One of the reasons UO was considered so "brutish" was that it didn't even contain a manual, telling you wtf to do and how to do it, it was basically a mish mash in the beginning of trial and error for players.
UO was actually pretty easy to figure out, once you actually did, even in the Pre-UOR days.
And because you actually arose from "nothing", it made it that much sweeter when you actually accomplished "something". Something WoW has never been able to come close to capturing for me (Granted, I didn't do lvl 70 stuff).
We're talking about a time before wikipedia, with no easy access to info - I mean if I wanted to play WoW, I could look up 10 different templates and decide what to do from there on a WoW wiki.
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