People really need to stop using the "it's not classic" excuse on P99. In reality, nothing about the experience on P99 is like classic EQ. And it has nothing to do with game mechanics or anything else tangible.
In classic EQ, a majority of players were new to MMOs, didn't know how to kill bosses that wouldn't even exist for years to come, didn't spec/gear their characters properly, and were running around like idiots for a week before they even achieved level 5. There also weren't fully comprehensive wikis or databases to look things up until much later.
If you want to "emulate" what EQ was like 15 years ago, you need to create rules that artificially do so (not being able to 2-box is actually a very good one). But people aren't going to like being handicapped just for the sake of austerity.
|