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Originally Posted by Cecily
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Here's my solution. A/A stop raiding for one week every month and let the rest of the server kill some things. It's simple and reasonable. LMK.
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I'm actualy super excited to hear the lame excuses incoming to respond to this one.
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Originally Posted by EdTuBrutus
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But that just emphasises the point even more.
It's not that P99's entertainment value is being destroyed for 2500 people by 250. It's that perhaps 25 people destroy the entertainment for 2700. I have a very strong feeling that most people even in A/A would prefer to be able to raid based on scheduled raids during a guild's peak time without needing to drop everything to raid at a moment's notice.
Scarcity in Everquest was always its biggest failing. It doesn't take "skill" it doesn't take "ability". It requires ridiculous investments of time by a tiny number of people who destroy the enjoyment of thousands of others AND GET THEIR ROCKS OFF that those thousands of others have their fun taken away.
EQ created scarcity because they thought it was a viable long term business model that would keep people playing. We know today, from HUNDREDS of games that scarcity does NOT keep people playing, scarcity drives people away, the majority of people, while playing into the anti-social, mentally deficient needs of a tiny, tiny minority.
EQ was relatively popular in its day because it was the only viable PvE MMORPG. It had literally no competition. To a lot of people, they want to recapture that look and feel. I doubt they want to recapture the frustration and idiocy of bad design decisions. The instant a better PvE game appeared, it had 20 times the subscribers of EQ at its peak, within 12 months.
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Well said. Scarcity brings out the worst in people. And it's no coincidence EQ created the need for instancing and nothing that came since on a mass scale adopted the scarcity model.