Playing Original EverQuest in 1999 (EQ MMORPG)

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5 ай бұрын

I try to take you back to what it was like to play the Original EverQuest MMORPG back in 1999 when it first launched. The historical day for release was March 16th, 1999. Only 10,000 players were able to play that first historical day, but almost immediately after release the game was seeing 100,000 players online at the same time playing the the first ever true 3D virtual world. I was 19 and a freshman at UMass that year. Good times! This is my first real attempt at editing...so yeah...hope you enjoy the show!

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@legendarybloodlines 5 ай бұрын

The bazaar as everyone has mentioned, was created in 2001. I'm getting old and didn't script this like usual. Sorry I forgot that 🙂

@hasteau4917 5 ай бұрын

East commonlands more specifically EC tunnel was the trading spot before bazaar. Becareful of Sgt Slate if you're kill on sight race though xD

@BrianBlock 4 ай бұрын

@@hasteau4917 I was one of the early day folks with a second computer and EQ disc (I actually 2 boxed the day Sol Temple launched, our whole guild saw the patch notes before server went down and we kept everyone but our friends blocked out of the zone for the first 48 or so hours). I used to have a second character in the EC tunnel that I traded to for selling/buying. He never got past level 10, yet had nearly 2 years played time on him when I stopped playing at the end of PoP :D. I also had an ISDN connection when 99% of players were on dialup in the early days, so I would leave him online for entire 168 hours between resets where he would get booted off. No gaming experience has ever even been close to the first year or so of EverQuest for me.

@nulltheworm 3 ай бұрын

@@hasteau4917Depends on the server, really. It was in GFay on a couple of servers, probably because the population leaned so heavily to elf early on.

@AdrianGell 2 ай бұрын

If I recall correctly (and that's a gamble), the bazaar you're talking about was on Luclin, and wasn't related to the PoK. I recall that Shadows of Luclin expansion would let you use spires on a long timer to portal to Luclin and there were then other spires to portal back to alternate continents, or you could walk to the bazaar on Luclin. I *think* those spires were already used by wizards (only) to portal directly from continent to continent before that. My ranger was stuck taking a long boat ride. But the PoK wasn't added as a travel hub until much later I think - I know there were at least three expansions (Kunark, Luclin, something ice-themed) before that.

@nulltheworm 2 ай бұрын

@@AdrianGell Right. The original Bazaar was on Luclin, accessible via the Nexus. But it is attached to the Plane of Knowledge. This also included a zone revamp for the Bazaar. EQ's original trilogy was: Launch, Ruins of Kunark, Scars of Velious (ice-themed). Then Shadows of Luclin was launched, with the original Bazaar. (I don't remember if it was available at launch or shortly after.) Later it was built off of the PoK.

@nulltheworm 3 ай бұрын

4:14 The EQ trailer is still so magical to me. It completely sucked me into Norrath and I fell in love with EQ back then. What I wouldn't give to feel that magic and wonder again...

@HeWhoKnows777 3 ай бұрын

Got SOW? Conjuration, Subjegaton, Divination, ugh... everything about EQ was better than any other game, still. This game, more than any other game, literally gave me inspiration in life. It was a magical time. East Commons was the best part of my life. I'd /ooc in that place for days and lounge around and it felt like Tatuini. Best time of my life. I played on my Dad's 386 while he used a 486. How I want to return to that time. His druid, Kahlil Gibran, was playing in the Planes of Terror while and my Wood Elf Ranger, Rygel Fidelis, couldn't even get past KC Castle. I had homework. He stayed home all day. My Mom worked for everyone to be a nerd. She's always been the provider, a rare woman indeed. My Godfather, whom like my Dad was also a Vietnam vet, my Dad the combat Vet, David Moe was the logistics base vet, he got my Dad and I onto Diablo AND Everyquest. Both those men are long gone. Every time I play either game (I just finished a crusade on Diablo not a year ago) I am brought back to my youth. This is why I love video games more than any other digital media. Sidenote: The original HUD UI is the best HUD of all HUDS ever.

