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Originally Posted by Rokannis
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EQ is a community based game, it always has been, that has been its draw from the start. Massively MULTIPLAYER...It is not a fast paced FPS where FFA is fun because you can hop in, kill some kids and hop out. Most everything in EQ takes some form of communication with others whether it be buffs, ports, raiding, group pvp, exping, trading etc. FFA by its very name is FREE...FOR...ALL. Every man for himself promotes a selfish mentality from the get go. Why promote selfish game play in a community based game? Why not create a server with rule sets that help build communities and steer them in the right direction, then the drama and player politics can build from there.
What people don't realize about teams is that psychologically you are more willing to help people of your same faction than you are to help everyone that can be labeled an "enemy". If the top "evil" team was heading towards a raid mob on SZ, we would announce it in the most public of places and the neutrals would come rallying together to fight a common enemy. You could say you can do the same on an FFA server, but do you really care as much when the guy /oocing just PKed you yesterday? Fuck that guy.
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And yet, as someone who had max level char on blue and red server, rallos zek had far and away the better community. There was a strong system of chaos vs order there, and most of the pvp was warring factions of anti-pk guilds.