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Originally Posted by Mblake1981
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...this hobby can't get much better for me.
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I've said much the same, even with respect to P99 itself: The reality of aging and the trajectory of my own time spent on this hobby over the past decade (spoiler: trending gradually downwards) isn't likely to reverse itself any time soon. Some addition to P99 or some new as-yet unlaunched game could be the best thing since sliced bread and at best it'll be too late to do me any real good. By the time something like a Patheon or an M&M manages to launch I'll probably be neither able nor interested in doing much more than dabbling.
EQ was neither my first nor my personal favorite massively multiplayer online video game, but it represents the transition period when gaming began to shift from niche to mainsteam. It was the last of those types of games designed with small customer base sizes in mind (excepting those which deliberately chose to limit themselves like Shadowbane), where world building came first because they weren't too worried about losing an audience they didn't know they had. By the time DAOC and EQ's own expansions hit, and certainly by the time Warcraft hit, the market realized the scope of popularity for the genre and a lot of production was more of a sort of get-rich-quick dream rather than a passion project, coming with with the associated production and design compromises.
Danth