@Thepathof77 4 ай бұрын

I played the hell out of EQ in 99! My boyfriend bought me a computer specifically to be able to play the game with him and his friends. My parents would get so upset that the phone line was busy all day and night long, lol

@DesertTOON 5 ай бұрын

This is a great trip down memory lane! Yep, I was there playing EQ 1999 and rocked in the year 2k on EQ

@legendarybloodlines 5 ай бұрын

Hells yeah mate! Glad to see another og !!!

@travdasav8829 2 ай бұрын

Man this really brings me back to what I consider to be the best days of my life. Cheers

@legendarybloodlines 2 ай бұрын

❤

@bamagrad99 5 ай бұрын

Nice video! I started EQ in Dec '99 and played regularly until Nov 22, 2004 when I parked my Paladin in a favorite zone and "retired." To this day, I still have more fond memories of my time in Norrath than I have for any other game.

@EQ_EnchantX 4 ай бұрын

What zone?

@grano5965 4 ай бұрын

Plane of mischief?

@user-sm2du3su1e 3 ай бұрын

Oh yes. I also belong to the lucky few who had the opportunity to play EQ at a few days after release. The feeling of coming into Norrath for the first time cannot be described and I have never experienced something like this in the 25 years that followed. There have been a few nice games I played since that time but today forgot almost everything about them. EQ I still remember almost everything - Kelethin, Befallen, Commonlands and Karanas, deaths by Hill Giants and Grifawns, horrible Blackburrow, days spent in Crushbone ...

@Elaston 5 ай бұрын

Bazaar came much later after release. Originally, everyone gathered in the tunnel of west commons (or was it east commons?) and just shouted out what they were selling.

@legendarybloodlines 5 ай бұрын

It was anywhere you could shout actually...

@legendarybloodlines 5 ай бұрын

But the bazaar was awesome...

@bamagrad99 5 ай бұрын

The official Bazaar came with the fourth expansion, Shadows of Luclin, and was accessed via The Nexus zone. Prior to that it was just players selling stuff from their inventory. The East Commonlands tunnel and city of Kelethin in Greater Faydark were the go-to locations for this.

@seanscott1933 5 ай бұрын

IIRC some servers used Greater Fay as a selling spot. /Auction Meet at the elevator!

@chrishardy4609 2 ай бұрын

E commons tunnels!! "5 Bags at T2!"

@pip5528 3 ай бұрын

I was a baby at the time but I have thoroughly enjoyed my time on Oakwynd, P99, and PQ in the past year.

@legendarybloodlines 3 ай бұрын

Glad to see the next generation enjoying this timeless classic ❤

@toastyroach1199 Күн бұрын

The good old days =) I was a barbarian warrior and i remember how cool i felt to just have a set of bronze armor back then lol

@legendarybloodlines Күн бұрын

Barbs always looked the coolest 👍

@sweetyd 3 ай бұрын

Great review! I was there on day 1 also. Still play EQ to this day!

@legendarybloodlines 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@TR-bm1ou 5 ай бұрын

Super rad history and video ! Keep it up !

@veliceligt02 5 ай бұрын

Playing EQ back in the day felt exactly like watching LOTR for the first time.

@jazzochannel 5 ай бұрын

was it also worse than the book? what do you mean?

@Ccortanaa 29 күн бұрын

Choosing a class like the magician or necro at launch was so broken lol (pets did INSANE dps!), i remember farming dwarves in butcher block, they dropped axes that sold for 25 plat each, and you could get them so quickly. But as quickly as you could get them, eventually SOE nerfed it, but still, good times.

@legendarybloodlines 29 күн бұрын

my magician was my favorite toon of ALL time....by miles

@Thesakuraharona 2 ай бұрын

It is wild how much EQ has actually changed over the years. I have to give it credit, it is doing something right for having been around for 25 years!

