Nice, I think I'm going to jump onto that offer, pronto!

Indeed, thanks for the heads up. When I played EQ2 I had to run it on low settings, will be interesting to see how it looks now.

I would be very surprised if I can somehow get my old EQ account and it still had my character. I haven't played since the first few months after launch!

http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/character_profile.vm?characterId=45956...

Go here and look to see your stuff.... Just search for your character name and find it's server. (I was originally on Xev, but that server merged with Druzzil. That may be an issue with finding your character as well.)

Oh, and that's mah paladin.

*Edit:
They did this a year ago, and I decided it would be fun to visit my old paladin. I went and downloaded the client, installed it and loaded up the game. It was completely uninstalled from my computer 15 minutes later. As was mentioned on the podcast not too long ago, EQ just does not hold up today. If you had been constantly playing it over the years you'd never know, but having played other games it just didn't work for me. I have lots of fun memories of my time (read: addiction) in EQ. But I tried to go back and have fun for a month and it just didn't work.

About the Kurnak all in one part, I dusted off my level 50 Guardian which I retired right before the first expansion came out, but I can not seem to find my way to the Desert of Flame area at all. It seems that it should be a bell from the Qeynos docks but the bell doesn't seem to work for me. Has anyone who has not previously bought the expansion packs been able to access those areas?

That was it exactly! Thanks.

Yeah, AoC is sucking up my time which is probably the very reason SOE is gunning so hard with this offer. It's tempting since I have 64th level toons in each game (weird coincidence) but the thought of dealing with some of the old school problems in EQ1 and the blandness of EQ2 is not crossing my threshold for downloading...

Even though I'm deep into AoC I can't pass on a free meal. I have a lvl 34 assassin from a couple years ago on Permafrost but I think I'm going to start from scratch on a PvP server. Anyone else re-rolling for some PvP action?

Yeah, I looked at my level 50 quest log and saw the quest for the screaming mace still there, and remembered all those dam bosses I still needed in Cazic Thule. Killed some crocs in Ro, might look around a bit more, but it is not something that is going to pull me away from LoTRO.

As mentioned above, the starting Kunark zones are pretty boss. If you haven't tried them, you should. Easy enough to hit level 10 in an hour or so. And you can't beat free.

Good point - EQ2 is definitely dangerous and can cause bodily harm. Wait scratch that it's fun and worth checking out Kunark if you haven't. (I just logged in for the free months and + exp) I truly regret you have such bad blood toward a game; perhaps try playing a priest over a necro?

I tried this today as I used to subscribe to EQ2 and had quite a few characters (my highest was around 35). I logged in to find all my characters gone. Erased. Kaput. Nada.

WTG Sony!!! Thanks for saving me the money to try a real re-subscription as I had been previously contemplating.

Was playing this pretty heavily.
Then the spore creature creator came out =)

Going to check this out tonight for the last few days it is free. It is my understanding that if you re-up before end of the promotion you get the last xp digital added your account? Basically making the xp $15?

There were specific zones that had better graphics with promises of going back (slowly) and adding the graphics engine onto the older ones...it was really odd to have your guy look great in the newer zones only to zone into a much older zone and have the entire place look like garbage. But hey, it's SOE they are nothing if not unconventional in their updating practices.