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Originally Posted by JDAm0nk
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The only way I can really interpret this is similar to if someone was arguing for the need to keep Kronos on TLP servers. Yeah, they bring in a good number of players and help to make the environment more "competitive" - but it also becomes the foundation for the server's economy and community. Not always in a good way.
Why would a server be "more broken" or "less competitive" if some legacy items continued to drop? Does anyone give a @%8@ if more Guises were running around or if Rubicite Armor continued to drop? What about Beads, OVP, CoS? The majority of players on Green who participate in "end-game" EQ likely have those items or the plat for 'em anyways. And my perception is that the majority of the people who are sitting through these legacy camps are hardcore players (like Fawqueue) who have been playing P99 for a decade plus...
There are also plenty of in-demand items and spells that continually drop on these servers yet still fetch lots of plat, so it's not like "no legacy items = welfare pixels for all."
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I get what you're saying, but those items are so fundamental to early EQ, and the reason they were taken out back in 1999 is because they were considered game breaking, not just sought-after. The appeal of them *is* that they are finite, and limited, unlike many other aspects of the game which naturally just continue forever.
I have been playing p99 for a decade, but I'm really not a hardcore raider or anything. I just really enjoy classic EQ, and a fundamental part of it is high highs and low lows. It's a much higher high to loot a legacy item because you know they're limited, and it's also a much lower low to not get one because you know they're limited. It's a big part of the appeal of the game for me, having played many later mmo's like EQ2 and WoW and Lotro, specifically.
Guises, specifically, are just really cool to have. They don't screw with the economy at all because they're nodrop, and it's kind of a status symbol that you've both been around since the early server and also sat through that damn camp. I honestly enjoyed that camp, felt like an old grindy classic group where people were pretty chatty because you're all just stuck in this room together. Sounds weird on paper but I really liked it.