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Originally Posted by Goldrock
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O never really hated PoP for it content i hated the fact thats about when they decided to start the hand holding and mainstreaming it.The community play died down people didnt need Ports anymore and that killed some of the gameplay for the guys who enjoyed porting for gold etc etc.Corpse runs where pointless after the corpse summon guy list goes on community play died.And old school eq players like the game as it is hard .
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Having played as an Ench on Live during this time period, I would disagree. Groups were very easy to find, being that everyone and their mother's uncle would congregate in PoK. It was like the difference between a grocery store that uses a single long queue (max efficiency per cashier), and multiple individual queues (less efficient since people will not always choose the shortest/quickest line). PoK was like the single queue. Instead of running to XYZ zone and finding no groups avail, you'd wait in PoK and form up a group, which would then head out to XYZ zone.
The whole thing about porters and social interaction is not really relevant because there was never a great deal of interaction. Anyway, even if you argue it that way, the BUFF ROCK replaced all that. Now, instead of trying to get ports everywhere, everyone would head to the buff rock by Main Bank and send tells for buffs. The exact same thing, only a different service.
Idk when shadow rest was implemented, but I don't think it was during PoK. I quit shortly after GoD released because . . . well . . . GoD. I guess I don't really have a specific reason. It just seemed crappy when compared to PoP.