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Originally Posted by Zenren
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This is why normal people wont play this game, or leave shortly after starting. I've found that the majority, like 99% of the people that play Project 1999 are people who played back when they were young, and are trying to relive their youth, or people with no ability to pay for a subscription based game that play this in lieu of other free games. Normal people with responsibilities, even the ones who loved the game back then, skip it once they see the state of the game now. I think part of that is just the sheer difficulty of trying to get items, because money camps and raid items are consistently camped by the same guilds who are controlling the raid environment and economy. If you break that stranglehold then you allow everyone a piece of the pie, rather than the 3% of the server that can spend the time camping these locations.
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And it is fine that "normal" people don't play P99. Not everyone has to like or play P99. You even have the option to play TLP or Live if you want an Everquest-like experience with easy progression. Live has a freemium model if you are unable to afford 15 dollars a month for a subscription. In all honesty though, if you can't afford 15 dollars a month, you probably don't have time to play games anyway. At least not games like P99. Even if you put in rotations on everything, you would never get the item you want anyway. Rotations do not change the mob timers or item rarity, so you would still be waiting many hours at a time.
Obviously the majority of P99 players enjoy the non-instancing, or the server would have died years ago. You can't really claim most people on P99 agree with you. Ten years of non-instancing prove what players prefer.
Take a look at another game, Dark Souls. That game is purposefully challenging, which means it will turn off casual players. The game isn't meant for them, and that is completely fine. Dark Souls isn't going to change just because it can't satisfy everbody. Those players can find another game to match their playstyle and time requirements.