As I understand it, EQ2 is growing slower than WoW. In fact, I have some personal experience to back it up. I spen 38 minutes waiting to play in queue of 500 players on my server. Great. So the question, then, is what will become of EQ2?
The answer is simple. It will hold out, just like EQ. Let's face it, there's a hell of a lot more patching on EQ2 than WoW. Because of more bugs? I don't think so. The content seems to be changed more to balance things more often. I'm cheered by that.
My second question is this: Why complain?
Well, I would complain that with many people not playing EQ2 and a great number LEAVING EQ2, it leaves a smaller cross section of players, and of those players I'd say only about 20-30% are truly skilled. But other than that I have to say I sort of like being some of the first level 30s in the game. Sure, in WoW, someone stayed up 2 weeks straight and had a level 60 when I hit level 10. thottbot.com has the game fully quested out, upward and downward. I like being some of the first gamers in, trying new stuff, being the best at something for a while. If that means slower growth (and no 500 person waiting queues) then by God I'll take it.
-[sk] JayBe