Who remembers selling characters for plat?

[Demoraliser]

We got a lot of new faces here on p99. Just curious who remembers when you could buy level 60's for plat on p99. coughtmocough

Have a good day! :)

[Demoraliser]

Remember when there was a butts thread and boobs thread in RnF.

No joke new comers.

[Danth]

Remember the old beta forum with black background?

[Demoraliser]

Remember the old beta forum with black background?

You got me there. I'm not that old.

[Bardp1999]

Remember when that guy lost his mind and made like 20 youtube songs about Sirken/Wu'Tang surname?

[loramin]

Remember the old beta forum with black background?

Remember when they tried to upgrade to a modern version of the forum software (and it really wasn't half-bad, but it needed a little customization and rounding out of some rough edges) ... and before they could even try to fix it the entire player base freaked out and forced them to go back to this version?

[Bardp1999]

Adjusting to sudden change is not a trait common on 20-year-old Elf Sim

[Demoraliser]

Remember when that guy lost his mind and made like 20 youtube songs about Sirken/Wu'Tang surname?

Remember that guy who cosplay'ed with a mace in the streets? #p99

[Nilstoniakrath]

Remember when there was a butts thread and boobs thread in RnF.

No joke new comers.

Best. Threads. Ever.

Well, the boobs one, at least. Never saw the butts one.

[Demoraliser]

Best. Threads. Ever.

Well, the boobs one, at least. Never saw the butts one.

It was ass, the boobs thread outshined it 10 fold

[Droxx]

Remember the old beta forum with black background?

You know it.

[Demoraliser]

Remember when Red had over 100 population.
Yeah me neither.

[Twochain]

Remember the GOAT streamer RedWJamz?

Remember when the dragons weren't rooted in ToV, which led to the most fun and unique raid scene in any mmo? A Competitive raid scene which took talent and dedication to pull off? Remember when this game had something literally no other mmorpg had? i'm not salty you're salty fucking see me in the streets of norrath.

[Rogean]

Remember when they tried to upgrade to a modern version of the forum software (and it really wasn't half-bad, but it needed a little customization and rounding out of some rough edges) ... and before they could even try to fix it the entire player base freaked out and forced them to go back to this version?

Yea =| I wasn't happy doing all that work upgrading, and then all the work reverting again.

But now we're definitely not upgrading. All of our game / CSR tools are built into this forum version.

[loramin]

Yea =| I wasn't happy doing all that work upgrading, and then all the work reverting again.

But now we're definitely not upgrading. All of our game / CSR tools are built into this forum version.

Heh, I'd feel the same if I were in your shoes.

The techie in me is a little sad that we'll forever miss out on modern forum functionality ... but I think it was the right choice for this (very unique) forum.

[Chortles Snort|eS]

ReMeMbR reD @ 700 PoP?
NoW DaT waS a GuD PvP gAeM
*EXtReMeLy BiG SiP*

[Worry]

ReMeMbR reD @ 700 PoP?
NoW DaT waS a GuD PvP gAeM
*EXtReMeLy BiG SiP* I don't remember it that high. I do remember 300-400 though.

Unless you're talking about specific patches like velious release.

[Chortles Snort|eS]

2011 ReD Launch saw 600-700 peak Well into SprinG 2012
sorry u didNt get to PvP

[Sirban]

Anyone remember #macequest?

[Freakish]

Remember Dre?
The Alamo?
The 5th of November?
To drink your ovaltine?

Yeah I remember.

[Chortles Snort|eS]

wE no Talk aBOuT MacEQuEst nE moAR!

rip

[k9quaint]

Yea =| I wasn't happy doing all that work upgrading, and then all the work reverting again.

But now we're definitely not upgrading. All of our game / CSR tools are built into this forum version.

No chance of boobs thread being necro'd? :eek:

[Chortles Snort|eS]

i actually never got around to REALLY combing through the boobs or butt thread

RIP

[Bardp1999]

Chotles my man! It's very nice to see your persona slowly devolving back into Kimm. Please tell us about the women you have been hanging out with recently. I would wager 6/10 at best.

[Canelek]

And is GHB still a thing in Jersey City?

[azeth]

Sold my first magician for 100k to ultimately start and twink Azeth

[derpcake2]

I wish @rogean remembered the PM I sent on december 4th 2018.

[jacobar]

Adjusting to sudden change is not a trait common on 20-year-old Elf Sim

[eadric]

Yes, I remember. People from a certain notorious guild would frequently harass my cleric with offers to buy the account. The first few times I found it odd that it was even allowed, but it quickly became very irritating. Usually went something like this:

random_neckbeard7000 tells you, "this the real Eadric?"
you tell random_neckbeard7000, "FUCK OFF YOU CAN'T HAVE MY CLERIC!!111"

[Jibartik]

Im here for the fappaning pics, can someone send me to that thread?

What is green99?

[Teppler]

How about this one

Who remembers that post your pic thread?

[Hibbs]

I remember hearing stories about Sony banning account that were being sold on Ebay. so to get around it people were selling stupid objects like rocks with the account information written on the rock LOL..

[Nirgon]

the entire player base freaked out and forced them to

can i mad lib this?

sig

[Bardp1999]

I remember hearing stories about Sony banning account that were being sold on Ebay. so to get around it people were selling stupid objects like rocks with the account information written on the rock LOL..

Yes absolutely. The biggest workaround was people selling thier "time" that they invested into the account and would allow the purchaser access to what their "time" had created.

