yeah, as people have said...
1. i think he simply exaggerated the number of days played. i doubt he actually did a survey or had any data available.
2. there were much much more people doing things other than leveling. i knew people during luclin that had been playing constantly since launch that had never gotten to max level. they simply did things other than leveling...one of the allures of EQ was that there were plenty of things to do other than level. this is kind of hard for newer MMO players to understand because leveling is the primary goal of so many MMOs released today, but in EQ (at least during classic EQ) there were plenty of ppl content to roam and explore and quest and socialize day in and day out.
I don't see the point of revisiting this article other than for nostalgia purposes. the mission of p99 is clearly not to "fix" classic EQ, but to recreate it. That includes all the complaints and faults of the original game. The solutions in the article, likewise, can not be implemented because that would also steer the project away from its stated mission. at least that is how I have interpreted the statements from the devs in the past...
kunark is going to be interesting on p99, and the reality is I don't think any of us know what it will really look like. nobody has really done this before, and it's new territory on the map. there are all kinds of problems that p99 will face that will interfere with generating an "authentic" kunark experience, but we will just have to see how it plays out.
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