Because life progressed. The things that make p99 impossible for most people were (almost immediately) resolved by early expansions. Live is just a better game with more interesting mechanics than exploiting pathing and 2-Dimensional player involvement.
Too much to go into here, but here’s one thing that will always shit on “Classic”: there’s no perks or rewards for doing hard shit on p99, except having an epic weapon that has been bottlenecked and MQd by people who have to deal with their own bottleneck and pay for an MQ themselves. Live even went so far as having Evolving Gear, which you unlock through things like “Visiting every zone in Norrath” or “doing all the quests and missions in certain list of expansions,” or “killing every named mob in a list of expansions.”
In short, if you play the game, you are rewarded with better shit than 3am batphones and man children crying about FTE. And, it’s just patently more fun.
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