This is what happens when they read player suggestion threads like you see on the forums here.

FWIW live is not about grouping either after you leave brad's vision in the dust.

The ESO developers have been running that game into the ground recently by following community feedback. Somehow by giving the casual/solo players everything they asked for the numbers of those players have been steadily declining. And I assume eventually TES VI will be released and with ESO evolving into a single-player RPG they will become their own biggest competition.

This holds true. I remember WoW pulling primetime TV ads with celebrities advertising it, such as Mr. T. It was too mainstream, and they started just feeding the subscription model beast. It became watered down and a shell of it's former self.

There is a reason D&D has stuck around, some people just want community, challenge, lore. EQ tapped into that. It certainly isn't without it's faults, but it remained true to those core 3 values which appeals to the true nerds.

there is zero challenge and lore in eq lmao everyone just min/maxes everything

take off your rose tinted glasses....we're all late 30s+ males with too much time on our hands

Can’t wait to get a new server and solo a wrongly raced warrior to 60 on najena skeletons and solb sonic bats again. 3 times is not enough to satiate the need.

time invested is not challenge

eq is the easiest game ive ever played

I'm not playing to be challenged. It's a chat room with swords. That is why the forum is meta.

Toxigen, by your logic here, running a giant cattle farm isnt a "challange"

"I time traveled back to elementary school and kept all my memories, learned knowledge and experiences!

Turns out life is EASY when you know what stocks are going to go up and down. What wars are going to start. What real estate are going to be worth millions of dollars in the coming years."

Life is hard, but having a time machine does make it feel easy.

This is a metaphor for p99.

Hope this helps! :o