Nothing chapped my ass faster than getting stuck on pixels (I.e. a rock, a blade of grass, etc.) and syign due to it. Although thsi exists in EVERY MMORPG to date too.

Originally posted by WellzyC

 

Like your said, more "being missed" than don't miss. But I guess if I had to pick, Id say: I don't miss the poor transportation systems.

 

[Edit  -- Nothing pissed me off more than hitting the space bar on accident in DAOC and falling off your horse stranding you in the middle of no where. Only option was to either walk the 30 minutes to the next town, or suicide  =P]

  ...or stranding you in the middle of a camp of purples!  I REALLY hated travel in early Camelot - especially things like starting in Connla - and having to try and walk all the way to TNN.  If you were lucky, some kind soul escorted you.  If you weren't - you died 17 times trying to get there :D

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Originally posted by midmagic
Thieves (rogues) able to steal drops off of boss mobs. LOL at stealing the weapon the mob is using while in combat. EQ1. This feature didn't last very long ;p

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You had to use disarm and be quick at looting the item off the floor for that to work.
You mostly pick pocked high value trash loot (goblin ears) and the coin on the critter pre-share.

Plus it was there for years and years.

Originally posted by PukeBucket

 

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Originally posted by midmagic
Thieves (rogues) able to steal drops off of boss mobs. LOL at stealing the weapon the mob is using while in combat. EQ1. This feature didn't last very long ;p

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You had to use disarm and be quick at looting the item off the floor for that to work.
You mostly pick pocked high value trash loot (goblin ears) and the coin on the critter pre-share.

Plus it was there for years and years.

You could actually steal the drops from the npc during the first month or so. Disarm was a different annoyance.

Oh thats easy - the graphical quality. NOT the artwork, the graphical quality.

The UI

I tried to play EQ again, but I could not get pass the UI

As many of you have said there are more things I don't miss then I do. 

The most prominent one would have to be the linear nature of the old games.  I love a world that you can go anywhere you want and do what you want and not be handicapped if you do that sort of exploration. 

Sandbox is the future.  Being able to explore with no limitation is something mmo developers are starting to embrace.  You would think this would have been something they used a long time ago but for some reason it was not introduced until faily recently on the scale that makes it fun and exciting.

The very nature of humans beings is curiosity. Curiosity to figure out and find things they have never experienced.  This kind of thinking allows the imagination to run wild and has become a vital part of what mmo comsumers are looking for.

like someone else said ... waiting or downtime

I will not play a game where i spend more time waiting to play than actually playing, sorry I know that means to some old schoolers that I won't "earn" it but i don't give a crap. I go to work to earn a living and work I play games for entertainment and relaxation and i expect to be activily playing the game.

when i played EQ1 I was a no life loser so i had plenty of time for the nonsense the game offered as "features".

I don't miss having fun.

Explaining to my sister that using the telephone makes the internet go down?

"I want to call my friend."

"Well I'm playing a game."

"So pause it."

"You can't pause an online game!"

Chuck Norris jokes in WoW.

Raising weapon skills, conjuration, bandaging, swimming etc..

I would say UI is the only thing i dont miss...

UI is the only good thing to come out of modern MMOs.

Forced grouping and massive downtime are the two things from EQ that I never want to see again.  Both are a balance though.   I think MMOs have swung too far in the opposite direction now, in that soloing is the preferred method of leveling most of the time, and there is zero downtime (I think there should at least be a little).

Mobs respawning and all the issues it brings to the game.

Longer grind.

Little story overall.

Spawn camping.

Taking forever to get anything done.

Downtime.

Had a really slow connection speed to work with back in the day. :O

I know you said one, but forget you, brah!

Spamming local (didn't even have a global chat at a time) WTS blah blah item with blah stats (couldn't link items)

Really bland or poorly done level design

Bad graphics that would show their age in no time

Very little background story

Some were unintuitive with controls or mechanics and lacked good tutorials

Really boring quests with the most uninteresting story if they even had one. Almost every single quest was a kill quest.

Stale combat and animations

Seeing months go by without an update or patch

Anal-retentive Role Players that speak in Olde English.