Pretty much there with Soronil. Blue may be the better game mechanically, but it's also packed full of twinks, the progression is completely buggered, and 90% of the quests and content are wasted as suboptimal or pointless. It definitely makes for a more empty feeling world. Players in Green are going to have to use the whole buffalo due to gear/money scarcity, mob scarcity and camp competition. It will be interesting to see if it pans out. Maybe it won't, maybe it will. Hard to say.
Perhaps what I'm interested in even more than pure classic however, is Kunark and Velious launches with timeline appropriate resources. That's going to be a pretty different ballgame for most people than how it was on Blue. I'm hoping we'll actually see the lesser traveled Kunark dungeons get packed full of people, major activity in LOIO, the boats through TD being populated, people actually doing all the assorted quests etc.
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