@jamesanddanielthiel 2 ай бұрын

I had 4 people on 4 computers over 1 modem connection, worked great.

@legendarybloodlines 2 ай бұрын

Lol sounds about right 🤣

@seanscott1933 5 ай бұрын

Made so many good friends. I always look back and have some of my best of memories ever. I was lucky enough to meet many of those people in Vegas before hanging things up. From being a "casual' all the way to hearing that magic word "RAIDTIME" (some of you may know what that means) it truly was an amazing time.

@legendarybloodlines 5 ай бұрын

I was in Vegas for about 7 years. We never did anything cool like that for the old eq guild, but we did have a get-together for our wow guild back in tbc. I honestly think I was too young to realize how special eq was until it was almost over. It was like a haze I was in and until eq2 was launched I played almost religiously.

@jamesmcdaniel5094 5 ай бұрын

I remember the beta and spent way too many sleepless nights grinding.

@legendarybloodlines 5 ай бұрын

I just remember my grades suddenly plummeted heh

@leshtricity Ай бұрын

the era of MMOs that included EQ, UO, Asheron's Call, and Dark Age of Camelot, was absolutely magical. unfortunately, MMOs seem to have gotten worse as time progressed, instead of better.

@Koriian 20 күн бұрын

They are major grind fest now but without the social element

@TwiddleFingersDB 5 күн бұрын

Liked and subcsribed! Glad I found your channel!

@legendarybloodlines 5 күн бұрын

Thank you VERY MUCH :)

@Morraak 11 күн бұрын

Man, life in the 90s was so good. Great video covering my childhood! Also, where did you get such clear footage of the Everquest trailer?! All the ones I've seen on youtube are blurry.

@legendarybloodlines 11 күн бұрын

I actually did alot of research for this video and digging for footage. The clear footage of the game with early up was hard to get clear too. Not exactly sure where I got it

@MiddleOutdoorsman Ай бұрын

Wow, this brings back some memories. Addiction to EQ pretty much killed my college grades. I was kinda "on the scene" doing a lot of stuff back then with MMO's. They were "the next big thing". Personally, I think MMO's really started with Meridian59. It was made/published by 3DO interactive I think. I don't remember how I got into it, but it was a pretty brutal game. It wasn't true 3D, most of a simulated 3D with sprites, kinda like Doom. But, it had servers, guilds, zones, shops, and intergrated PVP system, which made it brutal. You hand random PK's (player killers), it was an interesting dynamic cause they were usually hunted down and killed enough to force them to reroll. EQ came after this. Alot of the people I met playing M59, went to EQ. As I recall, I think I played on Povar. I had a wood elf ranger, and we all played pretty much from launch. The launch itself was ugly in terms of server performance. Having been there from the beginning, EVERYTHING was new. It was like being an explorer in a new frontier. I was, I think, one of the first people to start pulling Mistmore, (aka "Trainmore"). I figured out how to pull it without causing a train. In hindsight, EQ was hideous in it's rare spawn/rare drop form of gameplay. Whichever character class you were playing needed specific items in order to improve. Said items only existed on a mob that rarely spawned, so you had to sit there, and camp the area that mob spawned in. For every 1 time that mob spawned, you probably had to kill 50 place holders. I remember we had the spawn cycle timed. It could be every 20 minutes i think, or 30, i forget. And for every 10 times that mob spawned, it might have the item you wanted, just one of those times. No sir, I've not the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia on this one. I think my /played time was probably 300+ or so DAYs, i think, pretty sure it wasn't measured in hours. No, EQ can be buried in the dustheap of history. I'll never get back the time I wasted on it. Did I mention it killed my grades in college?

@killval849 26 күн бұрын

don't blame the game for your discipline level lol.

@everlasts Ай бұрын

I remember it was year 2001 or 2002 when the new expansion Shadow of Luclin was out, I was spent many days in my University library doing online research for EverQuest, while everyone busy working on their school project :)

@DaveVoyles 5 ай бұрын

I was there on day 1, and it was incredible.

