I beta'd and for some reason bought it at release and gave up after the free month in horrid frustration.
I played it again for a few months last summer and enjoyed it. It still didn't get me horribly addicted, but it worked and had some interesting things going on.
I don't think any MMORPG will hook me like EQ until they realize how important the sense of exploration in EQ was. How cares how many square miles your world is if it's just lame ass random generated terrain, with nothing but random spawns in it. Good well designed dungeons that take awhile to work through are what made EQ (for me at least).
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