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Originally Posted by Ooloo
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Well what are you basing those figures on? I grant that I don't know, but then neither do you.
Everquest itself is just an expensive magelo page. That's kind of what I'm getting at, what players of this game value is as diverse as the players, but the project itself as a whole can only survive if the small handful of people who keep it afloat are willing to keep doing it. What to do after velious has always been the hard question with this project because of the nature of the genre. Most players back in 2000 were waiting for the next expansion. We know there isn't going to be another expansion here, so what's the next best thing? Well the next best thing we can wish for to a "new expansion" here is a new p99. That's what I'm getting at.
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People want to play the game. Your argument doesn't make sense that a fully functioning server is the same kind of Magelo page as a heavily gimped server. If everyone just wanted a Magelo page, they wouldn't play the game, they would just live on the forums.
I don't have access to the data. But I play on Blue, and if 500 players were just boxing, you wouldn't see anyone grouping, it would take forever to get responses to messages, etc. It would be pretty easy to tell that everybody is not paying attention. I have never had that kind of experience on Blue from the inception of Green until now.
While I cannot definitively prove it, I would be greatly surprised if most P99 players can multitask two different servers to the point that they are indistinguishable from a single boxing player.
Honestly you would see the same issue on green, because right now there are 800 players on green and 700 on Blue. If 500 players were boxing on both, it would feel like a ghost town on both servers, as I described above.