my life. If I wasn't a morbidly depressed college student who needed something to occupy myself for about three years so I wouldn't go off the deep end ~~and kill myself~~, there's no way I would have logged 250 days played on my main in that time frame. Yeah, that's right. 250 days. In 3 calendar years. On one character. I had alts, too. If you took away the number of hours each day I spent either sleeping or playing EverQuest, you would literally have nothing left. I dropped it cold turkey once WoW came out, though. In that vein, 2004 > 1999. <cite>azuarc posted [p:876043650] in Thirty yea... [t:75141304]...</cite> <quote><cite>transience posted...</cite> <quote> Okay, 1999 isn't horrifically bad for most people. It's just me. It had some notable video games, especially in the PC space. Everquest is a major milestone for the world of MMOs. It still gets new expansions today! I just looked it up and it's on its 23rd expansion. Impressive! I've never totally understood what made Everquest tick when others did not. It's something I'd like to understand just from a history lesson perspective someday. Everquest was big amongst my circle of friends in the late 90s/early 2000s.</quote> My hours spent playing EverQuest may very well trump the number of hours anyone here has spent playing any particular game. It's not that EQ is really all that good, but it was the first of it's kind (unless you prefer Asheron's Call) and it filled a void I really needed at that point in my life. If I wasn't a morbidly depressed college student who needed something to occupy myself for about three years so I wouldn't go off the deep end and kill myself, there's no way I would have logged 250 days played on my main in that time frame. Yeah, that's right. 250 days. In 3 calendar years. On one character. I had alts, too. If you took away the number of hours each day I spent either sleeping or playing EverQuest, you would literally have nothing left. I dropped it cold turkey once WoW came out, though. In that vein, 2004 > 1999.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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