Make that 12 months - I played for about a year (NOT counting the beta) -
and the only "community" I ever encountered was the "community" of
"kEwLd00dZ". I'm glad to see it has advanced - which of course brings good
tidings to the future of EQ...
Slyde of Xegony, Level 22
----- Original Message -----
From: Kimes, Dean W. <Dean_Kimes@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 4:45 PM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Adieu!
> From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>
>
> A pity. I don't remember such great things existing in UO in its first 6
> months either so maybe you should give EQ more time to mature as a
> community, not necessarily as a game.
>
> Kitasi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elijah Meeker [mailto:elijah@...]
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 2:46 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: [eqbards] Adieu!
>
>
> From: "Elijah Meeker" <elijah@...>
>
> I can't tell you how much I am going to miss the bard class, the feeling
of
> running around the countryside exploring, hunting (which is so much finer
in
> EQ than UO, I mean duh).
>
> But my wife, of all people, pointed out that hearing about UO stories used
> to be great, the interactions, the intruiges, the plots the schemes, and
> that largely hearing about EQ was boring. Killed this, killed that, got
this
> got that, had goofy fun with a small group of folks. Which is all fine,
but
> not very creative sounding. Then on the very same day friends from Siege
> Perilous start sending me emails out of the blue...
>
> For all the thrill of EQ hunting, visuals, for all the total rockingness
of
> the Bard class...I am left feeling like I am not creating what I want to
be
> creating in an online world.
>
> In UO I raised huge armies (more than anyone else actually) got whole
shards
> in an uproar, wrote a lot of story, all without one bit of help from OSI.
>
> And now once again I am off to Siege Perilous, where have gathered some of
> the best story people from all the shards. The Imperium, The Sinful, the
> Temple of Monadain, Shadowclan orcs, the Mordain sisters and more. I go
not
> to revive Tengu the Summoner, but to reinvent him. (Heeee! I just HAD to
say
> that *laughs*).
>
> Back to the old stinky interface the old stinky spawn, the old stinky
combat
> system...all those I can live with, but I can't live without large scale
> creative community. And all the biggies of large scale creative community
> are on SP. So off I go. It's been a total blast, I will miss the Bard
class
> most of all...
>
> Keep your lutes dry and your blade polished.
>
> Tszaaz E'Taurguin a.k.a Tengu
>
> >