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  • Did they ever launch this? I've been playing Project1999 and its pretty classic to me, other than item linking.

  • Man, lost 5 years of my life when this game came out. IT WAS AWESOME! Even though I stayed single thorugh most of it, I gained 30 pounds, and my right forearm is now 3 times bigger than my left. Great game, World of Warcraft and all other MMO's since are just a pussified version of this. Screw your quest guides!

  • There was a game Mars War.It was f2p clone of Planetside.Why game shutdown after few months?Its cause people dont like to get killed by a laggers.InsaneSlaYeR was my name /waves to all those pore newbs...Anyway game die cause 1 guy ONE GUY from chinna woud kill every one just cause no one can hit him .SO instead of fixing this problem devs just give up .Mars wars need 1 patch and it woud be popular game. What i am trying to say is can we have 1 patch for p1999.Thank you very much.

  • @asmojack they aren't thinking of shutting it down are they!?! I've been absent for like 3 months

  • It's nowhere near gamebreaking, as it's been stated before. People are still leveling, druids are still kiting, necros are still fearing. Fact is, it's not as big of a deal as you're making it out to be. If it were, it would be a bigger topic for discussion with the developers when in truth, it's pretty fucking low on the totem pole.

    MOBS Running whit sow is not big deal for project 1999.You know i bet for 75% of classic eq fans this is GAMEBRAKING -)

  • @asmojack Come play eqemulator its already up and playing CLASSIC PVP 99 or NON pvp classic 99

    Google us

  • this is a old game it cant hold up much longer plus WoW is #1 MMORPG

  • I just fuckin jizzed my pants.

  • @Nedala88 Yeah ik I've tried installing it and re-trying many times and even trying to windows 7 fix and compatibility mode. I get a GU XML error or something along those lines. I'm happy playin SoD tho so it's all good =p

  • I wish i could get project1999 to work on my computer =/ Shards of dalaya works tho!

  • @Hijynx87 whats not working? its pretty easy to setup. we have a lot of old SoD players, a whole guild just started.

  • Google for project1999 if you wanna play true classic EQ again, up to velious! Kunark will be released soon, and the server is VERY populated!

  • @Nedala88 true classic? lol not even close it runs off a client thats 10 expansions too late

  • @6762bmx lol you have no idea, its true classic. Dont argue if you dont have a clue, try it out. it IS true classic.

  • @Nedala88 i do have an idea your just trying to get more ppl to play on it its not true classic, its titanium client with 10 expansions taken away

  • @6762bmx so? what is not classic on our server, tell me please.

  • @Nedala88 a ton of things arent classic, for instance necro pets are far from classic. The sky, the weather it use to get super dark so it would be hard to find your corpse. Thats just the beginning, the spell effects aren't classic ( i know your gonna try to claim they are but look up a real classic video and you will tell its far from classic)

  • @6762bmx Spell effects are exactly classic. As well as pretty much anything else. The server is as classic as it can get, and way better than any poor attempt of soe to recreate classic.

  • @Nedala88 HAHA I PREDEDICTED YOU WERE GOING TO SAY THAT LOL

  • @6762bmx lol just shut up you troll. wtf is your problem anyway? got banned from our server? we don't need people like you kthx.

  • @Nedala88 Nope I play on the server I'm just telling the truth. Not a troll unlike what your saying in your last message you appear to be the troll. It runs off the titanium client far too late for a real classic everquest. End of story

  • @6762bmx it runs from a client thats not classic, but its HEAVILY MODIFIED to classic. so what the hell is your point, i dont get it. Running from a newer client is no argument that it isn't classic. There are very FEW minor things that are not classic, you make it sound like its just new client minus the newer zones but that's just not true. The server is as classic as it can get and you barely notice any different. So stop making it sound like it's far away from classic, cause its not.

  • @6762bmx the client could be from today, and it would still be classic. your argument is invalid.

