User blog comment:Raylan13/EverQuest 15th Anniversary Sweepstakes/@comment-24703966-20140322022933

I started playing EverQuest when it first hit the stores in March 1999.

My first character was Loneblade, a Barbarian warrior.

I can't even tell you how many times he died in the Blackburrow tunnels due to blindness and then falling in the pit before he finally made it to Qeynos.

After a while he explored West Karana and came upon the Ogre Camp. He conned the ogres and they were amiable. They still killed him however. I told myself that makes sense because I think amiably about my food too1 LOL

I also started playing EverQuest 2 when it first hit the stores.

I started on the Bazaar Server which was cool because you could sell in game stuff for real cash, even characters! I used to love leveling up a character to lvl 19 or 20 and then sell him off. I also would level up his tradeskill to lvl 19 too, that way the person who bought him/her could choose the final class for themselves. Back in those days, you didn't choose your class when you first created your character but rather you chose your arch type for both combat and tradeskills.

So much has changed over the years and for better or worse, I have had a love affair with EverQuest for 15 years now!

Now I also alpha test EverQuest Next Landmark (EQNL) and I look forward to it going to closed beta soon because that will mean more content is coming, more stuff to do!

The original EverQuest launched a whole new genre of gaming and gave birth to MMORPGs! I have flirted with many other MMOs since then but I always come back to my first love, EverQuest and EverQuest II.

Thank you SOE for a long love affair, for many different friends on various servers, for excellent customer service over the years, for hundreds of characters over 6 different accounts, and for a whole lot of fun!

<3

Sincerely,

Daniel :)