Anyone EQ2?

Correct...EverCrack it is, but the new one. EQ2 came out about midway last year.

I just bought it. My coworker who was also big into EQ1 started it and got me hooked into trying it again. I played the first one for a couple of years.

It's really the best MMORPG out there. A weird story... I use to have a girlfriend who's brother lived in Cali. We emailed and IM'd a lot because we both shared a lot of interests. After I broke up with his sister, I lost contact until about 2 1/2 years later, I bumped into him in a town in EQ. We recognized each others screen names and were both like WTF? For over a year, I hung out in-game with him. We are now very good friends, but both of us for different reasons stopped EQing. I'll have to get him EQ2ing now.

One guy i know nets about $400/month selling items in-game. Real american cash. No lie.

nybt wrote: [quote=daveb]
One guy i know nets about $400/month selling items in-game. Real american cash. No lie.

my brother has sold/bartered some of the items that he'd aquired- for one particular item, he recieved cash AND a new PS2... crazy effin' people.

It's a weird thing and raises some interesting ideas about what is "worth" and money. In EQ, these items take time. Hours, weeks, months on continuous effort to acquire or to develop skills necessary to create them, much like one works at a job to make a living or goes to school to learn a trade. People are paying money not just for the item, but for the time and effort that went into obtaining or crafting it. So, in that light, it starts to make sense, at least to some people. I mean, c'mon, it's nickname is evercrack. :P

I once read an article that stated if Norrath, the continent of EQ were to be counted as a real country it's GNP would put it as the 13th richest nation in the world. I've also read articles about EQ sweatshops in Asia and India where they have people farming, questing and creating goods to then sell on E-Bay. Screwed up.

My friend sold one character on E-Bay for about $400. Now he runs 4-5 accounts and bots several characters (controls them with a script to perform preset automatic tasks) and farms crap to sell. He makes good money. I'd never do it though. I don't really agree with the practice.

Oh dude, I just wrote all that didn't I? I'm such a fucking geekazoid.