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What about Everquest back in 99. Man that was a game especially on the pvp servers.
I didn't play it, so I don't know, but I assume it's the same. The only way to really play it again like it was then would be to have everyone else forget everything they've learned about MMOs for the last 24 years.
Not the same. Everquest was less "user friendly" and left you with way more stuff to figure out and / or using online resources, and printed(!) maps in the first years. Also, a lot of raid content that was absolutely not 2-3 groupable when it came out - talk about coordinating 40+ players. Then, quite unforgiving in terms of corpse runs, and originally no instanced content. It was hard(!) and we loved it for that.
My choice, but PvE ;) I only started in 2001 post Velious, but wow that game has taken me for a ride - and I have made lifelong friends through it and seen places (London, Nottingham, Copenhagen) thanks to it.
I played on Rallos Zek where if someone is annoying you can stick a pointy stick in em, steal the pants off the body (1 item loot on kill) and watch them run off in a loin cloth. I met my wife just after the turn of the millennium. We lived on opposite sides of the country at the time. We got married in game and then later in real life and still are.
Pvp may SEEM harsh but it was a lot of fun. I still remember going to war with an entire guild spending nearly 24 hours running into a dangerous area sniper style and then exiting and cycling in for another run. I ended up dueling their guild leader and barely losing. Their entire guild had a party on my corpse. When I woke up it was still going on.