Steam is having a 11th anniversary sale on EQ1 for 10 days.
It includes all 11 expansion packs as well for $2.50, free 30 days of game time for making a new EQ account as well.
This sends shivers down my spine. EQ1 was my first mmo and the experience was unforgettable. So much bad/good, overall the most addicting thing I ever played. I quit after the third expansion I think? or second. Wow.... there are ELEVEN expansion packs?
Not that I am going to do this - but it would be disturbingly fun to play this again with a select group of people on a brand new server that was pvp and EVERYONE had to start at level 1 again un-twinked. White Sands, Sand Giant trains and ganking....all over...again! Good lord....lets do it!!
On second thought...no.
Being a former hard core ACer, I always kind of wanted to run around Everquest for a bit to see what it was like.
Maybe this is a good chance to do that.
Lol, 11 boxing it, now that's insane. Never played the EQ series, but 3 bucks to just say I've seen it does sound somewhat intriguging. If there is no time limit on when your 30 days start (I.e. I probably would not be starting soon) I may give it a go.
Besides, this would help keep my $$$ per game ratio spent on steam rather low given that this would be for 16 games.
If you've been craving the original EQ experience, do a search for *********. Its an emulated server thats been lovingly recoded back to the original 1999 vanilla version. No beastlords, no berzerkers, old freeport etc. They plan to open up Kunark and Velious roughly after the same amount of time has passed since "launch". And they do not plan to do Luclin and beyond. They just now did the first wave of historical nerfs so manastones and rubicite no longer drop. Kunark isnt due to open until October. You just need to find a copy of EQ Titanium. No boxing is allowed, and server is averaging 250-550 people at any given time.
I (heart) the good ole days of AC. The original story arc owned, and I was a Sentinel for a short time before they shut the program down.
Jesus...15 expansions.
I am glad I quit after being able to play when only the original game was out for a long time before the first expansion took things down the drain.