[frott]

Name one prominent diablo 2 guild, or even a prominent starcraft or warcraft guild, with the organizational skills to do something more than gather 8 people to all click the same server at the same time.

b.net kiddies are going to get stomped on, on each server, by mmorpg vets who can organize. Anyone sans head up ass at Blizzard would, frankly, be listening to fan sites that matter (aka this one) and the proponents of those sites (aka FoH, et al) to sculpt "long run" content.

The only "long run" content in D2 was, what, once you beat diablo in hard mode just keep killing cowz and levelling because the higher your level the better the loot that drops? Snooze.

EQ is exceptional, if you look at the number of women and non-vid-gamers that play(ed) it... I don't think EQers will make the long run community exclusively, I have a bunch of friends who have stayed away from EQ (and every other mmorpg) simply because it looked like a timesink piece of shit with bad graphics (my protestations to the contrary dwindled until I agreed with them) who are going to play WoW. I have friends who aren't into fantasy and prefer a quicker paced SCI-FI game, well, since all of those suck they'll settle for the quickest paced mmorpg with some story and substance: WoW.

A lot of people who are looking at approx a year of their life (or more) in /playtime in EQ aren't able to jump ship so readily. Some hate the cartoony graphics of FFXI and WoW... etc.

Safe to say anyone that likes MMORPGs played EQ and grasped it before moving on to the better one: WoW. So the assumption that the end game community is EQers is safe, but loaded. I'm sure the percentage of someone who's played EQ who makes and lives the endgame of WoW is going to be high, but I'd rather listen to those who stay away from EQisms ./...