It s because EverQuest is quite simply a brilliant game. I have a screenshot that I took a long time ago in EverQuest that I use as wallpaper on my computer. It s a gorgeous shot of the sand dunes, coming into West Commonlands, with the sun rising in the distance. Maybe it is, a picture from my other life, my online life where I am running in desert sands, a druid in distressed leather armor, long hair flying behind me as I outpace a Hill Giant. The feeling it gives me is real, a feeling that I have been somewhere else, like looking at a photograph of a dream.
People lose their wonder.
They want to make a game seem more like their real life in the real world. I have a job here in the real world. The world of EverQuest is rich and fulfilling as much as you want it to be. They say it s all how you play the game. If you play the game just for experience, just for good loot, just to advance your character then you will find yourself frustrated a lot of the time, camping the good loot for hours and hours and rolling for the best equipment and maybe not getting it and getting ticked off.