[loramin]

You are both correct, and again I'm not trying to pick on TAKP or anyone else, except to be like "you guys could be so much cooler and more successful ... why don't you want to be cooler and more successful!?!" [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Originally Posted by fadetree [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Okie dokie.

Originally Posted by fadetree

I actually tried Dalaya and like 1 other one for a brief time, and they were unrecognizable as EQ beyond the superficial setting, and I did not enjoy them.

Totally; like I said people want to play the EQ they remember.

Originally Posted by fadetree

I personally think that it was not so much the 'no boxing!' that made P99 so popular (although it helped) as just that it was done extremely well and appeared at the right time.

I agree there's no way to suss out exactly what percentage of P99's success came from what. But I do think it's very difficult to argue with this statement: "P99's success came primarily from the fact that it did an excellent job of reminding people of live" ... and a key piece (who knows what percentage) of that was actually having (like live EQ) other players playing the game with you, instead of with themselves and their two alts.

Originally Posted by fadetree

I also think there's a lot of people who liked PoP a lot

I do too, and so do many others ... which makes it all the more incredible that even though just about every other server offers PoP, it's the server that doesn't which has 10x the population.

Surely part of that is the incredible customer service (and staff in general), but I think you're really missing something if you ignore that P99 has actual people playing with others, and other servers have boxers.

Originally Posted by fadetree

You could as well say "wow, not sticking to accuracy and not running a tight ship kills servers'.

Amen, and I'm sure it does. There's more than one way to fail a server [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Originally Posted by fadetree

I think that once TAKP drops luclin and starts working on PoP, the population will slowly ramp up

And this is where we simply disagree, and we'll have to wait for time to prove who's right. If you're right and empty-feeling servers aren't the problem, TAKP will take off. If I'm right, and the most important thing to people is playing on a server that resembles live (and that means boxing at levels of <10%) then it won't matter what expansions TAKP adds, because it won't solve the fundamental problem that their server isn't like the ones everyone remembers.