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Originally Posted by PlsNoBan
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Hope that helps. Doesn't matter how vocal the minority is. Daybreak is a company that is concerned with little else but making profit (as most are) and the numbers don't lie. The numbers prove time and time again how unpopular EQ PvP servers are. If there was actually an enormous group of people clamoring for EQ PvP you can bet your ass Daybreak would want to cash in on it.
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Everquest PvP can be popular. How many years did VZ/TZ maintain hundreds of players? Red99 fucked itself in the ass by inventing a broken custom resist system that ruined PvP, and by launching with no rule enforcement whatsoever, allowing certain idiots to just continuously train people until they quit.
Besides, if you scaled P99's total population up to the level that retail EQ has, red99's population would scale into the hundreds just on a mathematical basis. On a project where the busiest server peaks at, what is it now, 7-800? And red peaks somewhere around 50, you can imagine that a retail PvP TLP would be comparatively higher. There's tens of thousands of people playing retail EQ.
Most importantly, the TLPs actually have a number of features that would make PvP easier to stomach for the less hardcore player. There are no corpse runs, there are zone picks and instanced raiding, there's boxing so you can port yourself around, and there's the option to spend $$ on items so you can actually obtain a Tranix crown or whatever without playing 16h/day.
Red99 failed because that specific server was bad and mismanaged. In no way is it evidence that an EQ PvP server cannot succeed. If they launched a PvP TLP, I guarantee that the sheer novelty and uniqueness of it would make it highly popular at least until the end of PoP. How could it possibly not maintain at least a few hundred players, which is more than enough. It would literally be the only place in the world to enjoy EQ PvP to any meaningful extent.