Just as P99 tries to crush RMT, so did Sony. And just as it was 20 years ago, 0 fucks are given by many on what their policies are. The true idiots are the buyers. Paying multiple thousands of dollars for accounts just blows my mind, especially since its not a secret that it will most likely get flagged and banned. I guess its an idiot tax to the overly immersed.

Move to resolved and/or classic

[loramin]

Yes absolutely. The biggest workaround was people selling thier "time" that they invested into the account and would allow the purchaser access to what their "time" had created.

Just as P99 tries to crush RMT, so did Sony. And just as it was 20 years ago, 0 fucks are given by many on what their policies are. The true idiots are the buyers. Paying multiple thousands of dollars for accounts just blows my mind, especially since its not a secret that it will most likely get flagged and banned. I guess its an idiot tax to the overly immersed.

Move to resolved and/or classic

I'd say just resolved, not classic.

I know for a fact that plenty of RMT went on in live and no one ever got caught. Here, unless you RMT with IRL acquaintances it is all but guaranteed.

[Chortles Snort|eS]

https://i.imgur.com/CfblZSv_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

[NachtMystium]

Remember Forever Hacking?

[Jibartik]

https://i.imgur.com/CfblZSv_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

lol like a weirdo game version of a toy convention.

https://i.imgur.com/QfhFrZJ.png

[sacman08]

Don’t remember people selling chars too often. More like one friend would stop playing and another friend would start paying and playing a second account. The big seller in EQ live was Plat purchases with real money. Some guy would have crap gear then the next day he would be decked out in the best gear money could buy.
Now you want to talk about a game that sold chars, Star Wars Galaxies has that problem bad. Some of the folks that got Jedi early on made some good money selling them.

[Llandris]

Just as P99 tries to crush RMT

Please, tell me more ;)

[Sonderbeast]

Hi dad

[Francois]

I bought a 60 enchanter for plat way back when. I think I paid 80k. I didn't know the race or name before handing over the plat.

Turned out it was a high elf (which is imo the ugliest race in the game) and his name was Aquafresh. I hated the name so much I filed a stupid petition (sorry GMs) trying to get it changed. They rejected me and I immediately resold it at a loss. I don't think I've ever seen that character online since I sold it.

[Rogean]

Yes absolutely. The biggest workaround was people selling thier "time" that they invested into the account and would allow the purchaser access to what their "time" had created.

Just as P99 tries to crush RMT, so did Sony. And just as it was 20 years ago, 0 fucks are given by many on what their policies are. The true idiots are the buyers. Paying multiple thousands of dollars for accounts just blows my mind, especially since its not a secret that it will most likely get flagged and banned. I guess its an idiot tax to the overly immersed.

Move to resolved and/or classic

Another thing to keep in mind is that Sony made money off the game, so they had their source of revenue and RMT was only a matter of people profiting off their intellectual property.

To have people here that spend or make thousands of dollars, when the people providing the experience get ZERO, while investing tons of hours of free time, is an insult to us.

[Chortles Snort|eS]

Reading YantiS email blastS was da closest I ever got to Runed Mithril Tunics

[Bazia]

selling toons for plat was fun for people like me that enjoy leveling and travelling more than raiding because i could endlessly reroll

bad for server health I would assume though

[shuklak]

You only lose when you sell.

[Chortles Snort|eS]

me meMBa sweEt BONE sCamMerY

[azeth]

selling toons for plat was fun for people like me that enjoy leveling and travelling more than raiding because i could endlessly reroll

bad for server health I would assume though

I don't know if it was bad for the server health as much as they provided a more undetectable avenue for rmt

[DMN]

I sold my original account back on sony's servers. I got about 2 grand. Needed the cash for college. Certainly makes it easier to step away from the evercrack pipe.

[Zoggren]

I sold my original Everquest account in 2004 when I swore up and down I was done with this game, so I could walk out of my man cave and see the world again. It was a bad decision and I always regret it. He had all the toys and I still log in my two other accounts on Live from time to time and it would of been nice to play him as well. I sold my original wow account with a pvp title and I could care less. I did take my original wow account back with cd keys and they had transferred that toon to another account. Oh well. That game sucks.

[Nagoya]

I sold my original account back on sony's servers. I got about 2 grand. Needed the cash for college. Certainly makes it easier to step away from the evercrack pipe.

apparently not easy enough

[Chortles Snort|eS]

remember Eunomia policing red OOC for using yours trulys catch phrase pRaS upon PVP kills

remember elves gettin da HAMMeR for calling each other FAY GATES and FIRE GIANTS

lol what flame agatery

(LOL)

[fastboy21]

Who remembers when the server being DDOS'ed and brought to its knees for several weeks in vanilla?

Who remembers when there was a server-wide global chat channel?

[Shrubwise]

I sold Shrubwise for 60kpp when it was allowed.
Biggest mistake ever

[Shrubwise]

Who remembers when the server being DDOS'ed and brought to its knees for several weeks in vanilla?

Who remembers when there was a server-wide global chat channel?

I remember this. IIRC big daddy Roge took the server offline for 2 weeks, upgraded the DDoS protection, it was DDoS’ed within minutes of returning and only used like 4% of new server bandwidth or something like that. Lolz.

[Danth]

I remember this. IIRC big daddy Roge took the server offline for 2 weeks, upgraded the DDoS protection, it was DDoS’ed within minutes of returning and only used like 4% of new server bandwidth or something like that. Lolz.

It's been a long time but didn't Rogean post a graphic of some sort effectively middle-fingering the would-be DDOS'er?

[Shrubwise]

It's been a long time but didn't Rogean post a graphic of some sort effectively middle-fingering the would-be DDOS'er?

I believe you are correct. Laughs were shared by all.