  • @Nedala88 your about as stubborn as the ppl that play the game its filled with old ppl

  • @6762bmx thanks for the compliment, you are as stupid as people who play on vztz or people who got banned from p99. Id rather play with a bunch of mature people (altho a lot of people are in their 20s) than with a bunch of WoW kiddys like you probably are.

  • If anyone is in the uk watch the cadbury's cream egg advert to hear the "completed quest music".... old times :D

  • I miss this game... at 0:19 my eyes started watering, 0:33 a tear rolled down my cheek.

  • Here's hoping EQ Next even holds a candle to this.

  • is there currently a server, non EMU with classic graphics?

  • The title is misleading, I consider "classic" EQ to be pre- Kunark...when everything in the world was right.

  • Im really rooting for Yeahlight to pull through. Everyone is doing an excellent job. I hope and cannot wait to play again. And also great song for the video :D

  • the song is so appropriate!!! tiesto - beautiful things

  • you have excellent taste in music.

  • whats the name of the song playing in the movie?

  • I just rejoined EQ last night I am starting fresh a noobie if you would say I have all 16 expansion I can't wait too get started me and my bestfriend will have too relearn everything this should be fun .......LOL

  • Miss old Everquest ? Type project1999 in google if you want to play classic Everquest again! Classic, Kunark and Velious! No Luclin or further...its AWESOME! :)

  • I hate Sony so much for not releasing a classic server. They could even release several with different limits, like one only goes to vanilla, another kunark, another velious or PoP etc. People would easily pay $50/month for it, like that legends server or whatever.

  • Over 20 years of gaming.......I can honestly say, best game ever made. Nothing compares and I still continue to look for something to replace it all these years later.

  • STOP WAITING FOR EQ CLASSIC...

    It's here...

    I spent the last month leveling up in EC dervs, Oasis crocs, Upper Guk, all those amazing old classic zones..with PERFECT loot tables and everything...

    STOP DREAMING ABOUT CLASSIC EQ..and join us NOW

    Google: Project 1999

  • @TwiztedThuggg I loved classic eq and none of the modern MMO's have been able to capture the feeling that i had when i played EQ. What are the server populations like on the 1999 servers?

  • @punyo4u lots of ppl. i played on Tallon zek (pvp server) and every zone there was pvping and there were spots in each zone that ppl know to find you. it was the best. but very crowded. way better than WoW. wow did indeed ruined MMORPG.

  • @punyo4u 800-900 at peak hours...its insane...and so perfect, you have no idea.

  • Fuck WoW, EQ forever!

  • Nothing will change, everquest will always be the best of them all.

  • Project 1999 is pretty awesome, the part I don't like though is how long it takes to regen hit points and mana after a fight. I've been playing on other servers lately just because I know how much time it takes to get to level 50 if you have other things and games you want to do/play. :)

  • this game was epic. i wish i couldve went back to the day it first came out. Everyone gather around the PoK bank for KEI !!!!!

  • @Electroh0lic There was no POK when the game first came out which is was part of the fun. You had to run wherever you wanted to go.

  • @Electroh0lic Back then it was everyone gather around the Kelethin Bank for buffs. Brings a tear to my eye just thinkin about it... and a chuckle remembering the barbarians trying to get into the bank.

  • nice gamespot logo

  • Anyone know if they've started play yet on the classic thing, or are they just registering people in the forums at this time?

  • yes. it started alright. many lvl50 people already.

    I been away from it for a while now, but when I left it had about 300 people online often.

  • google project1999 its already out it amazing

  • Registering now. Developers are all volunteers so they are taking time out of their own lives to dedicate to this project. We are all eagerly awaiting its completion.

  • they been doing that for over 2 years..(thats when i frist s tarted following them) and they make it sound like within 2 weeks their going to launch..but they still haven't luanched since when i seen last ...2 years ago..its phony..never donate to them

  • omg it was hard but i looooved it, grouping was so easy, on wow ppl are jerks and it the adrenaline is not there lol

  • Ya, the mmo that has an average player age of 10.

