Played EQ from 1999-2004 and WoW since closed beta. I can't say a lot bad about EQ because it was what started the whole thing. It just got old and I found myself able to do less and less either alone or duoing.
From the perspective of someone who wasn't in a huge power guild in EQ that did all the big dungeons every night, WoW was a breath of fresh air, very solo-friendly, and the quests actually gave you a lot of experience and reasonably nice gear. It requires very little from your machine, tech-wise, and it has a wonderful UI community (not unlike EQ's, but I think a lot more developed).
At this point for me, having played WoW almost three years (including beta), I could not go back to EQ. The only black mark in my book with WoW is in the way it carries out its open/world PvP. If I was to start over again, I'd do it on a PvE server, because those still give you all the battleground and arena (read: controlled environment) action while keeping you safe from the gankers.
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Thorny
P.S.: 8+ million people probably aren't wrong.
