I’m a big fan of MMORPG’s, especially the fantasy genre. I’ve tried just about all of them that are out there, Asheron’s Call, Asheron’s Call 2, EVE, Final Fantasy XI, City of Heroes, Star Wars Galaxies, you name it, I probably played it. The exception to this was EverQuest due to all of the horror stories I heard about how unfriendly the game was to new players. With the upcoming release of EverQuest 2, Sony has combined all the previous expansions into one game and released it as EverQuest Platinum.

For those of you out there that don’t know what a MMORPG is, it’s a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. EverQuest (EQ), happens to be the most popular MMORPG in North America and has been around for quite some time. The game is enormous to say the least. Even from making your character you have a choice of 14 races and 15 classes with specialty weapons and armor geared toward each choice at every turn. When you start, you have to pick a server, and trust me, this could make or break the game for you if you are new to eq platinum and don’t have any friends whom you are meeting. They have 2 or 3 “newbie” servers, which is one of the ones I stuck with. Unless you have friends on one of the other servers, go with the newbie server, there will be other new players there and its much, MUCH easier to find a group.