  • whats that song name

  • I've played WoW, and it does not compare, but sadly EQ doesn't now. There was something about meding, the slow level progression, traveling by boat. I remember the chessboard in the dwarf lands (sorry, been about 6 years, the names are fuzzy) and just feeling like "wow, what adventures will I face. I know it's not popular now in mmorpg's, but one of the things I loved was how roleplaying was enforced, and even though it seems silly now, the "M'lords" and "M'lady's" really made the game special.

  • Too bad no game takes roleplaying seriously anymore

  • @carrieljv

    i agree i started at 14 years old and EQ will always be the game that changed my life and WoW will be the one that ruined online gaming for me.

  • @kaiz0099 exactly, same story here man

  • the biggest thing for me was the lack of maps, day and night (night actually being dark), KOS npcs and just generally being able to get lost and explore. Gave me the feeling of not knowing what ill find next. which really brought the game to life.

  • I think the down fall of EQ was PoP Luclin was last good exp imo.

  • Nothing...and I mean nothing...will ever compare to this game

  • Totally agree... and I have played my share of mmorpgs.

  • @Californiasoul05

    I wish they would remake EQ. Same concept & classes zones etc. update the graphics, you know modernize the game. i think it would be nice. they changed far too much on EQ2

  • @Californiasoul05 100% agreed

  • Come play eqemulator its already up and playing CLASSIC PVP 99 or NON pvp classic 99

    come Google us

  • im considering joining :-)

  • Google "EQ Project 1999"

    Classic Emulation server launching Oct 2nd!

  • EQemu - Project1999

    eqclassic server is launching October 2nd

  • are u fucking serius

  • Yep, EQ as us original EQ players once knew it, saw its downfall at Luclin.

  • I played both EQ and WoW for over 4 years. and I'll tell you that I didn't enjoy WoW the way I enjoyed EQ. I would go back to EQ classic in a heartbeat - actually - i quit MMORPG's all together because everything is handed to you on a silver platter, and frankly, im sick of it. I want a challenge in an MMORPG and EQ offers that. I miss all the small things like no aggro range on mobs, trains to zones, no douche bag noobs (like in WoW) corpse running, no maps, feeling emotions during gameplay.

  • I agree completely, DdragonforceF. You also forgot the to mention the sense of community that was felt when all the antisocial people quit the game at low level because in this game, you had to group from early on in order to level to the cap and gear out properly, unless you were a skilled players.

    That's another thing this game's toughness forced. It made the bad players quit at lower level as they died and incurred hours of experience loss or they lost their corpse because they were THAT bad

  • Well said. EQ players should have seen this coming. The majority of people in the world are bad at games, and since the majority of people allow these games to succeed, they take over how games evolve. Which is exactly why MMORPG's in this day and age are the easiest pieces of crap to ever exist, and since the game creators only care about money, they are only going to make the game as easy as possible for noobs. So frustrating. I like your view on the EQ community, and how noobs got faded out.

  • come back to Everquest bring all your old friends and some new ones its better then ever and the adventure still exists i am sorry i gotta make this short i have a raid now i am having sooo much fun!

  • Everquest is crap now. It has been crap since Luclin came out.

  • Ditto.

  • April of 99, I fell through the rabbit hole and I was in "their world" for 6 years. To this day, I miss this game and the pangs of nostalgia have not eased up one bit! I met my husband in this game, and we've been together 6 and 1/2 years now. Every time I hear the theme music my mind takes me back. Happy 10 years EQ!

  • Be real douche bags. I have been a member of eqemu for a few years now and you guys will never have a decent server. Secondly what will you offer if your server wont expand? The first expansions will get played out then what? Delete everyones work and start over?

  • If I feel like playing the same content over and over with different race/class combos, that makes me a douche?

    I'm quite convinced by your argument, mossberg702...