@Gukworks Ай бұрын

The smell of my new Celeron computer. I bought just to play EQ. The smell of my potted plants in the early sunlight. I got up early to play EQ.

@legendarybloodlines Ай бұрын

Got up early?! I never went to sleep 😂 lol

@mm3871 5 ай бұрын

loved the game, played from release till Depths of Darkhollow (2005) the Bazaar was released end of 2001 with Shadows of Luclin expansion

@legendarybloodlines 5 ай бұрын

Very happy to see you made it that far into the video! Ty for watching!

@WoTReviews 7 күн бұрын

Lost a lot of sleep playing EQ.

@legendarybloodlines 7 күн бұрын

Literally became an insomniac heh

@robertstrickland2184 5 ай бұрын

I love the video....and i definitely remember the bazzar and i also remember that drinking was a skill that you could get better at. Maybe not better at, but your tolerance got better.

@mushafasa 5 ай бұрын

I remember getting EQ for Christmas that year, wasn't able to play until some time in January because I spent days and days patching lol

@chadzulu4328 4 ай бұрын

Great video, thanks!

@legendarybloodlines 4 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@flankman9385 4 ай бұрын

Mith Marr, north Freeport, Xarn fire sales.

@Tomahawk588 2 ай бұрын

Frank I was on Mith Marr, Bikky the cleric.

@MichaelDeMarois 27 күн бұрын

Bazar was Shadows of Luclin, quite a while before Planes of Power and that was way way way after 1999.

@pointmanactual7893 9 сағат бұрын

The bazaar? Old schoolers did the East Common tunnel. Pre- PoK. Only way of getting around was a Druid/Wizard teleport.

@legendarybloodlines 8 сағат бұрын

Pretty sure we've covered that a TON of times. Try reading the comments it's in there a bunch at this point.

@pointmanactual7893 4 сағат бұрын

@@legendarybloodlines Pretty sure you did not cover that in your video. Thanks.

@Gukworks Ай бұрын

Why was the trading zone on Xegony server Greater Faydark? Everywhere else it was East Commons. Was it because of "Jiggystuff" selling there?

@legendarybloodlines Ай бұрын

Well you could technically sell anywhere if you wanted to trade and sell that way instead of leaving your toon as a shop, so the zone everyone used was really specific to the server and people.

@legendarybloodlines 5 ай бұрын

Yeah I used the doodly dooo 😅

@Tomahawk588 2 ай бұрын

North Freeport used to be the main marketplace. I was on Mith Marr in 1999.

@Tomahawk588 2 ай бұрын

I forgot the tunnel in Common Lands had a market also.

@JoeyMetcalf80 Ай бұрын

Cupping OG EQ players ears when he repeats “Portal of Knowledge”. 🎉😂

@legendarybloodlines Ай бұрын

I see you're as old as me 80. We make mistakes when we get old and sometimes forget the exact name of something. Im sure you've been there.

@legendarybloodlines Ай бұрын

Or maybe you're perfect ifk 😂

@somainswakadoad5684 5 ай бұрын

selling noted lobs

@midnightshade32 5 ай бұрын

Never winter nights was out before eq, and so was Ultima online. Both were 2d though.

@ashtonx 5 ай бұрын

nwn was 3d, nwn wasn't an mmo though. UO was 2d indeed, however Meridian59 came even before uo and was 3d

@EQ_EnchantX 4 ай бұрын

EQ was released March 16,1999...Neverwinter nights was released June 18, 2002

@midnightshade32 4 ай бұрын

@@ashtonx nwn was originally a goldbox mmo on dial up 56k baud modems. Released in 1991. Look it up. Bioware used the name in 2002. I was a teen in 91 lived it first hand.

@midnightshade32 4 ай бұрын

@@EQ_EnchantX @ashtonx nwn was originally a goldbox mmo on dial up56k. Released in 1991. Look it up. Bioware used the name in 2002 for their nwn. I was a teen in 91 lived it first hand. Nwn1 came out near Ultima 7/8.

