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Originally Posted by Swish
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from what I heard of EQmac, it was a much healthier place to play and more fun.
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Let's not build it up into something it wasn't. EQMac had plenty of psychotic basement dwellers and straight up creeps just like p99. There was only 1 healthy guild on the entire server. And even that guild was pretty much humorless, although it had some really good people.
There was literally no economy or ability to use money for anything other than buying mounts, because one person with 10+ active accounts bought up every item on the server and jacked the prices up until it was 3k for a Sarnak Hide Mask. Every trade had to be done via barter. This same auctioneer was obsessed with recruiting for one of the only guilds on the server, a tier-2 guild, and would offer you KEI and ports from his 6-box crew and pretend to be interested in your friendship as a "new community member" while role-playing multiple people from his many accounts, until you committed to applying to the sane guild and he never again responded to a single tell from you again on any of his many personalities.
It was a microcosm of what EQ has always been: a few jolly roleplayers and nostalgiacs with some sense of humor, a lot of mega-nerds, and some institutionalizable psychotics with toy maces IRL who couldn't even come up with passable text conversation. People with 100% raid attendance for 6 years running (literally zero raids missed). The average age was just skewed upward compared to here, and instead of people KSing and being dicks up-front people held grudges and deep inferiority complexes about not being in Temerity and took the game way, way too seriously. I think a lot of the people there were older folks living on disability and losing their minds to loneliness and depression. P99 at least has an economy and you can have a laugh with the people who play it without having to reference pop culture from the J. Edgar Hoover era.