Recovering old EQ characters

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Forsh

Silver Squire
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3
Is there a way outside of Everquest to see if a character still exists? A friend I used to play EQ with from 2000-2007 he told me that his character was never wiped and told me to check and see if it still exists. That was a very long time ago and I can't remember everything related to my account because I was in the U.S. Marines and moving from duty station to duty station which means my addresses, phone numbers, etc kept changing. I know some of you played lots of EQ so I wanted to see if any of you might know this -- how to see if it's still there but inactive.
 
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Korillo

Molten Core Raider
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EQPlayers was abandoned long ago. It is plausible you could check Magelo (eq.magelo.com) by searching your character name, but if you haven't been on in that long it is unlikely you'll find your character. I just checked some old toons of mine that I haven't played since 2005ish and I could find them, but it's possible I logged on them within the past 5 years.

EQ is a free to play game now, excluding some of the TLPs. If you remember your account information, you can just log on and see. Other than that, you are probably SOL.
 
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MusicForFish

Ultra Maga Instinct
<Prior Amod>
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EQPlayers was abandoned long ago. It is plausible you could check Magelo (eq.magelo.com) by searching your character name, but if you haven't been on in that long it is unlikely you'll find your character. I just checked some old toons of mine that I haven't played since 2005ish and I could find them, but it's possible I logged on them within the past 5 years.

EQ is a free to play game now, excluding some of the TLPs. If you remember your account information, you can just log on and see. Other than that, you are probably SOL.
That's fucked up. Found my old toon listed on magelo just now. Wish I had that old account still.
 

Daidraco

Golden Baronet of the Realm
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9,100
I did this not too long ago to find my original account that had my toons on Veeshan and Fennin Ro that was created in beta. Customer Service was more than happy to help me. I had to go through a few steps to verify I was the owner of the account - but it was all simple.

On a side note - although important to you.. This did not need it's own thread. *edit* Imagine going through MOS training for Air Traffic Control 93C, during Temple of Veeshan raids. Ex-fucking-hausting.
 

Borzak

Bronze Baron of the Realm
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31,636
EQPlayers was abandoned long ago. It is plausible you could check Magelo (eq.magelo.com) by searching your character name, but if you haven't been on in that long it is unlikely you'll find your character. I just checked some old toons of mine that I haven't played since 2005ish and I could find them, but it's possible I logged on them within the past 5 years.

EQ is a free to play game now, excluding some of the TLPs. If you remember your account information, you can just log on and see. Other than that, you are probably SOL.

Nevermind, tried search on eq.magelo.com and it gave an error. Later it worked.
 

Tuco

I got Tuco'd!
<Gold Donor>
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Another option is cycling through your old credit card #s. Server merges muddy the process a bit because your character might be renamed.

Customer service is motivated to help because almost all their new subs come from returning players. Almost all current EQ players took many-year breaks and a lot of them, including me, had some tribulation getting their account back. In my case it was a freak occurrence of the person I gave it to randomly seeing my name on an unrelated website and asking if I was his old buddy. Before I talked to him the customer service rep wouldn't give my account back because it just looked like I sold it and wanted to steal it back.
 

Identikit

Redneck Pornographer
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customer service will help, they will even undelete chars for you if you call them.

they want yo money.
 

Cybsled

Avatar of War Slayer
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It would feel weird coming back now and all your gear is trash lol. I'm guessing even "one of a kind" things have made their way back into the game in one form or another, like Sleeper Robes and Guise of the Deceiver.