Thread: Why Add Velios?
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Old 12-02-2014, 09:02 AM
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nice rupertox... but that EQ had like 4millions player... i have never seem more than 1110 in this one at same time and you all know that mor than half of those 1100 are afk... so... i agree with velious... i dont agree the forced to play beta closing others servers...
Well, we as players have also become more efficient at things, requiring less people to do the same work.

EQ never had 4 million players during the classic era (if ever), even across the 20-ish servers. All the data I've seen has it peaking around 2007 with about 500k subscribers, and during the classic era they peaked around 250k (and climbing).

I would not doubt it if P99 has more accounts "per capita" due to it being free. And at this point, being stuck in Kunark for 2+ years, we certainly have more top-level characters than classic era EQ.
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