YL's big thing was that he wouldn't be satisfied until he had an absolutely legit/classic database for the game. This is next to impossible imo...so from the beginning it was an exercise in futility.
By not using the titanium client they were free to manipulate the UI in ways that are pretty much impossible for p99. This made their game look more classic.
The thing is that what makes classic eq classic for many people isn't a perfect DB or a perfect UI. So, not only does pursuing these things become obsessively frustrating for devs but, in the end, they aren't the most important things to creating a classic experience imo.
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