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Originally Posted by paulgiamatti
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I mean, again, this is nilbog's world - he literally gives zero fucks about pleasing a playerbase, and why should he? People keep forgetting this. Go to the server select screen and look at all the preferred and standard servers. P99 is literally just another one of those servers - it just happens to have thousands of people who play on it, because no one else has recreated classic EverQuest as well as nilbog & co. have. If P99 had a playerbase of 20,000 or 20, nilbog would be doing the exact same thing as he's doing now. He didn't create P99 with the goal: "Let's make a server that will please thousands of people! I want a big playerbase!" He simply built his Field of Dreams, and people showed up.
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I like this point the best. Never really thought it out, but this is 100% true.
The server was created, with a very rigid frame and structure when concerning it's total goal that being creating a "classic" server that would only go so far. From the start it sounds like this was the intention.
No one can come and feel disappointed, when the goal was set from the very beginning to only go to Velious.
If Rogean and Nilbog and Co. wanted to boost population here, and make money from P99 via it's gaming population I imagine they would consider going further into future expansions, that obviously was not their intention when they made this server.
It's funny that it has become as popular as it has though, really quite miraculous really.