This was a blast from the past for me. My interest in Everquest was only one of admiration from afar as I was not really into the whole MMO thing at the time. I did know some people that kept talking about it and I would rarely see them after they got hooked. The same thing in a way happened to me with Dark Age of Camelot where I ditched classes, bailed on my friends and destroyed at least one relationship with a GF over it.
The graphics in DAoC were a bit better, but nothing like today's standards are. I logged into a free to play MMO on my PS4 the other day and it was vastly superior to anything we had in the late 90's early 00's but I suppose that should seem obvious since 20 years before Everquest we were all marveling at how epic the graphics on a Atari 2600 were.
Now I don't play MMO's but I am sure i will be back to them someday. I have realized over the years that no matter how much I love an MMO I always end up at the same point eventually: Getting bored as hell of it and feeling a bit of regret for investing so much time into it. :)
A friend of mine was the same, never saw him until I started playing. I still never saw him as he was many levels above me.
Ouch.., my marriage survived though I don't know how. I have the old DAOC box in the cupboard somewhere, I tried it, as well as just about all the others but it didn't grip me.
That's it, and why I don't play them now. They are great for wasting time but that's it. I still have the urge to have another go at WoW.