Why don't more people play here?
 

With a peak population of ~ 2,000 active players (including red and blue servers), that seems quite small when you look at the amount of active subscribers in the classic era of EverQuest. What reasons do you think we do not have more players here? Do people not like pre-luclin gameplay/content? Do people just not know that P99 exists? Kids that played 16 years ago are now adults and have no interest in online games?

I understand when SoV is released, the population will increase, but with more than 200,000 subscribers in 1999, you would think that more people would be inclined to play here, especially since it's free. I would like one day to see the population grow so much that the devs are able to open a second server identical to the current servers.

hard to keep that many people happy when the staff is all volunteer

It's an emulator. Emulated servers traditionally suck. This one doesn't as much and the fact we have 1% of the old EQ subscriber base is proof. 2k people is a LOT.

Because WoW.

Getting everything installed is a pain, having to jump through all those hoops to get started probably loses us quite a few people.

Add to that there's some people out there who think the only method to get the right version is to pay $100 or whatever on Amazon... not many want to pay it I'm sure.

Honestly if we had a deal with Dey break Games and could put a link up to download from here with an installer that would set everything up with the current patch in one click... we'd probably have 4000-5000 here.

umm WoW is at lowest point in last 5 years. Even my hardcore wow-friend stopped playing without even finishing Draenor's solo leveling.

People just bored of being stuck in same content for years.

You unlocked an achievement: Opening the achievement screen.

...oh, great. Bye.

I forgot to mention this, good point. It's been years since I've set up P99, but I do remember it being a little bit of a pain. You're right, a 1 click set-up making it easier to start here may increase the pop quite a bit.

It's hard to believe that people "growing up" prevents them from playing here. I've got a full time job, a wife, and 2 kids and I still find time to play.

producing crappy new content is just as bad as having 5 years old content that never changes. I see no contradictions here.