Came here for the "magnets" comment, leaving satisfied.

I tortured my wife with this video. We both watched and felt dumber as the video went on, and then laughed. :-D

*facepalm*

This video is pure fail.

The premise is great, as EQ was definitely harder 'back in the days', but this is NOT EVEN REMOTELY 'back in the days'. The progression servers were an attempt at nostalgia that didn't quite cut it for me and quite a few others.

BTW, it's pronounced "Toonahhrree".

The following reasons are why EQ was harder back in the days:
1. Lag from the ultra-fast 14.4Kbps modem speeds
2. Holes in the world that have since been patched
3. Ultra-busy GMs and customer service (real fun when you fall through the world and can't get your corpse).
4. Much harsher corpse system, including no ability to drag (only to pull the corpse to you, which everyone macro'd so it was essentially like corpse dragging today), and the almost-guarantee of your own death when trying to recover your own corpse. /consent was a BEEYATCH when you had to trust the corpse dragger not to loot your corpse!
5. NO MONEY! Research the controversy of the plague rat tails that came later in the game. If you weren't a caster-for-money, such as a Shaman, Druid, or Chanter, you had to farm your own cash, which was ULTRA slow. And even for the casters it was often long hours of work, tho with much greater reward.
6. NO GEAR! The gear you could get before the first expansion was minimal at best, often requiring many, many, many hours of crafting or huge wads of plat to get. "Why yes, I would like to pay 100 plat (ie, potentially 30 hours of work) for that +1 to DEX ring!"
7. Camps. Don't even get me started on this. I get so much nerd rage TO THIS DAY about camps.
8. Binding. Nothing like having to pay a caster for where you're going to be resurrected, and then forgetting all about it until you're about to die and you realize you're literally a 30 minute's run away from where you bound.
9. Much harsher death penalties. I remember losing a LOT more XP when I died. I think if you died at 50 you'd lose a whole level, but don't quote me on that.

None of the above would you have experienced much if AT ALL on the progression servers. Gear was better, cash farming easier, corpse retrieval barely needed, never see all camps in a zone taken, etc.

To be honest, the reason it was "more difficult" was that they didn't pander to their players. They made you work for what you got, whether it be your XP, your cash, or your quests. Quest tracker? Yeah, that pen and paper next to your keyboard. Travel? Use autorun and pray you don't get creamed by the level 30 rare monsters in the level 10 zone. Crafting something? Better know your recipes.

Hell yeah, I miss it.

Dude... who brought 20 onions to my work, chopped them up and put them in front of me while I was watching this video?!

Upvote to expose teh crazy!

I laughed so hard my stomach hurts now. I've watched it a couple times already and I may even put this thing on loop! Maybe I'll show it to my cats...

I know this makes me evil and heartless, but as a high school dropout and someone with only a 2 year CERTIFICATE from a technical college, I get giddy as a school girl when I tell people that I'm making close to 6 figures in an industry that I love and have no formal training in. It's not how much you paid for what you know, it's what you know, how easily you can know more, and how well you get along with people.

Love the content, but ummmm... I seriously think that this video would have had more impact if the woman didn't look like a hipster emo.

Besides the other things she said, YES SHE IS LOOKING TO BE A SOCIAL OUTCAST! Just as I was in those days with my silly 'goth' thing.

Yes, I know the driver in the black SUV is a moron. However... there is a reason why passing on the right is ILLEGAL in Germany.

Not to mention the speed discrepancy of the driver with the cam. Defensive driving STARTS with not being too far above or below the speed of the cars around you.

Anything else. The history of De Beers is enough reason.

>> ^CrushBug:

Number of cones he knocked down: 0
Number I would have knocked down: 43 trillion


Number of minds blown: Plus 1

I rode a motorcycle as my sole transportation for 5 years, and even drove in snow from Seattle to Tacoma without setting it down, and I would have hit every cone on that course, including some extras, with the bike I rode that was 1/10th the weight of that bike. Mind blown.

Obvious, unavoidable, imperative, enthusiastic upvote for mc chris.

*plays tiny mp3 file of violin music*

>> ^shadownc:

Also I think it would be a better video without the music.


Came in here to say that. That was incredibly annoying and didn't add jack shizzle to the video. Some nice Hawaiian slack-tune would have been nice.