What happened to the challenge and sense of accomplishment?

[Lucrend-stormrage]

@Brewa-hyjal

It wasn’t that the other games were difficult (they generally weren’t). It’s just that they had a lot of negative elements.

Loss of XP or levels on character death was a frequent complaint regarding some games, for example. When Asheron’s Call released, the fact that you did NOT lose XP permanently (but could regain it over time) was a plus in its favor compared to everquest.

Then WoW came along and had no XP penalties at all.

That’s one of the things I’ve heard (never played the older MMOs). Also didn’t EQ or FFXI (or both) have world bosses that would last for like 10 hours or some crazy amount of time?