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Sadre Spinegnawer
05-23-2015, 06:37 PM
I must admit the guilty pleasure of reading the official board. I see distinct phases of everquest casual trauma emerging.

Stage 1: getting blindsided at what a clusterfuck the launch was, something which, to be fair, DBG deserves some kind of award for clusterfuckery. Even seasoned pros were whistling in admiration at this one.

Stage 2: discovering that yes, Virginia, there are armies of people with 10 accounts, and they will get those accounts in, and they will be multiple times more relentless than you.

Stage 3: realizing DBG could care less, those subs are sweet, sweet $$ to them.

Stage 4: seeing on twitch that, despite the fuckups, by the end of this weekend, at least one massive 24/7 guild (looks like Twisted Legion is in the lead) will already have the server on lockdown, Naggy and Vox ded, with a nice roster of 50's, before many even got to log in once.

Stage 5: futile anger at how unfair life is in everquest land. No shit, casual scum.



I still feel sorry for them. So many tears on the official forum, so. many. tears.

edit: sample post:
"Me and some old college friends, co-workers & ex-guildees (22 in total), all grab a 3-month "all access" so we could join up in Ragefire and form a guild and burn a 3-day (Holiday) weekend in EQ. Some of these people are in the 50s & 60's. I am in my mid 40s, we all set aside a holiday a weekend, to binge-play.


Are the new owners trying to fleece us? Where is the second, third servers? How do they plan on making money, if they going to treat adults like kids. The hardware to run EQ is nothing by today's standards, whats gives. Really..?

I have not even gotten to lvl 4 and my guild is already broken up! Because these guys are done. They've Had it !

I can't even convince them to wait a week, and many of them are charging back their accounts.


What is going on? Can someone explain it to me ?"

oh dear. those poor, poor bastards. DBG screwed the pooch so hard, total destruction of a brand in <72 hours.

Weekapaug
05-23-2015, 08:45 PM
Lol

The forums have been absolute gold. Last night I didn't even mind not getting back in after the patch because the forums were so entertaining.

Swish
05-23-2015, 09:02 PM
Any subtle references to P99? Bring them over, quietly ;)

Grimjaw
05-23-2015, 09:46 PM
swish, i saw someone using your "Wipe it clean" gif over there.

iruinedyourday
05-23-2015, 10:15 PM
Lol

The forums have been absolute gold. Last night I didn't even mind not getting back in after the patch because the forums were so entertaining.

can u send us quotables?

Oleris
05-24-2015, 01:44 AM
just killed world first nagafen. wts cof 50000 chronos Kappa

Shinko
05-24-2015, 02:23 AM
mage pets ftl

Shinko
05-24-2015, 02:24 AM
guild <Shinko> very week over there

Vampiro
05-24-2015, 08:56 AM
Rogean needs to open a new progression server.. OMG how fun it would be!

Sadre Spinegnawer
05-24-2015, 02:05 PM
They will. And, it will not be a clusterfuck. Why?

Because this team knows, you can either deal with a headache up front, or you can deal with a hundred headaches later.

PLUS, if a p99 prog server got borked on launch, the team would just wipe it and start over and anyone who doesn't like it can bite them lol.

There is freedom in being an emu. But as always, go to the official forums for a little taste, and to realize how relatively happy life here is on this little "amateur" server:
butthurt central (https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?forums/time-locked-progression-servers.21/)

loramin
05-24-2015, 02:14 PM
They will.

... sort of/kind of. The progression server here will never even make it to Luclin let alone PoP, so it's really not the same thing as the live progression servers (which will even go to the bad expansions).

Personally I (and I imagine at least half the P99 community) would love to see a "true" progressions server, that at least went to PoP, managed by Rogean. It will never happen in a million years, but I can dream.

vinx
05-24-2015, 10:00 PM
Stage 1: getting blindsided at what a clusterfuck the launch was, something which, to be fair, DBG deserves some kind of award for clusterfuckery. Even seasoned pros were whistling in admiration at this one.

I enjoy this time during a new server, i'm in it for the rush and sense of urgency. woot woot!


Stage 2: discovering that yes, Virginia, there are armies of people with 10 accounts, and they will get those accounts in, and they will be multiple times more relentless than you.

Dont care

Stage 3: realizing DBG could care less, those subs are sweet, sweet $$ to them.

Have money for fun so again, dont care

Stage 4: seeing on twitch that, despite the fuckups, by the end of this weekend, at least one massive 24/7 guild (looks like Twisted Legion is in the lead) will already have the server on lockdown, Naggy and Vox ded, with a nice roster of 50's, before many even got to log in once.

See stage 2 reply

Stage 5: futile anger at how unfair life is in everquest land. No shit, casual scum.

Its true, i am one of the casual scums now since my job takes 12 hours out of my day but, EQ has always been unfair. i dont care where you are on the food chain everyone gets frustrated at some point. even when your winning your losing.

It's possible i will quit after my month sub is up but for now the rat race is just to damn fun! lol