    I played EQ from launch and quit as soon as I saw the new Luclin models and zones and knew that the game had begun the downward spiral into mediocrity.

  • is their another private server for this or somthing

  • i like the pre- Kunark EQ better

  • God. I am used to be an avid WoW player. I would have quit that in a heartbeat if I could play EQ Classic.

  • Buy a Mac and play on the Al'Kabor server - Old school EQ from EQ Classic to Planes of Power, and that's it. The game ends at Quarm for us...

  • If the Mac version ended at Velious, I'd buy a Mac TODAY!

  • Got something against Luclin CH rots? lol

  • Could you explain to me what makes Luclin such a terrible expansion? I played EQ on Mac for a year and I can understand how PoP makes the game too easy, in a way, due to the books. However, all Luclin really added was a graphical improvement and newbie armors, right? :P

  • Graphical improvement? My friends and I hated the new models. I quit before Luclin even came out, but my friends followed suit soon after they bought it.

    I know I had the option to turn on old models, but I wanted the option to ALSO force OTHER people to see my character as an old model. I should have that right to decide how my character model appears to others.

    Let's not get started on the furries, the moon and sci-fi elements in a high fantasy MMORPG...

  • You sound like such a psycho right now

  • Dude Luclin changed the entrire game dramatically, how hard things hit after that expansion was really just ridiculous, i remember never be as invested in the game after that and quit, it didn't go with the story line at all, and the models were terrible.

  • Lol, no kidding. The new models turned a real virtfual world into cartoonish jiberish. Reminds me of one "popular" MMO currently on the web.

  • the nexus provided free ports to anywhere also making the game easier, the new graphics consisted of all new shit animations and players to sit on their knees waiting to orally pleasure someone.

    and newbies need to be happy with the faded blue cloth tunic their predecessors wore before them.

    +2 ac is enough to get the job done.

  • LOL too funny. I remember getting my first gay ass Purple Flayed Skin chestpiece. I wore it forever lol!

  • Its been a long time...now i just feel old cuz i can remember when this was the shit.

  • Wish I could speed this process up, I've been dying to play old EQ for a LONG time. It's only the best MMO because it has a great difficulty curve back in the early stages. Not for those that want a simple mindless game that provides entertainment.

  • I can't seem to play another MMO without comparing it to the original Everquest, but all other MMOs fall short. The seem to have the eye candy, but they lack a soul. They all seem to cater to the ADHD generation.

    Anyhow, I would love to go back to the nostalgia of EQ, but I'm certain that a PVP server is out of the question for this project.

    Best of luck on your project!

  • *IMPORTANT EQ classic veterans!*

    eqclassicDOTorg is back!!! You guys the forums are up again! Please please go there and register/reregister. Most of all, spread the word!!! go to eqclassicDOTorg

  • Bring EQ classic back here!!!

    classiceqpetition(dot)com

    Repost this!!!

  • FFXI is the best! XP

  • classic EQ was the shit back in the day. I remember when my friend bought it and showed it to me and i fell in love with mmorpgs from that day on. but EQ was by far the best game ever. How do I play that game like we did back in the day? can i go buy it or is it your private server type thing?

  • private server, if u have your original Everquest CDs you might be able to install from those, then hook up to their server for patching.

    definately visit EQClassic dott org and the IRC channel. if u got mozilla, download Chatzilla irc plugin, and then just join #EQC and chill with everyone.

    i look forward to meeting you once the forums reopen. its a huge community now

  • ok edit*** i forgot to say the server isnt up yet, the project is in its 2nd year of developement, but the website relaunching is a huge deal especially the recent videos uploaded by EQClassicServer, mailhunter, and revilor.

  • I am so so so definately interested in this idea. Though I think that Shadows of Luclin was OK (did make the game a little too easy tho) but after that it was straight downhill.

  • If you would like to join the petition to SOE about opening a classic server visit -

    classiceqpetition . (0/\/\

    Spread the word

  • So is this technically a private server, or is this retail?

