Everyone that thinks that there were 2k players all in the same level zones back in 1999 are not remembering correctly. When EQ launched, there weren't 1k players per server and by the time it started to reach the numbers that we know of 2-2.5k per server, 75% of the population were already level 50 or spread out over other areas. To have 2k players leveling up in the zones together and at the same time would have gotten worse as everyone progressed. What you were experiencing presently was not as bad as it was going to get. As Rogean stated in his announcement, this era of EQ cannot handle the amount of players that is currently on green. It's just the way it was. It wasn't built for it. And once 2k players were all condensed in Guk and SolA/B, well, that would have been when it all went downhill.
It's better that they address it now. When Kunark releases, it's an entire new continent with HUGE zones and the servers can probably be merged without question.
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