Everquest Legends

You’re over looking the emu community my friend. THJs code is out there now. Will always be options.

Little over 900 people on Oggok at 11:30PM EST on a Sunday. "Medium Pop".

I've never really played EQ seriously and MnM gave me the itch. Is this something for someone like me who could enjoy the experience or is there too much historic knowledge I don't have that would make it suck?

I don't have an answer for you because I'm fully in the nostalgia to separate the two but I'd be curious the answer. I've come across first time EQ players in groups and guild chat and they seem to enjoy things. You have all the benefits of 25+ years of maturity on classes, combat, and systems with modern quality of life expectations. If you treat it how it is, a social single player RPG, and not the MMO of old I think there's plenty to enjoy. Without re-opening the "should I pay for an emu" it should be easy to get $20 worth of enjoyment over the first month.