@TheNervousnation 5 ай бұрын

2:03 that hurt

@xyzzyi5315 5 ай бұрын

TRAIN TO ZONE!!!

@harrycelentano2206 5 ай бұрын

FYI there was a virtual world before EQ. The first mmorpg, Meridian 59! Although there will never be a game that got us as excited at the original EQ.

@legendarybloodlines 5 ай бұрын

I thought I was pretty clear about it being the first 3d virtual world created on that level. - That's literally word for word what I said. And I will stick by that statement.

@AxiomofDiscord 5 ай бұрын

Neverwinter Nights is older than Meridian 59.

@DaveVoyles 5 ай бұрын

Yup! Meridian is what got me into MMORGs!

@EQ_EnchantX 4 ай бұрын

@@AxiomofDiscord Meridian 59 was released October 7, 1996 EQ was released March 16,1999... Neverwinter nights was released June 18, 2002

@xyzzyi5315 5 ай бұрын

CD's usually just had installation software on it. Usually it wasn't needed, unless it was copy protection. Usually you just move most of the data to hard drive.

@nugznmugz 5 ай бұрын

Bro your audio levels are WAY off... lemme know if you need some help

@legendarybloodlines 5 ай бұрын

Yeah dude I need help.

@jayr7613 21 күн бұрын

EQ wasn't the first 3D MMORPG though, that was Meridian 59, beat EQ out by just a couple years, 1996. Successful, yes but not as successful as Everquest by a long margin.

@djbird11 24 күн бұрын

Who cares about console game history? PC gaming goes back to first PCs in early 80s, like Atari 400, then C64, Amiga, early MSDOS and WfW. I played this progression right into Everquest in 1999. Few realized how pioneering Everquest was. It demonstrated how connectivity could be used to create virtual communities and economies. An early example of a Metaverse! Today's metaverse efforts would do well to study the history of the development and dynamics of Everquest.

@midnightshade32 5 ай бұрын

Nice. Sad I didn't experience it. I got into mmos during eq2. Although I had the pc setup to run it. Seems wsy not hardcore. Also the women looked more like women back then with the low poly models than western studios do today with all the man looking chicks to appease nut jobs and journos. I miss mmos pre 2010(not counting wow as I never played it really).

@donnychooch9860 3 ай бұрын

i had a rio in 1999 🤓

@Dadge42 3 ай бұрын

Modern games are incapable of this kind of immersion.

@legendarybloodlines 3 ай бұрын

Considering we've all changed so much, maybe its us too that aren't capable anymore either...just a thought

@kyraellearyk604 5 ай бұрын

selln SoW for a plat!

@donnychooch9860 3 ай бұрын

in 1999 i never used a cd 2 connect to the internet dude lived in a diffrent layer then me

@cynwraeth1943 17 күн бұрын

Modern MMOs place too much emphasis on player convenience. Nothing feels earned anymore.

@hikikomori69 4 ай бұрын

I got my first portable mp3 player in 1998. It had nothing to do with an ipod

@legendarybloodlines 4 ай бұрын

nice

@michaelsasse8427 5 ай бұрын

You might want to check some of the statements... First 3D game? First Online game?

@legendarybloodlines 5 ай бұрын

Oh definitely need a fact checker for this one folks

@legendarybloodlines 5 ай бұрын

Or you could make your own video covering the same topic but with all the facts you want fixed. That would be too difficult though...am I right?

@DavidHaavik 3 ай бұрын

PoK stands for Plane of Knowledge ;D

@legendarybloodlines 3 ай бұрын

Indeed

@evangelinemcdowell4722 4 ай бұрын

your forgetting about Ultima Online released in 1997

@legendarybloodlines 4 ай бұрын

Nah I didn't forget it. As I mentioned 5 times in the video eq was the first on a global scale in almost every sense...that's why as soon as eq launched ultima was basically dead.