Ok,
I loaded up the gamelast friday after reading that article on MMORPG.com. I played Horizons very briefly last year just before the Chapter thingy. My entire guild left and we moved onto a different game. (we came from AC)
To make a long story short, Ive played most of the major releases out there (WoW, Guild Wars, EQ2) and you know, besides the some of the armor/weapon art and a few other minor things, Horizons has turned into a pretty solid game. (see a few of my post on MMORPG.com under the same name)
In fact last night while the Chaos server was down I logged into my EQ2 account. I ran around in Antonia for a bit and all I could think of was "good lord, could this guy run any slower?" and finally " when is that ******** Horizons server coming back up!?" You see a strange thing happened. I wanted to play Horizons more then EQ2. That could only mean one thing,in my mindHorizons is better then EQ2.
I'll probably shut down my EQ2 account. I wasn't "feeling" it anyway.
Good job Horizons! You sure have come a long way !!!