With all due respect for the work put in to make classic EQ servers, especially pvp, Rogean's input is comically out of touch. It was explained inside and out why the population drained during the first few months: He didnt listen to feedback about xp loss, or he did, but the wrong ones (people saying xp loss is fine cuz they were either PVEers or Griefers). Nihilum's poopsockers were a prime example of people who were militant on the forums about xp loss, and we now know RMT was involved, which is why they liked that stranglehold on Fear and wanted no change on the status quo. People were literally bragging for months on the forums that they used xp loss in pvp to get people to give up and quit. You had to actually try real hard not to read the forums for this to not be plain as day. Or he thought red had a large population of assholes, reading red forums was like sticking your head in a 3 week old cat litterbox so he just didnt do that.
Also props to sirken for putting in time, but when i saw him announce (i think it was during kunark?) that they were gonna nerf xp to help the population recover, i was speechless, this just drove in the final nails in the coffin, no surprise there.
I mean i wondered all these years if Rogean reads feedback, now im pretty sure he doesnt. At least as much as it was easy to get a clear picture of why red was drained of its population during red's launch (lets say the first 6 to 8 months), he cant see it.
So at this point im expecting the same debacle with teams, because all the feedback is there already (teams will kink fast toward one side or the other being dominant, with no means of rebalancing teams like guild switching on red serves that purpose, its easier to grief people when you dont have the 4 levels safeguarding) but most likely will not be read/ignored. I mean ill come here one last time with a bag of popcorn if on top of letting level 45s camp blackburrow lowbies they put in xp loss, because that shit will drain faster than red ever did. It will be a fitting end, im sorry to say.
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