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Originally Posted by Andipooo
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Add me to the list of people being mocked because they have no interest in playing P99 in its current state.
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Do you ever go to one of those arcades that specializes in old games, put a couple quarters into Street Fighter 2, and then get mad because you can't play Cammy ... because she wasn't added until
Super Street Fighter 2?
Coming here and being upset that you don't have any particular modern EQ convenience, whether it's a second hotbar, or a pet window, or whatever, is basically doing the same thing. Project 1999 isn't quite as old as Street Fighter 2, but both are dusty old relics at this point, and people are used to newer versions of both.
I do have some sympathy: maybe you didn't know Cammy wasn't in SF2, you wanted to play her, but now you can't and you've wasted your quarters. That sucks and I get it. Maybe it wasn't even completely your fault: maybe you were confused because the arcade messed up and put SF2 into a Super SF2 cabinet?
Project 1999 is kind of like that:
many players fail to understand that Blue doesn't exist to give anyone any particular play experience (consistent or otherwise). Blue is "Beta Blue" (and in retrospect I'm sure the devs wish they'd called it that, just to cut down on this sort of confusion).
The whole reason everyone's been able to play on Blue is that the devs needed 10 years of beta testing to get Green ready. Understanding that is critical! If you do, you don't come into Blue with the expectation that you'll get to use ...
anything unclassic. And if you can, you understand that it's temporary.
So again, maybe them not calling the server "Beta Blue"
was in some way like putting SF2 into an SSF2 cabinet. And I'm certainly not a fan of people mocking reasonable/polite posters for legitimate confusion (though when someone is
rude about this stuff I'll be one of the first to dogpile on them.) But again, once you understand what it really is (classic EQ/Street Fighter 2), you understand that getting mad about Beta Blue being ... well, Beta, is like getting mad that you can't play Cammy ... except you don't have to put in any quarters to find out.
In other words, if the devs
did make a mistake by not calling it "Beta Blue", and that has led to a little confusion ... maybe they get a pass on that because they gave you ten years of free game?
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