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Originally Posted by azxten
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There are only two possibilities.
1. The P99 staff are geniuses who realized they need to slow roll content improvements over the next 100 years or people will get bored too quickly. If the massive backlog of bugs was fixed there would be nothing "new" to look forward to.
2. The P99 staff are either incapable of fixing the backlog or don't care to fix it. The code is already annoying to write and made more frustrating by monkey patched classic changes making it even more difficult to introduce further changes.
Personally I think it's number 2, too many things make sense. Nilbog touches code himself which a product manager should never be doing. He focuses primarily on quest issues and other relatively simple fixes but has recently been doing a bit more complicated work. The PvP server was a non-existent rule set that coincidentally let them not have to code PvP item loot or teams both of which would involve complicated coding efforts.
I've proven this to myself by writing all the code necessary to fix channeling with lengthy classic era proof from GMs about how it should work. Then I wrote a follow up post about how ridiculously dysfunctional the contribution process and bug forums are but got no response. Just Nilbog saying he would look into the channeling several months ago with no follow up.
If you can give the project an actual C++ patch file to fix a core mechanic like channeling which is INCREDIBLY non-classic with GM backed proof from the official Sony forums and nothing is done for months then something has definitely gone off the rails but no one really knows what the problem is.
I'm still waiting to come back and play here if this ever gets fixed but I can't tolerate channeling through 10 mobs hitting me anymore. It is just such a stupidly non-classic mechanic that breaks literally every aspect of the game and trivializes it starting from level 1 to the most difficult raids. I hope it gets fixed some day.
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3. They realize the number of people in favor of making this change for "classic" reasons is incredibly small compared to the number of people that would be furious and rage about this change. This change would be maybe the single biggest nerf to every class that casts spells that P99 has ever made. People have lost their fucking minds over far less significant changes. You're essentially hard nerfing 11/14 classes in the game? All so a handful of people can go "Ahh yes this is much more classic" while they touch themselves. Not a good business plan imo. P99 has shown as time goes on that they care less and less about making things actually classic. This is just another example.