i recently returned. i played very early on, before any expansions. about maybe 2001, my wife joined me in-game.
about maybe 9mos ago, i started playing Everquest again, thanks to the f2p option. had a lot of fun with it. but the dev team over there is making some pretty drastic changes, and they arent listening to a good number of players who oppose the changes. i wont go into the drama here, would take too long to explain. someone in the EQ in-game chat said something about UO also being f2p. i hadnt thought about UO for a long time, that comment brought a lot of memories back. so when all the dev drama went down, i decided to take another look at UO. the difference between the mood of EQ and the mood of UO is night and day; EQ is so intense... UO is so relaxing in comparison =) i felt like, now is my chance to leave this intense drama crap and go back to where the heart is =) after having fun with the trial, i decided to re-sub and leave EQ (recovered my old account too, hooray!). my wife saw me playing UO, and remembered the fun she had... so she re-subbed too! which is amazing, shes not really a gamer, but we are having a ton of fun playing together again.