  • i miss eq so much=(( made so many friends, i used to just log on a talk to them sitting in various towns =( if anyone is from the tribunal server and knows Grimlim-59 dark elf Shadowknight Message me..or if anyone still playes eq or if the Classic is stil alive MEssage me and inform me how to get on it please

  • I was on Tribunal, though I dont remember your name. It's still alive but I don't believe it's finished yet

  • I too played Tribunal. What was your charaters name.

  • Taletore - Iksar SK

    Kohume - Gnome Necro

    Demetrie - High Elf Paladin

    I had others but I dont remember their names. they were mostly just low level alts.

  • From launch of EQ to the release of Velious was the best time in EQ for me. I played an enchanter on Mithaniel Marr from the beginning till the release of Luclin and that was when I knew the game I loved so much was dead to me.

  • I hear that. I started an Iksar Shadow Knight and didn't leave Kunark until I hit 55... parts of luclin and PoP destroyed that game. It's a shame Sony torpedoed EQ Classing, money hungry fucks...

  • the torpedo never hit. they just took the site down because it took too much from the team to manage. the dev team since has still been working on it.

    Search YouTube for EQClassicServer to stay updated with the videos and newest updates on the project.

    The SOE server poll looks like a joke and its doubtful SOE will release a classic server. The management team is just as fucking retarded as the SOE Dev. Team cranking out these shitty expansions 4 retail.

    Cya when EQClassic comes out!

  • oh I know I heard! I was thrilled!

  • Do you know how it is going to work? Are we going to just DL the game from them or are they going to rely on us installing from the original disks?

  • Come into EQCLassic's irc to find out answers to questions like that.  :)

  • lol @ the sheeple that constantly followed this project as if it was ever going to be finished.

  • I know of EQClassic, its the same thing its been for 2-3 years. A bunch of 16 year olds "developing" a private server. Where have you been? It's failed multiple times already. If you think its going to succeed then you obviously haven't been around long. LOL "cya when EQClassic comes out!"... oh man where have you been?

  • Can't wait can't wait caaaannnnn''''tttttt waaaiiittttt !!!!! Think I'm going to make a Gnome Warrior. I rolled an Ogre Warrior back in the day, but I wanna go with a small race this time around.

  • You can download Mozilla and get the IRC Add-On to join #EQC

    The website is not up, it was consuming too much of their time.

    To ever get the official word just look to the IRC or continue to catch the newly released vids from EQClassicServer on YouTube

  • Is this project still being worked on?hmmm

  • ^^^ new video released earlier this week

  • I, personally, would like monks back : )

  • Daxiongmao87,

    Some will, some wont. Most of the EQC community are those like myself who played WoW, Conan, and Warhammer, and are on the rapidly growing list of discontent gamers ready to go back.

    If Warhammer is the future of MMOs then I will be glad that EQC will be my last big adventure. If the server launches, wonderful. If not, then at least feeling the hope was wonderful enough and it will drive others to try.

  • Ah, Everquest. A Great experience of the past. Unfortunately Nostalgic feelings are easily satisfied and forgotten soon after. 5 min. after playing most of you will realize why you moved on.

  • Yeah, we realized why we moved on long ago when SOE took full control from Verant over EQ. Do you research.

    Glad you moved on, but many of us who still have not seen very much, it is an unfished book. Take care.

  • True but I'm going back with a group of friends in March. We all left EQ for WoW and with the new server being released we are going back! Vox and Naggy kills anyone?

  • COME JOIN US!!!

