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Originally Posted by auura
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I've responded to something similar in the past.
There can never be a real classic experience for a number of reasons I will both list and explain below:
In classic, people did not know what would happen in the future. We know so, so much about what is going to happen with future releases to the point where we know what items are going to be in the game onyl for a limited time, what items are going to be needed for each encounter; and we can act accordingly.
Due to that knowledge, that experience can never happen again - it would be impossible. Accordingly when we try to "relive the 'classic experience'" we are going to act in a way that no one acted in back in true classic. The GMs/admins need to react accordingly.
Further, we all have different experiences as to how servers were "ruled". My server, Saryrn, was a pretty chill server compared to what I have heard about many others. It was not ruled very firmly, and the community sorted out the undesirables moreso than the GMs. No guild, at the time, was so insulated that it did not have to worry about its reputation. So what server rules do we use? Our own is the only option - we have to use a modified rule set which takes into consideration things like whats best for both the community as a whole as well as for the GMs.
Finally, as to the reason why guilds can essentially isolate now adays and succeed despite a bad reputation - the ability to communicate is leaps and bounds better than it was 20 years ago. Now, you can stream your screen while fd in view of a mob popping. Any number of people can viewthat screen with the intention of reacting immediately to the pop. They then batphone their entire guild within 5 seconds. None of that was possible back then. So you need only 40-60 very active and committed people to ensure you are the top guild, and the community no longer matters all that much.
What people are looking for is impossible. What has been created is a museum. You may go into a museum and lament the fact that that stuff is in the past while you reminisce, but that's about all you can do.
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This position is so wrong and repeated so often that it's unbelievable and also exhausting to read over and over. It's either people are convinced that everyone has to be miserable or it's people who already hate the classic versions of the games to begin with.
I'm NOT asking for a return to 1999. I'm stating that the 2015 version of p99 was better than what we have now. Stop trying to convince other people how they should feel or gaslight them into doubting their own memories.