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Originally Posted by SantagarBrax
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This is a decision that should never have been made and the results were clearly evident. There was a smaller moment when luclin came out where questions began to arise as to the direction of the game with port scions limiting interactions and other minor issues, yet the main downfall of the game came post PoP when instancing became the normal and players and other guilds stopped interacting with each other completely. This decision, while made in an attempt to benefit "the health of the server", in fact did the exact opposite and killed their own game to the point it no longer became the King nor relevant.
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You do understand that to this day live EQ still gets expansions and still has a MUCH larger playerbase than P99 does right? You realize that EQ got knocked out of the top spot by another MMO that uses (very heavily) the same systems you claim were the downfall of EQ? I really worry about the mental state of some of you guys at times. Some of yall seriously walk around thinking because there's a 800 player emu server with old busted mechanics that means somehow it's the best way to do things and everything else sucks or "caters to noobs" or some other dumb excuse.
A VERY small niche minority crowd of people enjoys "competitive" PvE Everquest. If a MMO launched today with 10x the playerbase of P99 it would end up being shut down and written off as a failure. There's a gigantic deck of facts stacked against you if you try to claim otherwise. We can argue back and forth all you want but the numbers and facts and history don't lie.