    We will relive classic EQ and eventually Kunark and Velious.

    eqclassic DotOrg (take note of the DotOrg)

    Come visit us in the IRC listed at the website. We hang out there daily. I look forward to seeing each and every one of you everquest classicers in the IRC chat channel! Come join us in the IRC, and eventually on the classic server when it is released! :)

  • We will relive classic EQ and eventually Kunark and Velious.

    eqclassic DotOrg (take not of the DotOrg)

    Come visit us in the IRC listed at the website. We hang out there daily. I look forward to seeing each and every one of you everquest classicers in the IRC chat channel! Come join us in the IRC, and eventually on the classic server when it is released! :)

  • The site was taken off-line, but the project itself has continued going with no change. There's even a comprehensive list of things that they have finished and are working on. Join the IRC channel if you're interested

  • Is this project still going? I read the previous comments but they are a little old. I was wodnering If anyone had an answer.

    Thanks in advance

  • I am wondering to. PLEASE, any EQ oldtimers (like us), can you help us out here? Is the project still going?

    Syrif, Once and always Dark Elf Mage

    Oh man I miss you. :(

  • No, it's not. Sony threatened to sue.

  • Yes Everquest Classic is still going. Please go to Grubb's database (EQCDB) site or install Mozilla IRC plug-in to join the channel and see the tracker list where they update recent changes made to the server.

    The site consumed too much of their time to maintain, so I guess it is more efficient on their time to keep it down. Cya in IRC.

  • word the fuck duduk, we want rid of the shitty BL's, we want to actually have to recover the body u lost, and we want EC tunnel back, with EC and WC no combined zones! long live EQC!

  • Yes, I did research and have spoken with devs. It is still going!! Acizzle76, message me :)

  • I really love this video.

  • Is it not amazing. Hey guys, we still have a chance for Classic. Sony said they are accepting ideas for a new server in March 2009.

    Long live EQ classic! The one and only.

  • So come back to everquest, MUCH HAS CHANGED and will change. It is more magical then I remember..Atleast give it a chance, its turning 10 you know in March. Maybe if you stop whinning and come back it'll make it 10 more years!! COME ON BACK MY EVERQUEST FREINDS!!

  • ill never forget the classic days of EQ

    it was an experience i will never forget, and 1 in which it can never be recreated

  • Website issue. Lol. You mean legal issue? Yeah, i'm sure thats gonna get cleared up, lickety split.

  • ;_; manly tears

  • Come on guys, let's get together and push for this. We all want to go back.

    Come on, you know we want to go back..There is no escaping this urge, this longing. It is ours, and I hope we join together again.

  • "The project is still alive and strong. The website issue will be fixed, hopefully soon. Don't be disheartened. :)"

    Thanks for bringing me back. We are not lost yet, let's just wait and hope.

  • So come back to everquest, MUCH HAS CHANGED and will change. It is more magical then I remember..Atleast give it a chance, its turning 10 you know in March. Maybe if you stop whinning and come back it'll make it 10 more years!! COME ON BACK MY EVERQUEST FREINDS!!

  • Everqust is still and always will be the best MMORPG ever made, plain and simple.

    Sorry WoW kids.

  • Yes, I know. We will not be forgot. Truly a "once in a lifetime experience"

  • It isnt Everquest anymore.

  • Then your fucking off your rocker.. pretty sure it say Everquest when you log in, pretty sure the old world zones still exist, i am still prety sure that the thrill i get, the exitment, the fact i cant sleep after getting a new item... The adventure, of playimg with a GOOOD!! real life freind STILL makes its Everquest.

  • I have played the newer versions and it isnt the same whatsoever. You can pretty much port to the exact zone you want?  World of Wacraft is harder and that is a pretty sad statement lol.

  • he isnt off his rocker. We want everquest precisely as it was in 99-01, nothing Luclin or beyond. No AA's, no bazaar, no Plane of Knoweledge teleport hub, no Nexus, and no Beastlords!!!

    have a nice day,

    long live EQC

  • SOE should get it's head out of it's ass. The biggest and oldest thread on the EQ forums is a signatory from veteran customers asking for ONE classic server. They just can't admit that Verant had it right and SOE screwed up EQ with overexpansion and ez port a stones that killed Taxi services.