[misnome]

> I certainly miss the days of exploring a brand new world, the likes I had never seen in a video game before, and helping others (and being helped by others) along the way. Wonderful times! :-)

A thousand times this. After trying the beta in it's last, open weeks, I played from the very start with an externally-organised guild, so there was always at least 10-20 people online, and we were able to be amongst the first wave of people to be levelling up on the server in a brand new game (certainly not the first, but in the top 30% of the server at least)

It was wonderful the sense of exploration - moving into places like Stranglethorn vale and not really having anybody higher running around, or all of the quest lines and items mapped out online. Definitely the best experience I've had in an MMO.

I'm under no illusion that this experience is replicable in a rebooted classic server.