The issue as I see it is as follows:
1. P99 as a whole has a limited audience of player that want to relive the classic EQ gameplay. Of all the EQ subscribers that ever were, only a small percentage has heard of P99 and wants to relive the experience.
2. Only a limited number of these players experienced/enjoyed the PvP servers. The nostalgia for most was probably in a PvE setting.
3. The current playerbase on Red99 may be off-putting to new players because the vocal minority of Red99 comes across as a huge circlejerk of bad memes, plus all the 'pals' and 'pras' and 'u mad bro?' that permeates everything; newer players may assume everyone is like this (and maybe they're right) so they decide against joining Red99, or Project1999 altogether.
If you want new players, the community (not just Red99) needs to appeal to the already limited audience of players interested in Classic EQ, not just the mouth-breathing 'bros' that ForumQuest all day. Given the last (almost) 4 years of lurking on these boards, I'd say that may not be possible.
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