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Originally Posted by shuklak
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those items add an allure to the game.
Did a dev really think mana stone was a mistake or did they actually just make it a sought after limited time prize that would make people crazy?
Its not line the early devs were clueless like eqlive today.
Those items were well thought out "oops."
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They thought manastone was a mistake. They said so themselves. Feel free to scour the internet for the relevant quotes if you want. Some other removed items, like rubicite, wasn't necessarily viewed as a mistake. Rubicite was removed because it was seen as placeholder equipment to begin with, coupled with a bit of laziness in the form of simply cut-and-paste replacing its positions in the CT drop tables with Ravenscale. Again the quotes are out there, somewhere, if you want to spend an afternoon searching. I don't feel like it because in the end it doesn't matter enough. What happened, happened.
No, the early devs weren't clueless like the modern devs. They were a heck of a lot more clueless. The game's success was nothing more than a happy accident that the company could neither understand nor replicate.
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Insofar as any of that pertains to P99, project management has always been adamant that it wants to create the entire 1999-2001 timeline, for good or ill. That's an extremist mindset, but I figure it'd take an extremist--an outright fanatic, even--to spend this kind of time working on something like this. I wouldn't take their same approach, but I never would have made this at all.
Danth