i started during the 200 population resurgence, actually met people in the newbie yards, crushbone, saw multiple people camping the lfay sisters for spell cash. i.e. legit new people.
i have no idea what for certain drew all of us to start during that small window. i have a theory though.. for me, personally, i had been following pantheon, and brad's involvement with p99, all the talk of classic eq etc drew me into reinstalling after several years away. a few other nubs i spoke with mentioned the same thing. saw some p99 press elsewhere and installed.
while i cant say for certain that the press pantheon provided created a population surge, i do know for certain what killed it, and why 99% of the above mentioned nubs stopped logging in.
its ironic, because those ppl were the usual crowd i grouped with in mistmoore or unrest, the very low level community that nerf was supposed to bring killed it.
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