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Originally Posted by eisley
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Not gonna happen. Think of how few people have Guises of the Deceiver or other rare/legacy items or simply lots of raid gear(ed alts) on Blue. That's the playerbase. Directly pissing them off and invalidating their time spent (as well as murkying of server history - p99 Blue was very much it's own thing just as eqlive 1999 was.) seem like an unwise decision.
Blue will always stay as blue always was, the test server. Green will become Greener and then Green and Greener will merge eventually, when it's time for Greenerer.
Much like Red, Green attracts novelty players. Blue has the majority of the players who've been around a bit. I realized the other day, I was 19 when I started p99. Not EQLive. Project 1999. I'm 32 now.
But, as we've already seen with Red and Green, novelty doesn't last.
Ultimately, it comes down to this -
Blue has lasted 13 years.
Green will last until there's a new Green or the novelty players realize the Devs aren't stupid enough to do something would undoubtedly be the most controversial decision in the games' history.
Think of Green as what it is and always has been meant to be - a TLPS. Nothing wrong with that. But if you think they're gonna transfer 1,000 Guises onto a flagship 13 y/o server with <50 active Guises, you may not have thought this through.
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Hits nail on the head.
I'll be very forward and tell you at least my perspective. I don't like playing on blue anymore. Between the economy, the history of the server, and the less than classic mechanics than green, it's just not a great server.
I get historically people have invested a lot into it, but as far as the project, the dedicated blue playerbase is at least a 3rd to half the playerbase of green.
Most people that play on geen want a fresh start, and dumping their characters into a server that isn't broken as all hell, from raid scene to economy, just because a smaller section of blue players are sweating that their legacy chars are about to be outdated by a new server is making the majority confirm to the minority. And that's nonsense.
I'm not accusing anyone, but a lot of the general opinions coming from people saying "marge green and blue" are tainted by the idea that their server is outdated and legacy, and rather accept that their glory days on a fundamentally broken environment on blue are over, they're attempting to force the entire community just to maintain their lead over anyone.
It's a bad move.