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Originally Posted by JurisDictum
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I fundamentally disagree EQ was ever supposed to be about competition. At least, not on a PvE server.
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It definitely did not. Fact is the EQ devs didn't know wtf it was going to look like when EQ released. They only started to get any idea at all late in beta. The idea of sitting and camping mobs? Never occurred to them. They thought groups of people would get together and dive dungeons, moving as they went.
Obviously by the time Kunark released they had a better idea but Kunark's design was already well along by then. They did NOT embrace competition, they decided to try to lock the hardcore content behind a key that gated how many people could get into it.
It did not work.
Some servers enforced a rotation, some did not. Velious was the next try. Surely they could just put in enough content to keep everyone happy?
It did not work.
Luclin tried to do more. Yet more content, ring events, locking behind keys dropped by a cockblock mob, AND the monsters tuned so that the hardcore would be spending hours clearing and even fighting the boss mobs themselves rather than sniping at each other (VT under classic balance was quite the ordeal, as you guys might recall).
It did not work.
PoP was going to be the final try at it with a massive set of keyed boss raids but as it happened the dev team broke up (for the second time) during this period and the new people had a different idea. Fuck trying to manage the complaints coming from this retarded and unintended idea of "competition" - from this point on, they would just instance everything. No more competition.
This worked.
tl,dr: EQ was never intended to be about direct competition and those who think it was are the ones with a seriously deluded concept of the game, looked down on with bafflement by people who play games actually designed for competition from the start.
Seriously, though, it is embarrassing that we are even discussing this on the anniversary of the Bowling Green Massacre. Have you people no shame?